re: Provide me an African-American view on something

My late black/NA mix grandfather was one of those old school Christian liberals that fought in Vietnam and Korea. He was a pro 2A guy for obvious reasons.

He had to relocate to marry my German grandmother. Whites and blacks couldn't marry everywhere back in those days.

His concept of BLM was more rooted to local churches and well-developed family systems that policed their own so that the actual police didn't have an excuse to beat them senseless. He was never a pro-police guy, though. He had more of a humanistic liberal view that said "we have to care for and love our own because they (government) won't do it."

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What do they think about people like David Dorn being beaten to death and left to bleed to death in the street? He isn't going to get the opportunity for much of anything from here on out.

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Will BLM march for him??

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The belief is that blacks kill blacks because they are the victims of long term systemic racism.

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I thought it was because they stepped on another blacks kicks or disrespected them in some way.

Boondocks had a nice episode on this situation.

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the "pearl clutching", the

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You cannot be serious.


This whole week of events is creating the freshest batch of pearl clutchers you’ve ever seen.


You are either lying or stupid.

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I've asked the same/similar questions and the answer I was given is along these lines: They recognize that black people murder each other far more frequently than police kill black people and that it's a big social issue. But they believe the criminal justice system generally does its job in these situations or at least tries to and the murderers are punished.

They also recognize that sometimes police must use deadly force. But they also believe that sometimes police use deadly force against black people when it's questionable or not justifiable. They believe these instances have been historically swept under the rug, and they believe that "the system" still seeks to sweep these instances under the rug. They believe that Black Lives Matter is important for drawing attention to these cases.

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Thanks for the well-intentioned response. I can kind of see this viewpoint, but I still tend to take a utilitarian view here that there can be so much more to be gained on the time invested by actually focusing the collective outrage on the issue that isn't an outlier, but an everyday occurrence throughout much of the country.

Simply put, why, in the year 2020 in America, are blacks slaying each other with unwavering regularity? This isn't the relatively rare school shooting or the relatively rare instance of deadly police brutality. Hell, it's not even the pretty uncommon terrorist attack at the hands of a jihadist. This is a daily thing in 100s of neighborhoods around the country and we're all supposed to just stay mum about it? Is it so prevalent that the left / many AAs are simply desensitized to it? Or is it simply not an area where political points can be gained, so it goes unaddressed? If the latter, what could possibly be more racist than that?

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Simply put, why, in the year 2020 in America, are blacks slaying each other with unwavering regularity?

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IMO it's certainly not outside of the realm of possibilities that there has been a longstanding determination by those in the highest positions of power who want it to stay this way for who knows how many and what purposes. It wouldn't be difficult at all to contemplate a lengthy list of such.

In 2020, considering all the money we've seen thrown at this and that here lately, it's hard to believe that sinking those types of figures at the referenced problems over time couldn't have made a very huge difference by now. But there are those many promises made, and promises not kept by the left.

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to have the same opportunities as everyone else.


I struggle here, too. They may not have the same opportunities in good ol’ boy circles, but they absolutely have the same if not better opportunities in PC circles, which are only growing.

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Agree. It is true that most blacks, due to the sad history we already know, won’t have as much generational wealth as whites, but their opportunities are certainly there. Just like opportunities are there for other ethnicities.

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Blacks just want the opportunity to fix their community without prejudice or police brutality.

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I never go to their communities. Who is being prejudice there?