To quote Daffy Duck, "Lets try that again..."
The overwhelming proportion of murders of blacks is committed by other blacks.
The overwhelming proportion of murders of whites is committed by other whites.
Any questions?
Posted on 03/28/2012 5:36:38 AM PDT by SJackson
As many of us have been made well aware of, on Feb. 26, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was found shot to death in a community in Sanford, Fla. Since then, the story has gained a lot of national attention from people all over the country. Racism and a lack of justice seem to be the central theme that has angered thousands of people all over the nation.
I would like to present the argument that these issues are terrible, however I do believe that a bigger issue has been overlooked for far too long.
The death of Trayvon Martin is, was, and forever will be a terrible tragedy for all Americans. His death is a painful reminder of the injustices that black America has witnessed since we first stepped on American soil years ago.
However, while it may be horrible, his death should not hold more weight than any other teenage death that has occurred in recent years, especially the deaths of black teenagers.
Regardless of how we want to look at it, the murders of young black men have become so apparent that we seem to only get angry and protest when it deals with racism.
This is not meant to down play or ignore the death of Martin. However I challenge everyone to ask yourself how many times have you read or seen something about a black kid getting killed by another black kid and did nothing about it?
Martin died because of racial profiling.
This is something that the country cannot, no matter how hard many people may try, ignore.
On the other hand, according to the Department of Justice, this case is more rare than many of us want to admit. Need proof? In 2009, white offenders killed 209 black individuals. Meanwhile, that same year black offenders killed 2,604 black individuals. And if that wasn’t bad enough, statistics show that 94 percent of black murders had black offenders.
If those statistics do not show you that there is more of an internal problem with black violence than anything else, then quite frankly I don’t know what will.
While we force the country to see that racism is still an issue in today’s society, why not force the country to also see that black on black crime is perhaps the biggest problem facing Americans today.
Why should the death of Martin weigh on your heart heavier because of the race of the killer and the victim, while black people kill other black people everyday and we do nothing about it except view it as “the norm.”
Martin’s mother has lost a son that she will never get back. Yet so many other black mothers have all lost kids due to a senseless act of violence in their own neighborhoods.
Derrion Albert was beaten to death on camera by a fellow black American in 2009 and sadly most people don’t even remember his name.
Torie Carpenter was shot to death in her home in front of her two children by a fellow black American in 2006 and her name was barely whispered in the news.
A few weeks ago in Chicago 41 people were shot in three days (one of which was only 6-years-old) and the media not even make a peep about this, probably because most of the victims and offenders were black Americans.
These are all cases where people of color were killed not because of racial profiling, but because of ignorance. And if racial profiling is nothing more than ignorance in a different form, then explain to me how these deaths are any different than the death of Martin?
We speak about justice not being served for Trayvon, but then we hear about unsolved murders in black communities all over the country and remain silent.
So why is justice more important when it comes to white on black crimes, than it is when it comes to black on black crime? Especially considering the fact that statistics show white on black crime is far less common than black on black crime.
Martin’s death was something that shook up the country because it is something we have thankfully begun to see less frequently in our society. Black people fought for years to stop the brutal murder of our men, women, and children due to the color of their skin.
However when we see black people dying everyday, we seem to ignore the fact that the only reason this is accepted is because of the lack of justice that has been provided to innocent and defenseless young black men and women. These are people who lost their lives in a drive-by, a drug deal gone wrong, or simply because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I applaud President Barack Obama for addressing the Trayvon Martin tragedy. Yet it would still be nice to hear a politician (and it does not have to be the President) address the fact that black people are the leading killers of black people in this country and so few of us are doing anything to help prevent it.
Say what you want about racism but the fact of the matter is we are killing ourselves more than any other race right now and we have all sat back and let this injustice go on for quite a few decades now.
The media has stopped covering the bigger issue. There are less and less major rallies organized to help prevent black on black violence. There are no more “Wear black shirts for all the black teens that were lost last year,” movements.
Black people need to see Trayvon’s case as another black male who was killed and justice was not served. That’s a huge difference from the theme flowing around, which appears to be a white/hispanic male killed a black teen and justice was not served.
Race is still an issue here, but the fight that is more important is the protection of all black people, not just the ones who are killed by someone of a different race.
If we were seriously sad for the Martin family, then I would love to see everyone take 10 minutes out of their day to pause for the black people who have died due to ignorance. Or maybe a fundraiser to go towards funding some of these unsolved murders that are so frequent in the black communities.
Or how about the college students of Greensboro come together with the community and we host a march on violence.
These are all ideas to show that Trayvon’s death was terrible, but it doesn’t make us forget that the true tragedy here is that another black teen has died due to an act of ignorance.
George Zimmerman’s inexcusable act of violence is something that is being highlighted in this case. Yet sadly ignorant acts of violence happen every day in the black community. So much so, that we have stopped seeing it for the tragedy that it really is because it is now seen as “normal.”
In 2009, white offenders killed 209 black individuals. Meanwhile, that same year black offenders killed 2,604 black individuals.Notice omission of how many whites were killed by blacks?
The paucity of logic is no longer astounding. In fact, you almost come to expect it from Race baiting apologists.
George Zimmerman's inexcusable act of violence is something that is being highlighted in this case.
I noticed in the title, Trayvon was murdered. Another defamation artist at work here.
And just what might be the reason this author pretending racial balance forgot to mention black on white crime, especially when it is adjusted for percentage of the population?
94% of murders of black people are committed by black people. 14% of murders of white people are extraracial. IOW, 13% of the population killed 692 whites while 72% of the population who killed 254 blacks. Hence, blacks are more than 15 times more likely to kill whites than the other way around. Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2005
So what this author is doing is telling "his people" that their problem with killing each other vastly outweighs murders of black people by "white racism" while ignoring the evident problem of black racism against white people.
What a guy.
I noticed the author leaves out the number of murders of whites by blacks, a glaring omission if you want an honest discussion of this subject.
Black on black and black on white crime are higher than white on black or white on white crime.
There is a disease in the black community that is being ignored......intentionally.
The inference and evidence point to any confrontation being involuntary on Zimmerman's part. The most likely intention zimmerman has is to maintain visual contact, and to avoid confrontation.
I’ve no problem observing him and calling 911. Getting out of the car and following him on foot was obviously a major error. You allude to another issue in your description of the fight, the very real risk of being disarmed. Which would also argue for staying in the car
This is something that the country cannot, no matter how hard many people may try, ignore.
This is the base of the reason for this belief of the writer. He is completely wrong. Martin died because he chose to be a criminal.
We don't know that yet. He was not arrested because the police thought the shooting was in self defense. This was a purely NON-emotional decision.
This entire story is a story because of the enormous fire of hatred felt by the Black community against Whites. There is plenty of violence between young Black men...no complaint there.
But when the a young Black man (carrying on his shoulders the reputation that young Black men have built up with their violence) is discriminated against because of that well-earned reputation, his community screams bloody murder.
Of course a young Black man in a hoodie is discriminated against. But it isn't because of race. It's because his reputation for violence has preceded him.
But that discrimination isn't the real reason this story dominates the news. This story is powerful because it permits those in the Black community that hate Whites to vocalize their deep-seated hatred. And it gives those who fan the flames of that hatred (Al and Jessie at the front of the pack) to fan it and watch it grow.
I know of NO Whites that hate blacks...not one! Every White person I know believes that ALL people, regardless of the race, deserve the opportunity to achieve whatever they can in America.
But I will say that if Black people continue to scream their hatred for Whites, that belief in fairness among Whites will eventually start to erode.
If you scream your hatred for someone loud enough and long enough, eventually the hated person will to begin return that animosity.
To quote Daffy Duck, "Lets try that again..."
The overwhelming proportion of murders of blacks is committed by other blacks.
The overwhelming proportion of murders of whites is committed by other whites.
Any questions?
Trumaine? Trayvon? These names are simply odious. They sound like names you would give a pet or a doll, not a person. They scream “I’m from the ghetto!”
There are two paths, but they are very different. One leads to life. The other to death.
They are already in total backpedal and retreat mode.
Attempting to railroad Zimmerman is going to set off a Hispanic backlash. If that happens, it will be the same thing for the Democrat Party as Scotty reading the last three digits of the self-destruct code for the Enterprise.
I think the lightbulb over their heads about this went on
yesterday morning sometime.
When it’s convenient to the race mongers Hispanics are referred to as “people of color”. When one commits a crime against a black he is referred to as white.
Yeah, I gotta question...
in “cross-racial” murder statistics, given that whites outnumber blacks by 8 to 1, what is the ratio of white killing black to black killing white?
Shouldn’t it be “representative” of the 8 to 1 ratio?
Wrong
9-11 was "a terrible tragedy for all Americans".
"The death of Trayvon Martin" is indicative of a cancer among a subset of the population
that's metastasized as a result of a socialist plantation politics and white guilt.
Full stop.
martin died because he was an idiot. Never assault an armed man.
LLS
Is he saying that a lot of blacks get shot in self-defense? But why would that be unjust?
Trayyon attacked Zimmerman. He paid for his attempt to inflict grievous bodily harm on another human being with his life. Sucks to be him.
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