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I also think that a shooting such as the one in Newtown gets the shocking press reaction because of where it happened. Terrible things and shootings happen in impoverished black neighborhoods all the time. We are not shocked anymore when they do. It's almost to the point where the attitude is, "Well, that's to be expected", NOT saying that attitude is OK. Some people, and I can include myself in that group to some degree, imagine that we would do anything anything anything to get our kids out of those neighborhoods, even if we had to work three jobs, even if we had to move where no one looked like us and where we knew no one. It's really easy to imagine that when you don't have to live it.
But in an affluent, clean, white neighborhood with lots of money like Newtown, this is perceived as something that is not supposed to happen. They did all the right things. They lived away from the crime centers. They provided lovely, clean, safe homes for their children to live in. They sent them to schools where there are not crack dealers lurking on the playground. And yet...their children were gunned down.
living in whitey land and expecting no crime is a proven myth. i lived in a 95 percent white city and had my car robbed twice, and home attempted burglarized once.
living in whitey land and expecting no crime is a proven myth. i lived in a 95 percent white city and had my car robbed twice, and home attempted burglarized once.
I just do not understand why the media always portrays young black men that has the criminal mind, when young white men constantly do the most heinous crimes for some of the most ridiculous reasons (lost a girlfriend, failed a test) three in one week, same profile. Yet watch out for the black guy across the street he is up to no good. I see reports saying it was easy access to guns and mental illness. In the worst inner city neighborhood black men have guns and probably have had a much more difficult life than any of the mass white male shooters. Why is it that they don't go to movie theaters or schools shooting people when things dont go their way?
People in the barber shops, and in most african american communities talk about it all the time. Yet the mainstream white media wants to tell us that it was mental illness and guns. If a black person did exactly what this white man did in Newton, I am certain there would be racist comments, and people saying it is in our nature to be bad. Well history tells us that black men are not really the bad seeds.
It's these crazy religious, gun loving nutjobs that raise their children in an atmosphere that fosters this. Kid has all sorts of mental disorders. He probably wasn't born with them, he was probably messed up by his parent's paranoia. Guns and religious extremism+ paranoia/xenophobia=mass murderers.
I just do not understand why the media always portrays young black men that has the criminal mind, when young white men constantly do the most heinous crimes for some of the most ridiculous reasons (lost a girlfriend, failed a test) three in one week, same profile. Yet watch out for the black guy across the street he is up to no good. I see reports saying it was easy access to guns and mental illness. In the worst inner city neighborhood black men have guns and probably have had a much more difficult life than any of the mass white male shooters. Why is it that they don't go to movie theaters or schools shooting people when things dont go their way?
People in the barber shops, and in most african american communities talk about it all the time. Yet the mainstream white media wants to tell us that it was mental illness and guns. If a black person did exactly what this white man did in Newton, I am certain there would be racist comments, and people saying it is in our nature to be bad. Well history tells us that black men are not really the bad seeds.
i understand much of what your saying. you will also hear a black person or a dominican or mexican etc...... Adam is Italian and you don't hear it being dragged in the media that he is Italian.
I just do not understand why the media always portrays young black men that has the criminal mind, when young white men constantly do the most heinous crimes for some of the most ridiculous reasons (lost a girlfriend, failed a test) three in one week, same profile. Yet watch out for the black guy across the street he is up to no good. I see reports saying it was easy access to guns and mental illness. In the worst inner city neighborhood black men have guns and probably have had a much more difficult life than any of the mass white male shooters. Why is it that they don't go to movie theaters or schools shooting people when things dont go their way?
People in the barber shops, and in most african american communities talk about it all the time. Yet the mainstream white media wants to tell us that it was mental illness and guns. If a black person did exactly what this white man did in Newton, I am certain there would be racist comments, and people saying it is in our nature to be bad. Well history tells us that black men are not really the bad seeds.
^5, Mental illness is a cop-out. I keep stating that Adam Lanza and those like him are simply cold blooded killers.
Really dipgrant...really? You are gonna bring this up at this time?
This is a very important topic, why wouldn't he mention the obvious?
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