Richmond High gang rape

Police have arrested six people so far for the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside the Richmond High School homecoming dance.

[Alonzo Delley]

I actually spent 3 months of my freshman year at Richmond High School. It’s a school that is situated in an immigrant-low income area. In 1993 there were security guards and police which were completely apathetic (most we more interested in flirting and joking with the young girls than doing real work). You were given grades based on just attending! Fights broke out EVERY lunch period; it was more like a meal hall at a prison where you would fear for your life. Well to make a long story short I had been chatting with a new acquaintance during P.E.(because it was more like elementary recess) and some of the gang affiliated guys noticed that my buddy was feminine in nature and I stood to defend him. The very next day I was gang jumped by seven guys while scary security stood and watched from a distance. I walked myself to the principle office and was offered a transfer which was delayed and I had to take freshman history over again at my new school. To give my hometown some credit.. Richmond High School was a beautiful place during the time period my mom went there, it was larger and the teachers actually cared, this was all before crack hit this area extremely hard. Richmond has always been an area with two social groups “The Haves” which live in the Arlington Hills and by the Alverado State Park and “The Have Nots” those who lived by the Grocery Outlet, Kaiser Richmond and Casino San Pablo. Needless to say Richmond High School was split up into two schools in the 1970‘s… One private (Salesian High) and one for the impoverished and students of drug addicted parents which was Richmond High. This is the epitome of social juxtapositions at its finest. We as a country must start to care about all schools. Success in life should no longer be determined by your economic back ground but by your quotient to learn, and this thirst for knowledge if not stimulated at home has to be nurtured in an infantile state by educators who are real teachers with passion and a desire to do their jobs. I believe that these ethnic groups thrown into these ridiculous educational systems lack the understanding of who they are and where they came from and what they could accomplished. YES the history of MLK, Cesar Chavez and Malcolm X are great story as well as the feats for freedom and liberty. But I stand here to state that if the true full history of the United States were told these kids with nothing could have something to hold their head up about. Like the Moore and Spanish collaborations in the Americas and how some Africans were freemen and always were free men including successful land owners/entrepreneurs some of which owned property the size of an entire town like my Grandmothers Grandparents. A lot of blacks still have land in the south and don’t know why. It is guaranteed that EVERY early American are mixed with both slave and free men but at different degrees which causes our ill separation. It’s ignorance that is destroying this country and the need to isolate a whole group of our “American Blood” don’t you all think it is now time for the veils to be lifted so that this country may raise?.. People without proper education have been lulled into believing they are valued less therefore expect nothing but the minimum and glorify wearing a name brand as a marker of proper accomplishment. It’s time for America to WAKE UP and open the dusty books of our history both good & bad and reach out our hands, voices, and our votes for change for EVERYONE in America ! Its over due.

[Real Yuni]

How sad...;o(.....I am glad you came out of that school alive.

Its horrible.

[Max Vacaville]

Alonzo Delley wrote:

I actually spent 3 months of my freshman year at Richmond High School. It’s a school that is situated in an immigrant-low income area. In 1993 there were security guards and police which were completely apathetic (most we more interested in flirting and joking with the young girls than doing real work). You were given grades based on just attending! Fights broke out EVERY lunch period; it was more like a meal hall at a prison where you would fear for your life. Well to make a long story short I had been chatting with a new acquaintance during P.E.(because it was more like elementary recess) and some of the gang affiliated guys noticed that my buddy was feminine in nature and I stood to defend him. The very next day I was gang jumped by seven guys while scary security stood and watched from a distance. I walked myself to the principle office and was offered a transfer which was delayed and I had to take freshman history over again at my new school. To give my hometown some credit.. Richmond High School was a beautiful place during the time period my mom went there, it was larger and the teachers actually cared, this was all before crack hit this area extremely hard. Richmond has always been an area with two social groups “The Haves” which live in the Arlington Hills and by the Alverado State Park and “The Have Nots” those who lived by the Grocery Outlet, Kaiser Richmond and Casino San Pablo. Needless to say Richmond High School was split up into two schools in the 1970‘s… One private (Salesian High) and one for the impoverished and students of drug addicted parents which was Richmond High. This is the epitome of social juxtapositions at its finest. We as a country must start to care about all schools. Success in life should no longer be determined by your economic back ground but by your quotient to learn, and this thirst for knowledge if not stimulated at home has to be nurtured in an infantile state by educators who are real teachers with passion and a desire to do their jobs. I believe that these ethnic groups thrown into these ridiculous educational systems lack the understanding of who they are and where they came from and what they could accomplished. YES the history of MLK, Cesar Chavez and Malcolm X are great story as well as the feats for freedom and liberty. But I stand here to state that if the true full history of the United States were told these kids with nothing could have something to hold their head up about. Like the Moore and Spanish collaborations in the Americas and how some Africans were freemen and always were free men including successful land owners/entrepreneurs some of which owned property the size of an entire town like my Grandmothers Grandparents. A lot of blacks still have land in the south and don’t know why. It is guaranteed that EVERY early American are mixed with both slave and free men but at different degrees which causes our ill separation. It’s ignorance that is destroying this country and the need to isolate a whole group of our “American Blood” don’t you all think it is now time for the veils to be lifted so that this country may raise?.. People without proper education have been lulled into believing they are valued less therefore expect nothing but the minimum and glorify wearing a name brand as a marker of proper accomplishment. It’s time for America to WAKE UP and open the dusty books of our history both good & bad and reach out our hands, voices, and our votes for change for EVERYONE in America ! Its over due.

You obviously never learned to write. Have you ever heard of paragraphs?

[sharla]

Max Vacaville wrote:

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You obviously never learned to write. Have you ever heard of paragraphs?

Wow. That really isn't the point. Such a sensitive subject and such an insensitive comment. You haven't learned to feel. Keep your insensitive comments to yourself. Some of us are really affected by this.