A few days a go a little girl was playing outside her home with her older sister when at least five ignorant young black male niggas decided to shoot in the general direction of each other. She’s ok, she was released from the hospital with a broken arm. This is disturbing on so many levels. The first being I could easily be talking about my little 7 year old daughter playing outside with her friend Zoe enjoying her spring break. The second being this happens all the time in DC sometimes its a child but almost always it’s a black person. Third and the most disturbing of all was that it took place at 4pm in the afternoon in front of dozens of witnesses and no one has given the police any information.
Every time a young person gets shot in DC the community demands the police do something. Everyone is so afraid of little black boys. Little black boys hold their neighborhoods hostage and no one in the hood dares do anything about it. Because they are afraid. Fear and indifference destroy black communities. Black people have been poor for as long as we’ve been in this country, black families have had to deal with the lack of black fathers, but this new phenomenon of cowardice is what is truly marking the ruin of blacks in America.
The fear of black men used to be everywhere but the black community. We had real people to fear, racist whites. Young black men are the new lynch mobs. They hate black people because they’re black. They go about their days murdering, raping, robbing other blacks, they are grossly disrespectful to their fellow black person. And who’s fault is it? Blacks. No member of the establishment, government or white supremacy group sits down young black men and forces them to kill each other. No white person forces black men to sell drugs, abuse their women or carjack their fellow black person. But they do it. I don’t care what "society" tells them they should be. Society tells me I should be an uneducated, welfare scamming, section 8 housing living, serial baby momma with HIV.
It’s slowly starting to dawn on me how black people got to this state. Fear. Blacks who fought for Civil Rights weren’t afraid. The Little Rock 9 didn’t say oh I might get hurt it’s not worth integrating Central HS. Can you imagine if black people in the hood decided to talk loudly to the police about all crimes. If they refused to allow their criminal family members to seek refuge. If they said my community and my family is important enough to put my life on the line. Instead it’s an unending cycle. Nothing happens, because if you don’t care enough about your own safety why should anyone else. The old school blacks knew they couldn’t just sit around complaining that their communities and schools were sub-par they had to demand their own change. They felt their people were worth their lives.
The people who live in the most dangerous communities are full of shit. They are because income has nothing to do with how dangerous you neighborhood is. You mentality has everything to do with it. Criminals don’t last long when the community refuses to be held hostage. If they really wanted peace they would be the ones patroling the streets and reporting all criminal activity. They would be the ones picking up litter and watching out for the children of others. They would be the ones turning in their sons, nephews and cousins.
In the Washington Post article about this shooting they stated that the video surveillance may have caught a picture of the assailants. I am strongly against video surveillance on public streets. I feel its a complete invasion of privacy. Why the police have to even look at this video is troubling. But as I say, fear is paralyzing black communities across the country. Prince George’s County MD is the richest black county in America and it has the highest rate of crime in the DC area (higher than DC!!).
I’m about to sound like Pat Buchanan, but black people really should be happy with the opportunities that we have. We have access to free education through 12th grade but just this morning I heard Alma Powell (Colin’s wife who I’m a big fan of usually) state that the majority of black students drop out because they’re bored. There was general agreement that teachers and curriculums should be reworked so they can be entertained. Look, no one was more bored than I in my 11th grade AP History class but I sat there, stayed awake, and learned a whole hell of a lot! I hate to hear people accept school is boring as an excuse for anything but it’s just another form of cowardice in the black community. Afraid to learn and be challenged. Instead of possibly getting something wrong and looking stupid we just don’t try so it’s boring. Not the teachers fault or the schools.
The culture of fear that has a strong hold on black america is our own doing and we are the only ones that can undo it. The only way to do this is to force black people to take responsibility for their own communities. First step is to admit we are the cause of our own problem. Its not whitie, its not being poor, because just speaking for DC, libraries, museums, rec centers, school, volunteering are all free. Guns, drugs, cable tv cost money. Lets stop accepting ignorance!
So while Hillary and Barack are fighting over who is more qualified to run the country (while slowly handing the election to McCain) a little girl gets shot in DC. There is nothing that any of them can do about the state of Black America. More money, funding and social programs that encourage blacks to embrace laziness are part of the problem. I know I tend to get a bit passionate and preachy when I discuss black people behaving badly but, these are my people and I for one am not ok with them not taking advantage of all that awaits them when we come together and put our community first.
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