Where's the outrage over black-on-black killings?

USA TODAY via Yahoo News ^ | Tue Jan 2, 2007 | DeWayne Wickham

[Riverman94610]

I take issue with your comment that"70% of black children are bastards"
They are NOT bastards,they are KIDS who happened to be born to parents that for whatever reason did not get married.Its NOT these kid's fault nor is it right to label them like that.
Now I CAN look back on my childhood fifty years or so ago and remember lots of white kids from married,two parent families who sure acted like a bunch of "little bastards".

[2ndClassCitizen]

I agree with you, but the black culture (not all blacks, but most) are into hatred of whites and believing themselves to be holier than thou vicitims. So killings of blacks by blacks does not fit into their little lives.

They should also start to recognize all the whites who are victimized by blacks.

[CaptainK]

This guy gave him the answer to his question:

"I think it's because we know it's our fault, and we're constantly looking for someone else to blame," says Baltimore City Police Commissioner Leonard Hamm, who, like me, grew up in Cherry Hill, a poor black neighborhood on the city's south side.

[gcruse]

This is an odd predicament in that one solution is to stop the murders, while at the other end, a sufficient escalation of same would be a solution, too.

[Nakota]

Black on black crimes are not of interest to the black leaders, but, the disproportionate number of blacks incarcerated in the penal system surely is!

[gcruse]

"They only know what they have heard or read. Black on black crime distresses black people too. "

So, as the article asks, where are the demonstrations?

[Riverman94610]

I will never forget one summer night in 1968 listening to a group of intoxicated white adults,one of the co-owner of a world famous ski resort,ranting and raving about"Negro crime"-he didn't use the word"Negro",however-while downstairs in his recreation room his daughters were making dope deals and passing around a hashish pipe.The older son later became a heroin addict and killed himself at age 26.
Or the white kid from the same wealthy background who had fathered three out of wedlock kids by the time he was 20 and bragged to me about how his parents were paying the child support.Then he got busted twice for smuggling drugs across the border.
I think someone needs to send some sociologists and anthropolgists to the WHITE communities and study why so many of THEIR kids are so dysfunctional,even the priviledged ones!

[r9etb]

It's actually pretty stupid to call these "black on black killings" at all ... while the race of the victims and perps is an observable fact, it would be a mistake to say that "being black" is sufficient to explain the numbers.

It would be more accurate to blame the culture that spawns such violence -- "Gangstas" and their subsidiary culture being probably the predominant explanation for the numbers cited in the article.

Bill Cosby, among others, has seen this -- and it's instructive to see the response of the so-called "black leadership" to his charges.

[brwnsuga]

So, as the article asks, where are the demonstrations?

When you get the chance to organize one, let me know, or if you can find a demonstration that the leftists aren't running, I'll show up and even bring a sign. But, right now, I'm doing what other normal, working-class and middle-class black people are doing. Working hard, paying too much in taxes, and making sure my children are getting an education and preparing to succeed in life.

[brwnsuga]

So, I guess this means every race has "black sheep" in the family.

[SaxxonWoods]

We have plenty of examples of known black on black crime, so I don't know why you pick out a crime that is not known (yet) to be black on black. There were some other people in that limo (ethnicity not revealed), one of whom was shot in the head. That person, a female, was hitching a ride, and very lucky. The bullet did not quite enter her brain. Perhaps she was the target for all we know now.

The windows were heavily tinted, the shooter shot up the entire vehicle, not aiming at anyone in particular.

The area between 10th and Broadway and 11th and Speer is a hotbed of Hispanic gang activity.

We don't know yet if any of the limo occupants were involved in an alleged altercation at "The Shelter" earlier in the evening.

We don't know much about this crime yet, so it would be better to wait before pontificating on it. You could be right, or you could be embarrassed.

A few years ago, about a mile away, a black man was shot and killed while sitting on a bus bench. That shooting was a random act by a white neo-nazi skinhead.

Just sayin----

[gcruse]

If I tried organizing a demonstration against black on black violence, I'd be labeled a racist from the get go.

[brwnsuga]

Gangstas" and their subsidiary culture being probably the predominant explanation for the numbers cited in the article.

Unfortunately, the thug life comes from the epidemic of fatherlessness in the black community. It would great if the so-called leaders of the black community, would stress the importance of marriage and abstinence instead of racism.

[Riverman94610]

For sure.
White people tend to hide their scandalous behavior while blacks often put their drama in the streets.
Another example from my Sixties days growing up in idyllic suburbia.In 1963,the local paper highlited the Halloween mayhem that went on the night before,including one large scale riot at a local park where"hundreds of teens and young adults threw bottles,eggs and rocks at police.Dozens were detained and later released to the custody of their parents".
Let me interpret.Hundreds of white kids from good backgrounds committed felony assaults on LEO's in an outburst of lawless behavior.Since many of these kids come from such good families,there would be no point in filing charges.
And,by the way,those Negroes who rioted last summer in Harlem just set their cause back one hundred years.

[brwnsuga]

I'd be labeled a racist from the get go.

You don't care about labels, do you? You're a Freeper for goodness sake! Where are your cajones? I'm a black conservative. Some people think that is an oxymoron! We don't need no stinking labels.

[Riverman94610]

No you wouldn't.
I am always admoinshing black kids who act"off the chain".No one ever calls me racist because they know when it comes to criminal or amoral behavior,I am equally rough on blacks,whites and Latinos.

[brwnsuga]

You always see all sides to the story, Riverman94610. I have a great deal of respect for that. I tend to be hotheaded, looking out of these two eyes only. That will be my New Year's Resolution, to consider every view first, then act or opine secondly.

[Riverman94610]

You are 100% right about the dearth of black fathers out there.
However,let me throw something rather controversial in the conversation.
I constantly hear black men of all ages complain that all too often the black women"won't let me be a man".Like that Bobby Womack song where he goes"She's always talking about what her girlfriends got and what she ain't got and why don't I go out and get them for her and then I work two jobs to get them and she complains I don't spend ehouigh time with her".
I see way too many black women who are tough and aggressive on the job because they HAVE to be that way to get respect.The problem happens when they get home and they can't turn off that part of their personality.Causes lots of problems.

[Riverman94610]

You represent well,suga.
Someone quoted Aristotle a few days ago about"the sign of an educated person is one who can entertain an idea without necessarily endorsing it".I like to think that descibes my philosophy.
Some of the most conservative black women I ever knew were those who came up poor in the South.They would have raked you over the coals if you CALLED them conservative but they were repulsed by abortion,had at least a COUPLE of guns in the house,had no use for dogooder liberals trying to"deconstruct"their history and when it came to childrearing,it was like James Brown said,"mama come here quick and bring that lickin'stick"and"papa don't take no mess"

[brwnsuga]

Of course, I'm about to generalize, (because my husband wears the pants in my family) but maybe some women feel the need to be in control at home because of the "baby boy" syndrome. Some black men have been babied from the time they were young by mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters (with no influence by a positive male). They experience a learned helplessness where very little is require of them. The mothers teach the young women to be independent and take care of business and the home. The boy is taught to be catered to. The female takes up the slack of the missing parent, making sure the home is run smoothly and having to feel in control. Maybe this is why the marriage rate is so low in the black community. For the last 30 or 40 years we have not been stressing the need for the nuclear family. The state has taken up the space of the missing husband. It is a shame really.