re: Why are black people so emotionally invested in these police shootings?

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because when blacks kill each other, 6500 a year, there is no outrage...

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That’s what get me. An 8 year old African American boy was shot in Hoover last year during a shootout. No marches. No celebrities tweeting hashtags. Nothing. Fast forward a few months later. A 4 year old was shot in a park. Same deal.

Those were senseless killings that happen at a much higher rate than any kind at the hands of police that everyone gets up in arms about. It’s really sad because if this same energy was directed towards those incidents, we could see so much more be done that could truly help the black community. But the ones that make the news involve race or at least it fits the narrative of race. America is obsessed with race.