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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFront page of the New York Daily News: When will it end?
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onehandle
(51,122 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Not making excuses for guns, by any means, but this issue goes beyond the Gun Culture.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)The heart of racism lives there.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)We have to crush the gun culture ... and the RACIST culture that still exists is this country.
DinahMoeHum
(21,812 posts)thanks.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Bravissimo.
question everything
(47,544 posts)He was murdered in Mississippi with two other young men - white: Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman. All three were there to get people to register to vote.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_civil_rights_workers%27_murders
To include Chaney only on this list is to belittle the murder of Schwerner and Goodman.
Brewinblue
(392 posts)An oversight perhaps, headlines always face space limitations, so it is quite reasonable that not every victim's name be included. Racism, however, implies intent, and the headline is for an article exposing our nation's history of racial violence -- not condoning it.
question everything
(47,544 posts)they would not have been murdered, certainly not in the way they were.
Chaney would have been murdered regardless of his race, as were his two white friends. They were murdered because they ventured into KKK territory to register blacks to vote.
roody
(10,849 posts)the list.
Brewinblue
(392 posts)I can only imagine the response from the Post.
And why wasn't that this morning's headline at major newspapers across the country? Oh that's right, the Liberal Biased Media.
Raffi Ella
(4,465 posts)When.Will.It.END?