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

[Ricky Fontaine]

Or the police can simply do their jobs. Dudes avoid committing crimes in white neighborhoods because the cops would be on them and actually Investigate crimes. In the hood someone shoots someone, the cops canvass the area no one saw anything and they say Welp the people won't tell us Meanwhile if they really wanted you they'd hang wiretaps like christmas trees.

I remember a case of a dude who was robbing Asian massage parlors. The Massage parlors were somewhat reluctant to talk (because they were engaging in crime themselves) Anyway since they couldn't get a court order to wiretap his house they planted one on the street in a lampost. They caught dude on his way to another job.


Back in the day everyone knew the local hittas, The fact that they seemed to "get away with it" made people shook and willing to Make their own justice

It's the same reason why we can't have real gun legislation who's giving up their guns when there's so many guns out there? I know I'm not.

^^^This guy gets it.

You dudes talking about black on black violence are clowns.

Answer me this: When was the last time a gangbanger saw an inspirational billboard and decided to turn his life around and stop being murderer?

 

[Wiseborn]

^^^This guy gets it.

You dudes talking about black on black violence are clowns.

Answer me this: When was the last time a gangbanger saw an inspirational billboard and decided to turn his life around and stop being murderer?

In the Colorado mass shooting the cops say they don't have a motive yet because they haven't examined his digital footprint yet. They usually go back six months analyzing everything to find out your mindset.

If they did that for every murder suspect they'd solve at lot of crimes.

 

[Cyrus' Wife]

Answer me this: When was the last time a gangbanger saw an inspirational billboard and decided to turn his life around and stop being murderer?

Exactly. I admire the other things this group is doing in the community but these types of billboards are not the thing to do. I mean if people growing up near or already involved in gangbanging/thugging were really inspired to turn their lives around by just seeing visual signs around them then theoretically the neighborhoods on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive should be safe and non-violent...but unfortunately that is usually not the case.

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

Again you're missing my point, I'm not saying that there wasn't way too many murders, one is way too many what I'm saying was looking back on it It wasn't as bad as they made it seem again they were throwing around terms like GENOCIDE and I run into nikkas who were from DC in the crack era all the time. I used to run into people from Michigan now I run into former DC residents all the time.

According to what I was told then there should be far fewer of us.

1.5 Million Missing Black Men
By JUSTIN WOLFERS, DAVID LEONHARDT and KEVIN QUEALY APRIL 20, 2015

In New York, almost 120,000 black men between the ages of 25 and 54 are missing from everyday life. In Chicago, 45,000 are, and more than 30,000 are missing in Philadelphia. Across the South — from North Charleston, S.C., through Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi and up into Ferguson, Mo. — hundreds of thousands more are missing.

They are missing, largely because of early deaths or because they are behind bars. Remarkably, black women who are 25 to 54 and not in jail outnumber black men in that category by 1.5 million, according to an Upshot analysis. For every 100 black women in this age group living outside of jail, there are only 83 black men. Among whites, the equivalent number is 99, nearly parity.

African-American men have long been more likely to be locked up and more likely to die young, but the scale of the combined toll is nonetheless jarring. It is a measure of the deep disparities that continue to afflict black men — disparities being debated after a recent spate of killings by the police — and the gender gap is itself a further cause of social ills, leaving many communities without enough men to be fathers and husbands.

Perhaps the starkest description of the situation is this: More than one out of every six black men who today should be between 25 and 54 years old have disappeared from daily life.

“The numbers are staggering,” said Becky Pettit, a professor of sociology at the University of Texas.

And what is the city with at least 10,000 black residents that has the single largest proportion of missing black men? Ferguson, Mo., where a fatal police shooting last year led to nationwide protests and a Justice Department investigation that found widespread discrimination against black residents. Ferguson has 60 men for every 100 black women in the age group, Stephen Bronars, an economist, has noted.

1.5 Million Missing Black Men

 

[Wiseborn]

1.5 Million Missing Black Men
By JUSTIN WOLFERS, DAVID LEONHARDT and KEVIN QUEALY APRIL 20, 2015

In New York, almost 120,000 black men between the ages of 25 and 54 are missing from everyday life. In Chicago, 45,000 are, and more than 30,000 are missing in Philadelphia. Across the South — from North Charleston, S.C., through Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi and up into Ferguson, Mo. — hundreds of thousands more are missing.

They are missing, largely because of early deaths or because they are behind bars. Remarkably, black women who are 25 to 54 and not in jail outnumber black men in that category by 1.5 million, according to an Upshot analysis. For every 100 black women in this age group living outside of jail, there are only 83 black men. Among whites, the equivalent number is 99, nearly parity.

African-American men have long been more likely to be locked up and more likely to die young, but the scale of the combined toll is nonetheless jarring. It is a measure of the deep disparities that continue to afflict black men — disparities being debated after a recent spate of killings by the police — and the gender gap is itself a further cause of social ills, leaving many communities without enough men to be fathers and husbands.

Perhaps the starkest description of the situation is this: More than one out of every six black men who today should be between 25 and 54 years old have disappeared from daily life.

“The numbers are staggering,” said Becky Pettit, a professor of sociology at the University of Texas.

And what is the city with at least 10,000 black residents that has the single largest proportion of missing black men? Ferguson, Mo., where a fatal police shooting last year led to nationwide protests and a Justice Department investigation that found widespread discrimination against black residents. Ferguson has 60 men for every 100 black women in the age group, Stephen Bronars, an economist, has noted.

1.5 Million Missing Black Men

This is cap. I'm "missing" I don't live in america so if you just went off of census records you'd see that the last thing I did was get on a plane to Kenya.

There's Tons of ADOS people living in Africa as repats and way more living in europe and Latin america.

No where does they say that 1.5 million men are actually dead.

 

[get these nets]

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Responsible people are not content to see their youth die off and just do nothing about it. When white kids and young adults started dropping like flies because of opioid, heroin, and prescription deaths......these types of billboards went up to call attention to the problem. Not sure how many from their communities would dismiss them to say that "a billboard isn't gonna stop a person's addiction."I'd guess that many would see the overall big picture....and that the public awareness of the problem can make young people aware where that road leads, and that drawing public attention to the epidemic can help garner resources to help prevent others from trying drugs.

I believe that these homicide billboards serve the same purpose.

 

[staticshock]

has this ORG, put up any billboards on the other matters like police brutality, poverty, or any of the sort?

Are you questioning what the 100 Black Men have done for their local communities?


They have put in work for decades helping black people

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

It mostly boils down to how easy it is to get a firearm. Guns should not be so easy that anyone can just get one and start blasting. In the most violent communities, people feel like they've got nothing to lose, nothing to look forward to, so they don't mind ending someone else's life while ruining their own.

 

[George's Dilemma]

It mostly boils down to how easy it is to get a firearm. Guns should not be so easy that anyone can just get one and start blasting. In the most violent communities, people feel like they've got nothing to lose, nothing to look forward to, so they don't mind ending someone else's life while ruining their own.

That last point is more of an issue then availability of guns IMO. Dudes are too quick to shoot someone. If they didn't have guns they'd find something else. A knife, a stick, etc.. The culture needs changed. Folks are sick in the head when it comes to their own kind.

 

[ISO]

All I’m going to say is that there was a protest last summer here against the police when the police here are decent and don’t really fukk with people .

A black kid was murdered by a wreck-less nikka and it was crickets

that pissed me off


I’m far more concerned with what nikkas are doing in our community than some cops

What city you from?

 

[get these nets]

That last point is more of an issue then availability of guns IMO. Dudes are too quick to shoot someone. If they didn't have guns they'd find something else. A knife, a stick, etc.. The culture needs changed. Folks are sick in the head when it comes to their own kind.

Agree. Knife crimes fuel some of the Homicides in the UK, as has been pointed out by Brit members.

 

[Cyrus' Wife]

Responsible people are not content to see their youth die off and just do nothing about it. When white kids and young adults started dropping like flies because of opioid, heroin, and prescription deaths......these types of billboards went up to call attention to the problem. Not sure how many from their communities would dismiss them to say that "a billboard isn't gonna stop a person's addiction."I'd guess that many would see the overall big picture....and that the public awareness of the problem can make young people aware where that road leads, and that drawing public attention to the epidemic can help garner resources to help prevent others from trying drugs.

I believe that these homicide billboards serve the same purpose.

I think this is a great thread and topic of conversation but rarely does this type of advertising do anything positive in the community it is seeking to help. It may make the group funding it look good in the media but hasn't the heroin/opioid problem in communities where the billboards were put up have increased and not decreased? Huge national campaigns in the 80s and 90s such as Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" advertising blitz was and still is laughed at and made no difference despite all the tv commercials, billboards, and bumper stickers that were everywhere during that time. I'm from the DC/DMV area and from what I can tell...the most positive impact is made from mentors being visibly active in the community offering regular after school activities and vocational and educational sports programs and jobs to keep more at-risk kids/teens/young adults off the street and involved in bettering themselves.

I lived hood adjacent and the people I really learned the most from were the guys who "made it out" and the ones that turned their lives around from a grimy past and came back to mentor us kids coming up in the area to focus on school and stay away from gangs and drugs. And likewise what encouraged me not to get involved in another vice...drinking and driving...(which was another huge problem in the area I grew up in) was not all the advertising but rather it was a member of M.A.D.D. Mothers Against Drunk Driving who came in and bravely spoke to our class about how her teenage daughter drove drunk and killed herself along with 3 of her friends and died groaning in pain according to witnesses while she was waiting for firefighters to cut her out of her car. It was the personal stories like that and mentors and activities growing up that really helped me stay out of trouble and on the right path, not any of the billboards around which are usually vanity pieces for whoever funded them (although in this case I do greatly admire the other community initiatives the 100 Black Men of Charlotte have going on).

 

[DrBanneker]

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.

I hope so. I have heard less of 100 Black Men over the years and I want them to stay relevant as an organization.

 

[Cadillac]

Are you questioning what the 100 Black Men have done for their local communities?


They have put in work for decades helping black people

im asking have they put something like this in regards to other issues. if you gon point out this black on black crime its important to point out roots of it.

otherwise, your not gonna sound like a c00n(i wouldnt go that far) but you just making noise. Because barking about it is not gonna do any good if you aint challenging the roots of the issues: poverty, external involvement, environment, etc.

its like someone redundantly asking or pegging the question of why Aframs and the hardship of advancing in this country when it comes to wealth, or as a group.
you just talkin if your not acknowledging the factors holding ados back

 

[Dynamite James]

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.

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