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To even acknowledge this line of debate is to start a larger argument about the worth, the very personhood, of a black man in America. Its to engage in a cost-benefit analysis, weigh probabilities, and gauge the precise odds that Browns life was worth nothing against the threat he posed to the life of the man who killed him. Its to deny that there are structural reasons why Brown was shot dead while James Eagan Holmes—who on July 20, 2012, walked into a movie theater and fired rounds into an audience, killing 12 and wounding 70 more—was taken alive. There are reasons why white guns rights activists can walk into a Chipotle restaurant with assault rifles and be seen as gauche nuisances while unarmed black men are killed for reaching for their wallets or cell phones, or carrying childrens toys. Guns arent for black people, either. I cant understand how anyone could deny the existence of institutionalized racism in this country. Its blatant, its hypocritical, and it needs to be seriously addressed at federal and local levels.
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 22:19:19 +0000

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