Posted on 12/07/2014 7:09:57 AM PST by Kaslin
In the grief and shock following the grand jury’s decision not to indict the officer who put Eric Garner in a chokehold that proved deadly, one protester remarked, “we have to make a change because they're killing us off.”
Without a doubt, there is a war on black America. The question is: Who is really trying to kill off black Americans?
Many conservatives who felt that the grand jury acted rightly in Ferguson. Missouri with the death of my namesake Michael Brown at the hands of Officer Darren Wilson cannot understand how the grand jury in Staten Island, New York, decided not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner.
As Charles Krauthammer expressed, “From looking at the video, the grand jury’s decision here is totally incomprehensible. It look as if at least they might’ve indicted him on something like involuntary manslaughter at the very least.”
Many black Americans are saying, “Now do you see our point? Now do you see why we don’t trust the justice system?
As protester Courtney Wicker told CNN affiliate NY1, “I'm out here because the system has failed us too many times. It makes me feel like there's no justice.”
Regardless of the color of our skin or our ethnicity, we need to listen carefully to these charges of injustice, asking difficult questions about failures in our system. Simply to ignore them or deny them won’t do.
That being said, it is not the police who are the main culprits in killing off black Americans. Not a chance.
According to the best research I’ve seen, roughly 100 blacks are killed by policemen every year compared to roughly 300 whites killed by police over the same period of time.
That means that, although the percentage of blacks killed by police is higher than the percentage of whites, per capita, this is hardly the biggest problem faced by African Americans.
Of course, this doesn’t lessen the pain for the Garner family and others, but it does put things in context, especially when we also realize that roughly 150 cops are killed in the line of duty each year.
What about black homicides?
There are roughly 7,000 blacks murdered every year, the vast majority of them killed by other blacks, which means that black on black violence is far more of a threat to African Americans. And while the great majority of whites are murdered by other whites, the percentage of homicides in black America is much higher than the percentage of homicides in white America. (For the record, black on white crime is astronomically higher than white on black crime.)
In response, you might be thinking, “You just don’t get it. The entire American system is stacked up against black families, so there’s a national crime being committed against us every day. That’s why so many of our families are so dysfunctional.”
Without a doubt, there’s an issue even bigger than black on black crime, and that’s the issue of the state of the black American family.
Earlier in the week, in my article on “Some Inconvenient Truths about Ferguson,” I quoted David Horowitz and John Perazzo, who claimed in 2012 that, “The rise of the welfare state in the 1960s contributed greatly to the demise of the black family as a stable institution.”
For Horowitz and Perazzo, it was LBJ’s War on Poverty that resulted in the formation of a massive welfare state, one that took away personal responsibility from many African Americans and instead created a mentality of entitlement.
Were they right?
That’s a subject of massive debate, but the bottom line is this: Whatever our government has tried to do to correct our history of injustice to African Americans, we have not made things better. In many ways we have made things worse, but this is not just the problem of black America.
This is our problem – all of us, as Americans and fellow-citizens, especially if we are people of common faith.
Why is there so much fatherlessness, so much violence, so much drug abuse in black America? Why are there so many incarcerated, and why are so many lacking solid education in black America?
While I absolutely agree that every individual must take personal responsibility for his or her life and that blaming others and making excuses solves nothing, it is also clear to me that the whole nation – especially the Church – needs to ask together: What can we do to address this great crisis?
But there’s an even greater killer of black Americans, and it doesn’t snuff out 100 precious black lives or even 7,000 black lives every year. No, this killer of black Americans snuffs out roughly 360,000 black lives every year, and it is the ultimate black genocide that we must combat.
I’m talking about abortion, and as the Abort73.com website states, “Whatever the intent of the abortion industry may be, by functional standards, abortion is a racist institution. In the United States, black children are aborted at nearly four times the rate as white children and Hispanic children don't fare much better.”
And while New Yorkers are understandably grieved and indignant over the death of Eric Garner (and others), they also need to consider this: In 2012 in New York City, while black women gave birth to 24,758 babies, they aborted 31,328 babies.
This tragic statistic would warm the heart of Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, who stated, “[We should] apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.”
She also wrote, “We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
Yes, there is a war on black America – ultimately, Satanic in origin – and it is killing off black Americans at an alarming rate.
What are we going to do about it?
Only parts of the autopsy report have been leaked to the press, but they clearly say there were no injuries to Garner's windpipe or to the hyoid bone in his neck.
And, Garner can clearly be heard saying he can't breath, which means there were no obstructions in his airway.
I also read that Garner had been warned several times about selling untaxed cigarettes, and, clearly, when they finally try to arrest him, he's a giant man who resists a lawful arrest.
I do not understand the hysteria.
In addition, imagine if you owned a store, and a giant Black man stood outside your front door selling “loose” untaxed products that people had to pay more for inside your store.
If it was your store and your income that were being impacted, would you feel like this was a "petty" crime that the Police should ignore?
Once again, I don't understand the hysteria.
Who cares. There life isn’t any more valuable than anyone else’s.
Re: “What is the unemployment rate of black college graduates?”
Probably zero.
They have infinite opportunities in government, with government contractors, or as corporate HR bureaucrats.
blame the Democrat Party and "Planned Parenthood" 51% of Black Americans are murdered by ABORTION.
Blacks are far and away their own worst enemy.
That a black policewoman was in charge at the scene is generally omitted from the discussion. Also, the emergency medical team that arrived might have saved Garner's life if they had known about his medical conditions.
First time I heard about the Black female supervisor.
I did - finally - hear about the cinematographer.
26 priors, unlawfully carrying a gun, and “just happened” to be on the scene to video events.
Since suing the police department is one the best paid jobs in the Black community, my first thought was, “Who’s paying the guy with the camera?”
The same folks who are KILLING white ones:
Choosy 'mothers' and serial killers.
Of course; the statistics are skewed as these deaths do NOT get officially counted.
Abortion harvests approximately 25% of all human life BEFORE birth; so 'death' is not considered.
Perhaps if we'd STOP this heinous legalized crime; our other problems would shrink away.
Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
But there IS hope!!!
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...
>> Who Is Killing Off Black Americans
That’s way too easy...
The “White Devil” (a.k.a., the Left,) and the incoherent Blacks that continue to vote Democrat.
All you lurking Blacks, go Conservative. No BS.
I don’t disagree with you that there is a Christian duty to look out for other people and do what you can to help, but there is a point when helping too much takes away a person’s pride and ruins their ability to help themselves. That was my only point in what I wrote.
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