Black on Black crime should be a more prominent call to protest
Recent shootings within my community have highlighted our hypocrisy. Another famous rapper gunned down, Young Dolph in Memphis, has brought many emotions but not one of sadness. The feeling is more numbing, confusing, and I have an angrier disposition.
The same emotion shown during the protest last year needs to be put towards this epidemic of murder going on in black communities. The more and more that I look at the protest from a year ago, the more I see it as a spectacle than something that produced any tangible changes. Burning structures down and yelling and crying in the street seemed only to be broadcast as a larger plot to sew disarray in the country.
When I visit the home, I am more concerned about someone of my own race stopping and killing me than any cop. The culture needs to be changed in the black community from one that champions depravity to the community first, and that starts internally.
Systemic racism is real, but the first step towards stopping systemic racism is to stop utilizing the tools in which our enemies want us to use to kill one another. I no longer accept this boogyman theme because we have no control over our actions and how we behave. We have recognized the negatives now what? Do we keep crying to…
