Who?s Holding The Smoking Gun?
By Jecquea Howsie 
Headline: As rapid gunfire broke-out a 12-year-old boy sought refuge inside a tennis shoe store; crouching behind shelves-so he wouldn?t be noticed, accidentally stood up just as the final bullet entered the store and shot him in the chest. The little boy looked at the intended target pleading, ?Please don?t let me die,? instead, he looked at the boy and fled.
Images like these plague black communities, and as the war on terror continues to divide American families, the genocide of the youth destroys the black aesthetic.
?Not since slavery,? notes former U.S. Secretary of Human Services Dr. Louis Sullivan, ?has so much calamity and ongoing catastrophe been visited on Black males.? Likewise, it?s the African American community?s massive homicide rate that accounts for most of America?s murders.
Recent studies suggest that two factors explain this high murder rate in America. First is the violence of the drug trade in African-American communities. Crime expert Eli Lehrer notes:
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