One Chicago High School Had 29 Students Shot, and Eight Killed in a Single Year; “Sensitive,” Liberal Story is Worse than What a White Supremacist Would Say

I apologize to Jerry PDX, who gave me this item over four years ago. I just stumbled onto it, while looking for something else.


By Jerry PDX
Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 9:27:00 P.M. EDT

I highly advise listening to the broadcast re Harper High. As I listened to it I realized everything you say about black culture is reinforced, even coming from the liberal viewpoint, it’s just done in a “sensitive” way.


487: Harper High School, Part One
Feb 15, 2013
This American Life

We spent five months at Harper High School in Chicago, where last year alone 29 current and recent students were shot. 29. We went to get a sense of what it means to live in the midst of all this gun violence, how teens and adults navigate a world of funerals and Homecoming dances. We found so many incredible and surprising stories…”


N.S.: “Lotta fresh meat!,” says a cop chuckling.

The NPR host, Ira Glass, praises this as fun-loving, but “fresh meat” is prison talk.

At This American Life/NPR.