OPINION: Black lives don't matter – until elections

Imagine that you land in a foreign country, pick up a local newspaper and learn that 19 local young men had died at the hands of known people over the past few weeks – and yet very few had been arrested or would face the courts for it. Imagine learning that this is occurs twice a year and that last year 44 boys died under exactly the same circumstances. No one had been convicted for those deaths...

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