1. Crime is a matter of proximity & opportunity, so most crime is white-on-white, black-on-black, brown-on-brown, etc.
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9. Should add my thinking on black-on-black crimes influenced greatly by
@jbouie: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/15/the-trayvon-martin-killing-and-the-myth-of-black-on-black-crime.html … -
10. Phrase "black-on-black" crime makes crime all about race, divorces it from any social context (poverty, segregation)
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@HeerJeet Don't forget in Zimmerman trial it was used then, also. He was a wannabe cop, though.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet THIS!!!!' THIS!!!!!!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet So tell me, if the police in question was black, would it have garnered as much attention? Of course not. -
@howie004 Um, vast majority of cops are white, so this rarely happens. But when black cops shoot unarmed people, it is news, yes. - Show replies
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