by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Syracuse University – Scholarship in Action
African American males in Detroit between the ages of 15 and 24 are dying at a rate that is roughly seven times higher than the rest of the Detroit population. If they were dying at the same rate as everyone else, there would be one death every three weeks. Instead, there are two black men dying every single week.
This has set off alarm bells within the Detroit Police Department, which has taken heavy criticism for its policing of the black community. Their most recent embarrassment was the shooting of seven-year old Aiyana Jones during a police raid. But the Chief of Police, Ralph Godbee Jr., is concerned about black men killing one another.
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In the city of Mount Vernon, New York there has been up to three murder a week of young African American men from ages 12 to 30 years of age, at least 2 every week and at least 12 murders every year for the ten years I lived there.
The young non-thinkers don't see they are just being used like Pawn in a Chess game. Think Goodness law and order has awaken and started going after the Kings that munipulate the Pawn.
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