http://erudd786.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/07/racism-2/ Just another Learnerblogs.org weblog Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:52:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.5 http://erudd786.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/07/racism-2/#comment-23 Joe Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:42:10 +0000 http://erudd786.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/07/racism-2/#comment-23 I was all ready to write you this nasty comment (something I rarely do to band members) about how indredibly wrong you were, but when I started thinking about it, I couldn't think of any big murder cases involving black people that have captured America's attention for as long as the cases of Jonbenet Ramsey, Martha Moxley, and Mrs. Sam Sheppard, just to name a few. Even the case regarding the shooting of Sean Bell, the black man who was shot by NYPD officers this past November, hasn't been in the papers for a while. As much as I don't want to believe it, you bring up a very interesting point. I was all ready to write you this nasty comment (something I rarely do to band members) about how indredibly wrong you were, but when I started thinking about it, I couldn’t think of any big murder cases involving black people that have captured America’s attention for as long as the cases of Jonbenet Ramsey, Martha Moxley, and Mrs. Sam Sheppard, just to name a few. Even the case regarding the shooting of Sean Bell, the black man who was shot by NYPD officers this past November, hasn’t been in the papers for a while. As much as I don’t want to believe it, you bring up a very interesting point.

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