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9-year-old is executed: Where's the outrage?
Chicago Tribune ^ | August 22, 2014 | John Kass

Posted on 08/22/2014 6:44:57 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Antonio Smith, 9 years old, was assassinated the other day.

He was Chicago's youngest fatal shooting victim this year. He was shot at least four times and fell in a backyard on the South Side.

And when I went out there on 71st and Woodlawn less than 24 hours after he was murdered, here's what I didn't see:

I didn't see protesters waving their hands in the air for network TV cameras. I didn't see the Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson playing their usual roles in the political race card game.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: chicago; kass; murder; nineyearold
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To: cableguymn

So someone is trying to make money....


21 posted on 08/22/2014 7:09:33 AM PDT by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
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To: ConservativeStatement

So sad. Rest in Peace young man. Prayers to the family.


22 posted on 08/22/2014 7:09:46 AM PDT by Rannug ("all enemies, foreign and domestic")
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To: Dr. Sivana

“I went to school 11 blocks from there (60th and Woodlawn). Few problems in that area. A few blocks can make a difference in those parts.”

No surprise there.

In Houston it is only two blocks in one direction to El Salvador and two blocks the other way to Guatemala and two blocks to I-45 and bedlam.


23 posted on 08/22/2014 7:09:58 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: ConservativeStatement
Hey John, ask your fella Chicagoan Eugene Robinson!!

Robinson: Unrest shines light on invisible African-Americans

So invisible, Eugene can't see this black 9 yr old.

24 posted on 08/22/2014 7:10:56 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Hieronymus

They are welcome to try..

I’m not giving um 99 cents though.


25 posted on 08/22/2014 7:11:34 AM PDT by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

The locals have put a price on the shooters head..

http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20140821/grand-crossing/pfleger-people-should-be-as-mad-about-9-year-olds-murder-as-ferguson


26 posted on 08/22/2014 7:12:45 AM PDT by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I think it was Chris Plant who suggested that in a case like this, a crowd of white folks ought to show up, rant, riot, and loot the neighborhood.


27 posted on 08/22/2014 7:13:11 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: Resolute Conservative

I am almost positive a female on FOX asked Jesse, who was in Ferguson, about Chicago during the last week and the response was “I plan on going there...” or something to that degree. The interview was some point at night though the memory is a blur at best.


28 posted on 08/22/2014 7:14:03 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: ConservativeStatement

“...Detroit is better than this.”
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OUCH !!!

That’s gotta hurt...


29 posted on 08/22/2014 7:18:59 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: ConservativeStatement

Fine, but I want it said in outright plain English, “do you not find it hypocritical that you rush to the scene of an alleged hate crime involving a black being killed by a white, but continue to ignore and basically do nothing about the black on black crime in places like Chicago, NVC, and Memphis which accounts for 90% of violent black deaths? Isn’t is just about money?”

That is what I want to hear on prime time tv to the face of Barry, Jesse, or Al or all three. Nobody in the press has the mensch to do that.


30 posted on 08/22/2014 7:23:57 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: ConservativeStatement

It’s about time someone noted the racial hypocrisy. This poor kid was killed by thugs likely little older than he was and is just another statistic in the Chicago Black on Black murders. Sharpton and Jackson won’t be there leading is funeral or protests in the streets just like they were absent last year when three young Black thugs shot an innocent white college exchange student in the back while he was jogging near his campus in Oklahoma or two Black hoodlums beat an 89 year old WW-II vet to death in Portland last year.


31 posted on 08/22/2014 7:25:54 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: ConservativeStatement

By the current polls, Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, as liberal and as tied to the Obamas as he is, is about to be replaced by someone even more liberal, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis. It seems to be a big city trend, replace a crazy lib with an even crazier one in hopes that they will do better with the example of NYC replacing ‘Nanny’ Bloomberg with De Blazio, an even further leftist! Lots of hope that going further left cures what ails these cities and yet that is what the low-information voter does and perhaps that is what former teacher Lewis counts upon.


32 posted on 08/22/2014 7:27:33 AM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: Resolute Conservative
"Just once, just once I would like to see someone on national prime time tv ask those questions to Jesse and Al."

Much agreed, but this is The Leftist Chicago Tribune. It's a start.

33 posted on 08/22/2014 7:28:03 AM PDT by oprahstheantichrist (The MSM is a demonic stronghold, PLEASE pray accordingly - 2 Corinthians 10:3-5)
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To: ConservativeStatement

The JustUs Bros won’t touch these heartbreaking stories ~ no CA$H to be made.

Also read where thugs in Chicago shot a 3-year old boy in the face. He’s in critical condition, last I heard. Again...where are the *Revs*? Pimping Ferguson.


34 posted on 08/22/2014 7:34:29 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: SES1066
I have said it before and though it may be an unpopular position to take, Chicago will not do better than Mayor Daley. I am not in agreement with many of his politics but that city could very well go far left and eventually further left before anyone mainstream can be elected. Not meant as a joke, but the fact that the Stripper song has removed from Blackhawks’ games because a few deem it offensive shouldn't be overlooked.
35 posted on 08/22/2014 7:37:33 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: ConservativeStatement

I’m sure there is outrage in the community, but we will never hear much about it, because the race hustlers and the MSM are busy creating and then intensively covering their manufactured outrage in Ferguson.


36 posted on 08/22/2014 7:45:42 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (The people have the right to tell government what guns it may possess, not the other way around.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Print Media Rule #3:
Any stories of black on black crime are to be spiked immediately. If publication is unavoidable due to an Elite being involved, publication only on pages after #20 are authorized.
37 posted on 08/22/2014 7:56:05 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (It is through will alone that I set my mind in motion.)
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To: ScottinVA

Yes, I remember his speech, “Black is Beautiful.” I am old enough that there was actually a time I liked Jackson. He used to be pro-life, too.


38 posted on 08/22/2014 7:56:59 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: ConservativeStatement

Oh Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton!!! Where are you???


39 posted on 08/22/2014 8:16:50 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

A few blocks and a few years.


40 posted on 08/22/2014 8:49:46 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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