A good editorial about black urban youth violence

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/347100_robert12xx.html

This 'hater attitude' has got to stop

By ROBERT L. JAMIESON Jr.

P-I COLUMNIST

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If this sounds like a sad, broken record, it is: a black victim; a black suspect; young men wiping out young men in a violent cycle that doesn't stir City Hall to sound the alarm.

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The teen's death has shaken students and, yes, even Miller, a no-nonsense black man who grew up walking the razor's edge in the city. Today, he offers lifelines -- a sympathetic ear, a shoulder to cry on, paternal wisdom -- to urban youths besieged by poverty, fatherless homes, hopelessness and the false allure of gangs.