For those you waiting for some coon to write the definitive #WhataboutBlackonBlackCrime article...

[stringer bell]

How did we get to the point, after all, when a Hillary Clinton would have to tell the people who say they speak for black America that they must translate their grievances into a plan for political action? The contrast between the efforts of Dr. King and the Southern Christian Leadership conference and that scene a few weeks ago was chilling. The SCLC had to convince the white establishment to do things; Hillary Clinton had to remind BLM’s representatives that their job was to suggest some things to do, as the activist hectored her about what was or wasn’t in her “heart” about policies her husband supported before people now having sex were even born.

It was good to see BLM actually releasing a platform after that. But I was waiting for the other shoe to drop—and right on time, they disavowed support from or allegiance to the Democratic Party despite its active adoption of the gist of their agenda. Again, is this about getting things done or acting out? As so often, people can forget that the two aren’t the same thing. Expressing your disgust with America’s political order and wishing nobody had an ounce of racism in their “hearts” is fine. But when doing that takes priority over using the levers of power—the only ones that will ever exist—to addressing black suffering, something is terribly wrong.

At a certain point, a Black Lives Matter movement for the future needs to turn its lens to black-on-black homicide rates as well. Testily objecting that “nobody said we don’t think black-on-black crime matters” isn’t enough. Episodes like Ferguson gangbangers wrangling during the one-year commemoration of Michael Brown’s murder make the basic imbalance in attention too obvious these days to all of the nation watching. One strategy could be that if the police were finally restrained from needless killing of black men, BLM could help forge new relationships between the cops and black communities, such that those communities would feel comfortable assisting cops in finding murderers. That is understandably often not the case under current conditions, and is surely as much a problem for a black person living in such a city than what white cops might pull. A Civil Rights movement for today rather than yesterday can’t focus only on racism. The issues have become too complex.

Black Lives Matter’s mantra means, lip service notwithstanding, Black Lives Matter When Taken by White People. That will always seem, to a great many, performative.The reason for that will not be that this “many” are racists, not even “on some level and to some degree.” The reason will be that they are correct. We must also base our activism on the pure and simple truth that “state violence” notwithstanding, “Black Lives Matter When Taken by Other Black People, Too.”

Imagine if in 1965 when the Selma marchers walked across the Pettus bridge, black boys had been killing each other by the dozens over on the other side all summer, with that considered regrettable but ultimately “beside the point.” Black Lives Matter, I’m afraid, is on the path to making that scenario a reality. It doesn’t have to be that way.

 

[JokerzWyld]

Usually if the logic doesn't apply evenly across the board then it's probably flawed. Case & Point:

Why are Americans mad at Al Qa'ida? Americans killed more Americans in 2001 than 9/11 did. Americans need to get themselves outraged over American on American murder rather than Terrorism.

It sounds stupid when I say it though. Here are the facts: ever since crime statistics were first recorded, the statistician asked what motivated the criminal element in various communities . Scholars hypothesized that crime was motivated by a lack of opportunity. Opportunity, especially as it relates to education & employment, have been denied to black people in this country due to white supremacist influence on society. None of the critics of BLM or Black Power liberation groups have presented solutions to these issues. Instead they are just pushing a narrative that's rightist in theme.

"Integration" has failed. Black people have assimilated themselves in almost every way to western society and white people still hate us. We're the only ethnic group in this country without distinct names, languages, clothing, religion, etc. We've given it all up to appease white people and no matter what we give, they only criticize us more and more. They deny us access to education and employment. They have stymied us intellectually, economically, & culturally. Parents are afraid to name their children with names that sound too black; women want to wear white-textured hair to assimilate to their oppressors standard of beauty; Artists and Athletes are too afraid to speak up on social issues that directly effect their communities because they don't want it to effect their paychecks; and so many of us have no knowledge or interest in our own history outside of what whites think is appropriate for us to know. Nobody has presented ideas to combat these social maladies that effect us. It's imperative that we help ourselves irrespective of what white people think.

 

[MarcusGarvey]

It's McWhorter, he's going to be selective with his citations and sources, we know what's going on - it's about click bait, getting paid speeches, upping your profile so you can eventually debate the other side at some think tank.

My perspective is the rate at which black people die in urban cities cannot be ignored either. Cities with "gun control" still have large amount deaths. I've always believed that it comes down to the high unemployment rate among black men along the education, income and wealth gap AND the breakdown of the family (there are some research out there that this is turning around) . The system isn't perfect - do for self, no one else will.

 

[SolemnSauce]

Too many words

 

[jono]

McWhorter is a dickhead.

 

[playmaker88]

saw the Authors name didnt read.. fuck that clown

 

[Inglewood_B]

https://youtu.be/5GgflscOmW8