21,000 Black Men have been shot dead in the past two years in America
- Thread starter DonB90
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Again, anything you’ve said warrants killing each other left and right?
Here’s the thing about these discussions—it’s that white people, slavery, colonization, white supremacy, the system etc. caused the problems but it’s our responsibility to fix them because we’re still the ones acting on the conditioning that has been given to us. Nobody gonna save us but us—not our allies or our enemies. It has to be on us. And not to find a leader to tell us what to do—we gotta handle our individual responsibilities and extend those virtues to our communities and rebuild the mindset and mental, process the trauma, then the tangible recoveries will come.
Gritsngravy
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I’m not telling anybody to kill anyone, I don’t like how y’all claim to care about the community but jump out y’all’s bodies to proclaim how bad the community is and how black people ain’t shyt
Y’all really want to give up on black people but don’t want to openly say it so y’all use these threads to show how much discontent y’all have for the community
Gritsngravy
Superstar
It is the black individual responsibility to fight the system not act like it doesn’t exist
Piff Perkins
Veteran
We ever gonna discuss this or just forever speak out only when it's a cop shooting. 21,000 is obscene. The unemployment levels among black men, at a time when jobs are virtually everywhere, is also obscene. The amount of black men simply disappearing from the work force due to incarceration/death/not looking for jobs is obscene. We're witnessing a near complete failure and no one has anything to say, there is no urgency, all we're doing is speeding up the timeline with more death and senseless violence.
get these nets
Veteran
Fight the system how? This catchphrase comes up often on this forum. In your own words, how does a Black individual "fight the system" regarding this issue?
Acnowledging a fact isnt self hatred or perpetuating a stereoptype
Honestly, these are all much more pressing than death by cop, imo.
That's an insane figure. Especially when you consider that each one of those deaths either led to someone getting hurt or arrested
Literally hundreds of thousands of lives fukked up annually either through death or incarceration
Literally hundreds of thousands of lives fukked up annually either through death or incarceration
Yet, death by cop or white person is what gets the most attention which lends to the idea that we find intraracial violence to be normal.
FukyourFort
All Star
one of our problems as bm is we love to get offended quickly when we need to have tough convos...bunch of emotion over logic.
instead of talking solutions, you go back and forth on how something was said
instead of talking solutions, you go back and forth on how something was said
Yet, death by cop or white person is what gets the most attention which lends to the idea that we find intraracial violence to be normal.
Yeah black lives only matter when a white person or police office ends it. For the black lives slaughtered by the tens of thousands every year by other black people
News media and scammers like BLM can't generate money off of black people killing other black people so it's HYON
Yet, death by cop or white person is what gets the most attention which lends to the idea that we find intraracial violence to be normal.
I've heard white ppl talking and it leads towards a lot of animosity and defensiveness from them too.
They feel attacked when white on black violence (and police killings) is highlighted in the media (BLM movement. etc) while Black on Black violence is not.
Where we would otherwise have allies helping pass laws or whatever to mitigate the situation, we have CACs in power that feel attacked themselves and don't want to help.
Gritsngravy
Superstar
Avoid the pitfalls, do what you can to uplift those around you