Where is moral outrage and large media coverage when hundreds of young black men are murdered in cities like Chicago asks New Haven resident

12/19/12, "Black Community: Why Is Urban Gun Violence Ignored?" Breitbart, Dr. Susan Berry

"While the state of Connecticut, and the nation at large, remains in shock over the school shootings in Newtown, some members of the black community in New Haven are frustrated at the outpouring of national attention to this incident when urban areas of the United States suffer with serious gun violence continuously.
 
Some of these New Haven residents observed that, with hundreds of media outlets focused on President Obama’s visit to Connecticut on Sunday for an interfaith prayer service, this level of intense attention would not have been poured on a similar incident in an inner city area....

Holder-Winfield said, however, that “children are killed every day in this country and they are not seen as children, ‘our,’ or a reason to discuss trauma, mental health and guns.” He observed, “To have this conversation now when we are feeling pain, but to not have it when we are feeling better has no meaning.”
 
Gregory Webb, a resident of New Haven, asserted, “Where is the moral outrage and large media coverage when there are hundreds of murders of young black men in cities like Chicago? 

No one really cares about black kids as much as they care about white kids or white life. Where are our black clergy when we have these murders in New Haven? We have makeshift vigils all the time on our city streets,” he said."...





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