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The Black Man In America Is Not Hostile & Angry

I was watching the news last night "locally", which is something I try very hard not to do because if I did I would be just as detached from reality as the people reporting it. Most of the time and I'm willing to bet that 95 % of news stories are built upon hearsay, which by law would be deemed inadmissible in court. Well let me say in certain courts it depends on the way the question is asked, and if the person who provided the statement is available for cross-examination. However that was not the basis of my discussion, while I was watching the news all of a sudden an African American male's picture was flashed across the screen. Mind you no charges had been filed against the man at the time his picture was literally plastered across what possibly could be the entire state, but that wasn't what bothered me the most either. The issue that I had with the whole report is that they stated the man had a history of violence, this history that was listed could h