More black people killed by black people than by the Police ?
True. But guess what ?
That would have been true 100 years ago.That would have been true under apartheid in South Africa. That would have been true under Jim Crow segregation in the USA. But would the black on black crime argument been a good reason to excuse for the KKK hangings of black men ? Would the black on black crime argument been a good reason to excuse the kilings of black people by Police 100 years ago ?
No. So why is it now ?
The black on black crime figure will always be higher that white on black. Why ? Because those are the people you live around.The same way the white on white killings will be higher than black on white.
Yet, the only race-based phrase to ever describe crime is black on black ?
Why is that ?
Your argument is like telling Breast Cancer Support Groups not to bother with that cancer and focus on Lung Cancer because that is the biggest cancer killer. When ISIS killed whites in Paris or 9-11 Twin Towers you did not hear people say "Well, more white people kill white people, than Muslims""
But that would have been just as true.
The police are held to a higher standard. That's why police killings of black people cause the commotion that they do. Because if you have the power to kill me, then you better believe I'm gonna hold you to a higher standard.
It's the same way a teacher can't be late often for their class and then turn around and say "
Well some of you arelate too"
With great power comes greater responsibility,themz the rules.
Secondly just so you know, black community leaders discuss crime in urban communities often.
Home | Stopping the Spread of Violence | Cure Violence That you don’t know this, is simply because you don’t know many if any black people, haven’t spent time yourself in those communities, and you most likely don’t read or listen to black media, where not only are such issues covered, but the efforts made by people in the community to address those problems are also highlighted;
Young Men's Initiativehttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/19/ny...ver.html?_r=2&Needless to say you don’t know about groups like the Nation of Islam, which have a long track record of effective anti-crime initiatives in urban communities (and a history of getting black menwith records moving in a more productive direction), And you don’t know about folks like the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who has been involved multiple initiativesaimed at addressing violence and crime on the South Side Chicago
So this idea you might have that black ppl are not bothered when other black people get killed is false and there are thousand and thousands and thousands of black people I could mention.
Like black mothers trying to work two jobs to support their kids, without childcare, without adequate health care, having to choose between buying them clothes for school or paying a heating bill. Like kids who persevere against all odds,going to schools to learn and finding not enough textbooks, .
Talking about “black on black” crime is the dumbest, most racist phrase used to describe crime in the world right now.Well - When I say all white people are racist. I say that the same way as I would that a car is blue. Racism not always an angry thing.
I believe that all people (white and even of colour) raised in a society where racism has been (and still is) so prevalent, will have internalized elements of racist thinking. So in countries where beliefs in European/white superiority and domination have been historically embedded, it is likely that everyone in such places will have ingested some of that conditioning.
I think all whites have been conditioned to accept white dominance in the social, political and economic system, and to believe that white dominance is a preferable arrangement for the society in which they live.