Another Unarmed Black Youth Shot & Killed. Darius Simmons was Only 13 Years Old

[peasant one]

76. Your comments are off topic

There are lots of things that are tragic, however, the topic in this post was of a very young black child killed outside his home by a white man who alleged that the child had taken something. To me it is tragic in a different way than the murders you refer to. While the old man may have been experiencing some form of dementia---I believe that he shot because of distrust and fears of "others" that the white (right) wing media seeks to instill in the public. Would he have accused the child of stealing if the child was white? Would he have shot if the kid was white? I, personally, do not think that he would have-racism is so easily instilled and so hard to expunge.

That black children are killed by black children is another tragic event but is not the topic here. It is not to diminish that subject but the causes and contributing factors at issue there are different and deserving of a different post.