Fifty-nine people were shot in Chicago, including seven fatally, over the weekend in mostly poor, black neighborhoods on the city’s South and West sides.
But as the nation grieved over the mass shooting rampages in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, that left 31 dead, the daily tragedy of gun violence in the nation’s third largest city – which recorded 42 homicides in the first 28 days of July – made hardly a blip with national news outlets and cable networks.
For anti-violence activists and social scientists on the frontlines of studying and combating the scourge of gun violence, it was hardly surprising that the national media all but ignored the bloodshed in the Windy City. Still, it doesn’t sting any less.
“They’re all related,” said Tamar Manasseh, founder of the Chicago-based anti-gun violence initiative Mothers/Men Against Senseless Killings. “Dayton. El Paso. Brooklyn. Chicago. We kind of separate this to our peril. It weakens us as Americans. It weakens our fight against the NRA and gun violence when you separate urban and rural shootings, suburban and street shootings,” Manasseh said.
Manasseh said in an interview that the media too often treats gun violence differently based on the race of those involved. While black-on-black violence is considered “normal,” white-on-white crime is believed to be “something that shouldn’t happen,” Manasseh said.
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“… it was hardly surprising that the national media all but ignored the bloodshed in the Windy City…”
No gun-grabbing value there.
It actually exposes their anti-gun agenda for what it truly is… extermination of the masses.
Exactly!