if you don't consider injustice based on race to be a real and important problem

[La Lioness Priyanka]

In my opinion, you don't belong on DU

also the protests in new york city were wonderful and extremely important. I am glad i went, i am glad thousands more did as well.

the lives of young black men are important.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. kicked

[bench scientist]

2. agreed

I keep thinking of this song tonight.

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[Mnemosyne]

3. Hear, hear! And thank you, it matters. nt

[JI7]

4. agree, and there are a few i wish would be banned

i don't even think they are Democrats.

[lumpy]

6. Hear hear

n

[RainDog]

5. k&r n/t

[Solly Mack]

7. K&R

[love_katz]

8. Kicking and recommending...

We have all lost to this verdict...what I most fear is that we will have more trigger-happy Zimmermans.

[olddots]

9. agree 7 billion percent

n.t

[Cleita]

10. K&R

[Egalitarian Thug]

11. K&R It's too bad so many DUers are more concerned about the idea of a boycott

than they are about the murders and racism of and against black people that is epidemic in that cesspool.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. i love how people think they are innocent in what is a societal problem

we all contribute to this problem, mostly my minimizing it and dismissing it.

if people truly were against racism, we'd see a lot less condoning of it

[Egalitarian Thug]

13. I used to be stunned and wanted real change. Now, I just want out.

[ismnotwasm]

14. K&R

[ismnotwasm]

15. A good graphic right here

At FRONTLINE’s request, Roman analyzed the pool of 43,500 homicides by race in states with Stand Your Ground laws* and those without them. Because he wanted to control for multiple variables — the races of the victim and the shooter, whether they were strangers, whether they involved a firearm and whether the murders were in Stand Your Ground states — Roman used a technique known as regression analysis, which is a statistical tool to analyze the relationship between different pieces of data.

Using this analysis, Roman found that a greater number of homicides were found justified in Stand Your Ground states in all racial combinations, a result he believes is because those states yielded more killings overall.

Roman also found that Stand Your Ground laws tend to track the existing racial disparities in homicide convictions across the U.S. — with one significant exception: Whites who kill blacks in Stand Your Ground states are far more likely to be found justified in their killings. In non-Stand Your Ground states, whites are 250 percent more likely to be found justified in killing a black person than a white person who kills another white person; in Stand Your Ground states, that number jumps to 354 percent.

You can see the breakdown of the killings in the chart below. The figures represent the percentage likelihood that the deaths will be found justifiable compared to white-on-white killings, which was the baseline Roman used for comparison:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/criminal-justice/is-there-racial-bias-in-stand-your-ground-laws/