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Old 02-16-2014, 09:39 AM   #3
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This is surely going to be the wrong opinion.

Yes, I'm angry too at the outcome of this case. The justice system does not apply equally to all. If the races were reversed, forget it.

But while the outrage over Treyvon Martin and Jordan Davis is appropriate, there are hundreds of unnamed Blacks who are killed by other Blacks-94% of Black murder victims. And, crucially, it's something like 86% of White murder victims are killed by other Whites. We still live in a segregated country. But the last statistic is conveniently forgotten in order to "prove" that Blacks are more violent.

The high-profile interracial cases get the sympathy, but the rest of intraracial victims go unnamed. I would bet that Black murder victims make the news much less than White ones, though I don't have any evidence of that.

I feel the same outrage over the cases like Treyvon Martin. But where is the anger, and action, for the nameless hundreds killed?
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