Rationale of comparative is crazy in Mark Cubans statements If I see a black kid in a hoodie and its late at night, Im walking to the other side of the street. And if on that side of the street, there’s a guy that has tattoos all over his face - white guy, bald head, tattoos everywhere - I’m walking back to the other side of the street, --- Can Black Boys Cry? Tears Of Trayvon Martin And Jordan Davis: The Shadow Of Mass Incarceration -- huffingtonpost/2014/02/25/trayvon-martin-jordan-davis_n_4855746.html Excerpt: Where do black boys like Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin cry? Where can they be children that play, laugh and joke as they learn their way in this world? When can they be a victim not only of bullets, but also of a society that has deemed them as men before their time by virtue of their skin and gender? Black men like Jordan Davis do not have childhoods. After puberty they lose so much of their innocence and begin their descent into the shadow of our nations mass incarceration. We as young black men in America live in a world flipped on its head where our gender as men, unlike any other group, makes us more vulnerable socially than our counterparts. Where our image of potential is cast against entertainment silhouettes of Michael Jordan’s flying image and Michael Jackson’s dancing shoes, thus not allowing eve
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