BlackFolks

Let’s keep it real. While tha crimes being committed against Black people are unconscionable, in many cases we’re allowing ourselves to be victimized. Of course, there are those who are going to accuse me of blaming tha victim, but tha fact is, sometimes tha victim is partially to blame for his situation. Tha concept of placing oneself in harm’s way is very real, and that’s exactly what we’re allowing to happen in tha Black community.Let us take an extreme example of that concept at work to make my point.  If a person is told that the Klan is having a rally in an isolated location at midnight that night, the person getting that information would be perfectly within his rights if he decided to go home, comb out his Afro, put on his most colorful dashiki, and walk past the rally singing “I’m Black and I’m Proud.” But if he ended up being shot or lynched and someone suggested that he had acted stupidly, it would be next to impossible for the man’s family to claim that the critic was blaming the victim, because the critic would be right. Yes, the Klan definitely committed a heinous crime by killing the man, and the perpetrators should get exactly what the law prescribes for their murderous act. But we can’t avoid the fact that the victim was, at the very least, partially responsible for his own demise, because he failed to utilize the common sense to ensure his own survival, and that’s exactly what’s happening in the Black community.


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In order to protect our interest we should be doing everything in our power to see to it that anyone who is abusive or takes any lyfe is brought to  justice. We should consider abusive behavior and tha taking of lyfe is unacceptable period. But we’re not doing that. While we go absolutely berserk (and we should) when a cop kills an unarmed Black person, we literally step over tha bodies without a whimper when a home-grown criminal kills another Black person. In many cases he’s made a hero of tha community for being so tough.  that’s why so many youngsters try go for bad, and brag about their “Gats.” That attitude not only makes our community less safe, but it lessens tha chances that bad cops will be brought to justice – and there’s a very clear-cut reason for that.  When we allow criminals to operate with relative impunity in our community, it contributes to an environment that is so violent that potential jurors tend to give bad cops tha benefit of tha doubt because they see them as operating in a war zone. In addition, when we single out cops – and not EVERYONE who murders another human being – it makes us look disingenuous. It makes it look like we don’t care about Black lives at all; we’re just using tha death of a Black person as a pretext to go after cops. As a result, jurors tend to close ranks to protect cops – even bad cops. But don’t become confused over my position, I want to make it absolutely clear that I have absolutely no sympathy for either an abusive, or a murderous cop whatsoever, but with that said, I also want to make it absolutely clear that I’m equally hostile toward a murderous criminal as I am a bad cop. To me they’re one and the same – they’re both criminals. While one might say, “But a cop should be held to a higher standard,” I disagree. EVERYBODY should be held to the SAME standard – PEOPLE DONOT  HAVE THA RIGHT TO KILL OTHER PEOPLE!!!
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Thus, tha Black community must mount a concerted effort to correct tha conditions that tend to make tha community vulnerable to injustice and abuse, because tha very first thing that any society does before it commits genocide against a people is to denigrate and demonize them. That serves to dehumanize them to tha point where tha larger population becomes comfortable with tha fact that it’s okay to exterminate them – it was done to tha Native Americans (savages); it was done during slavery and Jim Crow to African Americans (niggers); and it was recently done to Muslims (terrorists). But now they’ve added an ingenious new wrinkle to this technique.  Now they’re paying Black people to demonize themselves, by producing and distributing ten minute commercials around tha world portraying Black people as gangsters, drug dealers, and worthless human beings. black community Okay, now here comes theaugly part that I spoke of – If we placed as much energy into education, community affairs, voting, and supporting Black businesses as we do saggin’, flo-showin’, and making people like Dr. Dre billionaires we’d be tha ones running tha police dept. in tha black community.  But many of us are much too busy trying to make it look like we’ve attained tha “American dream” as individuals, to be bothered with trying to create a better, and more wholesome, community for our children. Our minds (including my own when I was raising my children) was more fixated on getting out of tha area. African Americans are the only group of people in tha world, that I can think of, who measure our self-worth by how far we can get away from our own culture. Instead of loving and supporting our culture, it’s about “look at me; I ain’t like the rest of y’all!” That’s Willie Lynch, hard at work.
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