If the death of a young black man is such an appalling event, and one that requires an immediate - and apparently visceral - response, where were the Berkeley revolutionaries and the San Francisco activists when 124 people, the vast majority of them young black men, were gunned down on the streets of Oakland last year? What about the 127 homicides in the city in 2007? What about a botched robbery in which a 10-year-old boy was paralyzed from the waist down, most likely for the rest of his life, while taking a piano lesson?
Apparently, the scores of young black men murdered in Oakland year after year - most often by other black men - does not warrant the same level of outrage as one black man shot by a law enforcement officer.
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article by chip johnson