Originally Posted By ecdc Yeah, there's a thread on Trayvon Martin, but this is a separate issue well worth considering. A huge part of the conservative response (don't ask me why this is a liberal/conservative thing...again...but here we are) has been to hammer away at "black on black" violence. Here's an article well worth your time that debunks this myth, as if it were the real problem. <a href="http://www.theroot.com/views/why-don-t-we-talk-about-white-white-crime?page=0,0" target="_blank">http://www.theroot.com/views/w...page=0,0</a> >>The term "black on black" crime is a destructive, racialized colloquialism that perpetuates an idea that blacks are somehow more prone to violence. This is untrue and fully verifiable by FBI, DOJ and census data. Yet the fallacy is so fixed that even African Americans have come to believe it.<<
