At 1230 am on March 3, 1991, Rodney King was caught driving inebriated, speeding down the road by California Highway Patrol. The police pursued King which created a high speed chase on the freeway reaching 117 miles per hour. King REFUSED to pull over because a DUI would violate his parole for his robbery conviction in 1989. Several police cars and a helicopter joined in the pursuit through a residential area which finally ended with police cornering King’s car. When ordered to get out of the vehicle, King REFUSED. Because of his incompetence due to his high level of alcohol, King resisted the polices’ arrest attempts. After being tasered twice and countless orders to lie down, King rose to his feet and either appeared to flee or attack an officer. In defense, the officers swarmed King with batons. All of this was caught on video. The results of the subsequent Rodney King Trial ensued in one of Los Angeles’s most frightening events in modern, American history. Protests, rallies, riots, and hatred flared until what seems like justice was served.
On January 1, 2009, a young man named Oscar Grant was detained by police after being allegedly involved in a train station skirmish. Police officers are shown on video beating Mr. Grant and then shooting him while he is face down and in handcuffs. His murderer, Officer Johannes Mehserle, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
In both of these cases the men were REPEATING OFFENDERS. Both of these men knew fully well what they were doing and did it anyway. Yet Black people did not acknowledge the hoodlum past of these two or the CRIMES they had broken upon being detained. Now the way the story has been told is that Black people were victimized, which is up to the court records to prove. What is a fact is that when these two Black men were detained, they had caused a ruckus for someone to have to come and restrain them. This being said, it is evident they brought harm unto themselves for if the acts that they endured happened without probable cause to harass them then those officers who stepped in should have been found 100% guilty of racism and assault.
“Grant served two state prison terms for various felonies including a conviction for drug dealing. In 2007, San Leandro police stunned him with a Taser to subdue him after a traffic stop, in which he threw the pistol into the air and ran. He was sentenced to 16 months in state prison.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BART_Police_shooting_of_Oscar_Grant
‘In November 1989, King robbed a store in Monterey Park, California using an iron bar to threaten and hit the store owner. He was convicted and sentenced to 2 years imprisonment.”
“In July 1995, he was arrested by Alhambra police, who alleged that he hit his wife with his car, knocking her to the ground. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail after being convicted of hit and run. On August 27, 2003, King was arrested again for speeding and running a red light while under the influence of alcohol. He failed to yield to police officers and slammed his vehicle into a house, breaking his pelvis.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King
In both of these cases Black people rose up and joined hands in the name of justice. BUT NOTHING SIGNIFICANT HAS BEEN DONE OR CHANGED SINCE. Just because people rally does not mean anything is going to change. To make change, you must oust the powers that be or persuade them to alleviate their strain; either way those in power do not concur with the solution.
“White Americans (including Hispanics and non-Hispanics) were arrested more than any other race for these white-collar crimes in 2008, making up 67% of all arrests.”
“White Americans were identified as having committed the most racially motivated hate crimes in 2007, making up nearly 46% of all reported offenders… African Americans reported being victimized by racially motivated hate crime more frequently than any other race, making up 69% of all victims.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States
"You could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down."
— Former Education Secretary and Drug Czar William Bennett
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/van-jones/are-blacks-a-criminal-rac_b_8398.html
Rodney King in 1992 was a convicted criminal. At this present time he is a recovering alcoholic and has BEEN IN PRISON 3 TIMES. Oscar Grant was a convicted criminal and repeating offender before his death. These men should have been in a college classroom instead of the state prison. Their events sparked outrage and chaos in the state of California. Yet all the riots and protests did was MAKE BLACK PEOPLE LOOK LIKE A BUNCH OF BUFFOONS.
Now if any Black person wanted to make a difference during these dire times they would have done something more simple and impactful; ENROLL INTO COLLEGE. With a college education that person would be able to position themselves into a field where they can rise to a high position or establish their own business and begin to single out those who are acting out in prejudice. If you are not putting yourself in position to do away with those who are corrupting society than do not expect the corruption to go away. Years of suppression has been laid on ethnic communities around the world because they were apathetic to acquiring the right tools to fight back. The ultimate tool to fight any tyrant, kleptocracy, or plutocracy is education and entrepreneurship.
If the Black community had tens of hundreds of people applying city for council jobs, top-tier government jobs, and board of director chairs than more action towards justice could begin to punch through the miasma of racism that has oppressed them over the centuries. Without that action being done expect those in power to continue to elect officials who want the same executions they do. Protesting only lets people know that there are people who are fed up with the way standards are and want change, but change comes from ACTUALLY going out and acquiring the skills and tools necessary to fight the battle.
“LARGEST DISPARITIES FOUND IN DRUG ARRESTS, IMPRISONMENT.
Some of the greatest disparities in the juvenile justice system's response to youth of color involve the number of youth arrested, and prosecuted for drug offenses. While African American youth comprise 17% of the youth population, African American youth represent 27% of all drug violation arrests, and comprise 48% of the youth detained for a drug offense.
African American Youth Are Treated Differently By the Juvenile Justice System
• Drugs. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, among youths aged 12 to 17, the rate of current illicit drug use was 11.1 % among whites, and 9.3% among African Americans. In a previous year, the same survey found that white youth aged 12 to17 are more than a third more likely to have sold drugs than African American youth. The Monitoring the Future Survey of high school seniors shows that white students annually use cocaine at 4.6 times the rate of African Americans students, use crack cocaine at 1.5 times the rate of African Americans students, and use heroin at the same rate of African Americans students, and that white youth report annual use of marijuana at a rate 46% higher than African American youth. However African American youth are arrested for drug offenses at about twice the rate (African American 314 per 100,000, white 175 per 100,000) times that of whites, and African American youth represent nearly half (48%) of all the youth incarcerated for a drug offense in the juvenile justice system.
• Weapons. According to the Center on Disease Control's annual Youth Risk Behavior Survey, in 2001 whites and African Americans reported similar rates of carrying a weapon (whites 17.9%, African Americans 15.2%), and similar rates of carrying a gun (whites 5.5%, and African Americans, 6.5%). African American youth represent 32% of all weapons arrests, and were arrested for weapons offenses at a rate twice that of whites (69 per 100,000, versus 30 per 100,000).
• Assault. According to the Center on Disease Control's annual Youth Risk Behavior Survey, African Americans report being in a physical fight at a similar rate (36.5%, versus 32.5% for whites), but were arrested for aggravated assault at a rate nearly three times that of whites (137 per 100,000, versus 48 per 100,000).”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/van-jones/are-blacks-a-criminal-rac_b_8398.html
If someone breaks into your home and escapes, what do you do? You call the police and then take preemptive actions so that no one ever breaks into your home again. Well that same idea works for everyone that has been “violated.” If someone does you wrong you do not go hunt them down and hurt them. You read books on the law and discover what your rights are and what methods you can use to receive restitution. Black people around the world must equip themselves with the knowledge to take power positions and bring justice to many systems that let criminals go and victims suffer. THE LOS ANGELES 1992 RIOTS SHOULD HAVE NEVER COMMENCED. Instead a RENAISSANCE OF BLACK EDUCATION should have began and today’s statistics of African American and Caucasian college enrollment should be the total obverse; Blacks should be leading and Whites following because of the suppression laden upon the Black community since the dawn of the Americas.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Firing With No Ammunition
“They are not letting Black people into the colleges.” “They are racial profiling Black people.” “They do not want us living in their neighborhoods.” “They do not give us the same justice as they do white people.” These are some of the complaints and allegations declared by Black people throughout the years towards the way American society has treated them. But let us look at this situation from a “What are you doing for yourself?” standpoint.
“They are not letting Black people into the colleges.” In every major university (excluding Historical Black Colleges) there are 3x or more Caucasian students than African American. The biggest and most controversial question we have to ask is “Will there ever be a 50% or more African American population at major and prestigious universities in America?” Why is that controversial? Simple; does White America want to see America’s greatest universities’ classrooms filled with more Black faces than White faces? If a backlash erupts and people begin to claim racism against Whites, people are being biased and favoring Blacks, and no one is giving the “American” an opportunity anymore because it is being run by refugees (same label they called Black people of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina) than people will be able to start to identify how powerful racism is in America from people revealing their desire to rather see White people in college than Black. BUT, this experiment cannot be commenced if majority of the BLACK COMMUNITY IS NOT TRYING TO ENROLL INTO COLLEGE.
“The percentage of American college students who are minorities has been increasing. In 1976, 15 percent were minorities, compared with 32 percent in 2007…. The percentage of Black students was 9 percent at the beginning of the time period and it fluctuated during the early part of the period before rising to 13 percent in 2007.”
Table 226. http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=98
So in 2007 13% of college students were African American. Why could not that number have been 25%? Or 33%? Or 50%? The first answer someone is going to say is because there are more Caucasians and Hispanics than Black people, which is true. But then again at every Historical Black College there are more African Americans than any other race which shows that the quantity of the race has nothing to do with it. If there is a sufficient amount of an ethnicity trying to enroll into a college than that will increase the volume and influence of that community at that college. So for someone to say “They do not want Black people at Harvard,” and prove that Harvard is being racist by overlooking qualified African Americans and choosing other ethnicities, there has to be an adequate amount of Black people even trying to enroll into Harvard before anyone can make a claim. Without that than the evidence of “not even enough African Americans are trying to enroll into our college” is going to be every university’s defense.
“They are racial profiling Black people.” Anywhere Black people go someone is watching them. They want to see what type of ruckus that Black person is going to commit especially in hamlets such as Beverly Hills, Westwood, CA, or the affluent hamlets of New York’s north side. But what if racial profiling is saving these people from a crime being committed against them?
Alleged gang rape of girl, 11, ignites firestorm in Texas community
“African Americans, constituting approximately 12% of the general population, were significantly overrepresented in the total arrests made. African Americans were also significantly overrepresented in victimization, representing 47% of all murder victims… in 2008. Murder in White American and African American populations were overwhelmingly intraracial, with 83% of all White victims and 90% of all Black victims having been murdered by individuals of the same race.”
“With the exception of simple assault, African Americans reported being victimized by non-lethal violent crime at rates significantly higher than those of White Americans, Hispanic Americans, and individuals of Other race.”
“…public focus on the disproportionate representation of minorities in violent crime rate statistics has led to both the general racialization of the discussion regarding crime as well as to the emergence of a racial stereotype which characterizes young African American men as "inherently more sinister, evil and dangerous" than the young men of other racial groups... Research conducted over the last two decades on the public perceptions of crime reveals that 54% of surveyed White Americans believe that African Americans are more prone to violent behavior.”
“…the National Race and Politics Survey of 1991 recorded more than half of both White Americans and African Americans as being in agreement with the statement "Blacks are aggressive or violent". Further, nationwide research conducted in 2002 and 2004 revealed that the general public holds the belief that African Americans are involved in a greater percentage of violent crime than the official statistics actually indicate.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States
More Black people die between the ages of 20-29 than any other race in America. More Black males and females die between the ages of 20-24 than White males 20-29. And the Black community wonders where all of their children are going.
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2011/tables/11s0307.pdf
ARE Blacks A Criminal Race?
"Statistics have long been kept on crime, breaking it down in various ways, including by race and ethnicity. Some identifiable groups, considered as a group, commit crime at a rate that is higher than the national rate. Blacks are such a group. That is simply a fact."
— Andrew C. McCarthy, former federal prosecutor, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, National Review On-line, September 30, 2005
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/van-jones/are-blacks-a-criminal-rac_b_8398.html
More people have been murdered in the Hip Hop community than in any other music genre COMBINED.
(Dolla) Roderick Anthony Burton II, 21 yrs. old
Rapper Dolla is shot, killed at Beverly Center. Shooting in the valet area of the upscale mall sends diners diving for cover.
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/may/19/local/me-beverlycenter19
(BIG L) Lamont Coleman, 24 yrs. old
“At 8:30 pm on February 15, 1999, Big L was shot nine times and died on the scene in his own neighborhood. At the time of his death, Coleman's brother was in prison on drug charges.”
(Bad News Brown) Paul Frappier, 33 yrs. old
(Camoflage) Jason Johnson, 21 yrs. old
“He was gunned down outside of a recording studio in May 2003.”
(Charizma) Charles Hicks, 20 yrs. old
"…Charizma was shot dead in a mugging on December 16, 1993."
(Mac Dre) Andre Louis Hicks, 34 yrs. old
“…a car pulled up next to the white van carrying Hicks. Occupants of the car opened fire. The white van swerved off the road and ran into a ditch, and the driver ran across the highway to call 911 at a store. Paramedics found Hicks dead from a gunshot wound.”
“Some people in the rap community initially suspected that the March 2007 shooting death of Johnny Ca$h was related to the Mac Dre killing; however, officials attributed Castaneda's death to unrelated "street violence.”
(Fat Pat) Patrick Lamark Hawkins, 27 yrs. old
(Fat Tone) Anthony "Fat Tone" Watkins, 24 yrs. old
“…a car had pulled beside theirs and opened fire hitting both Tone and Cowboy multiple times… Fat Tone was only 24 and Jermaine "Cowboy" Akins was only 22. It then later came out that Mac Minister had set up and killed Tone in retaliation for Andre Mac Dre Hicks death the previous year.”
(Freaky Tah) Raymond Rogers, 27 yrs. old
“On the night of March 28, 1999, at fellow Lost Boyz member Mr Cheeks' 28th birthday party, Freaky Tah was shot in the back of his head while he was going towards the exit of Sheraton Hotel.”
(Half A Mill) Jasun Ward, 30 yrs. old
(Big Hawk) John Edward Hawkins, 36 yrs. old
(Blade Icewood) Darnell Quincy Lyndsey, 28 yrs. old
“He was fatally shot on April 19, 2005, in gang related violence while at a car wash in the east side of Detroit.”
(Jam Master Jay) Jason William Mizell 37 yrs. old
(Notorious B.I.G.) Christopher George Latore Wallace 24 yrs. old
(Proof) DeShaun Dupree Holton, 32 yrs. old
(Seagram) Seagram Miller, 26 yrs. old
(2Pac )Tupac Amaru Shakur, 25 yrs. old
(Magnolia Shorty) Renetta Yemika Lowe-Bridgewater, 28 yrs. old
(Soulja Slim) James Tapp, Jr., 26 yrs. old
“On Thanksgiving Eve, November 26, 2003, Slim was en-route to a performance when he was shot four times; three times in the face, and once in the chest, in front of his mother's home and with wife Amanda and son A'darryl in the 8th Ward/Gentilly area.”
(Stretch) Randy Walker, 27 yrs. old
“On November 30, 1995, Stretch was murdered by being shot twice in the back by three men who pulled up alongside his green minivan at 112th Ave. and 209th St. in Queens Village while he was driving. His minivan smashed into a tree and hit a parked car before flipping over.”
(VL) Michael Allen, 32 yrs. Old
All information found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Murdered_rappers
If I was a non-African American and I looked at these statistics, I would be VERY AFRAID OF BLACK PEOPLE. Racial profiling could be the smartest thing a person can do towards any ethnicity that has LEADING statistics in crime. So what are African Americans complaining about if the top African American populated cities are also the top crime infested cities in America? This statistic conjures that when there is a mass of Black people crime is surely to erupt, infectiously. What is the refutation to this, if there is any? You can say, “You cannot judge everyone off one individual’s actions,” which is true. BUT, when these are aggregated statistics that have been culled nationwide, what else is a person to make judgments off of except their own experiences with a certain ethnicity (and hopefully those experiences were positive)? Before African Americans can begin to single out the firebrands calling them hoodlums they must ERASE the egregious crime statistics that stalk them. They must efface the immense Black on Black crime, gang war, pimping/prostitution, robbery, and drug dealing in their community before they scream “racism” when really, looking at it from a statistical standpoint it can be deemed “obviation.”
“They do not want to give Black people opportunities to work at their companies. They want to hire people like them.” People carouse with those who they feel comfortable around. Cultures establish hamlets where they can practice their beliefs and build a groupthink mentality. Employers hire those who they feel will be perfect for the position and an asset to the company. In each of these examples of people choosing their best matches, they all begin with the element of PRESENCE; actually being there to exemplify your qualities and exhibit where you stand amongst the rest.
On January 20, 2009, the United States of America inaugurated its first ever minority and African American president. Before this time, the thought of a Black president was absurd. Was the thought of a Black president absurd because he was Black, because of the history of Black people being suppressed, or because there was not a significant amount of Black people even trying to run for President? It is all three if we look history but the latter is the most powerful.
• Shirley Chisholm declared her candidacy for the Democratic Party nomination for President in 1972.
• Jesse Jackson ran for President in 1984 and 1988.
• Lenora Fulani ran in 1988.
• Republican Alan Keyes campaigned in 1996 and 2000.
• Carol Moseley Braun ran for President in 2004.
• Rev. Al Sharpton ran for President in 2004.
“Toni Morrison labeled Democrat Bill Clinton the first black president of the United States. Morrison suggested that Clinton was "blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime." Author and professor Angela Dillard stated such claims constituted a "silly and defeatist notion" that separated the black community.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_candidates_for_President_of_the_United_States
Black Americans in Congress
http://baic.house.gov/historical-data/
It is external suppression when someone is prohibiting you from acquiring an entity but when you are prohibiting yourself by not even attempting to acquire it than all the blame is on you; and in many professions the blame is on the Black race when it comes to hiring them. There is a dearth of African Americans majoring in the Physics, Economics, or Political fields of science. There is a dearth of African Americans applying for congressional positions. To sum it all, there is a dearth of African Americans enrolling into college to begin with. So how can people even hire you if you are not positioning yourself to be selected? How many African Americans have we had since the inception of presidency that has run for president? If no one is running than no one can be elected. How many African Americans do we have applying for scientists, neurologists, or marketing executive positions? If no one is applying than do not expect to see African Americans discovering the next great medical breakthrough or designing an ad campaign dedicated to the Black community. If you are not there than you do not exist; out of sight out of mind. The Black race must branch out into professions that they do not dominate to build more of an influence in those fields. If they do not than expect many companies (owned by non-African Americans) to televise advertisements not geared towards Black consumers and hire few (if any) Black employees.
“They are not letting Black people into the colleges.” In every major university (excluding Historical Black Colleges) there are 3x or more Caucasian students than African American. The biggest and most controversial question we have to ask is “Will there ever be a 50% or more African American population at major and prestigious universities in America?” Why is that controversial? Simple; does White America want to see America’s greatest universities’ classrooms filled with more Black faces than White faces? If a backlash erupts and people begin to claim racism against Whites, people are being biased and favoring Blacks, and no one is giving the “American” an opportunity anymore because it is being run by refugees (same label they called Black people of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina) than people will be able to start to identify how powerful racism is in America from people revealing their desire to rather see White people in college than Black. BUT, this experiment cannot be commenced if majority of the BLACK COMMUNITY IS NOT TRYING TO ENROLL INTO COLLEGE.
“The percentage of American college students who are minorities has been increasing. In 1976, 15 percent were minorities, compared with 32 percent in 2007…. The percentage of Black students was 9 percent at the beginning of the time period and it fluctuated during the early part of the period before rising to 13 percent in 2007.”
Table 226. http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=98
So in 2007 13% of college students were African American. Why could not that number have been 25%? Or 33%? Or 50%? The first answer someone is going to say is because there are more Caucasians and Hispanics than Black people, which is true. But then again at every Historical Black College there are more African Americans than any other race which shows that the quantity of the race has nothing to do with it. If there is a sufficient amount of an ethnicity trying to enroll into a college than that will increase the volume and influence of that community at that college. So for someone to say “They do not want Black people at Harvard,” and prove that Harvard is being racist by overlooking qualified African Americans and choosing other ethnicities, there has to be an adequate amount of Black people even trying to enroll into Harvard before anyone can make a claim. Without that than the evidence of “not even enough African Americans are trying to enroll into our college” is going to be every university’s defense.
“They are racial profiling Black people.” Anywhere Black people go someone is watching them. They want to see what type of ruckus that Black person is going to commit especially in hamlets such as Beverly Hills, Westwood, CA, or the affluent hamlets of New York’s north side. But what if racial profiling is saving these people from a crime being committed against them?
Alleged gang rape of girl, 11, ignites firestorm in Texas community
March 14th, 2011
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/03/14/texas.alleged.rape/index.html“African Americans, constituting approximately 12% of the general population, were significantly overrepresented in the total arrests made. African Americans were also significantly overrepresented in victimization, representing 47% of all murder victims… in 2008. Murder in White American and African American populations were overwhelmingly intraracial, with 83% of all White victims and 90% of all Black victims having been murdered by individuals of the same race.”
“With the exception of simple assault, African Americans reported being victimized by non-lethal violent crime at rates significantly higher than those of White Americans, Hispanic Americans, and individuals of Other race.”
“…public focus on the disproportionate representation of minorities in violent crime rate statistics has led to both the general racialization of the discussion regarding crime as well as to the emergence of a racial stereotype which characterizes young African American men as "inherently more sinister, evil and dangerous" than the young men of other racial groups... Research conducted over the last two decades on the public perceptions of crime reveals that 54% of surveyed White Americans believe that African Americans are more prone to violent behavior.”
“…the National Race and Politics Survey of 1991 recorded more than half of both White Americans and African Americans as being in agreement with the statement "Blacks are aggressive or violent". Further, nationwide research conducted in 2002 and 2004 revealed that the general public holds the belief that African Americans are involved in a greater percentage of violent crime than the official statistics actually indicate.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States
More Black people die between the ages of 20-29 than any other race in America. More Black males and females die between the ages of 20-24 than White males 20-29. And the Black community wonders where all of their children are going.
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2011/tables/11s0307.pdf
ARE Blacks A Criminal Race?
"Statistics have long been kept on crime, breaking it down in various ways, including by race and ethnicity. Some identifiable groups, considered as a group, commit crime at a rate that is higher than the national rate. Blacks are such a group. That is simply a fact."
— Andrew C. McCarthy, former federal prosecutor, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, National Review On-line, September 30, 2005
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/van-jones/are-blacks-a-criminal-rac_b_8398.html
More people have been murdered in the Hip Hop community than in any other music genre COMBINED.
(Dolla) Roderick Anthony Burton II, 21 yrs. old
Rapper Dolla is shot, killed at Beverly Center. Shooting in the valet area of the upscale mall sends diners diving for cover.
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/may/19/local/me-beverlycenter19
(BIG L) Lamont Coleman, 24 yrs. old
“At 8:30 pm on February 15, 1999, Big L was shot nine times and died on the scene in his own neighborhood. At the time of his death, Coleman's brother was in prison on drug charges.”
(Bad News Brown) Paul Frappier, 33 yrs. old
(Camoflage) Jason Johnson, 21 yrs. old
“He was gunned down outside of a recording studio in May 2003.”
(Charizma) Charles Hicks, 20 yrs. old
"…Charizma was shot dead in a mugging on December 16, 1993."
(Mac Dre) Andre Louis Hicks, 34 yrs. old
“…a car pulled up next to the white van carrying Hicks. Occupants of the car opened fire. The white van swerved off the road and ran into a ditch, and the driver ran across the highway to call 911 at a store. Paramedics found Hicks dead from a gunshot wound.”
“Some people in the rap community initially suspected that the March 2007 shooting death of Johnny Ca$h was related to the Mac Dre killing; however, officials attributed Castaneda's death to unrelated "street violence.”
(Fat Pat) Patrick Lamark Hawkins, 27 yrs. old
(Fat Tone) Anthony "Fat Tone" Watkins, 24 yrs. old
“…a car had pulled beside theirs and opened fire hitting both Tone and Cowboy multiple times… Fat Tone was only 24 and Jermaine "Cowboy" Akins was only 22. It then later came out that Mac Minister had set up and killed Tone in retaliation for Andre Mac Dre Hicks death the previous year.”
(Freaky Tah) Raymond Rogers, 27 yrs. old
“On the night of March 28, 1999, at fellow Lost Boyz member Mr Cheeks' 28th birthday party, Freaky Tah was shot in the back of his head while he was going towards the exit of Sheraton Hotel.”
(Half A Mill) Jasun Ward, 30 yrs. old
(Big Hawk) John Edward Hawkins, 36 yrs. old
(Blade Icewood) Darnell Quincy Lyndsey, 28 yrs. old
“He was fatally shot on April 19, 2005, in gang related violence while at a car wash in the east side of Detroit.”
(Jam Master Jay) Jason William Mizell 37 yrs. old
(Notorious B.I.G.) Christopher George Latore Wallace 24 yrs. old
(Proof) DeShaun Dupree Holton, 32 yrs. old
(Seagram) Seagram Miller, 26 yrs. old
(2Pac )Tupac Amaru Shakur, 25 yrs. old
(Magnolia Shorty) Renetta Yemika Lowe-Bridgewater, 28 yrs. old
(Soulja Slim) James Tapp, Jr., 26 yrs. old
“On Thanksgiving Eve, November 26, 2003, Slim was en-route to a performance when he was shot four times; three times in the face, and once in the chest, in front of his mother's home and with wife Amanda and son A'darryl in the 8th Ward/Gentilly area.”
(Stretch) Randy Walker, 27 yrs. old
“On November 30, 1995, Stretch was murdered by being shot twice in the back by three men who pulled up alongside his green minivan at 112th Ave. and 209th St. in Queens Village while he was driving. His minivan smashed into a tree and hit a parked car before flipping over.”
(VL) Michael Allen, 32 yrs. Old
All information found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Murdered_rappers
If I was a non-African American and I looked at these statistics, I would be VERY AFRAID OF BLACK PEOPLE. Racial profiling could be the smartest thing a person can do towards any ethnicity that has LEADING statistics in crime. So what are African Americans complaining about if the top African American populated cities are also the top crime infested cities in America? This statistic conjures that when there is a mass of Black people crime is surely to erupt, infectiously. What is the refutation to this, if there is any? You can say, “You cannot judge everyone off one individual’s actions,” which is true. BUT, when these are aggregated statistics that have been culled nationwide, what else is a person to make judgments off of except their own experiences with a certain ethnicity (and hopefully those experiences were positive)? Before African Americans can begin to single out the firebrands calling them hoodlums they must ERASE the egregious crime statistics that stalk them. They must efface the immense Black on Black crime, gang war, pimping/prostitution, robbery, and drug dealing in their community before they scream “racism” when really, looking at it from a statistical standpoint it can be deemed “obviation.”
“They do not want to give Black people opportunities to work at their companies. They want to hire people like them.” People carouse with those who they feel comfortable around. Cultures establish hamlets where they can practice their beliefs and build a groupthink mentality. Employers hire those who they feel will be perfect for the position and an asset to the company. In each of these examples of people choosing their best matches, they all begin with the element of PRESENCE; actually being there to exemplify your qualities and exhibit where you stand amongst the rest.
On January 20, 2009, the United States of America inaugurated its first ever minority and African American president. Before this time, the thought of a Black president was absurd. Was the thought of a Black president absurd because he was Black, because of the history of Black people being suppressed, or because there was not a significant amount of Black people even trying to run for President? It is all three if we look history but the latter is the most powerful.
• Shirley Chisholm declared her candidacy for the Democratic Party nomination for President in 1972.
• Jesse Jackson ran for President in 1984 and 1988.
• Lenora Fulani ran in 1988.
• Republican Alan Keyes campaigned in 1996 and 2000.
• Carol Moseley Braun ran for President in 2004.
• Rev. Al Sharpton ran for President in 2004.
“Toni Morrison labeled Democrat Bill Clinton the first black president of the United States. Morrison suggested that Clinton was "blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime." Author and professor Angela Dillard stated such claims constituted a "silly and defeatist notion" that separated the black community.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_candidates_for_President_of_the_United_States
Black Americans in Congress
http://baic.house.gov/historical-data/
It is external suppression when someone is prohibiting you from acquiring an entity but when you are prohibiting yourself by not even attempting to acquire it than all the blame is on you; and in many professions the blame is on the Black race when it comes to hiring them. There is a dearth of African Americans majoring in the Physics, Economics, or Political fields of science. There is a dearth of African Americans applying for congressional positions. To sum it all, there is a dearth of African Americans enrolling into college to begin with. So how can people even hire you if you are not positioning yourself to be selected? How many African Americans have we had since the inception of presidency that has run for president? If no one is running than no one can be elected. How many African Americans do we have applying for scientists, neurologists, or marketing executive positions? If no one is applying than do not expect to see African Americans discovering the next great medical breakthrough or designing an ad campaign dedicated to the Black community. If you are not there than you do not exist; out of sight out of mind. The Black race must branch out into professions that they do not dominate to build more of an influence in those fields. If they do not than expect many companies (owned by non-African Americans) to televise advertisements not geared towards Black consumers and hire few (if any) Black employees.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
What Does It Mean To Be Black?
Black
–adjective
2.
characterized by absence of light; enveloped in darkness: a black night.
3.( sometimes initial capital letter )
a.
pertaining or belonging to any of the various populations characterized by dark skin pigmentation, specifically the dark-skinned peoples of Africa, Oceania, and australia.
b.
African-American.
4.
soiled or stained with dirt: That shirt was black within an hour.
5.
gloomy; pessimistic; dismal: a black outlook.
6.
deliberately; harmful; inexcusable: a black lie.
7.
boding ill; sullen or hostile; threatening: black words; black looks.
9.
without any moral quality or goodness; evil; wicked: His black heart has concocted yet another black deed.
10.
indicating censure, disgrace, or liability to punishment: a black mark on one's record.
11.
marked by disaster or misfortune: black areas of drought; Black Friday.
13.
based on the grotesque, morbid, or unpleasant aspects of life: black comedy; black humor.
14.
(of a check mark, flag, etc.) done or written in black to indicate, as on a list, that which is undesirable, sub-standard, potentially dangerous, etc.: Pilots put a black flag next to the ten most dangerous airports.
15.
illegal or underground: The black economy pays no taxes.
17.
deliberately false or intentionally misleading: black propaganda.
—Antonyms
1. white. 4. clean. 5. hopeful, cheerful.
These are majority of the definitions of what it means to be considered Black. 12 of these definitions are labels that no one wants to be a part of. 12 of these definitions will cause you to lose your job, your family, and trust from all of your friends. Yet two of these definitions symbolize the manifestation of Black people. Now let us link these definitions to the state of the Black community in America. Definition 13 says based on the grotesque, morbid, or unpleasant aspects of life. Where do Black rappers say they are from? The hood/ghetto, which is the squalid opposite of the affluent suburbs, palisades, hills, and beach/river front hamlets of the rich. The Black race counts for 12% of the population yet 42% live in poverty. Also many African Americans feel a great sense of pride saying they are from the hood/ghetto and that is the type of life they want to live. Definition 9 says without any moral quality or goodness; evil; wicked. The greatest ethnicity populating prisons are African Americans; very much so that there are more African Americans in prison than they are in college (2x as many). Also the rise of serial killings in Black community has risen and the cities with a 50% Black population or more are also the most dangerous cities in America. Definition 5 says gloomy; pessimistic; dismal and definition 2 says enveloped in darkness. So long a pall has been over the inner divisions of the major cities in the United States. Those inner cities have been populated with African American and Hispanics living amongst the government funded “housing projects.” Many in these two communities have felt like the only way out of their forlorn lives are drugs or sports, but never academics. Definition 15 says illegal or underground. Millions in the Black community eulogize Al Pacino’s Tony Montana, Wesley Snipe’s Nino Brown, Christopher Walken’s Frank White, Al Pacino’s Carlito Brigante, Johnny Depp’s George Jung, and Denzel Washington’s Det. Alonzo Harris. Even more they PRAISE THE REAL PUSHERS Freeway Rick Ross, Frank Lucas, and Nicky Barnes that were CALLED NIGGERS AS THE WHITE COPS ARRESTED THEM. These people are ILLEGAL DRUG DEALERS THAT HAVE CAPTIVATED THE BLACK COMMUNITY for decades and have caused the Hip Hop community to fall in love with them. So I have linked 5 definitions of Black with African Americans which is also a definition of being Black. Is this what being Black really stands for? Crime, punishment, failure, and destruction? Only awareness of the deplorable conditions Black people have put themselves in will bring them out of this black hole that continues to suck thousands of African Americans into. Being a Black person should not mean you are evil, replete with disgust, or untrustworthy. Being Black means you are strong, immaculate, teeming with knowledge, and avant garde. Yet with the statistics that the Black community has towards crime and college enrollment, it is almost impossible to prove that.
—Synonyms
1. dark, dusky; sooty, inky; swart, swarthy; sable, ebony. 4. dirty, dingy. 5. sad, depressing, somber, doleful, mournful, funereal. 7. disastrous, calamitous. 9. sinful, inhuman, fiendish, devilish, infernal, monstrous; atrocious, horrible; nefarious, treacherous, traitorous, villainous.
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