Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27238991-20151117203417

Why is it that when whites shoot Africans it is mostly unnoticed outside Africa, but when a mob of white students are shot it is a hot topic across the world?

The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre) occurred at Kent State University in the US city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.

The Sharpeville Massacre occurred on 21 March 1960, at the police station in the South African township of Sharpeville in Transvaal (today part of Gauteng). After a day of demonstrations against the Pass laws, a crowd of about 5,000 to 7,000 black African protesters went to the police station. The South African Police opened fire on the crowd, killing 69 people. Sources disagree as to the behavior of the crowd; some state that the crowd was peaceful, while others state that the crowd had been hurling stones at the police, and that the shooting started when the crowd started advancing toward the fence around the police station.

I was born I 1940, was a hippy in the late 60's and hated violence.


 * 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Vecchio
 * 2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mary_Ann_Vecchio
 * 3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
 * 4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpeville_massacre 