Death of African-American Teenage Male
Death of an African-American Teenage Male
With the recent not guilty verdict in on the case of the murder of 17 year old Trayvon Martin, many people in America are wondering what is going on. Just over a week ago a jury concluded that George Zimmerman was not guilty of the murder of the unarmed African-American teen Trayvon. This has caused quite the controversy once again within this country over the matter of race. Many believe that George Zimmerman racially profiled Trayvon Martin the night he allegedly stalked and in the end killed Martin when confronted while he was performing neighborhood watch duties. Many African-Americans and a few other races to include Caucasian white Americans blame it solely on a race issue but others such as mayor Michael Nutter from Philadelphia is looking at the race issue in another way. Mayor Nutter is focusing on why there are so many young African-American males being killed in America today and in the majority of the cases by their own race. An interesting fact pointed out by Mayor Nutter is that within his own city of Philadelphia 75% of the homicide victims are black men and about 80% of the people arrested for homicide are black men. Mayor Nutter believes that many of the important facts are not focused on enough and we become complacent. 32 Americans are killed by gun violence every day, on average, a disproportionate number of whom are black men. The problem here in America is that we choose to focus on a separate issue on that fact which is gun violence. Instead of looking a little deeper into it which shows that a race of Americans is killing themselves off. The general population is good at looking the other way and always finding something else to worry about than the real issues we face here in America. We focus and are persuaded by our leaders to focus on matters and issues miles and miles away from our own homeland. The death of this very young man Treyvon Martin has stirred the
With the recent not guilty verdict in on the case of the murder of 17 year old Trayvon Martin, many people in America are wondering what is going on. Just over a week ago a jury concluded that George Zimmerman was not guilty of the murder of the unarmed African-American teen Trayvon. This has caused quite the controversy once again within this country over the matter of race. Many believe that George Zimmerman racially profiled Trayvon Martin the night he allegedly stalked and in the end killed Martin when confronted while he was performing neighborhood watch duties. Many African-Americans and a few other races to include Caucasian white Americans blame it solely on a race issue but others such as mayor Michael Nutter from Philadelphia is looking at the race issue in another way. Mayor Nutter is focusing on why there are so many young African-American males being killed in America today and in the majority of the cases by their own race. An interesting fact pointed out by Mayor Nutter is that within his own city of Philadelphia 75% of the homicide victims are black men and about 80% of the people arrested for homicide are black men. Mayor Nutter believes that many of the important facts are not focused on enough and we become complacent. 32 Americans are killed by gun violence every day, on average, a disproportionate number of whom are black men. The problem here in America is that we choose to focus on a separate issue on that fact which is gun violence. Instead of looking a little deeper into it which shows that a race of Americans is killing themselves off. The general population is good at looking the other way and always finding something else to worry about than the real issues we face here in America. We focus and are persuaded by our leaders to focus on matters and issues miles and miles away from our own homeland. The death of this very young man Treyvon Martin has stirred the
References: Commentary. (2013, July 29). Stopping the Slaughter. Time, page 20.