The ugly side of Chicago

[waryaa]

The land of Lincoln

As the president visits Chicago on Friday, he will talk with a city that's bucking crime trends. Nationally, homicides are on the decline, but not in Chicago. Some 535 people were murdered last year, according to local crime statistics, up from 433 in 2011. January already set a bloody record, with some 43 people killed.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/15/healt ... ?hpt=us_c2

[Sagaashan]

black on black violence, no coverage, no concern. The Chicago murders and its numbers might be news to people in others parts of the US because the national newspapers and tvs rarely report it. I got America's biased media but where are people like Jesse Jackson, farakkhan, Al Sharpton, the MLK family, NAACP, and thousands of black civil rights movement concerning such a dire situation.

[waryaa]

sagaashan, read this if u have time: http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/15/opinion/b ... index.html I feel sorry for those poor neighborhoods

[FarhanYare]

"If the main topic with the president is only going to be gun control, we are pushing ourselves backwards," said 20-year-old community organizer Veronica Morris-Moore. "It's hard to control guns here.

"What we need to do is address the root of the problem, the economic violence on a lot of these kids who don't have jobs or an education or even something to eat, and when they are victims of violence, they don't have access to the medical care they need. We need a trauma center here."

well said