XPost: phl.media, nj.politics, alt.lawyers   
   From: kybyrd@pobox.upenn.edu   
      
   On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 05:36:05 GMT, beav  wrote:   
   >   
   >"Karen Y Byrd"  wrote in message   
   >news:slrnfbok7u.anq.kybyrd@pobox.upenn.edu...   
   >> On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:17:45 GMT, beav  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>In something more out of a twilight zone.. A dead city of violence and   
   >>>horrific air quality daily.. every day.. the same hell.. fears of violence   
   >>>and lost health resound. Doctors and hospitals and satelite hospitals for   
   >>>test and cancer clinics and three heart and lung centers.   
   >>   
   >> When are you going to grasp that much of the violence and killing   
   >> is caused and being experienced by black people and **THAT'S**   
   >> what's getting worse, day-by-day, year-after-year.   
   >so let me get this, black people are the only ones who live in fear here   
   >right?   
      
   I didn't say. I said that *****MOST***** of the problem involves black people   
   and black people alone as perps and victims.   
      
   Black people/African-Americans consitutute 13% of the population.   
   That's roughly 30 million people out of roughly 300 million people   
   in the country. But black people/African-Americans are nearly   
   half of the homicide victims. That's quite a disparity!   
      
   > That Asian shot to death is one of three killed this year..   
      
   Wow! Big deal. Well, putting sarcasm aside. Of the over 250 people   
   killed in Phila. so far this year probably *90%* of them were black.   
      
   > All your   
   >sentiment Karen is not the reality.   
      
   Yes, it is. The problem is a black problem, or more correctly a black   
   male, problem. You, as usual, are just not identify the primary   
   victims and perpetrators.   
      
   > We are a city in crises.   
      
   I didn't say it wasn't.   
      
   > Murder in this city is a symptom ( at least to me to old city ,   
   >closed stores for rent. air that is hard to breathe, and a press that lies   
   >and ignores it all).   
      
   It's a symptom of a lot things. Selling   
    illegal drugs. Under-education. Economics.   
   Racism. Classism. Glamorizing thug life. I would agree with you   
   about one possible  environmental cause: people's exposure to lead.   
      
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