Another thing that doesnt make sense is that these dudes just roll up on the car and start shooting... BELIEVING that the person driving it is their intended target but they had the wrong car???
who does that???
Gang members
You never heard or innocent people getting killed due to mistaken identity?
One of these days y’all gonna realize that cats like Shaun King have a vested FINANCIAL interest in promoting these stories. There is zero downside.
Finally it’s instances like this that give fuel to the idea that we as black people care 100 times more about crime if we can use it to bludgeon crackas. Threads are stickied, tweets retweeted 100k (with plenty of advertising/promotion of your products or services ornside businesses of course) Facebook posts shared etc.
We’ve probably lost 5,000 black males in Chicago due to homicide in last 10 years but the only time mfers bum rushing City Hall, clogging up Lake Shore Drive or the Mag Mike is when we can throw a white cop in jail (deservedly so but beside the point). Think about the 5 black makes between ages of 15-40 closest to you in your circle of friends/family. Now think about how many other people would be affected one way or another (financially, marital/partner relationships, children) by their death. That number is mind boggling.
Fukkin ridiculous...that’s why I be pushing these younger folks out here to follow politics but don’t get so invested in this shyt that you lose sight of our own agency.
Boosie said it best:
If you got money they can never hold u down in the dark
Look they can make u feel played
But that money goin’ talk
In other words racist white people will always exist. Spending all this energy on their racism is a waste of time. Not that it shouldn’t be fought or that is should be ignored, but if US history has shown anything it’s that money/political power is ultimately the greatest form of protection. It’s not a guarantee - nothing is guaranteed in life - but it’s much more reliable than thinking you’re going to shame white people out of their racism, shaming white establishment into accepting your view of a racist society or hoping/thinking that historical guilt will be what pushes us towards a truly just society.
But instead we have an entire generation of young kids coming up thinking that twitter campaigns and online protests and sociological psychobabble mumbo jumbo is going to create some future where they’ll be able to force white people in a room and lecture them about their racism 12 hrs a day all while being applauded by their white allies
...meanwhile soon as these allies hit 29 their activist days are over and they’ve moved to the burbs and start complaining about “govt waste on entitlement programs” and “reestablishing law and order in our decimated urban centers”
Smhhh