hello america!!! first, i wrote this monday-aug 21 (READ HERE) & now, 2 months & 8 days later, we have this from the 6 communities i'm following...
1,756 homicides/1,167 of them black/396 of them hispanic/police killed 52
chicago---584 homicides/449 of them black/101 of them hispanic/police killed 10-wounded 10 others...
baltimore---291 homicides/255 black/3 hispanic...
la county---517 homicides/160 black/284 hispanic/police killed 35...
jacksonville---105 homicides/72 black/2 hispanic/police killed 7...
milwaukee---94 homicides/78 black/5 hispanic...
st louis---165 homicides/153 black/1 hispanic...
so, why does the msm (main-stream media) continue to remain silent about all that senseless violence---more importantly, where are the voices & concerns of the communities??? where are the voices & concerns of the elected politicians from those communities??? where are the voices & concerns of the 'so-called' civil rights groups??? since you honestly can't answer those questions, let me try it this way...
when a cop shoots a person of color (justified or not), the politicians, the media, black lives matter & other groups as well as all the 'big-named/so-called' civil rights leaders are all over the tv 24/7 demanding 'justice' &, unfortunately, retribution---hell, we even have the 'outrage' of those police actions spreading into our sports in the form of kneeling/sitting/etc during the playing of our national anthem---&, before i forget, where are the voices of the women's groups because women are being killed right along with the men???
good people, our whole country should be in an uproar over the senseless killings PERIOD!!! that said, people of color should be even more upset because we're killing one another at an alarming rate with no regard to any of the consequences & yet, we're blinded by the sensationalism of a cop killing one of ours to the point that we only concentrate on that & we take to the streets for retribution & destroy our own communities---even as a kid i never understood that logic &, i don't mind admitting, i still don't but, that's another story for another day...
look, we've all seen the coverage of our politicians & 'so-called community leaders' marching in our streets because of a cop killing a person of color---&, we've seen 'black lives matter' & others creating hell in those same streets---hell, the media can't get out there fast enough to cover those marches & yet, for those 6 communities that lost 1,563 people of color, you don't hear SHIT---for that matter, i don't even hear about them from my own people...
america, is the life of an unarmed person of color shot by a cop worth more than the lives of those 1,563 people of color??? if it is, i can understand the attention it gets, however, if it isn't, we've got a more serious problem that our silence will only enhance...
our problem is not the police but with each other &, before we can even begin to correct the problem, we must first discover 'why' guns are so able to magically appear in our communities &, before you laugh, i've often said 'it's easier for a kid to buy a street gun than it is for a citizen to legally buy one'---i have this theory that guns are being allowed to enter our communities &, once we find out why, we can then find out how & put a stop to it---&, before you call me stupid, i'm not dumb enough to think that keeping all the guns out of communities will solve our 'violence problems'...
for all of you that think that disrespecting our national anthem & flag is the way to get your message out to combat police brutality against people of color, you're dead wrong on several fronts---the biggest problem people of color have is the willingness to kill one another...
