First, examine the title. “It says, “Rise in Inner City Homicides.” When addressing this subject, most people automatically say, “Rise in gun violence.” It is a subliminal suggestion. It gets you to focus only on guns as the trigger and not something else. Guns are tools. But the thought to want to kill, or murder someone, is what pulls the trigger. Consider this: What creates the thought to kill? Is it socio-economic conditions? That’s the conventional view. This view says that Black people, particularly Black men, experience a unique set of debilitating socio-economic factors, such as:
Not being raised by a husband/father figure,
Having no meaningful income,
Being products of poor schooling,
Lack of relevant job skills,
Are unmotivated and on and on.
Where in any of those factors is there a command to kill?
Furthermore, adolescent and young adult East Indian, Hispanic, European American, Asian, and all other non-Black African American male racial-cultural groups experiencing low-socio-economic conditions, and frustration, generally do not look for or need guns to resolve conflicts? So why are low-socio-economic conditions major triggers for violence for some Black men in particular and not for other low-socio-economic cultural groups?
Those who insist that the gun violence is a “black” thing to me is a sly and slick way of saying that Black people, Black males in particular, lack “moral fortitude” maybe due to “impaired genes” that prevent them from overcoming their sordid environments and lack of opportunities. So it is either proliferation of guns in the hood, poor social skills, inferior genes, or all of the above? Or is it?
There is another view. It is an unconventional and unpopular view. It says that some very evil and wicked people, in control of America, through their local, state, and federal governments, have (for centuries) targeted specific people for either eradication or marginalization.
Though low-socio-economic conditions are not unique to Black men, there are elements within low-socio-economic conditions that are.
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