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stand your ground has happened again culture?

In Florida? Where is Al Sharpten? Jesse Jackson? Where is the community outrage? No calls to repeal the law? A youth shot and killed another youth, the deceased family is devistated, the boy that shot him? Scott free. Think it has anything to do with both being white?

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  • Pancho
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    When Blacks are shot, attacked, raped, the media has a field day. When Whites are shot, attacked, raped, it might make the news ... unless a "boy-saves-cat-trapped-in-tree" story doesn't take precedence over it. I heard of some White women attacked by Blacks in Long Beach, California some years ago - it made the news, but no one was shouting "racist" or any such thing. The news media wimped out and kept calling for "unity" ... but if had been the other way around, if it had been Whites attacking Blacks, it would have been the story of the century ... again ...

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