A non-conservative African-American tells it like it is


Black on black violence gets exposed
Wow.

I am incredibly happy to see this, because I want to see the problem solved.

Somewhere in this document, amid all the talk about what individuals can do to strengthen the race, there should have appeared these words: Thou shall not kill. Anyone who is serious about uplifting the black race ought to have ending the slaughter of black people high on the list of things to do.

According to Tuskegee Institute data, 3,445 black Americans were lynched in this country between 1882 and 1968. As horrific as that Jim Crow "justice" was, it pales compared with the black-on-black carnage now taking place.

Of the 15,365 black people murdered between 2000 and 2004 whose killers are known to law enforcement officials, 14,025 of them were killed by other blacks, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Report.

To put this into context, more than four times as many black people were killed by black people during this five-year period as died at the hands of mobs over the 86 years of recorded lynchings.

If the Ku Klux Klan were responsible for this level of bloodshed, black leaders would make ending this violence a top priority. If the Aryan Nation were behind this senseless slaughter, they would demand extraordinary steps to stop it.

But overwhelmingly, the culprits aren't bigoted whites; they are a small group of self-loathing blacks. These people are a cancer eating away at the hopes and aspirations of those whose lives they affect. And that impact is widespread.

I still dislike the whole idea of race. But it is so refreshing to see something that doesn't blame "the Man." I don't believe that this problem can be dealt with until we recognize where it comes from.

Hat tip to LaShawn Barber.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Fri - January 13, 2006 at 04:37 AM  Tag


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