{"id":14630,"date":"2014-07-07T15:31:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T13:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14630"},"modified":"2014-07-07T15:31:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T13:31:36","slug":"since-trayvon-martin-480-blacks-have-been-murdered-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14630","title":{"rendered":"Since Trayvon Martin 480 Blacks have been murdered in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think about that for a moment. More than 500 murders in 2012, and approximately 150 so far this year. 75% of the victims are Black. And most of it is Black on Black violence. Gang violence. Drug related violence. Crimes of passion. Crimes of opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>While Chicago may not have the highest murder rate in the nation, it has the highest gross number of murders.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely the black\u00a0community expresses neither outrage nor\u00a0angst over the level of violence in Chicago, home to Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey.<\/p>\n<p>Especially since so many of the victims are people of colour. But just try to talk about slavery from hundreds of years back and see the wild response.<\/p>\n<p>Is the victim&#8217;s race less important than the race of the perp?<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.chicagopolice.org\/portal\/page\/portal\/ClearPath\/News\/Statistical%20Reports\/Murder%20Reports\/MA11.pdf\">extremely detailed analysis <\/a>of murder in Chicago is available, but not a single black voice cares.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And no outrage whatsoever<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[9427,986,1638,140],"class_list":["post-14630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-black-crime","tag-chicago","tag-us","tag-violence"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14631,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14630\/revisions\/14631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}