6. Rates of crime also correlate to income. Yet nobody talks about poor-on-poor violence.
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8. Purpose of black-on-black meme: Only time to talk about black victims of crime is when need to deflect attention from a police shooting
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9. Should add my thinking on black-on-black crimes influenced greatly by
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10. Phrase "black-on-black" crime makes crime all about race, divorces it from any social context (poverty, segregation)
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11. Were bombings of Coventry & Dresden examples of white-on-white war crimes? Why race relevant sometimes & not others?
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12. And if we stipulate that black-on-black crime is the problem, how does that absolve cops in Ferguson? Are they the solution to problem?
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13. Shakespeare's plays are filled with white-on-white violence. True even of Othello.
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14. Of course, crime is a serous social problem, one that is both rooted in crime but also something that contributes to poverty.
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15. But the last people we can trust to actually solve the serious problem of crime are those who boot around term "black-on-black"
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16. During the "Trail of Tears," Andrew Jackson astutely noted that no one was talking about Cherokee-on-Cherokee violence.
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