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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Rude Pundit: The Massacres That Aren't Worth Covering
The Rude Pundit might be old-fashioned, but he remembers a day not so long ago when, if the bodies of a murdered family of three were discovered in a Mississippi shack, it would be big news. Especially if one of the dead was a 7-year old boy. Perhaps those were more innocent times when the nation would be appalled as a whole at such carnage. We might have been asked to join in mourning them. We might have wondered why such horrible things happen.
Now, we don't blink. You can add "especially if the family's black" in there if you like. You wouldn't be wrong.
The same thing goes for the barbershop gambling room shooting yesterday in Detroit. Three men were killed. The murderer fired through the windows and then went in through a back door to shoot up the place.
If you're thinking, "Poor, Detroit, black," you can easily make your case.
This is the nation we live in. These are the times we are damned to exist in. If anyone suggests any kind of change, whether in gun laws or our treatment of inner city poverty, they are laughed at as traitors to a country that betrays its citizens a bullet or two at a time.
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The Rude Pundit: The Massacres That Aren't Worth Covering (Original Post)
meegbear
Nov 2013
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madashelltoo
(1,703 posts)1. Say it out loud . . .
You're whining, too focused on racial issues. This is another American secret we should be ashamed of.
obxhead
(8,434 posts)6. Say it proud....
The elite laugh at us while we champion hate amongst ourselves.
america... fuck yeah!
Skittles
(153,212 posts)2. he is correct
it is shameful
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)3. It's only news if white people are threatened.
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)4. These aren't real Americans, so not worthy of being covered.
Now if one of them wasn't so lazy and had been an athlete, then maybe I'd care. But come on....
if needed.
hatrack
(59,593 posts)5. They were "Killed by their broken homes", just like Trayvon Martin, don't you see?
At least that's what the Gun OwnerZZZZ of 'Murca guy says.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024002737