tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-798387533560621764.post4582853016790608533..comments2023-08-13T06:11:33.229-04:00Comments on 4 Humans being: Living (Surviving?) in a Post Trayvon WorldAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04809468130178901576noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-798387533560621764.post-26268281022997178522013-07-21T12:27:50.290-04:002013-07-21T12:27:50.290-04:00mpthewizard,
I appreciate the facts and statistic...mpthewizard,<br /><br />I appreciate the facts and statistics, but believe they drift into a different conversation. My commentary is about racial discrimination, no matter who the person of color is or their background. There is no denying the fact that even the most well-heeled African American males have at some time or another have been treated with prejudice, disrespect and in a lot of cases animosity - for no other reason than the color of their skin. <br /><br />I'm talking about black men and boys who DON'T sag or commit felonies. They speak standard English, dress Brooks Brothers, graduate college and become leaders in their field. Yet despite all of that, we still are subject to bias and racism. I'm also talking about male persons of color who dress and speak different but are active contributors to our society.<br /><br />This bias against male persons of color may be expressed intentionally or unintentionally, but it is perpetrated in American society. <br /><br />You didn't mention if you were male or female but I urge you to check in with fellow African Americans as well as other persons of color about their experience. I seriously doubt you'll find many who have not been touched by this implicit bias.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04809468130178901576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-798387533560621764.post-38587972665261785442013-07-21T07:44:00.679-04:002013-07-21T07:44:00.679-04:00The real travesty that has gotten lost while the m...The real travesty that has gotten lost while the media has been targeting 2nd Amendment rights and Zimmerman is the fact that a large number of blacks have been murdered by other blacks. About 20 a day in fact. <br /><br />Stand Your Ground laws helps people from the inner city with the rights to defend themselves. They are the ones disproportionately impacted by crime.<br /><br />From ijReview:<br /><br />To update, in the 503 days between Trayvon dying, and the Zimmerman verdict, 10,865 African Americans have been murdered by other African-Americans.<br /><br /><br />To be exact, the shameful truth is that 93% of African-American murders are committed by other African-Americans. That is breathtakingly awful when you consider how incensed the African-American community is about the Trayvon tragedy, no matter what you believe about Zimmerman’s guilt.<br /><br />Let’s do the gruesome math, not out of morbidity, but because it manifests the incredible self-centered insanity of people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.<br /><br />8,000-9,000 African-Americans are murdered each year.<br /><br />93% of them by other African-Americans.<br /><br />That’s 7,905 (from average)<br /><br />That’s 21.65 murdered each day by other African-Americans.<br />mpthewizardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994757232471176621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-798387533560621764.post-6491057314372726642013-07-20T22:12:53.400-04:002013-07-20T22:12:53.400-04:00...your comments are all well and good but until w......your comments are all well and good but until we (Black People) can change ourselves and start respecting who we are and whose we are, why should anyone else? a lot of our young Black men cannot even pull their pants up, speak coherently without using Ebonics or use a sentence without vulgarity pinging from sentence to sentence and being the missing father to all of the children they have spawned.<br /><br />It's not about what "they" can or can not do for us. It's about "us" stop blaming our short comings on "them" and what they have done to us and what they are holding us back and how they are racially profiling us. In today's world our getting racially profiled has a lot to do with how "we" are projected on tv and in the movies and music videos, heck 50% of the population in the jails are "us". <br /><br />When are "we' going to start taking responsibility for our actions, our failures, as well as our success". It's not about them, it's about "us".<br /><br />As for your son you have a choice as a father, you can hold onto what happened in this case as a crutch to emphasize to your son how burden we still are as Black People or you can teach him how to over come in spite of "them" and us the many successful Black Men and Women that have overcome to become!<br /><br />It all starts with where we are....mpthewizardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994757232471176621noreply@blogger.com