Black 4-Year-Old Shot Dead after Mistaking White Woman for his Mother

This could be tomorrow's headline anywhere in the southern US, from Florida to Arizona.

Fear of young black people, even among black cops, is a raging epidemic in the United States. Almost every day we read about another atrocity. Right-wingers say mental illness, not the easy availability of firearms, is the problem. Well the racist paranoia of far too many white Americans is a mental health problem. So what, right-wingers, is your solution?

Current Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents in the United States
The New England Journal of Medicine

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc2201761

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