Once Upon A Police Shooting In Pittsburgh

Will shifting the focus of “The Talk” eliminate “The Question”?

Jpharoahdoss
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Published in
7 min readNov 18, 2020

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The Talk

After the 2014 police shooting of a black teenager, Michael Brown, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, the mainstream media devoted a lot of time covering a specific speech black parents give their children called — The Talk.

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Jpharoahdoss
engendered

J. Pharoah Doss is a columnist for the New Pittsburgh Courier.