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How many unarmed people have to die?
CNN ^ | August 11, 2014 | L.Z. Granderson, CNN Contributor

Posted on 08/11/2014 9:37:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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I am tired.

Tired of our streets being peppered with dead, unarmed black people. Tired of listening to armed assailants describe how they feared for their lives. Tired of being told "this has nothing to do with race."

I am tired of having to march to have murderers arrested. Tired of worrying about my 17-year-old being gunned down by some random white guy who thinks his music is too loud. Tired of knowing the same could happen to me.

I am tired of seeing a hashtag in front of a victim's name on Twitter. Tired of seeing Al Sharpton speak on behalf of a family. Tired of waiting for verdicts and hoping for justice --as if hearing "guilty" can ease the anxiety of knowing a police officer shot and killed a 22-year-old black man while he was lying face down and with his hands behind his back.

I'm tired of the cynics who are quick to extend the benefit of the doubt to a gunman but hesitant to do the same for an unarmed teenage girl who had been shot in the face. I am tired of seeing images of police officers with snarling dogs threatening a crowd of black protesters and not knowing if it's from the 1960s or last week....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: alsharpton; banglist; blackkk; blacks; ferguson; lawenforcement; missouri; raceriots; stlouis
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Editor's note: LZ Granderson is a CNN contributor, a senior writer for ESPN and a lecturer at Northwestern University. He is a former Hechinger Institute fellow and his commentary has been recognized by the Online News Association, the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. Follow him on Twitter @locs_n_laughs. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.

1 posted on 08/11/2014 9:37:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is he tired of the knock out game, too?


2 posted on 08/11/2014 9:42:48 PM PDT by cardinal4
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“Tired of worrying about my 17-year-old being gunned down by some random white guy who thinks his music is too loud. Tired of knowing the same could happen to me.”

Sorry Bub, but that’s the way it is if I’m trying to have a relaxing night. Keep your music down, and there won’t be a problem.


3 posted on 08/11/2014 9:43:12 PM PDT by MNDude
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4 posted on 08/11/2014 9:45:46 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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Don’t let Obama see this person....he will be hired immediately.


5 posted on 08/11/2014 9:46:36 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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This piece of bipedal dog turd is one of the riot-makers. He's worse than the people actually doing the looting and burning. He's one of their leaders in evil.
6 posted on 08/11/2014 9:50:51 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Senior writer for ESPN. Figures.


7 posted on 08/11/2014 9:51:00 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well if he is tried of hearing he should just remind himself in the scheme of things the numbers are low for the type of white on black shootings or white police shooting poor black men. On the other hand if this upsets him he should try to avoid the Chicago statistics of black on black shootings he would really be pissed.

I am sick of all the black pundits coming out of the wood work stirring the pot.


8 posted on 08/11/2014 9:51:09 PM PDT by funfan
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“How many unarmed people have to die”

The answer, my FRiend,
Is blowin’ in the wind.
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.


9 posted on 08/11/2014 9:53:25 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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i’m not being funny, I kept looking for semi news tag.


10 posted on 08/11/2014 9:53:48 PM PDT by willywill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am tired of whiny black racialist lecturing me about how hard life is. F him.


11 posted on 08/11/2014 9:54:31 PM PDT by jospehm20
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He’s guilty of being marginally correct and devastatingly wrong, all in the same paragraph. While it’s criminal that some kid got shot for being a thug and nothing more, it’s even more insane to ignore the obvious. The real enemy of young black men is other young black men. Until that changes, empathy will be hard to come by. Is he just as sick of the hundreds of young black kids being slaughtered in Chicago...I must have missed the headline.


12 posted on 08/11/2014 10:01:16 PM PDT by Greenpees (Coulda Shoulda Woulda)
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I guess he’s not tired enough to write a poem for the hundreds of unarmed Black children gunned down in Chicago - by other Blacks.


13 posted on 08/11/2014 10:05:27 PM PDT by montag813
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Tired of hearing about black people shooting other people. Tired of hearing blacks complain about whites. Tired of hearing about blacks looting stores. Tired of reading stupid articles by black ESPN reporters.


14 posted on 08/11/2014 10:08:50 PM PDT by Baladas
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The single largest group of violent crime vitims in the US are blacks. And the single largest group of violent crime perps are blacks. This fellow ought to quit worrying about white killing blacks and look to and fear his own. Even jessie Jackson is smart enough to fear other blacks after dark on a dark street.


15 posted on 08/11/2014 10:13:22 PM PDT by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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The body count doesn’t bother them-what the left gets excited about is the color of the finger on the trigger.


16 posted on 08/11/2014 10:30:07 PM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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“Tired of worrying about my 17-year-old being gunned down by some random white guy who thinks his music is too loud.”

He should be worried more about his son getting shot by some random gang banger.


17 posted on 08/11/2014 10:46:43 PM PDT by aquila48
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why isn’t he tired that 93% of black killings are committed by other blacks? they’re murdering each other at a rate 14 times more than all other races combined.

but he’s tired. i am too. i am tired of the oh poor me i’m black the world’s’against me crap. i am tired of the black community failing to see they are hurting themselves far, far more than any other group could hope’to. through abortion and through black on black violence. jesse jackaon is more afraid of bumping into a black on the stairs in a building than a white person.

I am tired of blacks playing the race card, the victim card, and the whitey framed me/he’s a good boy card.


18 posted on 08/12/2014 12:20:27 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m tired of black racists.


19 posted on 08/12/2014 3:37:15 AM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: MNDude

Sorry Bub, but that’s the way it is if I’m trying to have a relaxing night. Keep your music down, and there won’t be a problem.

He is talking about the guy who shot a kid in the van at a convenience store. the shooter didn’t like the music was louder then desired while the dead man’s friend went in to the store for a slurpy. The gunman was coming back from a wedding and didn’t think the music should be so loud in the parking spot. Do you really think that was appropriate to kill someone of music???? Really??????


20 posted on 08/12/2014 4:14:51 AM PDT by napscoordinator (I guarantee every FRiend Misses the lost opportunity of a President Santorum!)
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