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So I hear a lot of rhetoric on these forums. The common "go to" deflection technique being "well, how about black on black crime"? Well, there was one time where black on black crime was about 10x worse than it is today. Back in the late 80s, it was massive. Today black on black crime is till dropping yearly. But let's be honest with ourselves, if there were black people in the community trying to stop crime, would the media even cover it anyway? I actually don't think so. Can you imagine CNN headlines constantly being about "Incredible anti-black on black crime protest, let's take it to our live correspondent". Of course not. That's boring news. Every protest and rally doesn't make it on the air. Now one can say "well blacks aren't protesting". Because black people don't listen to protest, they listen to rappers.
Back in the 90s a bunch of rappers got together and formed the "Stop the Violence movement". They also were active in protesting, speaking at community events, and many other things. How much coverage do you think CNN gave this
The West Coast similarly responded with this positive video:
Neither of these singles with platinum, hell I don't even think they went gold. The only people who bought the single? Black people. Later DoggyStyle a classic gangsta rap album, went multi-platinum talking about nothing but gang violence. Purchased mostly by whites, by the way.
In either case, maybe before you open up your mouth about black on back crime, MAYBE you should look up organizations in cities with Black populations. You're likely to see SEVERAL in ANY CITY around the ENTIRE COUNTRY. Will CNN cover this? Of course not.
Black people and their activism to stop black on black violence is the VERY THING responsible for the decline in black on black crime. It was able to get key gang leaders to a cease fire and start organizinig their cities in many cities. How did the government reward them? Oh by arresting them.
Last edited by branh0913; 07-13-2016 at 02:23 PM..
I'm not going to go with this "the media is out to divide and conquer". I'll just come with this. Protesting Black on Black crime doesn't sell. Blacks engaging in violence or presenting themselves as violent sells. Look at gangster rap.
The only people who spew that rehtoric are those who have no involvememt within the black community. They only know what they know about the black community via News
There are black people who try to stop black on black crime. Lots of them actually. The media doesn't cover it because it doesn't fit the narrative nor is it as interesting as making it seem like cops are killing blacks left and right.
The news media is essentially professional wrestling now. They establish a storyline and characters. There are outrageous things that happen to make one side appealing to the public and the other side the heel. They let the storyline run for as long as people find it interesting.
So I hear a lot of rhetoric on these forums. The common "go to" deflection technique being "well, how about black on black crime"? Well, there was one time where black on black crime was about 10x worse than it is today. Back in the late 80s, it was massive. Today black on black crime is till dropping yearly. But let's be honest with ourselves, if there were black people in the community trying to stop crime, would the media even cover it anyway? I actually don't think so. Can you imagine CNN headlines constantly being about "Incredible anti-black on black crime protest, let's take it to our live correspondent". Of course not. That's boring news. Every protest and rally doesn't make it on the air. Now one can say "well blacks aren't protesting". Because black people don't listen to protest, they listen to rappers.
Back in the 90s a bunch of rappers got together and formed the "Stop the Violence movement". They also were active in protesting, speaking at community events, and many other things. How much coverage do you think CNN gave this
The West Coast similarly responded with this positive video:
Neither of these singles with platinum, hell I don't even think they went gold. The only people who bought the single? Black people. Later DoggyStyle a classic gangsta rap album, went multi-platinum talking about nothing but gang violence. Purchased mostly by whites, by the way.
In either case, maybe before you open up your mouth about black on back crime, MAYBE you should look up organizations in cities with Black populations. You're likely to see SEVERAL in ANY CITY around the ENTIRE COUNTRY. Will CNN cover this? Of course not.
Black people and their activism to stop black on black violence is the VERY THING responsible for the decline in black on black crime. It was able to get key gang leaders to a cease fire and start organizinig their cities in many cities. How did the government reward them? Oh by arresting them.
Because the powers that be in the media do not give credence to Blacks helping other Blacks. To perpetuate the idea that Blacks are always at war , with each other and with the World sets us for a steady diet of gangster rap and making Black Sports figures to be merely gangsters of the sports arena. It sells and people will be always attracted to that which scares them. In reality most athletes are just like the rest of us and could not reach that level of fitness or prowess in their sports if out gang banging every night , raping old ladies, robbing banks etc. We only hear of the few that do wrong. They all can't be bad.
The media profits from glaringly profit driven sensationalism. A divisive force that enjoys the freedom of stirring up trouble at will , a license to ill , as they like. Peace and harmony unfortunately does not sell too well in the media eye.
So I hear a lot of rhetoric on these forums. The common "go to" deflection technique being "well, how about black on black crime"? Well, there was one time where black on black crime was about 10x worse than it is today. Back in the late 80s, it was massive. Today black on black crime is till dropping yearly. But let's be honest with ourselves, if there were black people in the community trying to stop crime, would the media even cover it anyway? I actually don't think so. Can you imagine CNN headlines constantly being about "Incredible anti-black on black crime protest, let's take it to our live correspondent". Of course not. That's boring news. Every protest and rally doesn't make it on the air. Now one can say "well blacks aren't protesting". Because black people don't listen to protest, they listen to rappers.
Back in the 90s a bunch of rappers got together and formed the "Stop the Violence movement". They also were active in protesting, speaking at community events, and many other things. How much coverage do you think CNN gave this
The West Coast similarly responded with this positive video:
Neither of these singles with platinum, hell I don't even think they went gold. The only people who bought the single? Black people. Later DoggyStyle a classic gangsta rap album, went multi-platinum talking about nothing but gang violence. Purchased mostly by whites, by the way.
In either case, maybe before you open up your mouth about black on back crime, MAYBE you should look up organizations in cities with Black populations. You're likely to see SEVERAL in ANY CITY around the ENTIRE COUNTRY. Will CNN cover this? Of course not.
Black people and their activism to stop black on black violence is the VERY THING responsible for the decline in black on black crime. It was able to get key gang leaders to a cease fire and start organizinig their cities in many cities. How did the government reward them? Oh by arresting them.
Of course. That is because the primary target demographic of advertisers is the white demographic. Essentially "The media" is Americans Consumers. What American consumers reward with their attention is what the Media delivers. The primary demographic determining this is white America. Hence, whites do not want to see images of blacks doing positive things or blacks trying to lift up blacks. Whites tune in when their narrative is confirmed or threatened.
Why does everyone try and deflect serious danger from the police with black on black crime? OK, most crime against blacks is by other blacks. Well, hello, almost 80% of crime against whites is by other whites. Yet, we aren't speaking about white on white crime and how it must stop and is tearing the community apart.
The problem is the goal of the leader(s) running the protests is not about reducing crime. Because if it was, there would have been actions done last year in response to Baltimore and St. Louis. All we got is more divisiveness and more protests and more violence.
Understand that first, then discussions may be more constructive.
Remember that many of these forces get money from the Dept. of Justice. So they have input on how the police forces are run.
So since we have BET, why isn't there positive and uplifting media on there? Instead, it consists of twerking videos, celebrity drama, reality shows, and other bs that pollutes the mind. We have the outlet to make a difference, don't we?
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Originally Posted by mattee01
Why does everyone try and deflect serious danger from the police with black on black crime? OK, most crime against blacks is by other blacks. Well, hello, almost 80% of crime against whites is by other whites. Yet, we aren't speaking about white on white crime and how it must stop and is tearing the community apart.
Because black folks only make up 13% of the population.
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