Philly Mayor: Bad Spinach Gets More National Attention Than Black-on-Black Violence
Philadelphia
Mayor Michael Nutter spoke at a Justice Department conference on youth
violence in Washington, D.C., on April 2, 2012. (CNSNews.com/Penny
Starr)
(CNSNews.com) – Black-on-black violence is a “disease” that deserves a “national investigation,” Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter told a Youth Violence Prevention forum in Washington on Monday.
“It is a disease,” Nutter said. “It’s a rash, and if there were a
rash killing a hundred and some odd young people on a daily basis we’d
be doing something about it.”
Nutter said tainted food gets more attention than young people
killing each other: “If there were five bad bags of spinach on the
shelf somewhere, someone would put out a national alert. Every bag would
be snatched off the shelves until someone figured out where they came
from, what was going on, and there would be a national investigation.”
But, Nutter added, “There is no national investigation about this
issue--that black people are killing black people all across the United
States of America.”
Nutter noted that homicide is the leading cause of death for black
men between the ages of 16 and 34. In Philadelphia last year, 75 percent
of the city’s 316 murder victims were black men and 80 percent of the
arrests involved black men, he said.
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