Why weren't black people being killed by guns for decades "Enough"?

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I'm not disparaging the survivors of the Parkland shooting, but they're far from being the first young people to hide in closets and under tables while terrorized by the sound of gunshots.  

Try living like that in your own home from the time that you're born. 

The government and the media need to take responsibility for their years of neglect about the issue of guns in the United States, and the entertainment industry needs to take responsibility for glamorizing violence, for glamorizing gangs, and for promoting the idea that there's only one way to be authentically black.  

The "black authenticity" promoted by the entertainment industry happens to be the stereotype that is the least true challenge to white power:  illiterate, slovenly, violent, and bound for jail.  It's not a coincidence.  

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