9 people charged w/murder in this crazy ass hood video (WTF?)

[Biscayne]

Court system is so skewed. Charge 9 people with murder when 1 person was stabbed 1 time by 1 person in a brawl. But we cant get 1 cop charged when half a dozen shoot, beat murder innocent people.

Truth. Too much truth and common sense in this post. Really isn't any other point in charging 9 people with murder when only one person did the stabbing and others who were charged weren't even fighting, they were only in the vicinity. No one can justify charging them all. Clearly there is an agenda afoot.

 

[Biscayne]

Are you somehow forced to be in the presence of others?

Minimizing contact is as simple as it sounds, instead of being outside, be inside.

What if youre Black, and youre into fitness, and you like jogging? And you live in a neighborhood full of other Black people. What do you do then?

 

[Matt504]

What if youre Black, and youre into fitness, and you like jogging? And you live in a neighborhood full of other Black people. What do you do then?

simple, you jog. I'm Black, into fitness and there are a lot of Black people that attend the same gym as me, I work out for about an hour and don't have to say a single word to any other gym member. If you're jogging through a 100% Black neighborhood, you don't have to stop and talk to anyone or come into direct contact with any of the people in the neighborhood.

Again, I'm not suggesting that Black people cut off all contact with other Black people, I'm simply suggesting that we minimize contact unless we're doing something constructive with other Black people. If you're jogging through an all Black neighborhood and you see a Black person fixing a flat tire, it would be 100% ok to come into contact with that person to offer assistance, if they decline, you say have a good day and keep it moving. If you're jogging through an all Black neighborhood and a fight breaks out, it's 100% not okay to go towards that fight and start filming, there's nothing constructive about filming people fighting and increasing your odds of being killed if someone starts shooting or stabbing.

 

[Biscayne]

Its simple decision making lets not complicate things. Is what you're doing with groups of ppl constructive or not

@Matt504 left alot of gray area open. And tried to revise some stuff when more questions were being asked. He said Black people should completely avoid each other unless theyre doing something contructive. That leaves ALOT of grey area open for questioning. In threads like this people proclaim these grand proclamations, drastic proclamations about what Black people as a whole should do. But get a little flustered when their proclamations get questioned.

What about Birthday parties or picnics? Are those activities constructive? Fights can happen in those settings also, but the original intention for settings like those isn't violence, the intention is celebration.

What about Block parties? Or pool parties? What about groups of Black people coming together to travel. Like a church group going to Six Flags?



What is the practicality of @Matt504 proclamation?

 

[shutterguy]

Who the hell was driving the Charger?? That alone is attempted vehicular homicide on so many accounts.............

 

[Booker T Garvey]

The reasoning behind this is, it's necessary to make it clear negativity isn't cool.

Black people have a way of glorifying demons. An example: It is an insult to live in the ghetto...in real life. Black people took that insult, flipped it to the point where people will lie about being from the ghetto. Not too long ago, you were shamed if you weren't from the ghetto.

It's time for our progressive blacks to separate from wretched blacks, the same way upper class whites separate from trailer trash. As of right now there's too much fraternizing between us.

i actually had a discussion w/a white co-worker about this once after he'd mentioned he grew up in a trailer park community during a political debate...
talking about the "giving back" phenomenon that we spew

the whole time he was like this

40+ year old white dude had never heard this concept..
said that he knew some people from his impoverished neighborhood that were very successful even though they came up where they did

it's just normal for them...the people from his community don't care nor are they looking for something from him.

everybody doesn't think like we do on issues...at some point you have to look out for yourself.

 

[jmspro]

Truth. Too much truth and common sense in this post. Really isn't any other point in charging 9 people with murder when only one person did the stabbing and others who were charged weren't even fighting, they were only in the vicinity. No one can justify charging them all. Clearly there is an agenda afoot.

Yep. This is coming in 2 weeks:

This is a major staple in the economy of Augusta. Charging 9 people with murder was a statement. They always do a drug bust sweep around this time of every year as well:

UPDATE| 8 arrested and 4 wanted in connection to drug trafficking and gang activity

 

[Biscayne]

i actually had a discussion w/a white co-worker about this once after he'd mentioned he grew up in a trailer park community during a political debate...
talking about the "giving back" phenomenon that we spew

the whole time he was like this

40+ year old white dude had never heard this concept..
said that he knew some people from his impoverished neighborhood that were very successful even though they came up where they did

it's just normal for them...the people from his community don't care nor are they looking for something from him.

everybody doesn't think like we do on issues...at some point you have to look out for yourself.

Diffirent histories. Blacks in a way were forced to view ourselves as a mass collective. We have had to establish a code to look out for each other and be down. White people as a mass collective are the majority. They never had to have that mentality. Of course thats not to say they didn't prop up poorer Whites over Blacks. But when you're the majority, things run diffirent. Two Black people coming from two different socioeconomic backgrounds will have an affinity with each other if they're the only two Black people in a particular setting.

 

[PhonZhi]

although all of this is true - we celebrate, embrace, and prefer this lifestyle. I come from this environment so this is not just some outside-looking-in shyt:

one of the dirty little secrets we try to keep to ourselves and downplay when cameras and white people are around

is that the dope dealer/street nikka is treated like a king in our community.

Fact. Modern-day hiphop and its constant promotion and glorification of the criminal lifestyle is doing a major disservice to the black community and our overall mindset. Specifically the youth

 

[Booker T Garvey]

Diffirent histories. Blacks in a way were forced to view ourselves as a mass collective. We have had to establish a code to look out for each other and be down. White people as a mass collective are the majority. They never had to have that mentality. Of course thats not to say they didn't prop up poorer Whites over Blacks. But when you're the majority, things run diffirent. Two Black people coming from two different socioeconomic backgrounds will have an affinity with each other if they're the only two Black people in a particular setting.

true but that's the point...he had no ties to that little dirty ass trailer park any more, he'd moved on long ago
why do people stay in the projects from 8 to 80? why did we turn this into a thing to live there forever and never try and move out

black scholars and intellectuals have been pointing this out for decades but they're shot down as traitors and sellouts.

we're brainwashed. it's not even debatable at this point, we've just come to accept that we're gonna think how we are and people need to just move on

 

[Swirv]

That looks like the suburbs not the hood. They're fukking up.

 

[Prince Akeem]

@Matt504 left alot of gray area open. And tried to revise some stuff when more questions were being asked. He said Black people should completely avoid each other unless theyre doing something contructive. That leaves ALOT of grey area open for questioning. In threads like this people proclaim these grand proclamations, drastic proclamations about what Black people as a whole should do. But get a little flustered when their proclamations get questioned.

What about Birthday parties or picnics? Are those activities constructive? Fights can happen in those settings also, but the original intention for settings like those isn't violence, the intention is celebration.

What about Block parties? Or pool parties? What about groups of Black people coming together to travel. Like a church group going to Six Flags?



What is the practicality of @Matt504 proclamation?

There is no practicality. Its pseudo-intellectual bullshyt that paints an hilariously absurd image of black people.

However it would be fantastic if Matt were to avoid black people since he clearly despises them.

 

[Booker T Garvey]

Fact. Modern-day hiphop and its constant promotion and glorification of the criminal lifestyle is doing a major disservice to the black community and our overall mindset. Specifically the youth

i went to the club last night (business) and not one positive non-violent or drug related song

i mean no slow jams, no dance/party songs...all the songs are like this right here

if that's cool then so be it; but then we're surprised at our community being a shooting range? a dope pushing factory?

 

[Matt504]

@Matt504 left alot of gray area open. And tried to revise some stuff when more questions were being asked. He said Black people should completely avoid each other unless theyre doing something contructive. That leaves ALOT of grey area open for questioning. In threads like this people proclaim these grand proclamations, drastic proclamations about what Black people as a whole should do. But get a little flustered when their proclamations get questioned.

What about Birthday parties or picnics? Are those activities constructive? Fights can happen in those settings also, but the original intention for settings like those isn't violence, the intention is celebration.

What about Block parties? Or pool parties? What about groups of Black people coming together to travel. Like a church group going to Six Flags?



What is the practicality of @Matt504 proclamation?

again, the end goal is to minimize conflict, one way to do that is by minimizing contact. There's a lot of gray area because it's up to each individual person to decide what is or isn't constructive. I'm from New Orleans and I've seen many block parties end in shootings, it's gotten to the point now that shootings don't even end many of these parties, people will temporarily disperse and come right back to continue partying, assuming no one is shot. I as an individual would not attend any block parties at this point in my life because there's nothing about block parties that I'm interested in. Whether or not I'd attend a pool party or any other party would heavily depend on who's throwing the party and what kind of company that person keeps.

If a church is going to six flags, that's 100% fine in my opinion, when people travel in groups, there are usually planned activities.

There is no practicality. Its pseudo-intellectual bullshyt that paints an hilariously absurd image of black people.

However it would be fantastic if Matt were to avoid black people since he clearly despises them.

I don't despise Black people at all, and if avoiding people unless you're coming in contact with them to do something constructive is impractical, I'm interested in hearing why that is.

 

[Biscayne]

true but that's the point...he had no ties to that little dirty ass trailer park any more, he'd moved on long ago
why do people stay in the projects from 8 to 80? why did we turn this into a thing to live there forever and never try and move out

black scholars and intellectuals have been pointing this out for decades but they're shot down as traitors and sellouts.

we're brainwashed. it's not even debatable at this point, we've just come to accept that we're gonna think how we are and people need to just move on

Alot of these projects haven't been around for that long.

Generational poverty is easier to break when you're not Black. GI Bill post WW2 created a large White middle class. That's just the reality of it.