I’m just a white guy from Detroit, now living outside Washington, D.C. I am not the duly designated representative for white people, and I’m certainly not the representative for black people. But someone has to say something about what’s happening with a lot of black kids, and there doesn’t seem to be anyone else willing to do so, so I will.
Black parents need to step up and control their kids or things are going to get much worse, and some of those kids are going to get killed.
When I was a kid, Jesse Jackson was the media’s “official spokesman for black people.” I don’t know who elected him to that post, but that’s how it was. He’s gone now, too old and infirm to make the rounds and do the press.
There was also a major push in the late 80s/early 90s against black-on-black violence. Rap artists and actors made a valiant effort to talk about the problem in the hope of saving lives. I don’t know what happened to that, it just seemed to stop.
Now, more black people are murdered every year (10,470 in 2022) compared to white people (7,704 in 2022). While both are unacceptable (1 murder is), black people make up only 12.2 percent of the population, while white people are 60.1 percent.
Why is no one talking about how 12 percent of the population make up the majority of murder victims, and by a lot?
Reality is that if you are murdered, you are much more likely to be murdered by someone who looks like you than anyone else, no matter what you look like. So, why is a higher percentage of black people committing murder than any other racial group? And why aren’t the political and community leaders who represent areas populated largely by black people, where most of these murders take place, doing anything about it? Where are the community groups and activists?
Maybe they exist, but it would have to be on a small scale. Black Lives Matter never bothered. Neither has the progressive press. None of the organizations proclaiming themselves to be acting in the best interests of black people are saying or doing anything substantive about the wholesale slaughter of black people. Why not?
There are no votes in it. Yes, it’s that simple.
Take it out of murder, just talk about crime. How many different clips have you seen of mobs of people looting stores because it was a day than ended in “Y”? Politicians either ignore it or make excuses for it. None try to stop it.
The media largely ignores the reality of it, referring to it only as “a group of ‘teens’” or some other euphemism. But if you watch the footage you notice the fact that the vast majority of participants in looting share a common characteristic, and it’s not age.
The looters are large, though not exclusively, black. Some are teenagers, but many are in their 20s. People don’t suddenly wake up one day and decide they’re entitled to rob places or beat the hell out of people, this is learned behavior. Learned over time from people in positions of authority and trust.
Not the behavior, the mentality that enables it.
How many politicians and “community leaders” preach victimhood? The mantra on the left now is how black kids will never get ahead because “the system is rigged” against them. When you hear that enough, especially from people you believe are there to help you, what impact do you think it has?
When you hear your life is going to suck because of the color of your skin, how many of the setbacks we all face when starting out do you think it takes to solidify resentment, which leads to anger and then an “I’m going to get mine” mentality?
It only takes a few people to rile a mob into stupid action. Once swept up in the frenzy, no one acts rationally. How long do you think it’ll be before a store clerk justifiably feels threatened and starts shooting looters? If you were on a jury where it was 100 against 1, would you vote to convict? I wouldn’t.
This entitlement mentality has to be nipped in the bud now, before that happens. Democrats aren’t going to do it; this is what they’ve created because it gets them voters. The murdered are just collateral damage in a system that is otherwise working. Community leaders don’t do it because they serve the Democrat Party.
Where are the parents? Parents know if their kids are out late, they know if their kids are running the streets with a bunch of people or show up with a whole bunch of expensive things they couldn’t afford. Parenting doesn’t end when someone turns 18. In fact, it never ends. Where are the black parents here? Good kids don’t jump in and beat a kid to death because he spoke up against bullying. Good parents, largely, don’t raise kids who’d participate in any of this. And the vast majority of black parents are good parents. But there are far too many who aren’t. Someone has to call them out, someone has to judge and neighbors have to shun them into action.
Government can’t do it. Politicians won’t. And I know a white guy saying this is going to be as welcome as a fart in a car, but someone has to say it so, hopefully, someone else, someone who can actually do it, will get it done.