The issues at stake here seem to come to the same rallying point: an inequality between the races of the United States.

Minority communities and communities of color in general are economically behind white communities because capitalism not only rewards early investment, but investors feel safer among their own ethnic group. Both of these facts are public knowledge and there have been numerous attempts to legislate changes in this area.

Economically limited communities live poorer lives in general, have greater instances of violence and drug problems and subsequently produce children who are poorly equipped to survive in our society.

But the racial divide cannot be filled with legislature and as long as minority communities are propped up with government funded programs there will NEVER be equality in the United States of America. Give a man a fish and you feed him one day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

The murder of Derrion Albert is a signs of a much bigger illness but is an illness itself. The murder didn’t shock me but brought to my attention something needs to be done about it. It not good when a child goes to school to learn and it gets murdered. I think schools should be more secure. Schools should have more security officer and people to prevent things like this from happening.

While I'd love to cry the tears for Chicago because it's bad, it's not the only urban place in America to suffer in similar ways. New Orleans has horrible crime rates, many affecting its African American youth. Its public schools are often still deplorable (and have been for years). Blame race for a large part of it. Over a thousand died as a result of Katrina and her aftermath, many African American (you don't honestly think if St. Charles mansions were flooded and the bluebloods were sitting on rooftops or on a bridge or in the Convention Center and Superdome hellholes, cops would have shot at them or the response would have been so pitiful by the state and feds, now do you? And you don't think the city would be so slow to recover? The racial divide exists. It sucks. And Chicago isn't the only one needing intervention from DC.