Rudy Giuliani recently made the statement that “93% of all blacks [killed] are killed by other blacks.” While the context of the argument, that white police officers are needed to keep blacks from killing each other, shows just what an ignorant buffoon Giuliani is, the statistic is unfortunately very true.
What Giuliani and the other “we’re better than them” racists don’t seem to understand is the underlying cause of the fact they love to tout as proof that all black people are thugs.
Violent crimes happen most often in poverty-stricken inner city neighborhoods. Poverty leads to desperation and crime. Generations of desperation and crime lead to a culture. That culture is evident not only in the ghettos of New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, but also in the trailer parks of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi.
83% of all whites killed are killed by other whites.
Whites are also responsible for the most heinous of murders. 37% of whites killed are women. White parents are responsible for more child-abuse murders than any other race. The majority of mass shooters and serial killers are white.
Why, then, do people like Giuliani point their fingers at the black community and cry foul over statistics that are very close to those of other races?
Racism, bigotry and hate.
It’s easy to forget the socioeconomic issues that face inner city black culture. Ignorance makes people blind to a few simple facts:
- Until the 13th amendment, a black person could be owned by another person, and under our own Constitution counted as 3/5ths of a human being.
- The abolition of slavery didn’t come with a prize, it came with uncertainty. Millions of people were given the freedom to start new lives, but those new lives began with nothing.
- Until the civil rights movement, black people were segregated and discriminated against on the most basic of human rights, including education.
- The civil rights movement gave blacks “equality” under the law, but in no way did it erase racism and discrimination.
150 years of social and economic isolation aimed at a race that had nothing but the shirts on their backs when they were freed; hundreds of thousands died from disease and starvation immediately following the civil war — blacks did what they had to do to survive, migrating to large cities where the only hope of an income lived.
The encampments and shanty towns they created turned into the ghettos of today. Bigots like to say “slavery has been over for a century and a half, get over it.” It’s not that simple. White people have been here going on 500 years, taking what they want and making up the rules as they go. Blacks were their property and had no say in the shaping of a nation.
They were forced to survive any way they could, and survive they did. Next time someone tells you black people should just “get over it,” ask them what their family was doing in 1863.
Considering the epicenters of racism in this country, the answer will probably be “fighting for the South.”
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There are also those that argue that slavery in the United States was the fault of Africans since some tribes were enslaving one another before the slave trade in the US started…..Facts are curious things.
So what exactly are you saying. That white-on-black slavery is justifiable because there was black-on-black slavery? For fuck’s sake, lady…
Of course not! I am presenting another talking point used to downplay the horror of slavery in the United States….
That makes little sense to me. Just because someone is practising slavery doesn’t mean you need to do it. Also, slavery in Africa was different from slavery as it shaped in America. Some people who want to excuse slavery will identify pawn-ship and the marriage system in parts of Africa as if they were slavery, while they weren’t.
Another typical KKK talking point, yes there were Africans that were paid or forced by slave traders to capture other Africans for the slave ships headed for the US but in your simplified world that would certainly justify slavery in America. You are just another one of those people that lacks empathy and has no sense of right and wrong
I completely agree with you. My point was not grasped, and I have removed it….
Attempted to remove it…apparently not an option.
Denise. Would you agree that there are many different types of Europeans? Like Estonian vs. Latvians vs Irish vs.German vs French vs. English. The “black race” is not a monolith. For some reasons whites keep using the lame argument that “blacks” sold other blacks to the slave trade. Guess what? So did the Romans, Gauls, Celts, Anglos, Czechs and Pols. Oh and BTW, the term and usage “black” and “negro” are European descriptions of the inhabitants of the continent of Africa. They have many tongues and customs.
They weren’t made slaves based on the color of their skin. They were not dehumanized based on the color of their skin, they were not hung and jailed and beat based on the color of their skin.
The white man is the most violent human on earth……Reasons: how many of them were killed in the civil war by whites? 620,000……Mass murders are done by 99% white folks……How many people were killed when that federal building in Oklahoma was bomb? 168…..How many white folks were killed during the Wild wild West days??? Like how many white folks were killed by Billy the Kid??/ How many Japanese were killed when this white man drop those two atom bombs in Japan? well over 200,000….
How many slaves where killed by whites(KKK) during slavery? How many Indians were killed by the white man?
Do I need to cite anymore to prove my point….
Touché!
Oh good FSM, not this crap again. Was the white devil the cause of the tens of millions killed in China at the end of the Han dynasty? Or when the Qing dynasty knocked off the Ming? Please tell me how whitey is to blame for the utter devastation of the Mongol conquests? Get this through your race-bating skull, all humans are capable of great evil, no matter the amount melanin in their skin cells.
World war 1 and 2 were started by a white man……Remember Hitler and Stalin were Caucasians……….The white man is a heathen.. Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis………
Touche…….
Yes because those were the only two wars ever fought. Putting random words on the screen and then typing a bunch of periods isn’t a debating technique not does it make you look smart. You are clearly a race-bating troll. Good day
Oh and BTW the answer to Billy the kid is 8. How many Koreans and Chinese did the Japanese kill in WW2?
I totally agree that we need significant changes regarding our police and their actions regarding black citizens. I haven’t seen all the evidence that the Eric Garner grand jury did, but on the video alone, I would think the officer should have been charged with manslaughter. On the other hand, I don’t think the “black on black crime” issue is intended to state that black communities need policing any more than anyone else, but rather that it would seem to be a more significant threat to black males than unjustified/wrongful police activity (by 49 to 1, per a recent analysis), bad as that may be. The Ferguson protests may well drive many needed changes - body cameras, diversity, psych evals, for a start - but even if it were eradicated, wouldn’t Ferguson still be in a world of hurt? Who killed DeAndre Joshua on the night of the Ferguson Grand Jury announcement? Do all black lives matter, or just the ones taken by white police officers?