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To: tejek who wrote (726867)	7/16/2013 1:20:03 AM
From: one_less	Respond to of 1578704

I don't think your author did anything to expose a myth...what myth? And, even though some good points were made, there were also some flaws. Indeed, for the large majority of crimes, you’ll find that victims and offenders share a racial identity, or have some prior relationship to each other. Yes. So what. Shapiro, echoing many other conservatives, is angry over the perceived politicization of the Zimmerman trial, and believes that activists have ” injected” race into the discussion, as if there’s nothing racial already within the criminal-justice system. Indeed, he echoes many conservatives when he complains that media attention had everything to do with Zimmerman’s race. If he were black, the argument goes, no one would care. And so, Shapiro found the sad story of Darryl Green, and promoted it as an example of the “black-on-black” crime that, he believes, goes ignored. Or, as he tweets, “49% of murder victims are black men. 93% of those are killed by other blacks. Media don’t care. Obama doesn’t care. #JusticeForDarryl.” Shapiro is correct. If Zimmerman was black it would have remained a local story, and charges would never have been filed. The media even went overboard to fraudulently paint Zimmerman as a white extremist, and Whoop Ass Trayvon as a cute innocent boy, to elevate the story to the status of a sensational race crime. Dozens of similar stories, less sensational than the Darryl Green story, could be used to illustrate that point, but the Darryl Green story is too graphic to dismiss easily. Every thinking person realizes that. There would simply never have been national media attention if not for the excessive attention payed to Zimmerman's race, there would not been a venue for politicalization, no l/r argument, no vehicle for Obama to talk gun control or Dem leaders to talk about changing laws designed to protect individuals from attack, not cause for broad based outrage.