Challenging the Rhetoric

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By Anita Stewart

QUESTION: Do African-Americans’ lives matter less because they are expected to kill one another?

There is a lot of talk about Race in our corporate media right now and this has become a very fiery news-peg. Everyone has an opinion or their own take or analysis or stats …

… some would say that the Civil War never ended and that the US still has a huge racial divide.

Others would say that the African-American communities have brought all of this on themselves because of “Black on Black” crime.

With names like Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Kimani Gray, Michael Brown, Vonderitt Myers,  Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell and so many more being thrust on our collective consciousness and by corporate media’s constant reiteration and framing of these senseless murders, it has become clear to anyone paying attention that some of these victims have been made into perpetrators.

Many on…

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