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Over 40,000 Black kids killed in US by Guns, No Outrage from New York Times.

December 8, 2015 by  
Filed under News, Opinion, Politics, Weekly Columns

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(ThyBlackMan.com) It took a Muslim couple’s killing spree of Americans in San Bernardino, California, the worst terrorist attack since 9/11, for the New York Times to conclude America has a “gun epidemic.”

America does have a gun problem. But it’s not a legal-gun-owner/mass-murder crisis. It’s an illegal-gun/black-children epidemic. Guns in the US have killed over 40,000 black children. Fewer than 800 people have died in America at the hands of mass shooters.

The difference: one is blown way out of proportion by liberals and the media, while the other one is shamefully ignored. In a damning opinion editorial, End the Gun Epidemic in America, the Times wrote: “It is a moral outrage and a national disgrace that civilians can legally purchase weapons designed to specifically to kill people with brutal speed and efficiency.”

The New York Times op-ed ran on the front page of its December 5, 2015 print edition. This is only the second time the paper has done this since 1920.

Why isn’t the Times calling for gun control to stop the number of blacks being killed by guns in America, which far outpaces people killed by mass shootings? Could it be race matters in Times’ selective outrage?

Here’s a staggering reality check, 44,038 black children have been killed by guns since 1979; that’s less than 50 years ago, according to data from the Children’s Defense Fund.  The reality is most of these kids like the 9-year old Chicago boy killed recently, were killed by other blacks. According to the Justice Department data, blacks are committing more homicides than whites — at a rate of 7 to 1, and are homicide victims at rate of 6 to 1.NYTimes-2015

We rarely see news articles from the liberal press lamenting these black lives lost to guns that were obtained almost exclusively illegally. Yet the Washington Post ran a story “The Math of Mass Shootings.” Using an elaborate corresponding graphic, the article illustrates that over the last 50 years, there have been 794 victims killed by mass shooters in the US. (The writers acknowledged there is no universally accepted definition of a mass shooting.)

Do liberal newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post believe black homicides are acceptable but mass shootings aren’t?

For decades, blacks have been dying at the hands of other blacks who are largely buying, stealing or otherwise acquiring guns illegally. Homicides have more than doubled in DC this year. Baltimore experienced its deadliest summer since 1972. The cities experiencing the most gun violence have the strictest gun laws, and that’s because the guns are being acquired illegally.

Chicago’s murder rate is always horrific, earning it the murder capital moniker in 2012. I don’t recall reading a single op-ed from the New York Times unleashing “righteous fury,” condemning the spread of firearms” or appealing to America’s “sense of decency.”

Why has this wholesale killing of black children been ignored by Democrats like Obama and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton? Democrats’ refusal to even address the problem is particularly vexing when one considers blacks vote almost exclusively Democrat.

“Here in America it’s way too easy for dangerous people to get their hands on a gun.” — ? President Barack Obama after the San Bernardino shooting.

To the contrary, it’s way too easy for black children to be murdered by guns in America — something with which liberals, including the nation’s first black president — have grown increasingly comfortable. I wonder if it will take 100,000 black kids to die from guns and another 95 years for the New York Times editorial board to write an op-ed about that gun epidemic. The media should start doing the math on black homicides and ask the question: which matters more, black lives or political pandering?

Written By Crystal Wright

Official website; http://www.conservativeblackchick.com


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One Response to “Over 40,000 Black kids killed in US by Guns, No Outrage from New York Times.”
  1. Marque Anthony says:

    I am an author on this site and a former detective. I would like to know where the stats came from where you cited that over 44,000 blacks have been killed by guns since 1979. Please email the reference info to me at atlantacrimecommission@yahoo.com

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