The first 10 comments on the article hit the nail on the head.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/23/6574/"If these kids were white, it would be a different story."
"So that’s five 911 size disasters every day for 10 years - We are so full of … ourselves (that’s bad enough)"
"More people are dying in this conflict in any given 2 days than have died in the Palestinian/Israel conflict in the past 8 years. Yet, articles about the former outnumber articles about the latter by over 50-1 including on CD. Why is this? Is it because both the killers and the victims are black?"
