The kids in the suburbs don't have gun shops and liquor stores on every corner, conjoined with massive unemployment and low educational quality to accelerate the chances that they might find themselves being beaten or shot by a bully who's not even in school anymore. A well-known example might be the scene in the famous film, Boyz in the Hood, where one of the teen characters is murdered in an alley after getting into an altercation with a 27-year-old man. This story is played out repeatedly all over the country, yet some seem to believe that for young black men in America, dying is simply a part of life. Read more...
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