Ha.
This is about the tenth thread on Trayvon Martin.
If you read DU, you might think that Trayvon was the only black homicide victim in the entire United States, if not the whole universe.
Here's a dead black teenager who has not been talked about on DU - in even one thread.
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/04/3468942/two-dead-baby-wounded-in-kck-apartment.html
16 year old Ranisha Jones. A 21 year old "man" was killed too. (I put man in quotes, because as a 50 year old, he seems like another kid, far, far too young to die) And a baby was wounded. A one year old. Think of that. A black baby might have been killed. (tempted to add "So it goes" in Vonnegut style, but too easy for that to be misunderstood by people, who, sadly, have not read Vonnegut. But here's a shout-out to other Vonnegut fans anyway - and you know who you are.)
Here's another one, 16 year old Jalisa Reed and a twenty year old black woman was wounded.
http://www.kctv5.com/story/17180934/teen-girl-dead-following-double-shooting
Seems to happen every weekend here is KC, and doubtless is also happening in Washington DC, Philadelphia, Chicago, NYC, Baltimore, New Orleans, etc. etc. etc. About 100 homicides a year in Kansas City. Another weekend, another two or three black homicide victims.
Those young black people are usually shot and killed by - other young black people.
But here, nobody will even know this is happening (other than what they see on the "if it bleeds, it leads" local news).
Why won't we notice it is happening? Or (seemingly) care? Why won't we talk about it?
Because, unlike the Trayvon Martin story, these deaths don't allow us to point at the real problems in our society. Our problems are not despair, hatred, selfishness, violence, cruelty or greed. No, no, no. Our problem is due to something much simpler. Something we can all come together to hate. It is only this - racist white people.
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