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Originally Posted by CC1
Chosenbyone,
Those Black men are in prison for a reason. They are committing crimes. If Black civil rights leaders spent half as much time teaching the Black community to develop a value system that embraced education, a work ethic, ambition, goals, etc as they do perpetuating the victim mentality perhaps there would not be so many young black men in prison.
Black on black crime is endemic not to mention black on white crime that you don't hear reported as such much of the time because of "sensitivties". This is a horrible problem for the black community but it is not the white man's fault. At some point they have to take personal responsibility. I applaud Bill Cosby for finally addressing these issues, because as you point out it has to come from within. People like me are just some honkey they don't listen to.
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The reason that there are more blacks in prison than whites is because they get longer sentences for the same crimes. They are subjected to the racist mindset that refuses to see them as equals. It is easy to sail through life never questioning the real reasons behind many social/political issues instead of stepping out of our comfort zone and evaluating a different POV.
American society devalues Black life, and every Black child knows it. Criminals operate within the parameters of the society in which they live, just like everybody else. They weigh their chances as they roll the dice. Every African American citizen in the nation understands that the dice are loaded mightily against them if they are convicted of a crime against a white person. It is only logical that the criminal-minded would choose Black targets of opportunity. After all, that's what white criminals did during Jim Crow. They were confident of impunity, when committing outrages against Black men and women. Why should Black criminals act any differently?
Black-on-Black crime is a product of white racism, which sees African Americans as less than full human beings. The Black criminal takes advantage of that fact.
from The Black Commentator.
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