The Return of The Chicagoist Reader Meet-Up
Notre Dame Fan Takes It Too Far, Allegedly Punches Clausen
County Sales Tax Rollback Vetoed - Here We Go Again
World's Largest Wearable LED Display At The MSI
Dairyland Greyhounds Available for Adoption
After three teens were charged yesterday in last week's beating death of 16-year-old Derrion Albert, a fourth teen was also charged: 16 year-old Eric Carson. Neighbors also held a vigil yesterday, attended by around 250 people, that got a bit heated at times. An activist going by the name Queen Sister shouted through a bullhorn, "The mayor is out fighting for the Olympics, and our youth are here fighting for their lives!"
Meanwhile, the Tribune spoke to the mothers of two of the boys charged with first-degree murder over Derrion's death.
"That's Gene. That's my son. I'm not going to lie about that," said Sherry Smith, the mother of Eugene Riley, 18, one of four teens charged in the attack. "I do give my condolences to that family because (their) child shouldn't have lost his life over this."
Tamaray Shannon, mother of 19-year-old Silvonus Shannon, said, "He was protecting himself. Silvonus is not what they are making him out to be."
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebook
"Silvonus is not a bad kid," said Shannon, 40. "...Silvonus is not what they are making him out to be."
i don't know the truth, but what i do know is i'm tired of hearing/reading comments from family members like this.
Yeah, I don't care about the truth either. Just once i'd like to hear a mother say, "My son is a worthless piece of shit and i apologize to the human race. Take him away and put a bullet in his head." That would be refreshing, ahh.
It actually would be pretty refreshing, handlord. I, too, get tired of all these parents marching in the streets, yelling at somebody to do something, and then swearing up and down that it's not their kids. It's always somebody else. Their kids are good kids. Their kids would never do something like this. They always blame something or somebody else--society, Daley, the cops, Obama, anybody but themselves. They turn angry because they weren't born into a world of unicorns and rainbows and never realize the part they play in making the world they live in.
When your kid does something wrong and somebody gets hurt, own up to it. Accept it, and keep your damned mouth shut.
They turn angry because they weren't born into a world of unicorns and rainbows and never realize the part they play in making the world they live in.
A lot of powerful assholes who don't live in their world also play a bigger part in making it.
Yes, because this is really all about what would be "refreshing" and different. You're bored with and tired of hearing from anguished relatives who can't see things the way you do.
"I have tape of your son killing someone in cold blood. The whole world has seen it, made up their mind and wants his head. Tell me about your boy.."
The mother is the worst person to ask for an honest assessment of her child's capacity for violence/murder etc. Its easy, lazy news reporting that gets people riled up. People like you.
If you're tired of reading those remarks, stop reading the newspaper, stop watching tv news. They don't present the news as information, they traffic in base emotion for hits and viewers. Its so easy. You play along and get angry at someones mother. Fucker.
I don't think it has to be an all or nothing proposition, but since her son was charged with murder and evidently is quite visible on the video, it IS refreshing to her a mom say that, yup, that's her son and she's not making any excuse for it along the lines of "he was protecting himself" (by chasing a guy with a 2x4 or stomping on his head?). It make me dig up some sympathing for her that she can admit it's her kid and she has no excuses to make for him.
If the majority of mom's are to be believed the people who do these things sprung apparently the center of the earth unconnected to any kind of natural birth, because their kids NEVER do it.
And that dumb ass bitch wouldn't even watch the video so she could maintain her lie. At least the other mother was real about it.