So I saw the article and thought to myself, its huffpost so they are probably making it sound worse than what he sa---nope he went there.
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“We do have a gun violence problem in this country, and it’s gang violence.” Masters told “The Jeff Oravits Show” podcast in April in comments that were spotted this week by The Daily Beast. “It’s people in Chicago, St. Louis shooting each other. Very often, you know, Black people, frankly,” Masters said. “And the Democrats don’t want to do anything about that.”
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/blake...b016c4eefaddcb
I will point to a reddit comment I read
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Okay so let's say for the sake of this bad faith argument that gun violence is statistically more pervasive among a particular ethnic/religious community. How on earth is that an argument to ignore the problem?
Statistically, the opioid/heroin epidemic has killed white Americans at a far higher rate than any other group. What if during his presidency Obama had made a statement that the opioid/heroin epidemic was a "white people issue" and that "it's the responsibility of white community leaders to fix this problem"?
Of course he would have faced backlash, because functioning democracies don't choose to solve or ignore crises based on the ethnic or racial make-up of the victims.
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