Quote:
Originally Posted by Derek Sutton
^^ This doesn't explain why they are shooting each other though, which is a far bigger problem then any potentially corrupt or rascist police dept is. The black on black crime numbers are astounding, the tally after this long week end in Chicago alone will be +/- 20 homicides and the press, the community and the civil rights leaders will turn a blind eye.
|
This goes to poverty. It just so happens minorities have far higher levels of poverty for all the reasons Flash listed. But people who can't feed themselves or their family, or feel trapped, will look for a way out. Or even act out in anger and desperation. IIt's about poverty, not race.
But yes, many black leaders have pointed to those statistics and said that the communities in need and trouble need to be banding together instead of ripping each other apart. It is an issue that needs to be worked on. But knowledge and sympathy of why it happens is important. It's not 'black on black'. It's desperate v desperate.