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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who cares about Chicago? Nobody.[/quote]

Except when a white cop shoots a black guy ........... and then Chicago matters and BLM decides that it warrants protesting and inconveniencing shoppers.[/quote]

Ah, so inconvenienced rich white shoppers is more of a big deal than a cop gunning down a teenager with 15 bullets and then lying about it.

A teenage black life is worth less than a white consumer being delayed 30 minutes while shopping.

That's basically what's being said here...  And sadly it proves BLM's point.
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Yes.   My family is Egyptian and the protests that started about police bruality, by the way, on National Police Day, shut down the city near Tahrir Square.  For YEARS.   And yet, as far as I could tell, most Americans were cheering them on.   But let BLACK Americans protest police brutality? Unacceptable.   :roll: [/quote]

You are missing the point: it is not that police brutality should be condoned. It is that thousands of blacks being killed by other blacks should matter a lot more. If there were no killings by the police, you would still have a horrendous number of blacks being killed by other blacks. It has been going on for years and merely getting worse.[/quote]

Crime rates are getting MUCH lower. They peaked in the early 90s.  It's much, much lower now.   For a lot of reasons.   One big reason is lead abatement.  Lead poisoning in kids causes lifelong behavior issues and has been linked to violent crime for decades. As we got rid of it in house paint and gasoline, the crime rate also went down (as those kids grew up). This was espcially true in urban areas.

Policing has also changed for the better.  Not everywhere unfortunately. And where you see the old style of policing you see more crime. But best practices for police work now relies heavily on community engagement with different neighborhood leaders. Faith groups, ethnic groups, neighborhood groups, schools, recreation departments, etc.  A coordinated approach to remedying the causes of crime helps effectively reduce crime.

So while you try to manufacture outrage that black people aren't talking about black on black crime, the truth is that they have been talking, for decades, and they and urban governments have done something about it while you haven't been paying attention. It's not perfect and there's still work to do.   But don't act like people don't care.

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