The World’s Stage – Derrion Albert

This story is so sad because it was just so senseless and brutal. How can you beat someone to death who’s posed no threat to you whatsoever? I pray for Derrion’s family and the families of the “lost boys” who committed this crime, I hope they will raise the rest of their children better than they raise these. I just can not understand why these things are still happening. And I don’t want to hear any excuses about poverty, because being poor has no bearing on knowing right from wrong. Oh and Nas and Kelis reconciled–guess he realized it was cheaper to keep her.

I don’t blame this on music or even where they lived. Sorry, but I blame the rearing. If I have to bust my butt to raise my kids so can everyone else. I had 3 kids by the time I was 22. My kids were not out tryng to start fights and being a menance. I am tired of mothers denying the fathers visitation(I don’t like that word) to their children because he did not pay his child support. We have discussed this before and a woman can’t raise a boy to be a man. We(women) can raise them to be polite, educated, respectful, caring and givers from the heart(just as a man can). We can scare them of many things, but we will never, ever take the place of a male/father figure. I know there are single mothers who have raised well adjusted young men. I know there is no way that they did not do it by themselves. We have to have postive male role models in our males lives, Preacher, Pastor, Granddad, Uncles, male cousins etc…. Get married to a real man to mentor our boys. It is also a a plus and it’s ok to have a non positive person that our sons know that we can use as examples of “what not to do”. A childs first teacher as we all know is his parents. Parents need to step up to the plate and stop being thier kids friends, or party buddy. Parenting is not easy, but if ppl start from day one being a parent instead of thinking when little Ray Ray cuses and the parent does not correct them but think it’s cute and can only laugh, something is wrong and that’s how early the problem starts. I am tired of seeing little girls “making it rain”, gyrating to songs and knowing all the words to songs and don’t know bible verses.
I feel so saddend that this young mans life did not mean anything to the kids that murdered him. I feel saddend to all the mothers. One mother had to bury her baby, while the other mothers have to live with knowing their sons won’t be coming home, but their home will be prison. Men need to man up and take care of what they created. Woman need to fall back and let the man that you layed with making a baby be a father. This is not about a child support check, it’s about life or death.
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I know some men are dogs and don’t give a rats a** about the kids they created. I am not referring my comment to those mothers. I know some men are drugged out, in jail or just plain lazy and lost. There are real men that had kids with real women who really want to be apart of the rearing of their child but the woman won’t let him because she is scorned. It’s not about the two ppl who had the kid, it’s now about raising the child to live to see his own grandkids and not being a victim of street violence. Sorry my post is so long(I have been doing good lately) this right here struck a reserved nerve. I just want to know why this happened on a Thursday and I did not hear about it until Monday? I read blogs and wacth the news all the time. Our black males are not valued anymore. I just answered my own question.

Ok we see that our children are killing one another, now what the time for change is today. I beleive they are being brain washed by the music and tv. Black Entertainment Television has a major part in this distruction of our community. I would think that televison catered to us would be there to build us not tear us down by showing our daughters how to be video hoe’s and our sons to be fake gansters and absent fathers, Not to say BET is all negative but mostly. If u have basic cable you wont see and positive R & B soul. Only if you have that channel. How about the reality shows that they have what are they showing, violence and sex is all our children see. Their worlds are so boxed in , it is truely a shame. I suggest we start with radio and Bet, and make them change these images forcing artist to become more responsible. Your child could be next.