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In reply to the discussion: Four shootings in north Tulsa may be connected; three dead, two hurt [View all]Beacool
(30,514 posts)As tragic as Trayvon's death was (Zimmerman should have been arrested and should be facing trial), how come no one mentions the 40 plus AAs shot in Chicago in a span of a couple of days? Why doesn't the president speak of the epidemic of young AA men killing other young AA men? There isn't one week that my local paper doesn't have an article of an AA youth being shot by another AA youth in a neighboring town (the town I'm referring to is Jersey City, NJ).
"At least 10 people were killed and 40 others wounded in one of the most violent Chicago weekends in recent history.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that most of the victims were in their mid-teens or early 30s, with the exception of 6-year-old Aliyah Shell, who was gunned down Saturday while playing in front of her home in the Little Village neighborhood."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/19/10-dead-chicago-shootings-_n_1362604.html
Where's Obama on this, or is the death of an AA youth only worthy of his attention when a white person kills him? Couldn't these young people also have looked like his children?