100 Black Men of Charlotte launch controversial billboard campaign about the Homicide rate

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

The work is there and being done

just a few factors

1) it's not glamourus, there's setbacks and risk factors and essentially thankless
2) Time consuming
3) Lack of financial and economic support

I agree with the sentiment and effort....but let's be honest this is more preaching to the choir/virtue signalling than anything. So WS is not our only problem...what else is new?

There is nothing wrong with mentioning or critiquing the high homicide rate and its effect on us. But I have seen this stuff since the 1980s and have yet to see how it has improved any of the factors leading up to this. Typically, this "let's have a difficult conversation" line is a prelude to castigating certain Blacks to get it together and serving up moral platitudes that never reach the intended audience. It would be great if moral shaming was effective but the community and family structure in many of these areas have weakened the social pressure of those kind of methods.

The people who care about "losing the race" aren't pulling the triggers so if you really want to change things you need to affect that group. Sure I believe a few people may see this and reconsider their life but are we really putting our faith in PSAs?

If they want to affect the homicide rate, mentoring these kids in youth gangs, doing programs to help ex-cons find work, supporting at-risk children missing school due to COVID, and a dozen other things are probably more effective. Don't get me wrong 100 Black Men does great things and many community service actions like this nationally but I see that focus as essential.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

It’s bad here. I have no problem with it. I’m tired of seeing all these grieving people. Just talked to the pops of the dude that got killed in the “Hood Uber” little man was about to graduate high school in a couple months smh. The shyt is sad

 

[Waldo Geraldo Faldo]

Hopefully it makes a difference, this is one of many tools, hope it has some positive impact

Wonder if this will help.

I hoping it will help in some form/fashion along with other means of community engagement.

I plan on moving my family down to Charlotte because of the industries and newer construction they have going on down there.

I am moving from Detroit where historical there has been high level of violence crimes. I would hate for Queen City to follow that path.

 

[get these nets]

It’s bad here. I have no problem with it. I’m tired of seeing all these grieving people. Just talked to the pips of the dude that got killed in the “Hood Uber” little man was about to graduate high school in a couple months smh. The shyt is sad

Agree

 

[MikelArteta]

y'all can go ahead and worry bout dem crackaz fine but the nikka with the nine skin as black as mine

 

[get these nets]

I agree with the sentiment and effort....but let's be honest this is more preaching to the choir/virtue signalling than anything. So WS is not our only problem...what else is new?

There is nothing wrong with mentioning or critiquing the high homicide rate and its effect on us. But I have seen this stuff since the 1980s and have yet to see how it has improved any of the factors leading up to this. Typically, this "let's have a difficult conversation" line is a prelude to castigating certain Blacks to get it together and serving up moral platitudes that never reach the intended audience. It would be great if moral shaming was effective but the community and family structure in many of these areas have weakened the social pressure of those kind of methods.

The people who care about "losing the race" aren't pulling the triggers so if you really want to change things you need to affect that group. Sure I believe a few people may see this and reconsider their life but are we really putting our faith in PSAs?

If they want to affect the homicide rate, mentoring these kids in youth gangs, doing programs to help ex-cons find work, supporting at-risk children missing school due to COVID, and a dozen other things are probably more effective. Don't get me wrong 100 Black Men does great things and many community service actions like this nationally but I see that focus as essential.

Because they are credible organization, I think this will help them get additional resources to do the things that organization has always done & expand into some of things you mentioned.

Article and vid points to the things they are doing now in conjunction with the billboard campaign.

 

[010101]

they finna spin by the billboards shooting

ain't no rationale reason or sense in 99.9% of street nikkas

it's been over from the start

*

 

[ISO]

It doesn't emerge from a vacuum.

How many people who work from home know getting blasted out of their minds with various drugs from weed to pills?

This lock down has probably affected the psyche and induced medication through drugs to cope.

Thats everywhere, not just America.

Drugs are pouring in everywhere

Its not just majority minority pops either

Portland oregons demo is 77 percent white. But their homicide rate skyrocketed


U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Portland city, Oregon

Portland Demographics by race

Population
White alone, percent  77.4%
Black or African American alone, percent(a)  5.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native alone, percent(a)  0.8%
Asian alone, percent(a)  8.2%

What was the race of the homicide victims in Portland.

That % don’t mean much I seen they Gangland episode on Hoovers.

 

[BaggerofTea]

What was the race of the homicide victims in Portland.

That % don’t mean much I seen they Gangland episode on Hoovers.

They arent released.

But anectodical google evidence points to cacs involved in the public homicides.

 

[BrothaZay]

Scariest thing is the cities across the country saw homicide numbers close to the 90s peak numbers.

Streets were killing fields back then and we thought that level of brazen violence was over for good.

Close? Like 10 cities had numbers higher than the 90s

 

[ISO]

They arent released.

But anectodical google evidence points to cacs involved in the public homicides.

shyt is majority black folk and certainly not proportionate...

The city is only 5% black yet most of the murder victims are black some were clearly innocent hit by strays.

A couple high school graduates and old folks in there heartbreaking shyt.
55 homicides in Portland in 2020 -- the most in 26 years -- involved victims from 8 months old to 71

 

[Wiseborn]

It's a shame this is met with crickets. That's the way it goes through.

This never works though. It didn't work in the 90's when it was way way worse.

What they need to do is what the DC chapter did and worked with the gangs to stop beefs.

 

[luciddreamer]

Hate to say it, but Southern gun laws....


Yea i know, guns don't kill people... But you'd be a fool to think it doesn't make it easier.... Mix it with certain environments and mentalities, and you have a recipe for disaster... Why would they want it changed.

 

[Wiseborn]

Everytime without fail.

It's hilarious. I tell em next time I'll shoot a fellow black person. Since criticising black on black crime gets you called a c00n faster than actually committing the crimes. Maybe just maybe the coli will consider me a "real nikka"

The reason it's criticized is because it's not true. Again even in the 90's it wasn't really that many dudes that died, and I used to live in the "murder capital" at that time.

 

[invalid]

“Hood Uber”

What is this?