Posted on 08/13/2019 7:30:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When it comes to mass shootings, America lives in two separate worlds. The first is the one of Gilroy, California, El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio among many others. They follow a familiar script: a white shooter using a high-powered weapon kills multiple victim and this carnage is quickly followed by public outrage, intensive on-site media coverage, and never-ending publicized pronouncements on gun violence, and, in recent years, condemnation of Trump’s alleged racism and xenophobia that fuels such carnage.
The second universe consists of urban, black-on-black shootings, typically of the drive-by-shooting variety using handguns where relatively few are killed but many more are wounded, including innocent bystanders and children. Though the per incident death toll tends to be small compared to the first type of incident, their cumulative impact far exceeds what has transpired at El Paso or Dayton.
Most importantly, these incidents of inner-city killings scarcely generate widespread outrage and it is inconceivable that President Trump would visit Baltimore or Chicago to console victims. If anything, candidates for office, particularly Democrats, typically ignore these murders. In a nutshell, the reaction to black-on-black mass killing, even when children are murdered, is ho-hum.
The standard politically correct explanation for this disparity in attention stresses how black lives are undervalued by an allegedly racist society. Furthermore, intended black shooting victims are often gangbangers with felony records so why should law-abiding Americans be outraged? Good riddance, some might say. One might also suppose that the liberal-leaning media hardly wants to publicize inner-city pathologies that might encourage white racism. By contrast, the media willingly devotes hour upon hour to white shooters, everything from their childhood to interviews with parents and friends. It is no wonder, then, that millions of American believe that we are awash in white racism or white supremacy
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lol
Even with those attitudes you still need a student body wiling to learn and put forth effort.....they refused to. People just don’t want to accept that there are folks who want things as they are...including being a self-created victim.
You can lead a kid to remedial education but you cannot make them apply themselves.
Excuses come easier than effort for too many. Especially those by proxy. It’s why leftism flourishes at all economic strata.
The numbers are in line with a typical weekend in Chicago.
exactly right!
exactly right!
Using the mass shooting definition of “4 or more victims”, a vast majority of mass shooters are minorities, and there is even a woman on the list.
White men just seem to be better at it.
“You can lead a kid to remedial education but you cannot make them apply themselves.
Excuses come easier than effort for too many. Especially those by proxy. It’s why leftism flourishes at all economic strata.”
Well put. Explains a lot!
Still pretty horrible.
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