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theatlantic: Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush took the symbol of the Trayvon Martin protests from the street to the Capitol on Wednesday, getting ejected from the House floor for wearing a hoodie. Read more at The Atlantic Wire. For those who don’t know, Rep. Rush’s district includes the southside of Chicago, a heavily black area that sees a lot of violence and very few city resources. The City of Chicago as a whole has already reached 100 homicides for the year, the majority of which are young black men. [See: The RedEye’s Chicago Homicide Map] TL;DR: This is important.

theatlantic:

Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush took the symbol of the Trayvon Martin protests from the street to the Capitol on Wednesday, getting ejected from the House floor for wearing a hoodie.

Read more at The Atlantic Wire.

For those who don’t know, Rep. Rush’s district includes the southside of Chicago, a heavily black area that sees a lot of violence and very few city resources.

The City of Chicago as a whole has already reached 100 homicides for the year, the majority of which are young black men. [See: The RedEye’s Chicago Homicide Map]

TL;DR: This is important.


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