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The ‘Knockout Game’ Is A Myth

Video from around the world has been edited together to make it appear as though there is a “new” game among African-American youth called “The Knockout Game.”

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Click through to see the 19 minute video which has been edited down from a one hour and five minute video.

 

After reading The New Jim Crow, I can really connect the dots with what mass media does to demonize black people.

 

European-Americans make up 70% of the U.S., but how often does mass media make a demonizing news segment out of the behavior of a single European-American in the way that this story does.

 

When a European-American shoots up a school or theater, the media doesn’t say that it’s a new mass shooting game.

 

The U.S. seems to have a difficult time acknowledging that any individual can need mental health care. And we know that there can be numerous road blocks in accessing a psychologists. One needs insurance, time and transportation to even begin the process, and poverty makes all three of those hoops more difficult to get through.

 

@getgln

See on ronaldjacksonglobal.blogspot.com

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Daily Kos: ‘The picture speaks a thousand words’ (Warning: graphic photo)

 

“A 14-year-old boy Pennsylvania boy and his 19-year-old cousin were caught shoplifting in a Tulleytown, Pennsylvania Walmart. His mother says he was influenced by the older cousin and made a bad decision, like a lot of teenagers are prone to do. But what happened next has his mother, Marissa Sergeant, questioning the police version of events:”

 
See on www.dailykos.com

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Confessions of a former drone warrior – CNN.com Video

CNN’s Hala Gorani, in for Christiane Amanpour, speaks with former U.S. drone sensor operator Brandon Bryant.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

He believes he killed a child.

 

Adults used to be children too.

 

Does race play a role in this? Does racism? Or nationalism? Thinking one’s own country and people are better than another country and people.

See on www.cnn.com

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2 killed, 2 injured at Nevada middle school; witness says student shot teacher

(CNN) — [Breaking news update at 2:20 p.m. Monday]

Of the two killed in Monday morning’s shooting at a Nevada middle school, one was a staff member at the school, and the other “appears to be a student/suspect in this case,” Washoe County School District Police Chief Mike Mieras said. Two students were injured, he said. One underwent surgery, and the other is “doing well,” he said.

[Breaking news update at 1:58 p.m. Monday]

A 13-year-old student told the Reno Gazette Journal that a student fired a shot at a teacher at a Nevada middle school on Monday. “The student was pointing a gun at the teacher after the teacher told him to put it down, and the student fired a shot at the teacher, and the teacher fell, and everybody ran away,” the student said.
See on www.cnn.com

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Children and Guns: The Hidden Toll

Children shot accidentally — usually by other children — are collateral casualties of the accessibility of guns in America, their deaths at once heart-rending and eminently preventable.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

The murders are high at age 3 and 13.

 

Age 3 they are old enougth to manipulate the gun, yet young enough to not understand the difference between a toy gun and a real gun.

 

Age 13 they think that removing the cartridge makes it safe to point at people for fun and pull the trigger, not realizing there is a bullet in the chamber.

See on www.nytimes.com