Just another dead black male... If anyone simply doesn't like the look of you-they get to shoot you.

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13. I was equating, or comparing, the ATTENTION give to the actual death

The OP claimed you can be gunned down and nobody will "even know it happened". "You will be just another dead black male on the local news and no one will care ..."

Except that in this case, the story is getting national publicity in some circiles. It is being broadcast far and wide and we are all supposed to care about THIS dead black male and all supposed to wag our fingers and cast aspersions at all those white racists who are constantly gunning down young black males (and maybe even females).

The attention is there, I think, not just because the perpetrator is known, but because the perpetrator is white (white-hispanic but still white)

See, now we get to pretend we care about young black people getting shot, even though we generally do nothing about all the other young black people getting shot. We have no idea how to do anything about that, so maybe if we just yell and demand that this white guy gets lynched (or life in prison) we can then go back to ignoring all the other young black people who get shot every weekend.

What can we do about that anyway? I don't know either, but I think some attention might help, some effort into ending poverty might help. Something besides a trickle down jobs program might help. Something a little bit beyond just shaking our fists at all those white racists that we know are hiding under the bed and causing all of the world's problems. Maybe it is better to light a candle or grab a shovel instead of just cursing the darkness.

One the one side we have a dead black teenager that we are writing and writing and writing about. On the other side we have hundreds or thousands of dead black teenagers that we are ignoring.