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In reply to the discussion: Since Florida cannot defend black life against white fear, the question now is: How should black peo [View all]ecstatic
(32,685 posts)115. In response to your "stats"
"Homicides overwhelmingly happen among people who know each other," he said. "There are relatively few absolutely straight-up stranger homicides.
Yes, its true that the majority of black murder victims are murdered by blacks, but the same holds true for whites: Most whites are murdered by whites.
http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2013/jul/17/tweets/look-statistic-blacks-and-murder/
Yes, its true that the majority of black murder victims are murdered by blacks, but the same holds true for whites: Most whites are murdered by whites.
http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2013/jul/17/tweets/look-statistic-blacks-and-murder/
With those facts in mind, the vast majority of people (including black people) aren't dodging bullets. There's a sense (or, at least there was a sense) that as long as you avoid high crime areas, avoid mentally unstable gun-owners, and avoid confrontations with the police, you probably won't get shot. However, the message coming out of the latest Florida cases is that a black person, even when in the safest community, can be stalked, confronted, and killed (lynched) by random gun owners.
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Since Florida cannot defend black life against white fear, the question now is: How should black peo [View all]
DonViejo
Feb 2014
OP
"Until we begin to see black men as human beings and not thugs there will be no justice."
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2014
#26
The law should act as a deterrent, not just a means of retribution. SYG does the opposite.
Scuba
Feb 2014
#70
As Dick Gregory said about Reagan's "law and order" platform... "He's always talking ....
Scuba
Feb 2014
#71
They should rename the law, "I Am 'Scared' Of You Therefore I Get To Kill You." IASOYTIGTKY
Rex
Feb 2014
#117
i guess if they see a white guy with a gun, they are allowed to shoot him under SYG nt
geek tragedy
Feb 2014
#5
Yep, some of these guys seem to have declared open warfare on blacks and they go
RKP5637
Feb 2014
#28
I blame the prosecutor. I don't see how the First Degree Murder was going to stick. n/t
dilby
Feb 2014
#7
Still a stretch. If the prosecutor thought he was guilty of 1st degree murder they
dilby
Feb 2014
#12
Or one juror did not believe Dunn's lies, but is tickled pink that Dunn killed a Black kid. n/t
ieoeja
Feb 2014
#36
The reason I said that was because he was the only one who brought up race war.
bravenak
Feb 2014
#80
The string of murders of Black Americans will end when racism ends. Probably never.
bravenak
Feb 2014
#32
Leave. There's nothing there that isn't way better someplace else. One nation cannot contain
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2014
#39
That strategy might work if there were enough sane people there to make it possible,
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2014
#55
No. People have to grow the hell up and stop trying to have privilege over others.
bravenak
Feb 2014
#63
Can every black yout now shoot first in fear of being shot? Does every white man look like a
kelliekat44
Feb 2014
#51