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Times Roman
1) I appreciate your frustration
2) Media is always biased. Trust me. I lived in Afghanistan, and I would listen to the BBC and Al Jazeera news to understand what the USA was doing. To a certain extent, media does what the government wants.
3) Black community is a target since they represent a good portion of inner city and gang activity. We can argue this point, "why" this is true, but reality is, government and media like scape goats. And to a certain extent, there is a "self fulfilling prophesy" in the community that needs to be broken. Some in the community see themselves as targets, right or wrong, and then since they feel targeted inappropriately, then might as well meet expectations. This wasn't always the case. Community was very strong with family, religion and work ethic in prior generations. And then something happened. Maybe someone real familiar with Reverend King's and Malcom X's philosophy and history, can compare and contrast the dynamics of the two's message, but something broke. And until we figure out what broke, and how to fix, this problem aint going away,
4) On average, I believe this problem will self correct in the next generation. Saying this, there will be pockets of communities that will lag. Remember Selma Alabama? forced busing? I may get the names/dates wrong, because I'm real tired, but the underlying idea is that the government had to physically step in and FORCE busing of children. Who benefited? Certainly not THOSE children. The beneficiaries are the children of those children.
5) We live in an imperfect world. All I can say is to protect, in this order
family
community
nation
other than that, not sure what to tell you, besides.....
merry Christmas mate!
Roman