Posted on 07/14/2024 7:37:37 PM PDT by grundle
I am a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) expert.
Will Trump seize the apparent assassination attempt against him as an opportunity to meaningfully address the epidemic of gun violence in America? Will he deem unacceptable the dangers to which citizens are exposed as they go to schools, places of religious worship, concerts, movie theaters, supermarkets, shopping malls, sporting events, and now, presidential campaign rallies? It’s possible, but unlikely.
Butler is less than an hour north of Pittsburgh. It isn’t an urban center. But many big cities in which large numbers of Black Americans reside have long been plagued with inexcusably high levels of gun violence. Everytown Research and Policy’s analysis of 2018-2022 FBI data shows that Black people in Pittsburgh are 14 times more likely to die by gun homicide than are whites in the place affectionately known as “the Steel City.”
On the other side of the commonwealth, Philadelphia’s gun homicide rate was 30.8 fatalities per 100,000 residents in 2022. Blacks comprise the city’s single-largest racial group. They’re five times more likely to die by gunfire than are whites. Milwaukee, where this year’s Republican National Convention is being held, has the sixth-highest homicide by firearm rate in the nation. There, Blacks are 6.7 times more likely to be shot and killed than are white residents.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has repeatedly contended that the August 2023 release of his criminal mugshot deeply resonated with Black voters because they know firsthand the unfairness of our nation’s criminal justice system. He has since relied on that narrative to persuade more Black Americans to cast votes for him this November.
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Check out this FR thread: Black comedian: Is Trump my uncle?
You should be able to turn on the closed captioning marked CC. The closed captioning works for me.
Re-fund the police, then. Short-handed and trying to avoid trouble from BLM activists and gangsters, they under-police black neighborhoods.
Maybe so but they think they are, and from cops, thanks to the media. Black lives only matter if the shooter is an LEO.
“Most black people are not exposed to gunfire.”
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The majority of American blacks live in cities.
Which is the case in Miami. I lived near now-gentrified “black” Coconut Grove which, with their long-established black churches and cemeteries, was surrounded by whites and Hispanics. It was a hotbed of criminality and shootings.
Living there, everyone was “exposed to gunfire”. They may not have witnessed a bullet zinging past their heads, but could tell backfires and fireworks from a gunshot.
Even today, citywide sensors all over this country detect and trianguate gunshots for accurate police responses.
I hope the reports that Trump has rewritten his speech to soften attacks on Biden are not true, because he is in an extraordinarily strong position to make a clear distinction between Biden, the bumbling coward who only seeks the presidency to protect his family grifting operation, and himself, who has nothing to gain and everything to lose personally, but yet continues on only to selflessly serve his country
So is the author telling us that blacks or black Americans have a copyright on what a raised fist means?
I do not know and never have even heard of the dumbass LIEberal dingbat that wrote this article, but it offends me, BIGLY!
President Trump will use this (FAILED!) assassination attempt (PRAISE THE LORD THAT IT DID!) to unify OUR FREE REPUBLIC AROUND REAL AMERICAN VALUES, IRRESPECTIVE OF EVERYTHING BUT WHAT AMERICA IS: “. . . ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!”
I have never seen a more damning admission of utter and complete personal worthlessness.
I didn’t say anything about him publicly appealing to them. I wondered if it would have an impact.
Sorry. Thanks for clarifying.
There was, however, a time when blacks weren’t “exposed to gunfire”.
https://youtube.com/shorts/KZdEDFffDZI?si=_A7Id0X2MmoMGrcG
...and NOT assaulted by their grandchildren...
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