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TYT: Bro In Hot Water For Black Lives Don’t Matter Video
A high school student in Maryland is getting a lot of negative attention for putting out a thirty second video where he talks about how he does not believe that black lives matter. Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz (Turner Classic Movies), Ana Kasparian, and Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"A viral video of a suburban white Maryland teenager disparaging the Black Lives Matter movement with inflammatory racist pronouncements has prompted a swift response from local school officials, who described the recording as “disturbing.”
The 30-second video, which quickly gained momentum in recent days on social media, shows a student at Mount Hebron High School, in Ellicott City, saying “who the [expletive] cares about some black man who dies?” The student goes on to say that black lives do not matter because “they are an inferior race, okay?””*
Read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/white-high-school-student-black-lives-dont-matter/2016/01/28/5c42cbf0-c633-11e5-a4aa-f25866ba0dc6_story.html