Black Lives Matter:
But are we hypocrites? © 2016
What happened in Baton Rouge and Minnesota, captured on video, was really tough to watch. Those two incidents of black males killed by police officers were just the latest in a series of incidents that highlighting an ongoing problem with rogue cops.
To solve this problem, the following steps are necessary:
• Better training for police officers.
• Better psychological screening of officers.
• Voting to ensure the police department is properly managed.
• Lawsuits to force police departments to get their acts together.
• Criminal prosecution of rogue officers and a push for capital punishment.
That said, rogue police officers aren’t the only issue the black community has to deal with.
The black community has a serious credibility problem. We say black lives matter, but the only times we protest and show outrage and say black lives matter are when a white police officer has killed a black person. What we do is more important than what we say.
If black lives truly matter, why aren’t we protesting the daily carnage going on in our neighborhoods? Why do we react so defensively if the subject is even brought up? When we only protest police shooting but show no outrage over the violence in our communities, we have zero credibility when we chant “Black Lives Matter.” We look like hypocrites.
In Chicago, a gang member deliberately targeted a two-year old boy and fired bullets into his little body to get even with the boy’s father. In Inkster, Michigan, a similar incident happened. A crook deliberately shot and killed a child in front of the child’s father before shooting the father. The father survived, and the crook wanted the father to witness his child being murdered in front of him.
Those crimes were as shocking and as horrendous as anything a police officer have done. But there were no protests or chants of “Black Lives Matter.” We could cite hundreds of other heinous incidents and of girlfriends being killed by jealous boyfriends and their bodies burned to cover up the crime.
If you tally up the yearly murder rate in Atlanta, Birmingham, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, D.C., Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Houston, Dallas, Oakland, New York, Baltimore, St. Louis, Memphis, Louisville, and countless smaller cities, that total will exceed 5,000.
Facts: We’re killing over 5,000 Blacks each year. There were about 10 police shootings that made the headlines the last two years. But all of our anger, protests and outrage has been focused on the police shootings. Which is the greater problem?
We can chant Black Lives Matter and protest all day. But we don’t prove Black Lives Matter just by chanting it. We prove Black Lives Matter by our actions. More black lives are taken by other Blacks than by police officers, and every time you watch the news, that point is confirmed.
Why can’t we protest and be as outraged over black on black violence as we are when a white cop commits the violence? Is a black person a million times more dead when killed by a white cop than when killed by a black crook?
But are we hypocrites? © 2016
What happened in Baton Rouge and Minnesota, captured on video, was really tough to watch. Those two incidents of black males killed by police officers were just the latest in a series of incidents that highlighting an ongoing problem with rogue cops.
To solve this problem, the following steps are necessary:
• Better training for police officers.
• Better psychological screening of officers.
• Voting to ensure the police department is properly managed.
• Lawsuits to force police departments to get their acts together.
• Criminal prosecution of rogue officers and a push for capital punishment.
That said, rogue police officers aren’t the only issue the black community has to deal with.
The black community has a serious credibility problem. We say black lives matter, but the only times we protest and show outrage and say black lives matter are when a white police officer has killed a black person. What we do is more important than what we say.
If black lives truly matter, why aren’t we protesting the daily carnage going on in our neighborhoods? Why do we react so defensively if the subject is even brought up? When we only protest police shooting but show no outrage over the violence in our communities, we have zero credibility when we chant “Black Lives Matter.” We look like hypocrites.
In Chicago, a gang member deliberately targeted a two-year old boy and fired bullets into his little body to get even with the boy’s father. In Inkster, Michigan, a similar incident happened. A crook deliberately shot and killed a child in front of the child’s father before shooting the father. The father survived, and the crook wanted the father to witness his child being murdered in front of him.
Those crimes were as shocking and as horrendous as anything a police officer have done. But there were no protests or chants of “Black Lives Matter.” We could cite hundreds of other heinous incidents and of girlfriends being killed by jealous boyfriends and their bodies burned to cover up the crime.
If you tally up the yearly murder rate in Atlanta, Birmingham, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, D.C., Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Houston, Dallas, Oakland, New York, Baltimore, St. Louis, Memphis, Louisville, and countless smaller cities, that total will exceed 5,000.
Facts: We’re killing over 5,000 Blacks each year. There were about 10 police shootings that made the headlines the last two years. But all of our anger, protests and outrage has been focused on the police shootings. Which is the greater problem?
We can chant Black Lives Matter and protest all day. But we don’t prove Black Lives Matter just by chanting it. We prove Black Lives Matter by our actions. More black lives are taken by other Blacks than by police officers, and every time you watch the news, that point is confirmed.
Why can’t we protest and be as outraged over black on black violence as we are when a white cop commits the violence? Is a black person a million times more dead when killed by a white cop than when killed by a black crook?