Your sti example should answer your own question. Unfortunately the treatment and prevention for "black on black" crime are interconnected. Do black people manufacture guns in the inner city? Where do they come from? This is a country that spends trillions of dollars to circumnavigate the planet taking peoples countries from them but they can't stop the influx of guns and drugs that are not indigenous to the areas they adversely affect from coming in? You can't, for conversational convenience, separate systemic racism from all the ills it causes. White people are fully responsible for the conditions that plague black folk. They must be held accountable for the effects if they are the root cause. The criminal justice system needs to be overhauled, along with health care, k-12 education standardization, and the economic disadvantage with higher education access. These things are just a start in quelling the numbers you have mentioned. When they occur, a cultural paradigm shift is possible. I know we all want a quick fix. I know I do, because we want to see the change in our lifetimes. Is this possible? Maybe...but it is hard to change something 500 years in the making overnight. Remember, chattel slavery alone existed twice as long as it has not existed. Then you you had a litany of laws designed to marginalize blacks. It is a disingenuous argument to place the burden of fixing the results of the burden of oppression on the oppressed. The system whites have built to create this problem has to be eradicated. The problem is, racism, in it's perfect form, creates a glass ceiling, which many, unfortunately can not see. I hear people talk economics is the key. Even that is controlled by racism. Who give you your business permits and licences? Who controls zoning and other legal impediments to starting a business? Let's place this issue at the feet of those responsible. If they can have people live on the moon in 20 years, then solving these problems should be easy, right? The deflection of having us take the lions share with this is part and parcel as to why it continues. I don't like calling people names but I understand the frustration that causes this. A c00n to me, is a negro who understands the comprehensive effect of racism but choose to place the accountability of solving it on the victim instead of the criminal. White people are the criminals, and until this is acknowledged , we can't have the conversation to even begin to make things better. We black folk have severe mental illness as result of racism. We need treatment, not condemnation. Treatment in the form of a system that puts in place those tools we need to save us and takes away those tool which destroys us. The government is responsible for the tools we have and the ones we need. Racism prevents them from giving them to us. We are being asked to construct a home with a pair of scissors, which is an impossible task. Give us the proper tools and get the hell out of our way. I am positive the creators of civilization, which black people are, can be great because that is what is inherently in us. Don't y'all agree?
