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Where's Jesse? Where's Al?

Texan

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Where's the outrage over black-on-black killings?

By DeWayne Wickham

BALTIMORE
A couple of days before Christmas, I phoned Patricia West, an old friend I hadn't spoken to in years. It was a call I didn't want to make — the kind of call no one should ever have to place.

It was a brief conversation, a few minutes of aimless chatter that quickly went from awkward laughter to muffled crying. I called her to say how devastated I was to hear that her son had been killed. His death was reported in the final paragraph of a short crime story in The (Baltimore) Sun that gave the bare facts of his demise.

"The other homicide victim, Kevin West, 39, of the 9000 block of Meadow Heights Road in Randallstown, was found fatally shot shortly after 8 a.m. Saturday by officers investigating reported gunfire in the 2800 block of Virginia Ave., police said."

Kevin West's murder was the 260th homicide this year in Baltimore — a city in which virtually all of the murder victims and those arrested for murder are black. On the same day that he was gunned down, tens of thousands of demonstrators marched down Fifth Avenue in New York to protest the Nov. 25 killing of another black man. Sean Bell was felled by a hail of police gunfire moments after he and two friends left his bachelor party early on the morning of the day he was to have been married.

Just why the cops fired on the unarmed men is unclear. Bell's death drew the scorn of civil rights leaders and black activists, many of whom took part in the march. West's killing has generated no such attention.

And that makes me made as hell.

As troubling as it is that Bell's life might have been cut short by the unlawful actions of some rogue cops, it bothers me more that most of this nation's black murder victims are killed by other blacks. And despite this chilling fact, nowhere have tens of thousands of people taken to the streets recently to protest this carnage. Not in New York, or Baltimore, or Atlanta, or Detroit, or Chicago. Nowhere.

Of the country's 14,860 homicide victims in 2005, 7,125 were black, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Report. And of the 3,289 cases that year in which a single black was killed by a single assailant, the FBI says, 91% of the killers were black.

Let me put this another way: The number of blacks killed in 2005 in this one homicide category alone approaches the total of all the blacks lynched in this country from 1882 to 1968, according to records maintained by Tuskegee University.

So why aren't black leaders taking up this fight? Why do so many turn out to decry the death of one black man at the hands of some cops, but no mass rallies take on the deaths of thousands of blacks who are slaughtered by other blacks?

"I think it's because we know it's our fault, and we're constantly looking for someone else to blame," says Baltimore City Police Commissioner Leonard Hamm, who, like me, grew up in Cherry Hill, a poor black neighborhood on the city's south side.

Hamm says most black leaders are afraid to address this issue, afraid to confront the apathy, fear and indifference that allow many poor black neighborhoods to become killing fields.

He could be right.

But whatever the reason, it's time for black leaders — activists, preachers, educators, politicians, business and community leaders — to say enough is enough.

It's time for them to be as aggressive, and as demanding, in combating the black murder rate as they are in fighting for an increase in minimum wage or an expansion in health care.

The ripple effects of black-on-black killings have turned many inner city neighborhoods into urban wastelands, chased businesses from those communities, fueled a growth in other crimes and sapped the resources of local governments.

As mad as black folks have a right to be over the killing of Sean Bell, we ought to be angry over the failure of black leaders to be equally outraged over the murder of Kevin West — and the thousands of blacks who are killed each year by other blacks.



http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070102/opcomtues.art.htm
 

jigs

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black on black crime does not fit their agenda.....

they need to pit the overbearing white man, whose ancestors OWNED colored people, forced them to pick cotton, and some were even used as sex objects by their masters.....

we white folks are to blame for ALL the evils ever laid at the feet of the black man.


but wait! didn't we go over and BUY the slaves from BLACK KINGS????? so the true statement here is, it was better off for the blacks to be slaves here than in Africa. how do I defend this?? look at blacks here and in Africa.

there is no question the descendants of the slaves faired far better in America, than in Africa.

Now, Jessie and Al are trying once again to enslave the blacks, they want to be the black kings who own the impoverished, drug addicted, gang banging blacks, because they know the power of the vote held by these groups! Then thy play to the educated, well to do blacks with a different set of rules, taking money, building bridges, and promising change, all the while holding a foot on the head of the first group, watching them drown......

and they hate ME because I keep them from becoming successful????

why can't the Klan ride into Jessies home some night?
 

IL Rancher

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The reason Al and Jesse say nothing about black on black crime is mostly because it won't give them the money and attention they want. Yes, I am cynical but I have seen way to much of what Jesse has done around Chicago to think of him as anything but a money and attention hound. There are so many things that he could and should be paying attention too but there he is standing up for a raging pedophile like Mike Jackson, complaining that the NBA is racist for asking for dresscodes or susspending players for brawlingin the stands... He is a joke. A bad one at that..

There are stories of him coming into Chicago and basically blackmailing Anheiser (god that is spelled wrong) Busch into giving racial minorities distributerships in Chicago.. Sounds all well in good, he is helping the community and all. The folks who are largerly benifiting from this are.... That's right, his family.. Hypocritical, self serving jack.... I'll stop now...


Sharpeton.. No comment.
 

aplusmnt

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IL Rancher said:
The reason Al and Jesse say nothing about black on black crime is mostly because it won't give them the money and attention they want.

So true, with black on black crime who are they going to get to pay them to shut up and quit protesting. Who would hire them as advisers to help make sure their company is fair to the black man.

These two guys have did more harm to the black community than any white man could.
 

jigs

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aplusmnt said:
IL Rancher said:
The reason Al and Jesse say nothing about black on black crime is mostly because it won't give them the money and attention they want.

So true, with black on black crime who are they going to get to pay them to shut up and quit protesting. Who would hire them as advisers to help make sure their company is fair to the black man.

These two guys have did more harm to the black community than any white man could.

of course they harm society....they are liberals! :lol:
 

mrj

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That situation, re. various races in the USA, is an absolute tragedy and insult to humanity!

It seems that the liberal mindset is such that, rather than do something useful to help people of ALL races to learn that they must get the education and get the jobs to improve their own lot in life..... BEFORE they bring children into the world, and possibly with government help ONCE, if they do have children too soon, those libs are more concerned with building a permanent downtrodden constituency as a base for their political party.

There has been quite a cry that there are too many native Americans in SD jails......and virtually all crime involving personal attacks is between people of the same race. It would seem the people fussing about jailed people are asking crimes against Native americans go unpunished unless the perpetrators are white! Truly sad, even sickening!!!

MRJ
 

Mike

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MRJ said:
That situation, re. various races in the USA, is an absolute tragedy and insult to humanity!

......and virtually all crime involving personal attacks is between people of the same race. It would seem the people fussing about jailed people are asking crimes against Native americans go unpunished unless the perpetrators are white! Truly sad, even sickening!!!

MRJ

Not exactly the whole truth.

http://www.racismeantiblanc.bizland.com/005/06-02.htm
 
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