Violent Crime
Violence is a part of America’s culture. Violence is as American as cherry pie. – H. Rap Brown, Leader of the Student Nonviolent Organizing Committee, 1972 This observation of H. Rap Brown not only accurately depicted our nation’s violent culture, but it essentially forecast the mass shootings that were to come. Throughout our nation’s history, most of that violence has been directed at Blacks. But in recent decades, even school children – many of them just first- and second-graders — have been targeted by madmen wielding AR-15 rifles, which they supposedly needed for “self-defense.” Q1 2022 h...