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Racism #2

This past weekend I was talking to a lady who worked in New York and had been doing a lot of research there on crime and deaths. She mentioned the 1996 case of Jon Benet Ramsey who was murdered in her home, and the killer has not yet been determined. Over the summer there was a break through of news going around that her killer had been found and his name was Johnathon Carr. It was under the breaking news on CNN and all over the place for about a week and a half. Whoever you talked to had known about it and was convinced this man ruined this poor girls life, as well as her parents. This has been a very well-watched case since 1996. Jon Benet was a white, blonde, gorgeous six year old. She did beauty pageants up until the age of six. The lady I was talking to said this would not have been such a profound case in the US if she was black. Indeed I believe she was right. She had been four different cases in which black children were murdered. When she asked for some evidence to find clues or ways of finding out what had happened to these poor children, she got a response of there isn’t any. Nobody had bothered to find evidence on these cases because nobody cared enough. She found it so bizarre how one kid who died more than 10 years ago can have created so much attention to Americans. And how even though these four victims have not found there killer, there is still nothing being done. It is mind boggling, and there is almost no way to explain it.