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In reply to the discussion: Capitol Hill Shooting Update: Miriam Carey, 34, Dental Hygienist suffered from Mental Illness [View all]Skip Intro
(19,768 posts)12. This is sad, but there'd be little pitty if she had been a white male, as
many here declared within minutes of the report, instead of an African American female, as it turns out.
You can see how interest here is fading already. Like it did a couple of weeks ago when the Navy yard shooting happened, after that shooter turned out to be a race other than white.
Worthy of a thread in and of itself, but I won't be the one to do it. Not tonight anyway. So I mention it here. Not trying to hijack your thread, just felt the obvious should be mentioned somewhere.
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Capitol Hill Shooting Update: Miriam Carey, 34, Dental Hygienist suffered from Mental Illness [View all]
KoKo
Oct 2013
OP
Many DUers were postively salivating about the Boston bombers being teabaggers,
Nye Bevan
Oct 2013
#33
Waned as well when it couldn't be used in gun debate, so some might actually discuss the person
The Straight Story
Oct 2013
#25
white males do the majority of the killing. i am sorry that bothers you. but that is a reality.
seabeyond
Oct 2013
#29
White males are responsible for a majority of murders? You might be wrong
pediatricmedic
Oct 2013
#38
i get it cali. hence, three posts for clarification. but to be clear, when people say "white male"
seabeyond
Oct 2013
#47
and btw cali, at the beginnning of all this, we thought it was something that it was not.
seabeyond
Oct 2013
#48
REALLY??!! Oh, so now, Black women have it easy as pie in the justice system...RIGHT?
Ecumenist
Oct 2013
#45