Black Lives Matter
But only if you’re killed
by a white cop? © 2016
Part 2
In Chicago last year, a 6-year-old black child was intentionally targeted and gunned down by a gang member who wanted revenge against the child’s father. In Inkster, MI, a black crook gunned down another child, this time in front of the child’s father. The crook wanted the father to witness his handiwork before he shot the father.
Certainly, those crimes were as heinous as anything the police has done that led to massive protests. But there was no outrage, and there were no protests. Those young victims were not turned into martyrs. There were no chants of “No Justice, No Peace.”
If you’re obsessed with racists and racism, black-on-black killings and shootings will not fit into your obsession, angle or narrative.
If racism is a mental illness, and it is, some of us may be co-dependent. It’s as if the racist, and victims of racism, are somehow linked psychologically, each carrying its own psychological baggage.
After attending protests in different cities, Black Lives Matter supporters return to their home cities. Their home cities are plagued by daily violence, and it’s a 24/7/365 thing.
Black on black homicides are literally destroying us. But where is the outrage? This is the number one issue facing black America, because if you don’t have your life, nothing else matters.
This is not a time to worry about hurting the feelings of Black Lives Matter supporters, or anybody else. This is a time for us to get ourselves together so we can do something about our self-inflicted wounds.
Black Lives Matter supporters may mean well, but they apparently don’t know or understand the reason they’re more eager to protest when a white person kills a black person than when a black person kills another black person. Dead is dead. A black person isn’t 10,000 times more dead when killed by a white racist cop than when killed by a black, self-hating crook.
Here’s another thought. Nearly everyone in the ‘hood has a cell phone with a camera. We make sure we catch the police doing things they shouldn’t be doing. Yet, given all those cell phones in the ‘hood, when was the last time you saw Black Lives Matter supporters capturing images of crooks committing carjackings, home break-ins, assaults, robberies, and car thefts against other Blacks? It’s something you don’t see.
If we only focus on the criminal behavior of the police and conveniently ignore the criminal behavior of black crooks, we won’t be helping our communities.
It’s somewhat easy to focus on Black Lives Matter supporters, after all, they put the target on their backs by claiming “Black Lives Matter.” But the entire black community needs to speak up and do whatever you can to stop the violence in our communities. You can alert the police when you see crimes going down, you can use you cell phones to capture video of crimes, you can spread the word. We all can do something.
It’s not that Black Lives Matter supporters shouldn’t focus on what the police is doing. It’s how can they claim Black Lives Matter and ignore the number one cause of black lives taken? This issue is too huge to be concerned about ego or somebody’s feelings being hurt.
But only if you’re killed
by a white cop? © 2016
Part 2
In Chicago last year, a 6-year-old black child was intentionally targeted and gunned down by a gang member who wanted revenge against the child’s father. In Inkster, MI, a black crook gunned down another child, this time in front of the child’s father. The crook wanted the father to witness his handiwork before he shot the father.
Certainly, those crimes were as heinous as anything the police has done that led to massive protests. But there was no outrage, and there were no protests. Those young victims were not turned into martyrs. There were no chants of “No Justice, No Peace.”
If you’re obsessed with racists and racism, black-on-black killings and shootings will not fit into your obsession, angle or narrative.
If racism is a mental illness, and it is, some of us may be co-dependent. It’s as if the racist, and victims of racism, are somehow linked psychologically, each carrying its own psychological baggage.
After attending protests in different cities, Black Lives Matter supporters return to their home cities. Their home cities are plagued by daily violence, and it’s a 24/7/365 thing.
Black on black homicides are literally destroying us. But where is the outrage? This is the number one issue facing black America, because if you don’t have your life, nothing else matters.
This is not a time to worry about hurting the feelings of Black Lives Matter supporters, or anybody else. This is a time for us to get ourselves together so we can do something about our self-inflicted wounds.
Black Lives Matter supporters may mean well, but they apparently don’t know or understand the reason they’re more eager to protest when a white person kills a black person than when a black person kills another black person. Dead is dead. A black person isn’t 10,000 times more dead when killed by a white racist cop than when killed by a black, self-hating crook.
Here’s another thought. Nearly everyone in the ‘hood has a cell phone with a camera. We make sure we catch the police doing things they shouldn’t be doing. Yet, given all those cell phones in the ‘hood, when was the last time you saw Black Lives Matter supporters capturing images of crooks committing carjackings, home break-ins, assaults, robberies, and car thefts against other Blacks? It’s something you don’t see.
If we only focus on the criminal behavior of the police and conveniently ignore the criminal behavior of black crooks, we won’t be helping our communities.
It’s somewhat easy to focus on Black Lives Matter supporters, after all, they put the target on their backs by claiming “Black Lives Matter.” But the entire black community needs to speak up and do whatever you can to stop the violence in our communities. You can alert the police when you see crimes going down, you can use you cell phones to capture video of crimes, you can spread the word. We all can do something.
It’s not that Black Lives Matter supporters shouldn’t focus on what the police is doing. It’s how can they claim Black Lives Matter and ignore the number one cause of black lives taken? This issue is too huge to be concerned about ego or somebody’s feelings being hurt.