[PEN-L:5773] Re: Re: High school

Margaret mairead at mindspring.com
Fri Apr 23 04:43:24 PDT 1999


Max wrote:


>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.



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list