>Heard a factoid on Pacifica station. Before this episode, there
>were 11 deaths from this sort of thing over the past two or three
>years. In the same time period, there were 900 deaths to black
>youths from guns.
>
>So the definition of the crisis is the crisis.
Says it all, really. Hundreds of Black kids getting killed is a non-event, a few White kids getting killed is a crisis.
Of course, that's easily explained: the White kids had futures that were cruelly cut short. The Black kids would only have ended in prison anyway.
And we wag our chins.