Pubdate: Mon, 22 Jul 2013
Source: San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
Copyright: 2013 Hearst Communications Inc.
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Author: Ed Chainey

LOOK TO THE SOURCES OF VIOLENCE

Crocodile tears, racially-tinged sophistry and misplaced umbrage in 
The Chronicle letters on the Zimmerman verdict obligate me to 
disabuse some of their most unabashed misrepresentations. Despite 
some writers' presumptions, many of all the people protesting George 
Zimmerman's unjust exoneration also vehemently objected to O.J. 
Simpson's outrageous acquittal.

That they're somehow selective racists is specious pandering. And 
only selectively blind and cold-hearted people could have missed the 
many times this white man has read of and seen the African American 
community and the likes of Al Sharpton get worked up about 
black-on-black crime. Thinking otherwise, by definition, is racism. I 
have joined many blacks and whites who have vociferously decried all 
concomitant violence precipitated by the failed war on drugs which 
has become a de facto tool of minority oppression upon black youths 
who all face employment and civil rights discrimination.

Ed Chainey, Richmond
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