Time constraints.....Time constraints. I will say my piece in a few hours but the excuses have to stop. Black death at the hands of other folks of color must cease and just getting angry when it's a White power structure model (in this case the police) is a tired precept as well. Again more in a few...check this out in the interim:
Cop killing is a bad political cause
And while some in the African-American community continue to rail against the police, Black death at the hands of other Blacks goes unanswered. Where are the marches? But we'll talk about (my constraints, you know)....again, as a preview, check out this excerpt from JournalGazette.net:
It’s been three years since Wendy Morris lost her youngest boy. When she remembers the good times, she laughs. But then her expression turns serious, tears well up in her eyes and the pain resurfaces.
“I haven’t healed. I don’t think I’ll ever heal from it,” she said. “There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think of Antoine.”
In February 2006, Antoine Latham, 20, was shot to death in an argument over a game of dice.
Sadness overwhelms Morris when she thinks about both her son and the man who killed him, Ezekiel Jones, who was sentenced to 55 years in prison for the murder.
“There’s two more kids that are just gone,” Morris said. “My heart goes out to him and his family.”
Over the last 10 years, nearly 60 percent of Fort Wayne’s homicide victims were black, according to police records.
Only 17.4 percent of the city’s population is black, according to the most recent available U.S. Census data.
Nationwide, Indiana ranks third in the percentage of homicide victims who are black. Nearly 33 of every 100,000 blacks became homicide victims in 2006, according to a study released by the Violence Policy Center this year. That number is six times the national average.
Here's the article in its entirety:
Black victims ‘too many’
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