Friday, May 17, 2013
"Opinion: Treat Chicago gangs as terrorists"
It's interesting to note how our attention gets focused on some things, while basically ignoring other things...
LZ Granderson recently discussed that issue in a CNN opinion column:
"What's responsible for the bloodshed? Gang violence, as usual. Police estimate that of the 532 murders in 2012 -- nearly 1.5 a day -- about 80 percent were gang related. And yet, despite that rather staggering statistic, the national outcry is muted at best -- nothing, to say the least, like the kind we saw last week in Boston. What is it about the word 'gang' that brings out the apathy in us? Would we view Chicago differently if we called the perpetrators something else?"
