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20. Plus Black on Black crime gets little attention nationally

Reply to DreamSmoker (Reply #19)

Sun Jun 21, 2015, 04:05 PM

Jun 2015

The majority of shootings in this country are Black people trying to shoot other Black people, it happens 40-50 times a year in the city of 1 million I live in, barely gets mentioned the day it happens.

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10 shot, 1 fatally, at block party in Detroit [View all] riversedge Jun 2015 OP

Wow. What is going on? So many of these in the past few days. C Moon Jun 2015 #1

Confederate flags Man from Pickens Jun 2015 #2

so Skittles Jun 2015 #3

you certainly can Man from Pickens Jun 2015 #5

IT WOULD BE A START Skittles Jun 2015 #7

It's actually about eliminating cultural bedrock of racial violence but whatever. Chan790 Jun 2015 #13

That "piece of shit" is not going 840high Jun 2015 #27

neither will a swastika, but I would prefer not to see one Skittles Jun 2015 #31

You're not allowed to refer to cultural problems, 7962 Jun 2015 #11

Fictional rules do allow us to get more comfortable on the crosses we construct for ourselves... LanternWaste Jun 2015 #32

So eloquent! If it only actually meant something! 7962 Jun 2015 #33

good definition DustyJoe Jun 2015 #15

yeah, the flag isn't much of an issue in the Detroit or Phili shootings this weekend nt Bacchus4.0 Jun 2015 #16

What's going on is that every single day of the year SheilaT Jun 2015 #9

+1 C Moon Jun 2015 #17

You gotta like it when ManiacJoe Jun 2015 #4

Almost like they think the police can't or won't protect them from reprisal. bluedigger Jun 2015 #12

Or, more likely, that the cops are a part of it and possibly even the perpetrators harrose Jun 2015 #25

If the cops did the shooting, there'd be no shortage of witnesses or video JustABozoOnThisBus Jun 2015 #36

You are clueless romanic Jun 2015 #37

Gotta Love It....When USA Today Can't Report the Story.... LovingA2andMI Jun 2015 #6

"assistant chief is fuming that no one is talking"="not being cooperative" muriel_volestrangler Jun 2015 #8

Some only read what they want to see. Amazes me 7962 Jun 2015 #10

Allow me. bluedigger Jun 2015 #14

yep 840high Jun 2015 #28

Praise Jeebus they had their god-given right to carry a gun! valerief Jun 2015 #18

Bet those guns weren't legal. 840high Jun 2015 #29

Why?? DreamSmoker Jun 2015 #19

Plus Black on Black crime gets little attention nationally madville Jun 2015 #20

It isn't necessarily black on black crime Abouttime Jun 2015 #21

More than likely drugs are involved Duckhunter935 Jun 2015 #26

I'd wager that a higher percentage of whites own guns than blacks nt 7962 Jun 2015 #34

I've gotten blasted romanic Jun 2015 #22

Black lives matter XemaSab Jun 2015 #23

Sad truth. romanic Jun 2015 #24

xactly 840high Jun 2015 #30

Because they get accused of blaming the victims. 7962 Jun 2015 #35