A Serious Discussion on the Homicide Rate in the Black Community

[African Peasant]

Raise your kids better. Only solutions.


All your 100 solutions outside of that fact are all BS

It's not a solution at this point. It's an empty slogan.

 

[African Peasant]

Black people shouldn't have to do anything. It starts at the top (local, state and federal). A lot of Black people doing good work in the community and it shouldn't have to be forgotten because of racist laws still in place alongside racist politicians/officials that make that work difficult

Black people are the ones who should fix this. No one is gonna do anything to fix it for black people.

 

[Micky Mikey]

Biggest enemy of black people is other black people.

Almost got into it with a neighborhood old head cause I accidentally bumped him in the store. Like bruh relax I said my bad. nikka still carrying on "nah I don't give af yayayayaya"

Dude would've never had this energy for a cac that gentrifying his own good. nikkas be on the block all day smiling in these cacs faces and mean mugging nikkas smfh.


Reminded me of a story from last summer when a dude got smoked for accidentally stepping on a gang members shoes.

fukked up thing was they had the vigil the next night and the same gang member spun through shyt it up and killed an innocent mother that just came to light a fukking candle.

Woman Fatally Shot at NYC Vigil for Friend Who Was Killed Hours Earlier

nikkas valuing their fukking sneakers over another black life is insane to me.

And on a separate note a friend of a friends cousin was shot and killed in Brooklyn earlier this very afternoon. nikkas still trying to figure out how and why smfh

Sickening. A good portion of us are a lost cause at this point.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

If Facebook memes can influence a bunch Trump supporters into storming the capitol, why should we be surprised when kids adopt a toxic mindset when they hearing lyrics about killing other black people OVER and OVER and OVER again?

It really isn't rocket science. The Nazis used visual and auditory propaganda for a reason. Its because it works. It should have been obvious that the genocide of black people being celebrated in music is eventually going to lead to its normalization. Entire careers and millions of dollars are made off this garbage. Think about how sick that is for a moment.

Not saying rap is the primary cause of the violence but it definitely perpetuates the problem. It needs to go. The community needs to start abandoning it and create a new culture from the ground up.

I honestly can’t believe that the lyrics haven’t improved after all this time. Even most hip hop imagery is all materialism and showing off jewelry and stacks of money. It’s the only genre that does that. R&B videos and lyrics don’t have all that stuff, so it’s not just about black music, it’s this particular genre.

 

[#1 pick]

The government caused it, government gotta fix it.

Umar already said the govt ain't fixing it

 

[#1 pick]

I live in The Bronx….so I’m not allowed to talk about the environment i live and work in because I don’t have a no profit organization and some community outreach programs. nikkas is shooting heroin in the face outside of my job and we had a nikka die outside the other day.


I work in a mens shelter and i have seen at least 15+ people die since 2020



I have another job at a detention center and all the young nikkas you hear about being murdered in Broad Daylight on the news, they killer’s are being housed there. So I’m all around the murderers and the murdered, in my professional life and my civilian life…..my baby moms is a teacher we in THE BRONX these little 8th graders are writing and reading comprehension is 1st grade level bro but they getting caught in school with guns and drugs etc…



But their mother’s are showing to parent teacher’s conference with spandex showing off their BBL’s and Fat transfers, with the furry UGG slipper’s ready to beat teacher’s up because their daughters and sons are behind in school, nikkas coming to school with 400 dollar sneaker’s and 1500 dollar coat’s but they selling drug’s in the bathroom and carrying pistol’s smh

Priorities. Moncler jackets. Balenciaga shoes. Priorities. @Coco Loco, as I stated, women are not capable of being single mothers. Whites know this too.

 

[CrimsonTider]

I wasn't on the train of rap lyrics helping exacerbate the issue but I'm coming around now.


That trash shyt is poisoning the minds of our young ones

If Facebook memes can influence a bunch Trump supporters into storming the capitol, why should we be surprised when kids adopt a toxic mindset when they hearing lyrics about killing other black people OVER and OVER and OVER again?

It really isn't rocket science. The Nazis used visual and auditory propaganda for a reason. Its because it works. It should have been obvious that the genocide of black people being celebrated in music is eventually going to lead to its normalization. Entire careers and millions of dollars are made off this garbage. Think about how sick that is for a moment.

Not saying rap is the primary cause of the violence but it definitely perpetuates the problem. It needs to go. The community needs to start abandoning it and create a new culture from the ground up.

I honestly can’t believe that the lyrics haven’t improved after all this time. Even most hip hop imagery is all materialism and showing off jewelry and stacks of money. It’s the only genre that does that. R&B videos and lyrics don’t have all that stuff, so it’s not just about black music, it’s this particular genre.

I’m surprised it took 7 pages for the blaming rap music crowd showed up

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

I’m surprised it took 7 pages for the blaming rap music crowd showed up

It’s definitely a factor. And I don’t make excuses.

 

[Matt504]

It’s definitely a factor. And I don’t make excuses.

The only people that refuse to acknowledge this are those who are addicted to that music.

 

[xXOGLEGENDXx]

Black people shouldn't have to do anything. It starts at the top (local, state and federal). A lot of Black people doing good work in the community and it shouldn't have to be forgotten because of racist laws still in place alongside racist politicians/officials that make that work difficult

This is that lazy bullshiit black people need to stop doing.

Simple question, would you rather be alive as a black person today or be alive in 1940?......

Exactly



The government/country was 100x worse for black people back then, and yet black people were not murdering each other at the rate we are today. So that is not an excuse. It starts with us. If we cannot take accountability for our own, then why the fukk would we expect anybody else to?

 

[Dynamite James]

I guess that means to shut up and take it Imagine you have loved ones affected by the violence. How could you not be pissed off? It’s mind boggling. Try doing the juelezing to family members of those who loved ones were killed for no reason. Bring it on

 

[EBK String]

Calling for a crime bill that will lead to further mass incarceration and occupation of black communities by militarized police shows you are a piece of shyt white boy. No black man calls on white daddy to come lock up black people, most of whom aren't violent.

 

[Dynamite James]

Calling for a crime bill that will lead to further mass incarceration and occupation of black communities by militarized police shows you are a piece of shyt white boy. No black man calls on white daddy to come lock up black people, most of whom aren't violent.

Quote me where I said I wanted the crime bill to happen I said it was inevitable and so did many others. I’ stand on that I have no love for genocidal terrorists. I few them as the enemy just as I view white Supremacists as my enemy. These are traitors

 

[ISO]

Too many guns and drugs in this country…

In 1984, Philadelphia had 263 murders and only 48% of those was with a firearm.

In 2020, Philadelphia had 499 murders and upwards of 80% of those murders was done with a firearm.

This country needs gun control period it’s that simple from the shyt in the hood to the cacs doing mass shooting in the suburbs. The country needs gun control.

The number one thing that’s gonna stop the killing is gun control.

 

[The Plug]

The government/country was 100x worse for black people back then, and yet black people were not murdering each other at the rate we are today. So that is not an excuse. It starts with us. If we cannot take accountability for our own, then why the fukk would we expect anybody else to?

It's a position that thecoli members don't want to consider and absolutely refuse to engage with because they would have to engage with the fact that they can't wholesale blame the violence on poverty.