Robert Louis Singletary
Robert Louis Singletary
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Post-Teenaged Man Charged With Shooting at White Family Whose Basketball Rolled Into His Yard
Since it is now standard journalistic practice to refer to rampaging black criminals as “teens,” a recent story from North Carolina requires me to refer to a 24-year-old black male accused of attempted murder as a “post-teenaged man.”
Last week’s news cycle was dominated by the saga of a black teen who was shot by an 84-year-old white man after ringing the wrong doorbell. (more…)