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05/21/2008: "'Why are black men killing each other?'"

Now Mr. Parker is a filmmaker working on a project about black culture in a white world. The 34-year-old Prince George's County resident will return to his roots today to talk about crime in a community forum called "Why are black men killing each other?"In his view, the reasons are varied. Some of them are internal, including lack of self esteem and lack of education or marketable skills that make employment challenging. Some reasons come from the outside.

Media portrayals of black people and a lack of black male role models in many children's lives also have a large impact.

Black men are told, indirectly, that they are worthless, Mr. Parker said, and to some people, that makes it OK to kill another "worthless" person.

Drugs also are a cause. People who think they're worthless often drop out of school, leading them to have difficulty getting legitimate jobs, he explained.

"(They think) 'What am I to do but sell drugs?" he said. "It's a trap ... People don't see any other way out of public housing."

[ Where and when have black men not been killing each other? Genetic diversity is the problem. They need to live amongst their own tribe and have ethnic separation if they are going to have relative peace. ]

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