Do They Really Care?
By bestboy19
@bestboy19 (5478)
United States
March 29, 2012 1:01pm CST
How seriously can we take the rhetoric of people like Al Sharpton and the New Black Panthers after their cries of, "We hate the murder and violence towards our people. We want to make sure this never happens again, not just here (Sanford), but anywhere in America," when they are totally silence in the face of black on black murders? Where was the cries for justice after the murder of Derrion Albert in Chicago in 2009, http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=percentage%20of%20black%20on%20black%20crimes%20in%20america&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CC4QFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fblack_leaders_ignore_blackonbl.html&ei=TJl0T_jeD8nVtgegkMCNBg&usg=AFQjCNEEyeDtooaHNYjpQ3bFzXKegGB66A&cad=rja or the 49 shootings in Chicago on St. Patrick's Day 2012 http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=st%20patrick%20day%20shootings%20in%20chicago&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCQQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fillinoisreview.typepad.com%2Fillinoisreview%2F2012%2F03%2Fno-outrage-over-st-patricks-day-weekend-chicago-shootings.html&ei=d550T_aDDZL1gAfHlYE0&usg=AFQjCNG_ysqkxhDzVmb906ACO0B4Mfspuw&cad=rja, or the murder of Delric Waymon Miller, IV in Detroit http://video.foxnews.com/v/1531279830001/race-and-the-media-in-the-martin-case/?playlist_id=86923? If black leaders are so concerned for the welfare of their people, why don't they make any effort in the black on black crime that is at epidemic proportions here in America?
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4 responses
@crossbones27 (49703)
• Mojave, California
29 Mar 12
I think you have a good point. Sometimes I think our political leaders and people in general get caught up in to much of the political games aspect of things. Then they forget what the real problem is. I often like to look at things as if the shoe was on the other foot. So with that being said, could you have grown up to be a a good person if you had to grow up in this type of environment? To those that could, to those that have, and to those that are. You are a lot stronger than I would be if I was in that situation. I imagine it also takes a lot of luck too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVD-HsHoUNM
@bestboy19 (5478)
• United States
30 Mar 12
It shouldn't be ignored, especially by the black leaders, and it shouldn't boil down to luck.
@crossbones27 (49703)
• Mojave, California
30 Mar 12
It should't but it does. Its hard to succeed in a system when the cards are stacked against you.
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
2 Apr 12
Lives like these shouldn't be shortened!
It is time to stop the rhetoric and find a solution.
Why is violence so prevelant in the inner city?
Any one care to comment?
@matersfish (6306)
• United States
29 Mar 12
I think this is the biggest issue was have going in America today!
What has been bugging me the most about this is that the standards have changed. In all other walks of life, white people have been taught that Zimmerman is a minority due to his Hispanic heritage. But when he kills (murders?) a black person, he's suddenly a white racist.
What's bugged me just below that is no matter how righteous Sharpton and these folks pretend to be now, they ONLY come out to voice an opinion about something when it's someone of another race doing something negative or perceived as negative to someone of their race.
America is no longer separating people by race, the folks like Sharpton are.
But, then again, it fits right into the way of thinking of people like Sharpton and the New Black Panthers. To them, black-on-black crime isn't the fault of black perpetrators who harm other black people. It's the fault of an oppressive system supposedly run by white people for white people. So their way of "speaking out" about black-on-black crime is to highlight every single instance of anything happening to a black person at the hands of a non-black person to somehow illustrate that the whole of America is against black people.
Ironically enough, Sharpton makes a pretty healthy living! And the New Black Panthers seem to be just as immune from prosecution as they claim Zimmerman is.
@bestboy19 (5478)
• United States
30 Mar 12
"And the New Black Panthers seem to be just as immune from prosecution as they claim Zimmerman is." I hadn't thought about that, but you're right, which makes their cries of injustice even less credible.
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
2 Apr 12
Eric Holder refused to prosecute them for intimidation at the polls, they stood there with night sticks. But no harm done according to Obama's DOJ.
@rogue13xmen13 (14402)
• United States
30 Mar 12
Honestly, I don't know if they really care, but I do know that there is too much crime in this country and that people should stop trying to kill each other no matter what race they are. People need to just get along.
@oneidmnster (1384)
• United States
29 Mar 12
Al Sharpton and his ilk are the biggest racists in this country. The only racism he wants to end is white racism against blacks. He hates white people and isn't afraid to show it.
@bestboy19 (5478)
• United States
29 Mar 12
I'm not so sure Al Sharpton and those like him really want white racism against blacks to end, or what they are calling racism, but rather punished more severely. Where would Sharpton be without a bit of racism to keep him in the public eye, even if it has to be fabricated?
