I'm comparing black on black crime compared to blacks killed by white cops. Far more black people are killed within their own community by their own community. While I get what you are saying, the rate of crime in the community, like Chicago, is out of control, completely. No one talks about that. Nor abortion, black babies are five times more likely to be aborted than white.
No, I'm saying why are the issues talking the most black lives being utterly ignored by BLM and protesters. Don't you think the issue taking the MOST lives should be in the news? Two biggest issues in the black community taking lives are black on black crime and abortion.
I think it's important to note that your initial reply to me was to a post where I
specifically said "since we're talking about the phrase now and not the movement..."
The important distinction was made at the outset. Was the
very first thing written in my post.
I've been speaking on the phrase (and mindset behind it) and not on the movement as soon as issue was taken with the
phrase.
Now if I may answer your points.
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Let's imagine two groups:
- Community A
- Community B
Let's say for both groups there was a 50/50
even split between "upstanding citizens" and "degenerate criminals" living in both communities.
Let's say crime is inversely proportional to the effort of group C, the police force, "protecting & serving" both communities. So the more group C "protects and serves", the less crime there is in either community. Group C keeps the criminal element at bay.
Finally, let's assume that the "upstanding citizens" from both groups want nothing more than to live their lives in peace. They mind their own business and leave policing of crime to group C, expecting to be safe day in and day out.
Problem: crime increases in group B's community.
The "upstanding citizens" in Group B complain that group C isn't "protecting and serving" their community as well as it is for group A and are instead treating EVERYONE in group B
the same...like "criminals". And this becomes apparent with immerging instances of group C mistreating "upstanding citizens" of group B.
Meanwhile "upstanding citizens" from group A look at group B
as a whole and complain, "
what's their issue?? why isn't group B focused on the things killing their people more (like their high crime rate) than on their issues with group C"?
....but group C is the
difference-maker to solve for things like the high crime rate in group B's community.
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The high black-on-black crime statistic is literally the proof, the testimony, the 2nd witness that
confirms there's a problem with the police force "protecting & serving" the black community to the measure it does for other communities.
One of the issues I've noticed is that the black community gets treated like they're a
single organism or entity more so than other ethnicities...by EVERY other ethnicity (including black people). They're seen as "
black first" and then whatever else they are second. So whatever happens with one subset (like the criminal element) reflects on ALL of them equally like a
stain. They're not seen as individuals first. They're seen as blacks (and whatever assumptions that identifier holds, until proven otherwise).
So "upstanding citizens" are incorrectly grouped together with "degenerate criminals", and it becomes the citizens responsibility to police crime even though:
- a crime is a crime and should be handled properly by the police
- And a criminal is a criminal.
- And an upstanding citizen is an upstanding citizen and shouldnt be treated like a criminal by the police (until proven otherwise).
...all regardless of skin color or ethnic background.
However, with this specific community, they're "black first" to where a crime becomes a "black-on-black" crime; an issue where it's said
"they" are killing "themselves"...and yet I've never heard phrases like this said for asian-on-asian crime or white-on-white crime, which we know happens.
For a crime of murder, with other ethnicities and communities "
a murderer killed a victim". But for the black community "
a black killed a black...again", becoming a burden for upstanding citizens to bear simply because they're the same skin color. People are conditioned to treat blacks as
all the same - as a rule - until an exception is otherwise proven.
If race/ethnicity didn't matter and if we treated all lives equally, would this still be the case? I think not.
This is exactly why, as a comparison, initially brought up how well Jewish people are treated even though their religion can literally be proven to have a foundation in Ba'al worship, and even though they're guilty of literal human rights violations and crimes against international law.
Can you separate Heil Hitler from Nazis? No you can't. And the Confederate battle flag is coming down all over the country because people see it as racist.
My reply was made here.
I assume the people I speak with
here have a measure of intelligence to discern nuance...until otherwise proven.