2. The Black Community: "We only care when the killer is White!"

I've been in a number of public and private discussions of the Trayvon Martin case and my mind has been busy with the following thoughts. Let me say that I ABHOR violence of ANY kind no matter who is doing it and no parent should have to bury their child. It bothers me that Liberal race-baiting opportunists Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson never show their face on a crime such as this, unless the perpetrator is a White man or woman. Then you have White Independents/Conservatives like Geraldo Rivera and Beck who jump in to justify and defend Zimmerman without knowing all of the facts either. NONE of these four men I named have all of the facts. They deliberately step in to fan the flames, which only serves to exacerbate racial tensions in this country. We take two steps forward, then two steps back, that's the way this cycle goes in this country.?

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?I am reminded today of another big case in my home city of Atlanta where three black men were caught on video beating the crap out of another black man, Brandon White. In that case, the video went viral and was largely covered in the media but NOT because a black man was attacked, but because a GAY black man was attacked. Being a homosexual victim of violence even trumps being Black and a victim of violence.?Why is there such an apathetic acceptance in the Black community of violence perpetrated by a Black person on another Black person? Why does it matter so much more if the killer is a White person? Why are these attitudes so ubiquitous? In reality, for those of you that live in the Black community, you are more likely to be killed by another Black person than a racist (or non-racist) white person. The same thing can be said for white people, who if killed by violence in their community, are more likely to die at the hands of one of their own.

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No one group is more violent than another and White people commit a TON of violence as well. Just look at pretty much ALL of the mass school shootings like Columbine that have taken place over the years. I would be afraid for my child at a predominantly white suburban school because it seems as though if a white student gets angry or is bullied and wants to shoot he or she sentences EVERYBODY! Black folks just don't do that. We go after the person with whom we have the conflict - plain and simple, wrong or right. We have got to find a way to change the way we think about a Black life, which is no more or less valuable than any other and start raising hell about the violence in our own communities when both the perpetrator AND the victim are Black. Trayvon Martin's case should not only start a dialogue on racist white people, whom I believe are the minority of white people, but also bring attention to violence between black people in our own communities. If we fail to bring attention to THAT problem, which is a far greater one, then we do not respect Trayvon Martin's life as much as we claim to.?

Source: http://moveonup.ning.com/xn/detail/2579286%3ABlogPost%3A55630

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