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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One thing - I wish blacks would SERIOUSLY start addressing the issue of black-on-black violence. I live in what many would consider to be the 'hood - and I feel as though every week I pass a church where there is a funeral for a youth. When I check news reports, these deaths are barely mentioned. It's disgusting. But, the only solution will come from within the black community.[/quote]
[b]Ok why don't you call white people killing white people white 
White on white crime??
It is just crime [/b]!!!!!!!
Communities most affected by it need to adress it, but please [b]don't act as of it some special kind of crime when both the victim and perpetrator are black[/b].[/quote]

I am not that PP but I am sure it is referred to as black on black violence because young black men are being killed by young black men, at an alarming and heartbreaking level.

I would like to see the same outrage about this tragedy from the black community, particularly its leaders, as was shown about Trevon.  For every Trevon, there are hundreds of other young men who are victims of black on black violence in our inner cities.

It is equally tragic, if not more tragic, just based on the sheer numbers.[/quote]

Black people don't have "leaders"? Do white people have "leaders" also? Why do so many make the assumption that an entire race of people has (or needs) someone to speak on our behalf? We are not monolithic.

BTW, it's Trayvon. [/quote]

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