[quote]DarkNinjaa wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
I’m sorry. Let me clarify.
My original opinion of the protest either at the end of the old thread or this one, was misinformed and wrong. I’ve read a few articles and a lot of the quotes I’m seeing are very reasonable. But none of those are the “black life is less important” line of thinking.
I think some of the protestors are misguided, but not all.
That said, I don’t intend to imply that they shouldn’t be protests for Martin if there aren’t for some innocent teen in Chicago. What I’m trying to say is, if the Martin life means this much, so does the other, and there should be national attention, to the same degree, for the other senseless murders.
And I think the reason the inner-city violence is ignored to a large degree is society in general just doesn’t give to single fucks about poor people. It isn’t like trailer park violence gets any national play outside of “cops” TV show either. We just don’t care on a large enough scale. [/quote]
All right. I hear ya. Then who would you blame for the lack of attention? The black community? The funds the community lacks in order to get help bringing cases out? Or the media?
Now I would like to let you know, that the black community is trying its best with black on black crime.
People won’t know about it if they are always following mainstream media, and, if they don’t know any black people who are aware of black organizations that deal with black on black crime, they won’t have a fucking clue.
People who bring the BOB issue up, what have they done about it? Do they know the names of organizations that deal with it? The cities and places their meetings take place? Do they go to their meetings? The name of people working for those organizations? Nope. But it is just too easy for some, to bring the black on black crime as if it negates the outrage for the injustice the killing of TM has been. That’s truly sickening.
Black people have been helping their own for years. People just don’t know that and, they never fucking cared.
Here are the names of a few organizations that deal with Black on black crime; Cease Fire, Peace in the Streets, Mission District, Unity One, Stop the Violence, YouthSpeak, Urban Peace Movement, Gun down Stop the violence… There hundreds and hundreds more, and if people were bothered to fucking do their research, they’d have an idea of what are those groups up to.
The media will never make a big deal about this either. You will see a TV crew in a poor black area when a shooting has happened, but never ever when associations conduct events and gathering to fight against black on black violence.
Bringing up that Black on Black crime as a deflection to negate a tragic event and, make it seem as if Black Americans don’t give a shit about their own is fucking pathetic. Let the black people protest about injustice. Don’t be fucking outraged.
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No one here cares for that matter the whole nation. BOB crime has rallys for stop the violence all the time in most cities its not national news becuase no one cares its just not sexy enough. Which = a news story with few viewers. The media will allways pump the extreme storys becuase it brings viewers and viewers spike ratings and ratings brings advertisiers. Advertisiers are the life blood of media. If you want non biased news thats not driven by $$ you are shit out of luck in this country. As far as BOB crime goes lets be honest if the majority of white people were concerned dont you think their would be more community involvement on a local level? Just to prove my point drive down to the next “Stop the violence” event which will most likely be in the innercity. Count how many concerned white faces you see.
BOB crime is largley looked at as a “black” problem. With little help from outside communities. Becuase the teens dying everyday are not “our” children its “their” children
