I agree. Still, I'd like to see the day when our folks don't play into whites' arguments and deflections. The way I see it, in the context of this thread there are two issues that stand out. White supremacy, and Black intraracial violence. The former is longstanding and is directly responsible for the latter. At the same time the former is not something that can be easily dismantled. While I'm not saying we should give up on the former, the latter is something that we can address and correct.
It reminds me of stoicism. One of the basic principles of stoicism is the control of our own emotions. We can choose to get mad at what someone did or said, or we can choose not to. The decision is ultimately up to the individual. Same with white supremacy and our predilection to harm our own. We can acknowledge white supremacy and still kill one another, or acknowledge WS and not kill each other. It's our sons, brothers, cousins, nephews, etc., committing the violence, and nobody is forcing them to do anything. When do we demand better regardless of what cacs have instituted?
Nah, these nikkas would rather attack those of us that constructively criticize our own out of love and concern for their well-being. No matter how much they did and do to us still, too many of us can’t see the truth. That judge gave the pure, unadulterated truth in that we kill and harm each other now (80s to now) at rates higher than when the Klan was on front street (who cares about white intraracial violence, I’m concerned with us). They don’t have a population disadvantage.
To paraphrase his comment, he’s saying we’re doing exactly what the Klan’s mission (genocide) is to ourselves and he is appalled that we continue to do so, even under our fukked up circumstances in this country. They expected us to have bombed back by now! Most ethnic groups would do like we did in the 60s and 70s with the Black Power movement, form a political, social, and military system to protect our own from OUTSIDE AND INSIDE THREATS to our community. If we get back to that, put US first (before pride or money) and move accordingly we wouldn’t have to worry about their opinions. They were running scared in that era because of Real Black unity (not this fake unity of today) and the Panthers, etc., all policed their own community and held everybody accountable.
Whites are responsible for the many conditions that create these fukked up mentalities in our communities, but we can’t let that prevent us from forming a culture in which we don’t condone and actively push against those mentalities caused by them. We can’t let what they did and are doing guide our present actions towards each other (“They do it too!”). WE ARE NOT THEM. We have to form a code and stick to it or we’re through. We can’t continue like this or we’re finished. We’re outnumbered by our enemies, but there is a lot of self-predation in our communities (at least mine) making it even easier for them to get us out of here.
I’m not too proud to admit our faults as a people, first and foremost, Pride followed closely by selfishness. We are a stiff-necked people (prideful) and when pride is your most important currency conflict comes too easily. “Turn the other cheek” was meant for Us and Us only to encourage brotherhood and bonds in the black community, not other ethnic groups (and there’s only one “other” cheek by the way). Individualism is killing us because a lot of us don’t value our collective need to better our conditions as a whole (the “I got mine, go get your own.” mindset) .
We have to have pride in our people (real pride based in morality in interactions with EACH OTHER, something most whites lack) not only our possessions or lack thereof. The ones in here criticizing and calling us Cacs for realizing the hard truth in what the judge said need to think a little bit deeper than the surface. YOUR OWN ENEMY JUST TOLD YOU WE’RE WIPING EACH OTHER OUT FASTER THAN HE COULD HIMSELF.