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Where's the outrage in the US over black on black killings?
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition...omtues.art.htm
Where's the outrage over black-on-black killings? By DeWayne Wickham BALTIMORE - A couple of days before Christmas, I phoned Patricia West, an old friend I hadn't spoken to in years. It was a call I didn't want to make - the kind of call no one should ever have to place. It was a brief conversation, a few minutes of aimless chatter that quickly went from awkward laughter to muffled crying. I called her to say how devastated I was to hear that her son had been killed. His death was reported in the final paragraph of a short crime story in The (Baltimore) Sun that gave the bare facts of his demise. "The other homicide victim, Kevin West, 39, of the 9000 block of Meadow Heights Road in Randallstown, was found fatally shot shortly after 8 a.m. Saturday by officers investigating reported gunfire in the 2800 block of Virginia Ave., police said." Kevin West's murder was the 260th homicide this year in Baltimore - a city in which virtually all of the murder victims and those arrested for murder are black. On the same day that he was gunned down, tens of thousands of demonstrators marched down Fifth Avenue in New York to protest the Nov. 25 killing of another black man. Sean Bell was felled by a hail of police gunfire moments after he and two friends left his bachelor party early on the morning of the day he was to have been married. Just why the cops fired on the unarmed men is unclear. Bell's death drew the scorn of civil rights leaders and black activists, many of whom took part in the march. West's killing has generated no such attention. And that makes me made as hell. As troubling as it is that Bell's life might have been cut short by the unlawful actions of some rogue cops, it bothers me more that most of this nation's black murder victims are killed by other blacks. And despite this chilling fact, nowhere have tens of thousands of people taken to the streets recently to protest this carnage. Not in New York, or Baltimore, or Atlanta, or Detroit, or Chicago. Nowhere. Of the country's 14,860 homicide victims in 2005, 7,125 were black, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Report. And of the 3,289 cases that year in which a single black was killed by a single assailant, the FBI says, 91% of the killers were black. Let me put this another way: The number of blacks killed in 2005 in this one homicide category alone approaches the total of all the blacks lynched in this country from 1882 to 1968, according to records maintained by Tuskegee University. So why aren't black leaders taking up this fight? Why do so many turn out to decry the death of one black man at the hands of some cops, but no mass rallies take on the deaths of thousands of blacks who are slaughtered by other blacks? "I think it's because we know it's our fault, and we're constantly looking for someone else to blame," says Baltimore City Police Commissioner Leonard Hamm, who, like me, grew up in Cherry Hill, a poor black neighborhood on the city's south side. Hamm says most black leaders are afraid to address this issue, afraid to confront the apathy, fear and indifference that allow many poor black neighborhoods to become killing fields. He could be right. But whatever the reason, it's time for black leaders - activists, preachers, educators, politicians, business and community leaders - to say enough is enough. It's time for them to be as aggressive, and as demanding, in combating the black murder rate as they are in fighting for an increase in minimum wage or an expansion in health care. The ripple effects of black-on-black killings have turned many inner city neighborhoods into urban wastelands, chased businesses from those communities, fueled a growth in other crimes and sapped the resources of local governments. As mad as black folks have a right to be over the killing of Sean Bell, we ought to be angry over the failure of black leaders to be equally outraged over the murder of Kevin West - and the thousands of blacks who are killed each year by other blacks. |
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Where's the outrage in the US over black on black killings?
"PJ O'Donovan" wrote in message oups.com... http://www.usatoday.com/printedition...omtues.art.htm Where's the outrage over black-on-black killings? By DeWayne Wickham It just shows that African Americans who have never been to Africa or know where it is on a map still behave like Africans. |
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Where's the outrage in the US over black on black killings?
PJ O'Donovan schrieb:
[...] Not in rec.travel.europe. Volker -- For email replies, please substitute the obvious. |
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Where's the outrage in the US over black on black killings?
Like his pal evleth does, your comment will be ignored.
"Volker Hetzer" a écrit dans le message de news: ... PJ O'Donovan schrieb: [...] Not in rec.travel.europe. Volker -- For email replies, please substitute the obvious. |
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Where's the outrage in the US over black on black killings?
Let is be knownst that on 2 Jan 2007 07:40:38 -0800, "PJ O'Donovan"
writted: And that makes me made as hell. Oooh that's ugly! Hit the spell check, and don't bother with anything like a re-read. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
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Where's the outrage in the US over black on black killings?
PJ O'Donovan wrote: http://www.usatoday.com/printedition...omtues.art.htm Where's the outrage over black-on-black killings? By DeWayne Wickham Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........ .............. What the boring **** is a "Black activist". |
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Where's the outrage in the US over black on black killings?
PJ O'Donovan wrote:
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition...omtues.art.htm block of Virginia Ave., police said." Kevin West's murder was the 260th homicide this year in Baltimore - a city in which virtually all of the murder victims and those arrested for murder are black. I have no argument about fencing them off, providing firearms to them and not intervening while they kill each other off! In the end, nature, itself, always provides a solution. |
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Where's the outrage in the US over black on black killings?
http://archives.cbc.ca/400d.asp?id=1-71-723-4318&wm6=1
veritas wrote: PJ O'Donovan wrote: http://www.usatoday.com/printedition...omtues.art.htm block of Virginia Ave., police said." Kevin West's murder was the 260th homicide this year in Baltimore - a city in which virtually all of the murder victims and those arrested for murder are black. I have no argument about fencing them off, providing firearms to them and not intervening while they kill each other off! In the end, nature, itself, always provides a solution. |
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Where's the outrage in the US over black on black killings?
"veritas" wrote in message ... (snipped) In the end, nature, itself, always provides a solution. But our moralising about behaviour inhibits nature. We actually prevent nature taking its course with them. Notice how billions are going to be spent on Africans with Aids. I mean...why? So they can breed more, infect more, and demand more white man's drugs to cure more of them. The cycle actually gets worse by helping them. Why should we bother for moral reasons when *they* have none. Letting nature take its course is now against the law. That would be called 'gross neglect' if you let nature take its course. And yes, let them kill each other off. But the UN would step in with their moralising and demand the white man takes steps to stop them....and feed them in the meantime. Nature doesn't stand a chance nowadays, especially when you even have gormless pop singers feeling sorry for them and demanding * your* taxes get spent on them when they themselves have lawyers making sure they only pay theirs in the Cayman Islands. |
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