Genocide
against Blacks © 2015
LaQuan McDonald, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice. Those are just a few of the black males killed recently by white police officers. After each one was killed, angry, violent protests erupted across the country. If you didn’t know better, you would think African Americans had nothing but love for each other and lived among each other in peace and tranquility. You would be mistaken.
The killings of LaQuan, Freddie, Eric and the others were tragic, and they deserved protests. But there’s a bigger issue on our plate. That issue is the self-genocide carried out by Blacks against Blacks.
In every urban area, large and small, Blacks are repeatedly killing each other. Why can’t we express the same outrage over this? Is it because these killings don’t fit our victim’s narrative? Is it because we can’t blame racism for what we do to each other? Or, is it because we have a problem acknowledging our own faults?
Regardless, we cannot continue to ignore the enormous elephant in the room while we protest white cop shootings. Have we become so numb to our own genocide we don’t have any feelings? Fact is, we better start feeling something, or the quality of life where we live will continue to decline.
Black-on-black genocide too often is caused by the smallest of triggers. It could be a mere look someone takes offense with. The trigger could be as simple as simple as a bump into someone. It could happen during a petty crime.
We’re killing each other over clothing, jewelry, sneakers, or sunglasses—who else does that? Just think, God’s greatest creation, human life, is taken because someone wanted a pair of sneakers or a pair of sunglasses. At the risk of understatment, far too many of us don’t value human life.
So, what can we do about it?
The long-term solution is for parents to do what parents used to do. That is, parents need to instill proper values into their children as soon as the child can speak. Respect for others and their property, along with thou-shall-not-kill teachings, should be two of the most important values a parent can teach their children.
The short-term solution involves our community working more closely with the police. We also will need to establish neighbor watch patrols for our neighborhoods. These steps will have to be paired with a national strategy to “Stop Black Self-Genocide.” Churches, entertainers, athletes, students, businesses, black media, politicians—the entire black nation will need to buy-in to this very urgent issue.
As a rule, we don’t like to hear any kind of criticism. But this is not a time to be overly sensitive, defensive, or to somehow feel offended. After all, if you love black people, why wouldn’t you be concerned about black-on-black genocide?
At the rate we’re killing each other, it’s only a matter of time before we exceed over 1 million Blacks killed by other Blacks. But when will we get serious, after we’ve killed 2 million of our own?
against Blacks © 2015
LaQuan McDonald, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice. Those are just a few of the black males killed recently by white police officers. After each one was killed, angry, violent protests erupted across the country. If you didn’t know better, you would think African Americans had nothing but love for each other and lived among each other in peace and tranquility. You would be mistaken.
The killings of LaQuan, Freddie, Eric and the others were tragic, and they deserved protests. But there’s a bigger issue on our plate. That issue is the self-genocide carried out by Blacks against Blacks.
In every urban area, large and small, Blacks are repeatedly killing each other. Why can’t we express the same outrage over this? Is it because these killings don’t fit our victim’s narrative? Is it because we can’t blame racism for what we do to each other? Or, is it because we have a problem acknowledging our own faults?
Regardless, we cannot continue to ignore the enormous elephant in the room while we protest white cop shootings. Have we become so numb to our own genocide we don’t have any feelings? Fact is, we better start feeling something, or the quality of life where we live will continue to decline.
Black-on-black genocide too often is caused by the smallest of triggers. It could be a mere look someone takes offense with. The trigger could be as simple as simple as a bump into someone. It could happen during a petty crime.
We’re killing each other over clothing, jewelry, sneakers, or sunglasses—who else does that? Just think, God’s greatest creation, human life, is taken because someone wanted a pair of sneakers or a pair of sunglasses. At the risk of understatment, far too many of us don’t value human life.
So, what can we do about it?
The long-term solution is for parents to do what parents used to do. That is, parents need to instill proper values into their children as soon as the child can speak. Respect for others and their property, along with thou-shall-not-kill teachings, should be two of the most important values a parent can teach their children.
The short-term solution involves our community working more closely with the police. We also will need to establish neighbor watch patrols for our neighborhoods. These steps will have to be paired with a national strategy to “Stop Black Self-Genocide.” Churches, entertainers, athletes, students, businesses, black media, politicians—the entire black nation will need to buy-in to this very urgent issue.
As a rule, we don’t like to hear any kind of criticism. But this is not a time to be overly sensitive, defensive, or to somehow feel offended. After all, if you love black people, why wouldn’t you be concerned about black-on-black genocide?
At the rate we’re killing each other, it’s only a matter of time before we exceed over 1 million Blacks killed by other Blacks. But when will we get serious, after we’ve killed 2 million of our own?