Unfortunately, that IS true. But at the same time, no one seems to want to acknowledge or talk about it. Chicago alone has the same number of homicides as the Newton shooting every 18 days or so (with around 7 a day shot and wounded).
My friend lives in a horrible neighborhood with shootings down the block regularly. It gets a 10 second mention on the news. Occasionally I will see someone in the community do an anti-violence campaign, but it gets no traction with the media. I think some of them don’t want to further shed poor blacks in bad light, re-enforcing stereotypes, and the others just really don’t care about poor people, especially blacks, who live in another world away.
Yes, for sure racism and even just bias makes things worse all around. And unfortunately it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy and a feed back loop that makes one feel that their situation is hopeless. People with out hope don’t care if they hurt others.
