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<DIV id=article><P class=posted>By Keith Boykin, www.keithboykin.com
Tuesday, <SPAN>January 2 2007</SPAN>, 1:31<SPAN class=meridiem>AM</SPAN>
Six black men were shot at a gay house party in Chicago during the New Year's Eve weekend. Police said the shooting at a south side home may have been a hate crime, according to UPI. The six men were injured when two masked gunmen forcibly entered a house and opened fire during a party early Sunday. Police said the gunmen did not speak or use slurs toward any of the partygoers during the shooting. All six of the injured men were taken to local hospitals. Four were described as having non-life threatening injuries and two were in stable condition with chest wounds. All the victims are said to be African American, according to Rod 2.0.
About 100 people, mostly men, were at the party in a two-story house near the city’s Avalon Park neighborhood, according to the Associated Press. The gunmen began shooting around 5:30 a.m. in an apartment on the home’s first floor on South Woodlawn Avenue. No suspects had been arrested as of Monday, according to AP. But that's just the factual part of the story. What's troubling to me is the lack of concern by some of the community members. Wait till you see what some local residents had to say about the shooting.Do Gays Belong In Black Neighborhoods?
This exchange between a reporter and two young black men in the community illustrates the problem.
First young man: "This ain't that type of neighborhood for them to be in. You know, they got to understand that they need to go back to the suburbs or wherever cause this is just like a regular, normal neighborhood for straight people."
Reporter: You're saying gays don't belong here?
First young man: Exactly. Exactly. That's exactly what I'm saying.
Second young man: I was trying to tell them myself like y'all probably need to move around because the way people talking about them, it's just, man, something's going happen to them. Shoot, I knew something was going to happen to them. Shoot, it just took a litt
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<DIV id=article><P class=posted>By Keith Boykin, www.keithboykin.comTuesday, <SPAN>January 2 2007</SPAN>, 1:31<SPAN class=meridiem>AM</SPAN>
Six black men were shot at a gay house party in Chicago during the New Year's Eve weekend. Police said the shooting at a south side home may have been a hate crime, according to UPI. The six men were injured when two masked gunmen forcibly entered a house and opened fire during a party early Sunday. Police said the gunmen did not speak or use slurs toward any of the partygoers during the shooting. All six of the injured men were taken to local hospitals. Four were described as having non-life threatening injuries and two were in stable condition with chest wounds. All the victims are said to be African American, according to Rod 2.0.
About 100 people, mostly men, were at the party in a two-story house near the city’s Avalon Park neighborhood, according to the Associated Press. The gunmen began shooting around 5:30 a.m. in an apartment on the home’s first floor on South Woodlawn Avenue. No suspects had been arrested as of Monday, according to AP. But that's just the factual part of the story. What's troubling to me is the lack of concern by some of the community members. Wait till you see what some local residents had to say about the shooting.Do Gays Belong In Black Neighborhoods?
This exchange between a reporter and two young black men in the community illustrates the problem.
First young man: "This ain't that type of neighborhood for them to be in. You know, they got to understand that they need to go back to the suburbs or wherever cause this is just like a regular, normal neighborhood for straight people."
Reporter: You're saying gays don't belong here?
First young man: Exactly. Exactly. That's exactly what I'm saying.
Second young man: I was trying to tell them myself like y'all probably need to move around because the way people talking about them, it's just, man, something's going happen to them. Shoot, I knew something was going to happen to them. Shoot, it just took a litt
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