The September 24, 2009, mob assault on 16-year-old Derrion Albert was captured on cell-phone video and broadcast around the world, provoking a crisis in the Obama administration.**********
Since Albert’s death, 78 more youth under the age of 19 have been killed in Chicago, overwhelmingly in black-on-black shootings.
The studied silence in Chicago about the massive reality that underlies that city’s youth-violence epidemic—black family breakdown — is so complete as to border on perverse.
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