Serious Question About the St Louis Outrage

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the black community

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No such thing.

Signed,

Black Guy Living in Missouri

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Serious Question About the St Louis Outrag

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You seriously don't understand the outrage over an unarmed kid getting killed by a police officer?

Should the entire black race be forced to take it on the chin until they resolve all of the gang problems?

The outrage you speak of is expressed by working with these young men and women who are at risk. That quiet work goes on everyday.

The black community has plenty of leaders, they just don't show up on TV every five seconds.

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Where's the outrage over the daily black on black violent crimes in America?

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Why single out black on black crimes? Did you know that 86% of white murder victims were killed by whites? Where is the outrage over white on white crimes?

This is simply deflection. Crime is crime and the only demographic it impacts more disproportionately is the poor and downtrodden.

"Where there is no vision, my people die" (Biblical). You've got a whole sub-culture of people who can't cut it in a system wherein one's ability to enjoy the kind of affluence we daily witness on the consumerist media, is measured by what they can personally bring to the value table. Which is not much. That scenario breeds envy, contempt and desperation. Throw in some Obama/Wright/Sharpton racial scapegoating/blame mongering...and over the abyss we go.

Black folk have a stronger genetic inclination toward tribalism; check out the home Continent where there are few to no Whites. Not that Whites don't, just to a lesser degree; as they employ more cunning and sophisticated ways to do what ALL people do. Get what they want, they best way they can.

Earth 2014. 'Tilling the soil'.

I'm happy to talk about racial issues. I think it would be helpful, eventually.

But we can't. Not in a toxic environment where white people who say "wow, looting is bad" are shouted down as condoning the potential murder of the Brown kid. Not where noting that areas of high black resident concentration are generally not desirable places to live is considered taboo. Not where the media, the black community, the liberal white community, etc., refuse to acknowledge that when it comes to everyday violence, the black on white threat far exceeds the white on black threat, and that this leads to fear, some justified, some not.

But, from the white side, we'll have to acknowledge that this country was built without considering black people. They weren't in "our" framework for how we're going to move forward. While I think most institutionalized racism claims are ridiculous, it isn't ridiculous to recognize that a black kid in America grows up thinking a lot of schools, jobs, lifestyles, etc. just aren't for him. Some of that fault lies in the black community, but some whites refuse to even recognize that reality.

In sum, TLDR, I'm all for talking about it, but the environment just isn't conducive to a frank discussion.

After reading this OP, I came to the realization that one of the most advantageous aspects of white privilege is that I don't have to speak for all white people, or be outraged for all white people, or be seen as a discredit (or credit) for all white people. If a bunch of white thugs launder money for violent drug dealers or if a white guy shoots up an abortion clinic - no one's gonna say "Hey TUba, where's your outrage that your white breathren did this?" When I got my PhD, no one said "Hey, TUba! You're a credit to the white race!" I was a credit to me and my family - not all whites!