Black Lives Matter Unless They Are Black Lives Taken By Other Blacks

Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas Focus on white supremacy Yet Ignore Black on Black Gang Violence.

If you know me or have come to know me by how I put words together, you know I say without remorse what I think and believe, and cannot be faded otherwise. It is what it is, and is what I do. As such, I accept all associated criticism unapologetically and honestly and wish more folk openly said what they think and believe without hesitation and fear of ridicule.

Diving right into the water and keeping it a buck, the collective of typically progressive liberals screaming black lives matter do not care or give a fck about the well-being of black people in America, or anywhere else for that fact. The proof is in the pudding to say it colloquially and in the lack of mainstream media coverage unless it falls under the column of white police killing black folk.

Case in point, this past week in Akron, Ohio there was a mass shooting that left 1 dead, and 24 injured at a neighborhood block party. However, there was no national media attention or immediate call to arms about gun control afterward. I just asked myself why. The same could be said about an April shooting in my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee at a block party in an area called Orange Mound, which resulted in the deaths of 2 men and left 7 other people injured. This past Memorial Day weekend in Chicago saw 9 killed, and 33 hurt, including the death of a 5-year-old girl.

None of these received the national attention a mass shooting in a predominantly white community, or even among a mostly alphabet community gathering typically do in America by the mainstream press core. More significant was that they got way less attention than what is given when a white policeman kills a black suspect in the line of duty, or if it was a white person intentionally targeting black persons as was the case in Buffalo, New York a year or so prior. Also, they were void of hoards of angry people in the streets chanting “Black Lives Matter.” My question is simple, why?

I will go out on a limb and suggest that these events were all mainly the outcome of the actions of black males and that they were gang-affiliated shootings. For some uncanny process of altering definitions, these are not considered or included in the same taxonomy of mass shootings. In addition, they go against the narrative implicit in the field of race hustling and the incessant promotion of racial division.

Also, they are contrary to the fixation of white supremacy being the biggest threat and biggest domestic terror threat that faces the United States presently. Although many of the targets and dead due to these events are frequently black males with gang affiliation, the majority are not, with many being children yet to live life as we see so repeatedly in places like Chicago (see below, some of the Chicago children killed by gun violence).

Let the media opine, based on their unsubstantiated narrative of the greatest threat to America, in particular black America, it must be those dangerous Christian nationalists that the media has constantly warned us about.

The Biden Administration as a reflection of most democrat ideology, is hung up on this minor threat of “White supremacy.” At a commencement speech at Howard University in 2023, he said that White supremacy was “the single most dangerous terrorist threat in our homeland.” This sentiment, albeit not rooted in fact, is parroted weekly via the corporate media, as if saying it over and over again, makes it a factual reality. Even top U.S. law enforcement officials say this - that far-right extremist movements are the biggest domestic terrorism threat facing our nation.

But if you go to Chicago, Memphis, Baltimore, DC, LA, San Francisco, St. Louis, New Orleans, New York, or Baton Rouge, members of the black community would vehemently disagree, noting that the hands of far-right extremists or a byproduct of White supremacy do not conduct the carnage and chaos we experience daily.

Sure, the left is quick to support Biden’s May 2022 Executive Order to combat white supremacy in federal policing (Executive Order 13809), but never suggests that he or any in their party take a similar action to combat black-on-black gang violence - which is responsible for way more deaths than the prior. You shole will not see them take a similar action addressing the horrid state of education in many black communities as a consequence of the injurious and dastardly policies and actions of teacher unions.

When will it be understood, that in black America, it is not the police, White supremacy, Christian nationalists, or far-right extremists who are leaving dead bodies lying in the streets of our community or carjacking every person they see, it is the conduct of gangs and gang violence.

In Memphis alone, the Justice Department has stated that violent crime in Memphis has reached a 17-year high. Washington, D.C. had the largest violent crime spike in the nation in 2023. Although Baltimore, 2023 recorded the fewest homicides (263) in nearly a decade, it was considerable a result of the city population declining by more than 50,000 people over the decade. However, in 2023 the city saw 10,000 car thefts, representing a 215% increase compared to 2022.

Data shows that nearly 60 percent of carjackers are black, with 93% of carjackings occurring in urban areas. D.C. is the poster child for carjacking. in the city, 75 percent of carjackings are committed by teens and young adults with over 90 percent of offenders being black. In 2023, Carjackings in D.C. nearly doubled in in D.C., from 485 in 2022 to 959 in 2023.

The media and the left are mostly silent on this plague. Let an 18-year-old shoot up a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, the name Payton S. Gendron will be all over the news nationally, but mention Mekhi James and Lena Nunez Anaya, and they are tongue-tied and basically ghost. But wave "An Appeal to Heaven" flag, created by the personal secretary to George Washington for use on six military cruiser ships of America and adopted on October 21, 1775, and it is wall-to-wall coverage.

I think that it is sad, folk can't even have a birthday party without violence. Can't drive on public roads without fearing being carjacked or being a bystander in the middle of a shoot-out or drive-by shooting. I think that it is sad that black folk can't have businesses in our neighborhoods without miscreants from the community robbing and looting them. All that happens is that the blame is redirected to some other imaginary place or actor. It is unacceptable to me to blame someone else for our own mistakes and behavior. None of the above has anything to do with white supremacy, Christian nationalists, or far-right extremists. Black men know the deal and realize the biggest problem and threat to our community. The only folk who don’t typically are white liberals, mostly females, and a small bevy of black affluent women with a lean toward progressive political ideology.

They push this and avoid the truth because it would necessitate admitting that all of this is due to a serious cultural issue happening. When you see these sorts of stories you don't even have to look at them to guess who is responsible. It is almost a guaranteed chance that it will be the same old players. I'm being honest, it genuinely concerns me that we have a certain percentage of the American society who behave like this. It is a choice that they are making to be this way. It isn't from being held down or persecuted. They have every right given to every single person in this country. With hard work, they could prevail above this and be productive members of society but they choose not to.

Being non-productive is one thing but being violent and void of any moral compass is another. To not only disrespect everyone around you but to glamourize and glorify this behavior as "cool" or acceptable says a lot.

I don't know what causes certain people in our society to be this way, who knows but surely if black folk see this as a problem not only for their culture but for all of American society as a whole, why don't we aspire to fix it versus target make-believe issues? You cannot even bring up crime by self-proclaimed transgender folks, because if you do, the media will bury it for not meeting narrative guidelines. I bet more people heard about the Andrew Lester shooting than about 26-year-old Jared Ravizza of Martha’s Vineyard, who stabbed four girls between the ages of 9 and 17 in an AMC movie theater and two more in a McDonald’s and was arrested after crashing his Porsche while being followed by police.

Let’s do some math to support my contention. Like all races, most violent incidents with black victims involve black offenders. According to the Council on Criminal Justice, Black men have had the highest rate of homicide victimization in the country since 1960. In 1960, the homicide rate for Black men was 42 per 100,000 people, but by 1970, it had increased to 78 per 100,000. In 2022, the FBI reported that there were 10,470 Black murder victims in the United States compared to 7,704 White murder victims. In the same year, 9,655 murderers in the United States were Black, while 6,629 were White, and this does not include all of the data because many liberal cities’ law enforcement agencies did not submit homicide data to the FBI in 2022. The majority of these murders in the U.S. are due to situations related to narcotics, robberies, and gang activity.

Although most murdered individuals are young black males, Black women aged 25–44 years are disproportionately murdered compared with their White counterparts. “In 2020, the homicide rate among Black women was 11·6 per 100 000, compared with 3 per 100 000 among White women. This inequity has persisted over time and is virtually unchanged since 1999.” 

Blacks represented 13.6 percent of the US population in 2022 but 54 percent of the offenders and victims of murder and manslaughter charges according to the Centers for Disease Control and FBI. We know that young Black men in inner cities are disproportionately affected because they are both the primary victims and perpetrators of gun assaults and homicides. This means that younger black males accounted for considerably larger shares of offenders in violent incidents than their representation of the U.S. population. The most striking fact about homicide in the U.S. has been largely overlooked during such meetings – Black Americans are murdered at nearly eight times the rate of white Americans.

So riddle me this? Why are politicians so quick to sell black folk the falsehood of racist white supremacist Christian nationalists and far-right extremists as being our biggest threat? And why aren’t members of the black community, especially politicians NOT SPEAKING out about this hair-braininess? I do not get it.

The gang problem in the black community is real. It is real everywhere. In New York in Crown Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, and Flatbush. We talking about kids as young as 14 who committed violent crimes including but not limited to firing guns at people and opening fire on busy streets, often in broad daylight.

In Memphis, 398 people fell victim to homicides in 2023, An analysis of Los Angeles Police Department data openly admits that Latino and Black people were arrested at a "disproportionate rate" between 2019 to 2022. Although they just account for 8% of LA County’s population, blacks are 27 percent of all arrests.

Stop falling for all this talk of the flodging azz politicians and media talking head race hustlers. Tell Hakeem Jeffries, would prefer to lie and construct fake narratives about Byron Donalds than speak about the true threat of crime threat in the black community. Donald stated a truth, more families were intact in our community during Jim Crow - which I remind you was standard democrat policy. He did not say blacks were “better” under Jim Crow. Would it be any different if he said more black families were intact from 1877 until the mid-1960s (the period of Jim Crow)? It remains the same.

In the black community in urban areas, Memorial, Juneteenth, and Labor Day are supposed to be times of celebration but are more the days we see the highest death tolls among blacks via self-inflicted violence. We have to confront the difficult truth that our leftist political leadership is a collective of morons. Until we start seeing the problem we will never fix the problem. Get rid of the gangs and it stops. Also, stop giving criminals more rights than tax-paying citizens and hating on police.

What Democrats don't seem to understand or don't want to understand, is that criminals don't respect gun laws and don't care about the gun laws in place. Gun laws only affect one individual - legal gun owners the law-abiding citizens. You are not winning when you have 41 people shot and 9 homicides in a single three-day weekend. Moreover, it is well known the Democrats don't hold criminals responsible for the crimes they commit.

I have nothing against my folk, just the cats who push this white nationalism as being our biggest threat. It is not. I want the problem to be solved. I have something against the problem so if we know that they are black, why are people not speaking up in our black community to stop this?

So I will openly appeal to heaven because criminals in U.S. cities are acting with a sense of impunity that you normally see in places like Brazil and Haiti. This is what happens when you break the criminal justice system. In the American case, it is now "racist" to arrest certain people and the criminals are responding accordingly. Likewise noting the factual observation of what is at fault, if it is not white Christian far-right extremism, it will be avoided and overlooked.

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