I didn't hear Gov. Martin O'Malley's interview. And I'm not debating the significance of "Black Lives Matter." I'm a BLACK MAN! I know this.
Nor am I focusing on O'Malley's words or context itself. That's really not the issue to me.
The issue is: as much as attention was so desperately aimed towards "Black Lives Matter," where is all this noise when Black folks are getting killed in our communities every single day? Does it only matter when we're getting killed OUTSIDE OF OUR COMMUNITY, by folks who look differently than us?
That was my point. It IS my point. It will REMAIN my point. And I'm not changing my position one bit.
Whatever context O'Malley made in saying "All Lives Matter" is his issue to deal with. The same could be said for Hillary Rodham-Clinton when she alluded to that weeks ago. But it still does not negate the point that if we've reached a point where a PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE is forced to apologize and engage in clarification when choosing to say "ALL LIVES MATTER" -- while a few Black Folks are allowed to reign terror throughout our own community by killing one another with nary a word said about it, then the problems that truly permeate the Black Community will never be resolved.
It's the truth. Deal with it.
No Black Man with a soul would dream of attacking the movement that is "Black Lives Matter." I'm certainly not doing any such thing. I never will.
Just make sure I hear
#BlackLivesMatter ALL the time.
Specifically, when we're getting killed by one another
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Will the criminal justice system forget to indict these people? Will the criminal justice system put on a fake trial to ensure an acquittal (Zimmerman)?
If not, why falsely accuse people of beefing over Europeans killing us when the beef is due to the criminal justice system not only refusing to do their job (locking criminals up and putting them to death), but also doing the things we pay them with our tax dollars to protect us from.
Moreover, Europeans kill each other at an 83% clip because people commit crime against those they have the most access to. "Black-On-Black Crime" is a prejudiced term designed to accuse us inventing some new brand of crime to divert attention to prejudice. It's a diversion tactic and victim-blaming. That's why you've never heard of "White-On-White Crime". "Color-On-Color Crime" doesn't exist unless the crime was committed
because of skin color. Otherwise, it's just crime and non-crime.
That said, the crime in our community is down
70% in the last 20 years. This is the largest drop in crime of
any people group in America, since they started keeping record of crime, and we did this without the help of European media. This could not happen if we "didn't care" about the crime in our community. Google the rallies over our crime because European media will not cover it.
Our rates of
all crime,
including violent crime, are only higher (but still
not disproportionate) in areas where we make up 50-80% of the population. This means we commit a low amount of crime compared to our population in those areas. In contrast where Europeans make up less than 50% of the population, they disproportionately
kill and commit more of
all crime,
especially violent crime. Tables 61 (non-metropolitan areas — Europeans), 67 (suburban areas — Europeans), 55 (metropolitan areas — us), and 49 (cities — us) at this link →
Tables shows that crime committed by Europeans is astronomical
and they are committing 80-90% of all crime, especially violent crime, despite being less than 50% of the population.
That is not the case for our people group, despite being over-policed, underprivileged, and having more poverty.
Theirs show an astronomical rate, despite being under-policed and under-reported →
In FBI murder data, mass killings often go missing and →
Study Reveals Police Are Shooting Three People Every Day (for 2 examples),
and despite beingmore wealthy and privileged. Theirs is under-reported because of property-value concerns, white supremacy, and many other reasons. Can you imagine if the police was reporting their crimes as much as they report ours?
Crime in the U.S. as a whole is at a historical low, no thanks to Europeans. If they go sit down, it would be much lower.
P.S. - Europeans kill each other at an 83% clip because people commit crime against those they have the most access to. "Black-On-Black Crime" is a prejudiced term designed to accuse us inventing some new brand of crime to divert attention away from prejudice. It's a diversion tactic and victim-blaming. That's why you've never heard of "White-On-White Crime". "Color-On-Color Crime" doesn't exist unless the crime was committed
because of skin color. Otherwise, it's just crime and non-crime.