Is "No Snitching" REALLY a Black Phenomenon?

[Marc Spector]

My hometown of Louisville recently had a shooting on Thanksgiving at a youth football game. 2 people dead. And this year has been a historically high year for murders (around 106 i believe) in Louisville. The conversation of "what we can do?" is becoming more prevalent.

The blame has shifted to a lack of holding these murderers accountable and nobody coming forward.

This has been the narrative in the Black Community for as long as I can remember. Infamously hit its peak in the early 2000s when Carmelo Anthony got caught in the "Stop Snitching" movement in B-More. When Cam was on 60 minutes.

But i ask two questions:

1. Is it possible that the residents in these black community genuinely DONT KNOW who did it? First realize that these killings usually happen so fast, at night or early morning, in a street with tons of shyt obscuring vision. Secondly, given that the average person in the hood is blue collar or a home maker, do we really think that they're all keeping up with the local hood politics? Keeping up with whose affiliated with what set and who got beef with who?

2. Even IF theres a culture of refusal to work with the police, why do we act like low income people talk to the police? For example organized crime has been around in America for hundreds at years and even at its bloodiest peak with La Cosa Nostra, people weren't exactly coming in droves to their local police and giving up the mobsters. In LA in the Mexican hood neighborhoods, shyt is no different than black hood neighborhoods. They have rampantt gangs, drugs trade galore and hella unsolved murders.

Fact: low income people fear the gangs and police or have been actively alienated by the police/civic organizations.

This whole notion bothers me because it furthers continues the narrative of Black inferiority and many blacks parrot this lie as well.

but im not from the hood.....Nor can i compare the Black Hood to any other hoods for verification......

 

[Supercoolmayo]

Sounds like you looking for excuses to sing like a canary

 

[ben anderson]

i think people forget the real meaning of snitching.

if you and your mans is selling shyt and you get caught up and tell on him, thats snitching! because you, yourself have part in the dirt.

if some nikka does a drive by on your block aiming for another randon person and accidently hits your lil brother and kills him, that isn't snitching if you tell on him.

 

[Easy-E]

Yea

Becuz the Us government was so inviting to Edward Snowden....

 

[Big D Bangston]

1)you know the rules: its only ok if white people do it

2) you have a few black that glamorize the whole "snithes get stitches" thing, and they get they get the most attention because of it

 

[feelosofer]

It's always been something of an unspoken code in most communities Black and otherwise. But I think the problem moreso comes from the idea that talking to the police and identifying criminals is the same as 'snitching', when it really isn't. Also lower income communities have a checkered relationship with the police, especially since they do a poor job of protecting the citizens that do come forward, putting themselves and their families in danger. In a lot of cases, there are times where people don't have enough information to apprehend a suspect, but there are other times where people may know who was behind an incident but won't tell for the aforementioned reasons or something else.

 

[BigMan]

No snitching exists in every community. Next.

 

[Voice of Reason]

Sounds like you looking for excuses to sing like a canary

Negged

 

[Voice of Reason]

Y'all know damn well "stop snitching" is a black hip-hop cultural phenomenon(That doesn't mean it is totally absent from other communities, but lets be real).


I don't know why we are so afraid to hold up a mirror to ourselves sometimes.

 

[HollowPoints2]

Y'all no damn well "stop snitching" is a black hip-hop cultural phenomenon(That doesn't mean it is totally absent from other communities, but lets be real).


I don't know why we are so afraid to hold up a mirror to ourselves sometimes.

The Democrat Party has conditioned us to avoid taking any responsibility when it comes to the dysfunctions in our communities across the country.

How can you witness another black person be killed but refuse to cooperate with police?
So in other words, these idiots want a community full of killers who were never held accountable.

Thats what we have in American black communities across the country.

Fukkin' losers

 

[Birdie]

No, nikkas snitch on each other all the time.

 

[thekingsmen]

i think people forget the real meaning of snitching.

if you and your mans is selling shyt and you get caught up and tell on him, thats snitching! because you, yourself have part in the dirt.

if some nikka does a drive by on your block aiming for another randon person and accidently hits your lil brother and kills him, that isn't snitching if you tell on him.

Very true but the lines have been blurred over the years and people get alot of shyt confused.

 

[Kyle Barker]

In the NY white urban communities, I believe the term is "ratting".

It's not a "black phenomenon" whatsoever...

 

[LEEeveryday]

What about the "blue code of silence"

 

[thekingsmen]

It was never a black phenomenon. Before it was even in the black community, Ethnic Mafias controlled the term and before that Secret Societies. Today Gov't agencies have a no "snitch" rule.