Today's local newspaper, Charleston's Post and Courier, included an AP article about a rapper in New York, Remy Ma, who shot her friend in the stomach. The shot was an accident; the gun was displayed as a warning...like a schoolyard taunt gone bad.
Bill Cosby and Alvin Poussaint have written an illuminating book about the tragedy of young black people killing each other...Come On People: on the path from victims to victors.
Here are two statistics taken from the book..."Homicide is the number one cause of death for black men between fifteen and twenty-nine years of age...Ninety-four percent of all black people who are murdered are murdered by other black people" (pages 8,9).
The Ku Klux Klansmen burning in Hell must be dancing happily around their flaming crosses.
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