Don't White People Kill Each Other, Too?
April 12, 2012 10:14 AM Subscribe
And yet we keep hearing about black-on-black crime because it fits the false media narrative. This article by Edward Wyckoff Williams aims to challenge what I think is an American "truthism", the often invoked black-on-black crime narrative. Black on black crime has been in the news a lot thanks to the shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman and the resulting fallout. For example, Shelby Steele had an op-ed in the WSJ about this
Ta-Nehisi Coates has also weighed in on this
This post was deleted for the following reason: Heya, maybe add these as a comment in the Zimmerman/Martin thread from yesterday? -- cortex
America has too much poor-on-poor crime, way too much rich-on-poor crime, probably just the right amount of rich-on-rich crime, and not enough poor-on-rich crime.
posted by Faint of Butt at 10:16 AM on April 12, 2012
posted by Faint of Butt at 10:16 AM on April 12, 2012
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303302504577323691134926300.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
a-Nehisi Coates post =
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/04/why-dont-black-people-protest-black-on-black-violence/255329/
posted by RedShrek at 10:16 AM on April 12, 2012