Posted on 02/17/2014 7:34:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A crisis in white masculinity is killing black teenagers and, history says, the violence is likely to continue.
Why are so many white men like Michael Dunn angry?
Dunn, the man found guilty Saturday on three counts of attempted second-degree murder for shooting into a car full of black teenagers at a Jacksonville, Fla., gas station after an argument over loud rap music—but not convicted of the murder of Jordan Davis, the 17-year-old slain in the incident—provides some answers. Like Trayvon Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman, Dunn’s case represents the rage felt by many angry white men in America.
During his cross-examination on the stand, Dunn admitted to feeling “disrespected by a mouthy teenager” who ignored his request to turn down the “rap crap” blasting from a red SUV occupied by Jordan and his friends. In Dunn’s version of events, Jordan taunted him with racial and gender slurs like “cracker” and “bitch.”
Dunn was pushed over the edge by insults and window-rattling music, and what allegedly followed eerily mirrored the 1993 film Falling Down, in which a white-collar worker-turned-vigilante snaps under the pressure of white, middle-class life and strikes back against Latino gangbangers.
Dunn yelled, “You’re not going to talk to me that way,” according to witness testimony. He grabbed his gun from the glove compartment and fired nine rounds into the side of the teenagers’ vehicle, killing Jordan. According to Dunn, he fled the scene and spent a sleepless night at a hotel, expecting “more gangsters” to retaliate against him and his fiancee.
For angry white men like Dunn, Jordan Davis’ “gangsta rap” music and Trayvon Martin’s “hoodie” symbolize a larger culture war in which putatively wholesome American culture is under siege by blackness.....
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Travis L. Gosa, Ph.D., is assistant professor of Africana studies at Cornell University, where his research focuses on racial inequality and African-American youths. He has written for Ebony, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Fox News and a number of academic journals.
Facts must be irrellavent to this man.
wow the guy must be a pot head.
93% of blacks are killed by other blacks and this guy believes it’s white guys masculine crises killing the blacks? he is living in fantasy land.
‘rats get nasty when cornered. High population density is not a good thing.
This is like reading an article about Poland attacking Germany in WW2.
Travis, sir...You are either an extreme racist or dumber than a post hole.....
So sadly, sir...I will read what you have to say when you start writing about young black men killing other young black men.
You got me there, andy....
It probably is an “and” proposition...
Why?
Because you blindly supported Obama twice.
Because you blindly sold your souls and suddenly supported gay perversion just because Obama told you to.
Because you hate marriage/
Because you think everyone else owes you.
Idiocy on the author’s part besides, there was no reason to do what Dunn did. There’s no evidence that those kids were threatening him, because they all stayed in the vehicle.
Dunn deserves a sentence that ensures that he never leaves prison.
I say we drop Assistant Professor Gosa into Lawndale on the west side of Chicago during a nice June weekend in Chicago. He can set up an information booth on a street corner at say, 10:30 pm on a Friday night and man it personally until 10:00am Sunday morning.
Then I’ll listen to his idiot theories., maybe.
Never mouth off to a man with a gun..... even if he’s going to go to jail for shooting you.
I have an Excel file stored somewhere on this very subject taken from the FBI website.I think the stats cited are from a couple of years ago and it breaks down the nation’s murders by race of perp and race of victim.The stats clearly suggest that “interracial” murders are quite uncommon in this country but when they *do* occur minority perp/white victim is noticeably more common than is white perp/minority victim.
This mind warped stupidity explains a lot of voting behavior. If blacks read and agree with this, they are living on another planet.
Now there is a major that just guarantees success.
Success in the Grievance Industry. Grievance Industry = People that are perpetually perturbed at white folks or Crackers as we are known in da hood. Kinda interesting though, Prof. Gosa angrily axe, "Why Are White Men Like Michael Dunn So Angry?". I kinda think, like most Democrats and the perpetually perturbed he is projecting his anger and emotions on to white males. Ya just gotta love'em.
Dr. Travis L. Gosa is Assistant Professor of Social Science at Cornell University. He holds faculty appointments in the graduate fields of Africana Studies and Education, and is affiliated with the Cornell Center for the Study of Inequality. Since 2008, he has served on the advisory board of Cornell’s Kugelberg Hip Hop Collection, the largest archive on early hip hop culture in the United States. He teaches courses on hip hop culture, educational inequality, and African American families. Dr. Gosa received his Ph.D. in Sociology from The Johns Hopkins University in 2008, along with a certificate in Social Inequality.
Travis L. Gosa
http://africana.cornell.edu/people/gosa.cfm
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