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Terrorizing Black Community with Black-on-Black Violence
Across America, members of gangs have bought into the idea that their biggest enemies are other Black people who look just like them, who hail from the same neighborhoods and have very similar life experiences. But instead of targeting their anger and frustrations at the people and institutions that have created the dire poverty in their neighborhoods and families, they take an extremely myopic view and target their brothers and sisters from the neighborhood across town. Scholar Dr. Amos Wilson says Black-on-Black violence serves to maintain the system of white domination, masking the violence that is done to the Black community by white leaders who create the conditions in which Black violence occurs. A 2013 story in Psychology Today reported that about 5,750 people were killed in Los Angeles County alone in the past 10 years in gang-related violence, many of them children and teenagers. Each one of those bodies, killed over something as arbitrary as the block you live on, represents another kind of manifestation of hatred.
Interesting. Are these folks "white supremacists" or "victims of white supremacy"? This sounds as if interpersonal black-on-black violences is commonly arbitrary. Or that black folks that hurt and kill simply has the desire to do so. Though we know that poverty, a creation of white supremacy, drives much of the black-on-black violence. I'm not at all excusing violence, but it sounds like a little victim blaming.
