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Agreed.
Sleepy, woke Twitter is gonna get Stevie.
Was he not aware that this was not an example of Blacks killing each other? Every race kills their own race sadly, why was he there if he didn’t know the facts?
Is he wrong? Sometimes black people don’t like to hear the truth. Not just killing each other but disrespecting each other, quick to fight, argue, steal and rob from each other, abuse and disrespect our women and men, hate each other because you’re not black enough or too black, too ghetto not ghetto enough. You say things like that and a lot of black people get offended?????
Words of wisdom. God bless Stevie Wonder.
I need to see the full statement he made. I feel like this is a bait post. Was he wrong for what he said? No. But the problem is not when Ray Ray shoots Deshawn because Ray Ray is going to jail. The problem is when the folks who took an oath to protect and serve are “too afraid ” too do their job and get away with being murderers
One has nothing to do with the other. Black on black crime is a completely different conversation than police killing unarmed black people. Don’t use one as an excuse for the other.
I agree with Stevie. The only time black lives matter is when the police is killing blacks but it’s okay for black on black crime as long as the police isn’t involved. What a joke
Take heed young people (and black America). He is speaking the truth.
Different, yes. But they do go together. How can we expect other races to respect the value of black lives when we don’t ourselves
I do agree ….
nah.. the problem is out of control crime and killers. You sign up to be a cop if it is so damned easy. Show em how it is done.
So since this is an open post……..
Why did I make some Kool-aid pickles and they were so good. Never knew/heard about them until recently. They are not a big thing where I come from, but I hear (some) southern people LOVE them. Mine were so good. Different, but good. If I had some kids that lived around me, I would make a killing.
A Stevie post.
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the problem is out of control crime and killers.
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You’re so right! These cops are out of control with being killers and getting away with it especially when there’s video and witnesses
Translate…..
Happy belated birthday Mr. Wonder.
Exactly! When we kill ouselves we go to jail! Nobody sends us donations and we don’t walk away free. These demons kill us and are rewarded. Don’t fall for Stevie’s soft shoe coonin. Stevie I’m beyond pissed at you. You’re in my top 5 artist of all time.
You headed for self destruction
This is a message for everyone
Rated E. For everyone.
True! Thank you Stevie!
chile… ??
I think that people will over think this and get offended instead of seeing the simplistic truth offered. Until we respect and value each other, no one else will. Basic lesson in dealing with anyone regardless of color.
Yes! Out here it’s called a Frickle (stl trying to fugue out why). And they have different stands that sell ALL different flavors and they’re so good. It sounds nasty but it’s good
Hey Jenie.
Right. My first batch was tropical punch. Next I might do kiwi-strawberry.
Good choices. Try green apple too
bullshit. Sorry. Cops aren’t doing the killing, thugs are. That’s just lame, silly bullshit. Video and witnesses ? Sure. And when they’re guilty they go to jail. Cops follow crime. Stop committing it and they’ll go away. Wake the fuck up.
Huhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Here we go again. Idk why we cannot understand the purpose of #BlackLivesMatter. Dam…
I wish Prince was still here in Minneapolis. He would have wrote a song & put much more awareness to this. His music transcended each and every cause.
I don’t think any sane person thinks that black-on-black crime is “OK”. Just as white on white crime and hispanic on Hispanic crime isn’t OK. You think Chicago’s bad, look at the city of Juarez in Mexico. The killing needs to stop period, ESPECIALLY the murders committed by those who swore to honor and protect.
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Teeheehee
Happy Monday
Hey girl?
Care to elaborate?
Is that a pink piano in your gravi? It is soooo cute!
Happiest Monday
Hey doll?
This a black convo. See your white ass right on up out it.
And when they’re guilty they go to jail.
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NAME ONE COP BETWEEN 2010-now that has killed a black person, been convicted and went to jail?
That idiot is just going to tell you he’s/she’s not White, but also not Black.
Well Asian or Hispanic or Canablaisan. He can get to steppin
Jar of pickles
Pack of kool-aid
1 cup of sugar (pending on jar size of pickles)
Mix pickle juice, sugar and kool-aid in cup/bowl/pitcher.
Pour back over pickles
Let sit for 24 hours
Viola’ kool-aid pickles! Don’t knock it til you try it.
Sooooo nobody wants to discuss whit on white crime which happens t be higher than black on black crime also white on everybody else crime too! Sounds to me like those issues need to be addressed seems white people are killing themselves and everyone else but nobody is speaking on this WHY IS THAT?
In the words of Kanye……”we don’t care about whypipo”.
We don’t even need to talk about that. I don’t know why we can’t just stay on task. If we are talking about Black Lives Matter and police killings, we shouldn’t even discuss “black on black” crime. The issue with black people is that we can never be united and on task to-damn-together. EVER!
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/03/31/louisisna-officer-40-years-autistic-child-shooting-death/
There are plenty of them, actually. You’re being lied to. But, as I said, If black America could stop committing so much crime, the cops wouldn’t be such a problem.
Don’t ask me to google for you again please. Your education is your job.
I agree though
that has killed a BLACK person
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DON’T ASK ME TO HAVE YOU RE-READ THE QUESTION AGAIN! Reading the question before answering is YOUR job, ma’am.
ha.. you should do your own googling. But of course, to you, it NEVER happens eh? The cops that are NOT sentenced are not guilty. But I am sure you know better. As I said, stop committing crimes and the cops go away. Simple stuff.
Stevie shut your bloated azz up and fix your hairline.
Why do folk act as if black mothers are not/ do not have the right to be outraged WHENEVER their kids are murdered??? I see moms crying on the news begging for the “community to come forward” in instances of black on black crime…so that cry to come forward is very similar to the justifiable cries of Fugg the police that come after the killer cop is acquitted…
some of yall have become SOOOO indoctrinated with the idea that the law is always just. SO indoctrinated that when the law enforcement breaks it, you automatically justify it.
These three words…when used to fix a multitude of issues…
Again, YOU didn’t answer the question. You should do your own googling before setting YOURSELF up failure. But of course, to you, it happens, right? I’m sure you know better. Isn’t it funny that where there is a higher concentration of cops, there is supposedly MORE crime? With all the cops in one place, wouldn’t/shouldn’t crime go DOWN? Somebody needs to lose their job, because apparently, they aren’t doing it correctly, eh?
STEVIE is right. Like the young gangbanging dudes who murdered that mother of eight, because she called the police on them for stealing her child’s bike. And stop worshipping celebrities—–especially those who worship the devil and Baphomet. If Black Lives Matter, know who you are, and be about LIFE!
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Now you know coons are too busy suck white dick to ever admit that whites also have issues as far as violence upon themselves. It doesn’t fit the narrative of black pole being self destructive and therefore inhuman.
Yes, cops go to jail. Not as many as you would like because you seem to believe every black perp is innocent, unlike the courts. No, not ‘eh.
“Isn’t it funny that where there is a higher concentration of cops, there is supposedly MORE crime?”
Wow. Could you be any thicker? Crime brings cops, not the other way around. lol.
They killed the lunchman… THE DAYUM SCHOOL LUNCHMAN.. I never watched the video but, by all accounts he was compliant and respectful. His killer got away with murder because he is a cop..now you come and say stop committing crime and the cops will go away?? FOHWTBS WIlle Lynch!
Yup. Lower the black crime rate considerably and cops will go away. If you want to talk about specific cases you will need a lot more than your opinion. That and $1.50 will get you a cop of coffee.
“by all accounts he was compliant and respectful.”
doesn’t work that way.
So Stevie, you actually believe that black males should be RESPONSIBILE for the murders they are committing in their OWN neighborhoods? For systematically, and WITHOUT REMORSE, killing peoeple who look like their own mothers and brothers and grandparents? Take RESPONSIBILITY for turning their OWN neighborhood into terror zones where children cannot attend a bar-b-q or block party or other outdoor event without worrying about a BLACK MALE pulling out a gun and shooting wildly, without regard to the lives of innocent bystanders?
So, let me get this straight Stevie, you think black males can act like civilized adults, take back their own neighborhoods, and demand that their “brothers” stop acting like murderous, mindless, rabid dogs? If that’s what you think, then you really are blind.
Every 10 years there is a message to black youth…. Good luck with youth programmed by Music and television….
The Entertainment industry is responsible for promoting more black death than the police department ever could.
Crime brings cops, not the other way around.
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The LIES you tell. The thought process you believe. The world will never be great again with people like YOU walking around.
Rise of Somali Gangs Plagues Minneapolis
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rise-of-somali-gangs-plagues-minneapolis/
Black on Black Accountability…..
How can anyone expect groups of people who have an issue with accountability… to solve the problem. Black people cant even acknowledge black on black crime exist and then want to talk about they are Woke…. You have to first acknowledge there is a problem.
The POS that drove his van into the Muslims in London’s being charged with terrorism, and rightfully so.
But blacks are held accountable when they kill one another. The police ARE NOT! White on white crime is an issue as well that they do not talk about. Just like the white heroin epidemic.
Pot calling the kettle black I mean come on
When we are killing ourselves what else do you expect others to do.
But blacks ARE punished for their crimes and the police are not. Why doesnt Stevie speak out to the judges who give white rapist 6 months
ok BUT black people have acknowledged the black on black crime issue as well as acknowledging that Black men go to jail and PAY for their crimes the police DO NOT!
Period. You have so many people still saying black on black crime has nothing to do with BLM. It’s always been simple; If your life doesn’t matter to your own kind/people, why would it matter to any other race of people? Folks have argued this point since that BLM started.
Others kill themselves as well. Pick up a newspaper or READ WORLD NEWS. It is not about RACE it is about punishment. White men rape at an extremely higher rate than black men and the laws cater to them. Systematic racism is instilled in the justice system. That is the issue.
Systematic Racism – Google it, Research it…..
I thought part of the problem was these murders dont go to jail… Do black males who murder other blacks go to jail really??? Do people really pay for their crimes of murdering each other? I thought the majority of blacks were in jail from petty offenses. The Police in the closest black community near me dont even care… They dont even bother solving a murder if its black on black a lot of times they label the crime gang related and walk away Unsolved…. And you just see a Facebook post of the victim with an airbrushed t shirt.
But white folks kill, eat and rape one another. Why isnt the same said for them?
You sound like that sheriff clark dude…but oh well, how are you going to blame others for parenting someone else’s children…I just don’t get it. When rap music 1st came out, “I” didn’t let my child listen to the racy lyrics, “I” didn’t let my child watch the shows on TV that “I” felt weren’t appropriate for my child’s age…etc. and so forth.
I would never blame my parenting on the entertainment industry – that reeks of irresponsibility…ijs
Yes THEY DO! They do not get off scott free they are locked up…. Um maybe you should read the stats. Unless the case is unsolved. Also lets not forget MANY crimes in Chicago and Detroit ARE done by police and BLAMED on gang members
THANK YOU! Not only white on white crime but the system thats gives white men LIGHTER sentences. I mean look at the kid “affluent kid” who literally got away with murder.
Because they’re the ones that run shit! It’s different when you’re in charge and you make all the decisions
Uhmmm I did read the stats and the majority of blacks are locked up on drug offenses not murder convictions… So where did you read that black males are locked up for black on black murders? Do you have a stat on how many black on black murders are solved? Cause I cant find any and normally thats because they dont want you to know they are not catching anybody, If somebody can find the stat please post the link>…
“Black Lives” or “Any Lives” don’t matter to the drug dealers, gang bangers, thugs, ratchet and ghetto, ignarant, low mentality folks. If it did, then the unnecessary bufoonery would not be happening. You cannot expect people who are desensitized and does not care about their own lives to care about the lives of others.
PEOPLE who have to live there, are held hostage by the gangbangers and drug dealers. In these communities, people are doing everyday things like going to work and children walking to school. These are the people that the gangbangers, fighting over turf they do not own, hurt and kill.
U oughta stop it. Site whatever these sources and references are of white on white crime. Is their level of crime under reported? Probably. I live in what has become the hood. i bought my main house and a rental before the area went completely to hell. I hear gun shots 1-2 times a week. I hear police sirens different hours of the day or night typically.
Because I’ve lived in other parts of metro ATL that weren’t highly populated with black folks, I can say there’s a huge difference. Nope, I didn’t hear ANY gunshots ever. I didn’t hear sirens all the time. Also, my car wasn’t stolen from my driveway (or homes constantly broken into) while living there. Crime happens everywhere but you better know there’s a drastic difference in insurance premiums we pay when living in black areas vs white areas. It has nothing to do with race, but everything to do with crime.
I think black people like to deflect to who else is doing what. You have tbh and admit crime is not rampant in white areas. It exists but is nowhere near the deplorable levels in the black areas.
No I sound like somebody who has studied entertainment and marketing… and your comment seems like babble but okay… I deal with people who can not connect dots every day.
You are welcomed to your opinion as i am to mine.
Thats too much common sense. … First your life has to matter to yourself.
I don’t agree with his statement white folks kill each other but their lives still matter. The issue is we are not being viewed in the same token. Nothing justifies these killigs i.e. Tamir rice cops rolled up and ended his life. I looked at him and saw a child police saw a threat.
You have to be completely daft to believe it is any other way. Crime brings cops. Not the other way around. period.
Sorry Stebbie but BLM is about getting equaland fair treatment in the justice system. Blacks kill blacks and white kill whites but white People don’t get shot and killed by the police for no reason.
You are being ignorant, willfully ignorant. You cannot say lower the crime and the cops will go away. We can only talk about specific cases because specific cases are what set precedence… Precedence writes laws and precedence taints opinions so go on.
” Precedence writes laws and precedence taints opinions so go on.”
What? The Hell? Cops RESPOND to crime. Black neighborhoods have LONG been the single sources of major crime infestations in urban centers across America. Your post made no sense. Yes, lower the crime rate and the cops will go away. Lower it far enough and cops get laid off. People do live much longer without sudden lead poisoning.
Question is why do we as black people care if white people kill themselves? Just because they are killing each other doesnt mean we have to kill each other.
You lead by example. If Black people don’t respect our lives…of course white people won’t.
I agree. We are the only race that refers to each other in a derogatory term and we shoot each other up daily. The black race is still enslaved. I’m black but the pride isn’t there anymore. The race is in shambles.
Wow… what a broad brush you use. sounds like the victims are blamed as well
If you are not about that life… you are a victim perhaps of circumstance. Perhaps You live in the wrong zipcode.
Ratchet, ghetto, ignorant, low mentality or not… if you are doing what would be considered normal (eg. in your apartment, kids in a playground, kids at school, grocery shopping etc.) and you are killed or injured because you are caught in cross-fire or a drive by you are a VICTIM.
Typical response from a detached individual. SMDH.
I’m ashamed to say this but I’m black and I’m afraid of hood black men and women. When I see them, I go the opposite way and grab my purse. Some of them have made their way into my community and have decided they like to shop there. The other day, I spent 35 minutes behind an unorganized young grandma (whose wild ass grandkid was running everywhere) who was paying for groceries in five different ways using debit and Wic cards. Sigh. I pay too much money to be exposed to such ghettoism.
The black race has become so rachet…it’s hard to defend. So I separate myself from the hood, the uneducated, and the crime because my Black Life Matters.
Keep believing in YOURSELF.
“If you don’t respect yourself, you can’t expect others to”– Only said by black people.
Crimes are committed by all races. Period. Statistically, yt people commit more crimes. Why is it that yt people receive different treatment than blacks? I mean if the standard is simply respecting yourself. Why is it that a white mass murderer gets more respect and dignity than a black man jaywalking? Why do black people think they have to be perfect citizens to receive the same standard of treatment as everyone else? Why is it that the people that continue to reiterate this asinine backwards azz way of thinking, do not realize that the issue is not behavior, but race. Racist don’t hate you and treat you like shyt because of anything that you have done. IT is because you are black. So miss me with the respectability politics. Unless you can come up with a way for them to no longer fear the color of my skin, keep your advice to yourself.
I agree Stevie, but trying to get these ‘woke’ black youth to see your point is like talking to a brick wall.
THANK YOU.
Made out of steel.
It’s a big Elephant in the room no one wants to talk about or address.
It’s so basic…I do not understand how so many people are unable to comprehend this.
I don’t think that he’s taking away what the original message means, which is telling white Americans to stop killing us for no reason, but he’s just saying while we asking them to stop, we also need to protect one another and not kill each other.
It’s some good food for thought for some of our “lost” souls out there
Here we go with this false equivalent again.
We can’t talk about cops killing blacks unless we talk about black on black crime?
Stevie GF your blind a$$ed self and your ugly baby mamas.
You have your opinion and I have mine.
maybe the equivalent is incorrect but we could stop killing one another…i know it’s not just us
It seems like EVERYTIME Black people complain about cops MURDERING blacks (men, women, children)… the question of black on black crime surfaces!
These are two very DIFFERENT things!
Black on black crime… ONE is a CRIMINAL & ONE is a VICTIM.
This question is thrown out to distract from the actual issue!
Don’t feel bad. There’s more who feel the same way but wont admit it. I stated on here once before that i live in a very small town, but its “us” thats terrorizing both races. The response i received was, “Yeah, but how many years they did it to us.”
YEP!
That’s not false its the truth Chicago had 100 ppl shot in one week and it wasn’t cops shooting us we were shooting our own ppl. Bottom line is we hate each other and until we address that and get over it we will REMAIN in our position at the bottom of society with the yt man ruling over us.
That’s not false its the truth Chicago had 100 ppl shot in one week and it wasn’t cops shooting us we were shooting our own ppl. Bottom line is we hate each other and until we address that and get over it we will REMAIN in our position at the bottom of society with the yt man ruling over us.
If “they” dont see us respecting ourselves then how are we supposed to be respected? We do need to do better in the black community… I just want to know how can we get “THEM” to respect us if “WE” be killing each other????
If “they” dont see us respecting ourselves then how are we supposed to be respected? We do need to do better in the black community… I just want to know how can we get “THEM” to respect us if “WE” be killing each other????
Yes. Back when my 11yr old was 3
The conversations are mixed together too many times to dilute and shift blame away from killer cops
Xo
Is you, you ?
If so how are the girls?
How is him? Little miss still acting a bratty mess?
If not, sorry! How’s your day going?
Why must you disrespect that man so bad?
You mock his blindness and call his baby mamas ugly,simply because he stated a view you don’t believe in.
Oh please you tender little snowflake.
GFY!!!
The point is troll. You can do both at the same time.
Some black people don’t live in bad neighborhoods and don’t put themselves in situations to be victims on black-on-black crime so yes being harassed or murdered by the police is much more of a concern.
No the point is that whites are judged as individuals.
While blacks and other non-white minorities are judged as groups.
What blacks like Stevie are doing is perpetuating white collective guilt.
I am not responsible for the actions of other blacks just like whites aren’t responsible for other whites.
If you want to believe otherwise you’ve been brainwashed by whites.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself for talking about that man like that. Bottom line is that black people with your mindset, often disrespect other Black people and that is usually where the violence begin.
i dont think black people communicate well nowadays. black lives matter. we know that police might be police designated to uphold the law.. their own type of law. that’s not denial when we say black lives should also matter within our communities. it looks like extinction level shooting in our neighborhoods. these young black males kill each other faster than any one else does. i have to agree with stevie on this one.
You can’t control other people’s actions and the problem that is the root of gang violence in a city like Chicago is beyond the power of the black community so what exactly do you plan on doing about it?
Acknowledging it? Well give yourself a gold star and a cookie.
People have been marching for decades about the black-on-black crime in big cities and it hasn’t solved the problem.
the issue is our lives. there is no difference any more when death is all around us. it makes no sense be it a white person or a black person killing. 23 shooting in one day in chicago friday ALL black. a 7 year old shoot by a 19 year old . all black. come on now.
well perhaps we can stick up more for them but when you have 23 shooting in one day… a 19 year old shooting 7 year old… it makes it difficult.
bc as a race we have been through the most. we should value each other even more bc of what we go through but we dont. expect them to kill yes look how they treat us. but black people outta do better sense we know better
Are you insane? I think so that’s Mr. Stevie Wonder you’re trying to diss. Clearly your father dropped the ball raising you.
If every last Black person stopped murdering one another, that will not stop their racism and White supremacy. What they do has nothing to do with us and what we do. We must stop internalizing their nonsense. Most people who commit crimes are of the same race and the victim is usually someone they know.
We (including Stevie) must understand the SYSTEM of White supremacy, and then, and only then, will we stop blaming ourselves for their evil.
Sounds like one of those mentally ill crack babies that was born in the 80s
Yes, there is a difference when the cops are supposed to protect and serve, not murder us, and when they do, get away with it.
Most people who commit crimes commit them on people of the same ethnicity. We must address gang violence, and that has nothing to do with being Black.
Why isn’t anyone addressing White on White crime?
You can’t say anything to these fake woke millennials. Since their daddies dropped the ball they don’t know what it feels like to be schooled by a father figure.
Stevie is right. And we all damn well know it! how many of y’all walk down the street in the hood and feel safe? even if all the police in the world were good – black people would still be killing each other like dogs.
Especially the sisters they get the brunt of the bullshit -violence rapes deadbeat baby daddies.
This is so true. When I worked in the school system and I would correct black kids kindly their silly parents would be ready to act a fool. But whenI would tell white parents about their kids they were more receptive. I worked in both types of school systems and i see the difference. Black mothers would let their children disrespect me and all. So sad I have to agree the lack of parenting sorry but not sorry.
What you don’t understand is that WHAT WE DO DOESN’T MATTER. They will not respect us regardless because they are racist and live in a White supremacist society. Do you think if Black people all of a sudden stopped killing one another that White would would embrace us? We need to wake up and stop that nonsense. We blame ourselves for their evil.
They are brainwashed. They listen and don’t think. They fail to connect the dots and they don’t understand White supremacy.
Naw! I’m worried getted popped by some knucklehead fatherless thug then the cops!!
We execute each other at a much higher numbers than anyone else including the cops!
Chicago Oakland Atlanta Baltimore East St. Louis Nashville Miami
You know what you were so full of shit you keep talking about you’re not responsible for other blacks I’m assuming your male and that’s why young black boys are messed up right now they’ve been abandoned by older black man who are supposed to lead them.
COS it is supreme! Whites are supposed to have the gun and wield the knife.
Yes, but when WE execute each other (Malcolm, you do know others do the same to their own, right?) we get arrested. That’s the difference. They are licensed to kill us without culpability. They are supposed to uphold the law. That’s the difference.
ITA!!!
So true, M.
“Black people cant even acknowledge black on black crime exist and then want to talk about they are Woke” ??
Malcolm, you don’t listen. You are so busy trying to prove your point that you fail to connect the dots. Stop and listen and quit trying to be right. You are full of shit because what Roderick said makes sense. I think you are a White supremacist.
Are you saying YOU are responsible for other Blacks? So just because you are Black, you have to be held accountable for what other Blacks do, but no other group does? How does that make sense to you?
I remember back when Bill Cosby said something similar to this. His was a little more harsh but basically the same content.
So you’ve never heard of Black people talking Black on Black crime? I’ve heard it more times than I’d like to, and the same ones bumping their gums talking about they are scared of “hood” Blacks are the same ones sitting in the judgment seat next to God and aren’t doing a damn thing to solve the problem. I’m sick and tired of Black folks acting like Blacks are the only ones committing crimes, when MOST crime is committed, not only by people of the same race, but by people they know. Stop being so brainwashed!
Ok but why are YOU deflecting the conversation. A black male was unarmed and MURDERED in front of his child. That is the issue. NOT black on black crime. One has nothing to do with the other.
What Black folks need to focus on is how to stop being so damn brainwashed! The comments I’m reading here sound as if they are being said by Trump and his racist/White supremacy groupies.
When I hear about us being our worst enemies, I don’t think about crime, per se, I think about our mentality and how quick man of us are to down ourselves. It’s sick and disgusting. This thread is pissing me off. I’m out!
Sorry, that’s not a good excuse. Yes, we should love one another, but no group does. Also, when you say, “black folks,” are you referring to yourself?
Yeah, there was a lot of truth in what he was saying… but since he’d been sexual predator and hypocrite for so many decades, he basically destroyed any credibility he had to be lecturing black folks about proper behavior.
True. And we need to get rid of this “stop snitching” mentality that allows criminals to stay out there and victimize more black people.
We are far from our worst enemy but we must admit we have issues that need to be addressed in our community. I think we can do that without mixing up personal responsibility with the issue of police taking young black lives.
Thank you! Our worst enemy created systematic racism and laws like Jim Crow
Why are YOU deflecting. This is about a black man who was unarmed, not a criminal and murdered in front of HIS child. YOU are part of the problem. Placing blame on victims and changing the conversation to an issue that is unrelated.
Exactly. It didn’t begin with us, we are trying to break a cycle. But we have to hold each other responsible.
Yeah but it still does not mean THEY are not killing one another as well. Have you been to an asian country? Read about North Korea? They do worst to their own than blacks in the US ever will
AND? What does it have to do with an unarmed, innocent man murdered in cold blood in front of his child?
I do. This isn’t rocket science. No crime, no cops. It is silly to think otherwise.
People want to deflect and change the conversation. When most are uneducated and lack knowledge of history, I do not see them shouting about North Korea and how they do their citizens or other cultures. It is not JUST a black problem with crime, but it is a black issue with being murdered senselessly..same as the lynchings back in the day
THANK YOU!
I agree. The problem comes in when they use one issue against the other when there really two separate issues that need to be dealt with separately.
Nope Bill Cosby was telling people what to name your child as well
i see a lot of people wanting to play the race card and holla bout the police. but there are two projects in birmingham alabama that you better not ride through. there is nothing wrong with trying to get our community to stop ALL VIOLENCE against ALL BLACK LIVES. i expect a hitler wanna be to try and kill me but my own should NOT. Stop saying there is a difference no there is not esp when both putting us in the ground faster than we being born.
Ppl like you are the problem with our communities all you wanna focus on is your slave massa. The root of gang violence in Chicago and in all our communities is SELF HATE. The yt man ain’t forcing us to kill each other the hate we have for ourselves is what’s making us do it and brothers like you sit up and condone it by coming against the ppl who call it out. We hate each other THAT IS OUR DAMN PROBLEM. You talking about marching for black on black crime ain’t solved nothing DIVERTING and talking about cops killing blacks ain’t gone solve a damn thing neither. OUR MEN STANDING UP and LEADING is what’s gone put our communities in order. But ya’ll don’t wanna lead all you wanna do is talk about the yt man, lebron, cars and all manner of dumb sh!t that ain’t doing nothing to help our communities.
??so sick of hearing his name
It first starts in the home and how kids are being raised which molds them into the adults they become. Circumstances do happen all the time that effects kids and people but brothers killing brothers over nonsense and sistas hating on each because they look good or have nice physical attributes and black people not coming together as a unity to look out for each other just to name a few is part of the issue. There are many dynamics involved in this argument on the Black Lives Matter movement but I agree with Stevie, until Black people lives matter to Black people it sure won’t matter to other ethnicities and everybody is entitled to their opinion.
Although I agree with stop the killing of ourselves. This rhetoric is also a problem. Whites kill each other at a greater percentage than blacks. However, they are not subjected to the murders by law enforcement. Studies show crime happens by race based on where you live. The media would want us to believe that it is us doing all the killing so this is a reaction. However, lynching has been going on for years. The only difference now is they use guns vs the rope. If we keep pointing the finger at us when these issues happen as opposed to pointing the finger at the real perp. This diminishes the argument against police and others. If we have a problem with black on black crime. Why not address it year round as opposed to when the police murder us?
absolutely and i can appreciate what stevie is trying to say.
how extinction level killing of our black men and boys not an issue ? so we should only ask if our lives matter if a white person is involved? meanwhile we ourselves can and will kill each other more than the black women can birth out? YOU should be concerned about BOTH ISSUES cause they both go hand in hand… the destruction of our black existance.
That’s a lie
Stop making excuses. Stevie wonder stand more in his 50 year career then you could even know and understand.
Stevie help to make Martin Luther King’s birthday a holiday!!!!
You are an apologist for black self-hate. I can’t stand when black people bring up white people when the topic is black people.
The topic is black on black crime.
The topic is the whole world sees that African-Americans don’t love each other so why should anybody else care about us that’s the real topic
i dont live in a white neighborhood and thus im not affecting by what goes on in their neck of the woods. im from the eastside where there was a black young just graduated high school lying in the middle of the road like road kill. that’s why im all bout my business not white folks business. furthermore, why we shocked when they kill us or plant drugs on us.. sorry not a shocker, but my neighborhood like the apocalypse. both issues should be addressed… it takes courage
Asshole now you are just boring me. You drones are used to living in your knucklehead hood and anytime another black person have a difference of opinion they’re white person there’s nothing else to be said to you. Except again you’re an asshole.
Yep you can’t talk to them they can’t even admit black on black crime is ridiculous
Well I am not because I am very selective of my friends and where I go.
Hell I even moved out of state to disassociate from my family which is toxic, but give yourself a gold star for playing the victim to the tune of white collective guilt.
Bye….Respect is earned. I didn’t say it wouldn’t stop anything but dont you think it would at least change “OUR” outlook on each other. The goal is to get on the same page with each other. I dont care about “THEM” I care about “ME and MINES”. As I said before if we dont stop they will never respect us. Whites may hate Asians but you dont see them being shot by cops at a whim do you know why? Because the Asians community has stock in the U.S. They own shit and have respect of whites. We need the respect first then we can get in formation with all that other nonsense you spewing. I dont need to blame anyone for “THEIR” evil. “THEY” are irrelevant to us we need to start with our own…raise our kids…build our businesses. To Hell with “THEM” and how they feel but Respect is earned…
No I don’t feel bad because I had to learn the hard way.
I realized I was alone and had to make it by myself when l was around 10.
And whoever comes along has to figure it out for himself.
Hell I have a dear friend who has a half-brother who is father to a now 8 y/o who lives with his mother in Miami while he lives in the Virgin Islands.
At 27 he’s a damn mama’s baby who is afraid to grow up and accept the responsibility of being a man much less a father, but his mother has spoiled him because she doesn’t want him to work manual labor and she has continually bailed him out of scrapes with the law.
Well last year the dumbazz stabbed someone and as usual his mother and father got some money together and paid off the victim.
To stay out of jail all this idiot had to do was show up for court ( on time) for a couple of the hearings but his pot head behind couldn’t do that and the judge threw his behind in jail for being in contempt of court because he was TWO hours late.
I have told my friend not to even talk to his mother because she is internalizing that mess and it has caused her stress-related health problems.
He may still be in jail but guess what—he’s the only one who can figure it out. No one else can force him to get his ish together.
The statics are on the FBI website feel free to check it out I did a report on that once about a year or so ago. Also it’s important to note that most crime are committed in the areas of which the criminal lives Amd the numbers reflect that. A white person os lost likely to be killed by another white person because it’s who they live around same for all the other ethnicities
lol
The gang violence is economic, environmental and societal racism.
I don’t know if you read or heard about the elevated lead levels in the water in several Chicago area schools or the lead in the water in the housing projects which lowers IQ and causes violent, antisocial behavior.
Exactly!!! But I figured if people want to point out something they should know the statics. I think people repeat black on black crime because it’s what they heard I never hear people quote statics when they talk about that
And you’re posting stats on this message boards is accomplishing what exactly?
i swear they act like white folks paying us to talk about them. i could care less. but can we talk about the damn apocalypse going down in the hood.
no what the point is stop acting like white folks paying you to talk about them. at the end of the day what they got going on dont affect you period but ruffriderz in the hood do. thats what we saying. racism exists but black on black should not.
IT IS AN ISSUE! BUT HAS NOT A DAMN THING TO DO WITH SENSELESS MURDERS BY COPS! BRING THAT ISSUE UP WHEN THE DISCUSSION IS ABOUT CRIME RATES AND NOT INNOCENT LIVES BEING MURDERED!!!!
ALL RACES HAVE BEEN THRU IT! Have you checked on North Korea lately?? The issue is INNOCENT men being murdered by cops! If you have an issue with the crime rate discuss that when the conversation is about crime rates and not innocent lives.
I do not see other people killing north Koreans and they are killing one another :/
but koreans dont have precious little black boys that need protecting before its too late. it is ok to address whats right and what is wrong within our race if its going to make us better. i am tired of hearing about 15 yo and 19yo killing or dying and many at reproductive ages. its scary. we have to protect our dwindling population from both.
when you realize that it is a system built to assist black people in being desensitized and made to devalue their lives and others within our race from the time we were brought here, then you can see how the both go hand in hand and that the ultimate goal with both is to reduce the black nation as a whole. we have to protect ourselves from both .
Black lives matter, and you’re Black, so don’t feed on the rage that would drive you to murder you’re own kind.
That was the message. Just let that sink in and the church say amen, the block scream truuuu, and social media activists comment 100.
Reading the comments is mind boggling.
obviously you are numb to the black homicide rates.
Love you Stevie but this is about Brown an so called white. Not neighborhood fights or school fights or club shoot outs.This is about people killing us just because we are brown an beatiful. Let’s not give the aggressor a pass. It’s apples and oranges.
What they got going does affect me, period. If I’m living near a damned drug addict (you do know drugs are at epidemic proportions in White America, right?), but no one, including Black people want to color all of them the same nor criticize them for their drugging. There are many people, including myself, who (not now, but in the past) lived in the hood, and guess what? I never had a problem, BUT when I moved to a predominately White area, we were broken into twice. Imagine that. No crime (Black on Black, White on White, White on Black, Black on White, Martian on Martian) shouldn’t exist. What you are saying is that crime is okay as long as it’s not Black on Black. Does that make sense to you?
we talking about black people problems. whites are not discriminated us and are killed . our problems are different. it is two worlds whether you agree or not if we were the sames then they would have black people problems…which they dont. so why should be worried about them?
Actually, no. I don’t think it would change our outlook on one another. There will ALWAYS be some self-hating, self-loathing Black folks who believe the worst about themselves regardless. Not all of us have such a negative outlook because we focus on the good Black people are doing. Asians may not be shot, but it has nothing to do with what you said. In order for you to understand the nature of the police, you have to understand that they were put into place to hunt us down. They were called slave catchers. This is what they do. If you do not understand White supremacy and that they are the armed assassins set for to get rid of us, you don’t know what you are talking about. You don’t understand that we owe China and that’s why they own America. They hate Asians too. Do you realize how much racism they go through? Probably not because unless the media tells people something, they have no idea how the world works. You are one of those people who blame Black people for the evil of Whites, thus, YOU are a White supremacist. You are comparing us to Asians when there is no comparison. Asians, Mexicans, even Africans have country, customs, language and culture to fall back on. American Blacks do not. I suggest you read up on it because you don’t know what you are talking about.
I didn’t read one word of your nonsense. Well, yes I did. Once I read “asshole” I knew you were hopeless and there was no need to converse (not conversate) with the likes of you because you are the type of person who cannot learn because of your big stinking ego. You are so busy arguing and not listening. I guess it’s to be expected. Anyway, keep staying ignorant, OK.
You don’t have to liven in White neighborhoods to be affected by what they do. You living in a world with people other than Blacks and when they are strung out of drugs or alcohol and are on the bus, on trains, planes or even working with you, and they are high, what they do can affect you. It’s called looking at the BIG picture. You say you are about your business. What are you doing to help those people lying in the street? You see, one thing Black folks love to do is bump their gums talking about what other Blacks are doing when they aren’t about solving the problem. Why are we shocked when they kill us or plant drugs on us? I’m not. It’s what they’ve been doing since we got here.
Hey, I fill for you and others who live in war zones, but it ain’t going away. Crime, murders, rape etc have always existed and will continue. The only thing we can do is making a difference. That takes courage too.
More blacks kill each others than white people kill us. So yes, it would make a significant difference if we stopped slaughtering each other.
Malcolm, you don’t even know what you are talking about. Stop. Just stop! No, YOU don’t see how we love one another because of your negativity. Instead of looking at the good, you seek the bad. Again, THE WORLD IS A BAD PLACE! That’s life regardless of race, color, creed, religion, etc., but you are so damn closed minded, you couldn’t see light if it slapped you in your angry bitter face; therefore, there’s no need me wasting my time talking to you because you’ll just argue.
Look, I’m 53-year-old, boy, so don’t go talking shit to me. I’m probably old enough to be your mother, so stand down, young man. I know more than you think. Anyway, I grew up listening to Stevie since before you were born (probably), so, again, don’t go talking to me like I’m one of your peers because I most definitely am not.
And now we do it to ourselves.
You’re welcome. SMH. They just don’t get it, Harley!
We keep pointing the finger at white people…but every other race seems to do better for themselves (except Latinos) why can’t we?
Yes, many of our communities do have issues. They always have and always will. We’ve been talking about “the Black community” for years. When I was growing up, many fathers were at home, but when women had to go on welfare because there wasn’t enough money to make ends meet, the men were booted out of the home. The crack epidemic hit too in the 80’s. My point is EVERYONE, regardless of race, should be held accountable for what they do.
It’s funny because the drug epidemic has hit White America — rich and poor – like a sledgehammer, and I never, ever hear other Whites say, “White people (they speak individually, never collectively) need to take responsibility for their drugs usage, their racism, and their evil. Yet, Black folks love to group one another together talking about how bad we have it. We are survivors! Most of us are doing damn good, so it just gets me pissed when some Black people always see us in a negative light.
It’s important to point out that it’s black Americans who are lost. Africans, Haitians do well for themselves. They are smart to separate themselves from black Americans.
Child Bye AGAIN…If their was always self hating then what about the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s when the black family was at its echelon? During that time we had our own businesses, schools, programs too feed the poor and disenfranchised. I believe in the actions of others and behavior taking account for perception. Maybe thats just my two degrees in Psych and Behavioral Stats and with a minor concentration in AFAM studies on the Black Dichotomy that gives me a lil more expertise then your dumb ass. So if these other cultures have their own then “WE” would have been in the mud since “WE” came over. We thrived at one point in time. We had our own but “WE” lost it in consumerism, buying jordans, paying attention to “THEM” and trying to get approval for “THEIR” standards. Well not me. You say Im a white supremacist which isn’t true…Im black and as rich as mahogany but since you like to name call Imma just say that your a miserable cunt with a formidable weight problem…dont come for me…you will never survive…
And your fonting on this here blog is accomplishing what exactly?
No I believe in action. If I can’t do anything to directly impact a situation then I don’t waste my time.
Maybe you should think about doing to the same or at least don’t insist that others do as you.
It ok! They will soon enough!
NOPE! One has nothing to do with the other. So what about all the lynchings??? When we were slaves or during Jim Crow? THEY are trying to exterminate us. And they ARE exterminating us without consequence. We have to protect ourselves by understanding that the ENEMY are those who put this system in place not pointing fingers at each other.
The system is created for people of all colors who are poor and underpriveleged to stay that way.
Murder is murder and these police are not being held accountable! THAT is the issue at hand here!
YES THEY DO! They have precious boys, girls and women being silenced, raped and tortured in THEIR country. You are trying to make it like only black people kill black people. Every race and culture has violence. The ISSUE is that police ARE NOT held accountable for murder! THATS IT! Stop deflecting.
If you are worried about little black boys then you need to work with city counsel and create places for these little boys to be educated as well as have a safe haven. Urge community leaders to put more money in Arts and sports. Thats a whole other issue…..
TWO DIFFERENT ISSUES!!!
Hatians are the most criminal and voilent animals alive, so are africans that sold us?
True Stevie but I could tell him anything..he can’t see who’s black and who’s dead???
WHAT ABOUT ALL OF THE BLACK AND BROWN THAT ARE KILLING EACH OTHER WHICH IS WHAT I THINK STEVIE WAS TALKING ABOUT B/C IT’S RIDICULOUS.. PEOPLE ACT LIKE CAUSE STEVIE IS BLIND HE’S DUMB TO WHAT’S GOING ON WHEN HE’S LIVED THROUGH SO MUCH CIVIL RIGHTS AND BLACK ON BLACK ISSUES SINCE THE 50s B/C HE’S ALMOST 70. SADLY THE AGGRESSOR COMES IN ALL COLORS IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY………JENNY JONES!!!!
Well I guess I’ll avoid them as well.
Here in Chicago, they are shooting old people, stabbing elderly couples to death, gunning down little girls in schoolyards, and stomping on kittens! It’s too late for words. It’s time for drastic measures.
I do agree with you we do have beef with one another but its not about color it’s usually about jealousy and ignorance. When people see who you are but can’t see who they are it creates jealousy. They want you to seek blood with them or they want your blood. They want you to ruin your life because they feel like theres is ruined. i Know we have problems but its not about color with us its about ignorance, hopelessness and very poor upbringings. Some of our parents are terrible. Lets just tell the truth. They don’t teach us very well. They set poor examples with there senanigans. But i say again its not about color with us. Its about ignorance.
They can separate themselves from affirmative action and any other right black Americans have fought and died for too.
What Stevie and so many others fail to recognize is that this was done intentionally aka social engineering. This didn’t start happening until the government started pour drugs into the black community. This took generations to develop, therefore it will not go away just by saying “stop killing each other”. This country has worked hard to try to kill off black folks. This is a complicated issue that will take a lot of time and resources to resolve. Yes, I believe it needs to start with black folks but its not as cut and dry as Stevie and others make it out to be. #BlackLivesMatter
Well said
“I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan and I shouldn’t have to run from a black man” -Kool Moe Dee
He’s right you know…
Oh my, this hurts my heart.
I agree.
No he’s not.
Stevie’s speaking the truth. What are they going to call him? An Uncle Tom?
WHY MUST WE ALWAYS COMPARE OUR DUMB ISH TO WHAT THE WHITES ARE DOING LIKE THAT MAKES IT OK AND WE’RE TRYING TO GIVE OURSELVES EXCUSES? WE CALL THE WHITE MAN THE DEVIL BUT ALWAYS WANNA BE LIKE HIM. THE WHITES ARE KLLLING THEMSELVES AT ALARMING RATES SO IT’S OK IF OUR DUMB ARSES ARE DOING THE SAME TO OUR KIND AND ANYONE SPEAKING UP ABOUT BL/BR ON BL/BR KlLLINGS NEEDS TO SHUT UP WITH THE RHETORIC B/C THE WHITES ARE WORSE. SMH!!! DUMB ISH IS DUMB ISH PERIOD!!! POLICE KlLLING US IS DIFFERENT THAN US DOING IT TO EACH OTHER, TO ME IT’S WORSE B/C OF THE STRUGGLE OUR ANCESTORS HAD TO GO THROUGH TO GET US WHERE WE ARE TODAY AND WE JUST THROW IT ALL AWAY IN AN INSTANT FOR YOUR JORDANS, CLAIMING A BLOCK, DRUG DEALS, A CHICK, A FEW COINS OR B/C YOU LOOKED AT ME WRONG. HOW INSULTING TO OUR ANCESTORS AND THEIR PLIGHT. F WHAT THE WHITES ARE DOING AND I HOPE WHAT STEVIE SAID REACHES & CHANGES ATLEAST ONE PERSON THERE FOR THE BETTER. ……JENNY JONES!!!
Yes indeed!
During slavery there was self hating. Our success in the past, present, or future have nothing to do with it. Don’t you know that TODAY we have our own businesses, schools, and programs to feed the hungry. I don’t GAF about your stinking degrees. My age gives me a little more edge than you, so lose with with your arrogance. The fact that you don’t know shit about what many of us are doing shows me that your degree might as well be used to wipe your ass with. I agree. We had more going for us during the time of, let’s say, Oklahoma’s Black Wall Street, but do you know how and why that ended? If not, look it up. Yes, we’ve fallen head long into capitalism, so instead of investing our money, we spend money to put someone else’s name on our backside thinking we’ve made it, all the while making them more rich. Yes, I agree. Many of us have fallen in their standards, but many of us HAVEN’T. I’m a cunt with a weight problem? Hardly, but if I was, on my worst day, I’m better than you on your best. You are arrogant and think that your stinking degree makes you special. I have a few myself and I’m a former teacher, so lose me with your arrogance. Oh, I’m coming for you, and I’ll say it again. I don’t care how “mahogany” you are, you are STILL a White supremacist.
Really? What study did you do to come up with that? Numbers please, and not some bullshit number some White man gave you. Negroes are always believing what the White man says about em. I bet you have no idea how many Whites kills us. You don’t know because the media hides their mess. Just because it’s not reported doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. In live in th South, and recently, a young Black boy was hanged by a group of White teens. Stuff life this goes on all the time, but we never hear about it on the news because they love to hide their evil. Yet again, if YT ain’t telling Negroes something (Lord knows many of us aren’t going to research anything because we are too lazy), we believe. Newsflash! Everything said about us will be negative, period. End of story, but if you choose to believe the lies, then stay wallowing in your ignorance. I’m not going to join you.
No, YOU are talking about “Black problems.” I’m talking about HUMAN problems that can and do affect us. What are “Black people problems?” Do you even know what you are saying? Do you even know the problems they have? Do you recognize that many Whites have horrible lives. A family member words in drug treatment and many have grown up in families that molested them, started them on drugs, beat them, and abandoned them. Many Black people have no IDEA the problems Whites have, and since we live in the a world with them, we should all be concerned, but, again, Negroes are still on that “Blacks have rule; everyone else has another” b.s. It’s not about “worrying about them,” it’s about knowing that when we share a world with others, what they do affects everyone. We don’t live in a bubble. Don’t you understand that? If not, I can’t help you and there’s no need to continue with conversation because a lot of people don’t have the mindset or ability to connect dots and to see the bigger picture.
An Uncle Tom or telling Go the truth?
Obviously the truth hurts you.
OH stop it. No excuse for this.
It is complicated. I come across so many of our people who just seem…. souless. Not wicked or anything like that, but like they really are unable to grasp compassion, love, wanting more, striving for more. They’re affect is flat and there’s no light in their eyes. It’s hard to put into words but it is very perplexing. Yes, everyone is responsible for their own actions, but something happened…. Just don’t know what it is, can’t put my finger on it. Hopeless, no vision and in darkness. They didn’t get there by their selves though.
If they feel like that’s what they need to do…..
BUT KNOW THIS:
JUDAH WILL BE REVIVED ??
Need Respect from who??? Lol whites or any other nation were not put on this Earth to respect you Negroes. You’ll never get respect from an people that’s been kicking yo peoples behinds since the beginning Lol. They don’t care if every negro all came together as a nation. They only care about putting as many of you fools to death. They lack empathy and compassion. They see you as a threat and only deal with you when they feel like it. You’ll never earn Respect from them.
So what?
Any Black who is wiser or speaks the truth and takes a stands to better themselves or others is called such derogatory names in an effort to humiliate and control them. -Uncle Tom would fit that description, but Stevie is wise enough to just let it roll off his shoulder.
Uhm the “black lives matters” supporters are not the ones killing other blacks. SMH. Yeah its blacks but come on now….we all know exactly what that title stand for.
In an ideal world: What was done can be undone aka simply flip the script and reverse that.
In an ideal world minorities would come together with a viable plan and remain strong about getting rid of or gathering all guns and drugs and toss that crap daily into a symbolic bond fire (of a sort) to say no more and we want back our community, dignity and life back to our people as a whole.
Imagine: no more playing foolishly into the hands of those who set us up to destroy ourselves; our own sistas and brothas; mothers/fathers; neighborhood and communities. No more falling for tricks of the trade to be set up so that the sl-ave patr0ls can capitalize off of sending us to their for-profit jails and prisons. -But, that that takes strength and effort and strong leadership to undo decades of that effort. ijs
I love Stevie Wonder. He is such a big hearted person. He’s still holding on to those two braids he has left I see. The rest of his hairline’s been gone awhile now…
We have so much confronting us right now. We’re killing each other and the cops are killing us. And the most terrifying aspect is, Where does it stop? And what’s gonna be the end result of this African American genocide we’re witnessing?
I was listening to Marvin Gaye the other day and “Makes Me Wanna Holler” and “What’s Goin On” sound like they could have been recorded in 2017.
We are in some very desperate times.
Theres a difference between arrogance and mud slinging. Instead of disagreeing you threw stones first by name calling which makes you weak. I debate atleast once a week and I will agree to disagree at in instant. So just because you have a different opinion you want to start up with me and call me a white supremacist because I see degradation everyday in my community. You used to be a teacher then why did you stop? I guess they dont make enough in the state of NC to sustain that way of life. How about this? I teach everyday to students who no nothing about property. They dont even know how to fill out an application for a job or a school loan. They cant even spell and I am at the college level of guidance right now. So dont tell me in my metropolitan city that I am a white supremacist….arrogant no confident yes because I know that I am better than you. So please dont make me catch a flight to the country to come see you. At the end of the day Im capable of anything you do and much more. I want better for my students and know what they are capable of. I also see the downside of what a lack of education and knowledge can do. So because I want to not give a damn about “THEM” and worry about “US” you wanna get mad…..I guess that makes you the white supremacist. Get the hell outta here I refuse to argue with a country bumpkin who obviously doesn’t even live in a metro area…go fix that wig and run around the track a few times…
Yeah but the slave master made them do it. #Sarcasm
More cops, higher crime.
Because people don’t want to be held accountable for their own actions. They would rather blame EVERYTHING on someone else (Police, white people) when Black-on-Black crime has been a thing for years and so much of a thing it was given a name! Change starts within
You are right. It’s like some people just don’t give a damn about their life or anyone else’s life. It wasn’t always this way and if we look back we can see when things started to change and why. Now the question becomes how can we correct it.
So what’s a drastic measure that would rectify this issue? Better yet why do you think they would care now all of the sudden? The answer is with the community.
HA! sure.. more water, bugger fire. I get it. lol.
Stevie Wonder is also figuratively blind if he is blaming anyone else but that hateful police who murdered that innocent young man in Minnesota!
Stevie has stood on the front lines for civil rights since he was a young man. He’s so right though. Where is the outrage when we’re killing each other.
My sister lives in Bham and this was a crazy weekend. Several shootings and murders but no one is protesting. Do your life mean nothing if you’re murdered by a black person? Should families just shrug if they lose a love one at the hands of a black person?? Is it less painful?? There is no regard for life. It’s crazy. Outsiders look at us like , well shit they don’t care about themselves, why should we..
Steve has been holding it down for us for years. When someone speaks the truth we get angry but there is some truth in what he’s saying. We, as a people, have to do better and hold ourselves up high.
I mean have you ever gotten in someone’s car and there’s shit all over the floor, french fries, toys, food stains on the seat etc. You don’t hesitate to eat in their car because of the presentation. But if you get in a clean car, you respect it more.. You’ll wait to eat even if the person tells you it’s okay Ijs People get too comfortable with you if your don’t give a shit about yourself.. It’s so easy to do.. I see a thot and I curse easier around them than someone corporate. Meanwhile that person could be worse than the thot.. it’s just how it is.. So we out here fighting and killing each other, they looking at us shrugging and joining in the action…
Then maybe you should read world news if you dont see other people killing North Koreans and that doesnt answer my question does it?
Lord, you are a pathetic soul. I didn’t call you a White supremacist because you see degradation in your community. I called you a White supremacist because you dismiss the actions of others as if what others do in our society isn’t important. I’ll call you that again, so we’ll agree to disagree. I’m still a teacher, but not professionally. I teach children and adults alike because instead of bitching about the actions of some of my people, I do something about it. You see, there’s a difference. Oh, and by the way, I taught in one of the largest school districts in the country: Los Angeles Unified, so stop ASS-suming! You are hardly better than me. Look, some of the most ignorant people I know go to college and/or have degrees. That piece of paper doesn’t mean a thing. People going to college and getting a degree is a dime-a-dozen, so, again, your arrogance is stinking up the joint. Going to college and getting a degree or degrees is a wonderful thing, but the quality of the person means more to me than anything else. I’m glad you want better for your students, but I hope you don’t come with that attitude. That’s what’s wrong with many of us. We go in with this big chip on our shoulders looking down our noses at other Blacks because we believe they don’t measure up to our standards. Again, your ignorance is showing. I live in NC, but apparently you don’t even know there are big metropolitan cities here. Have you ever heard of Charlotte, Raleigh (the capital), Greensboro, Fayetteville (home of Fort Bragg)? I fear for your students because as I read your tired post with your empty threats (SMH), I just pitied them and I pity you. So, with that said, I have no more time for you and your foolishness. We will never agree, so let’s just call it quits, shall we? Bye.
Stop liking your own comments and talking about your mom.
Every word of it is true.
The fatherless millennial’s they are not listening though
Obviously reading comprehension isn’t your thing. Also I suggest that you Google Mr. wonder so you can recognize who he is
I think with Stevie is saying that black people have to take responsibility for ourselves for our violent rising and fatal crime rates before we can expect others to have compassion for us that’s true.
Stevie is the man. These millennial’s need to Google so they could recognize him and they need to listen
Most black communities don’t have accountability because the father figure stepped away from their rightful place. There aren’t any good Grandaddys policing young thug’s most black males 40 years old and under didn’t have a daddy in the house raising them so these knuckleheads they don’t know what’s going on from a wise elder males perspective
Countability what’s that? Most black people don’t want accountability they want to keep blaming the white man
You’re so listen we could you’re right there’s a lot of abuse and neglect in our communities and it starts with the 70 per 2% faster rate
Who doesn’t know Stevie Wonder?
He is speaking the TRUTH, how are you protesting police brutality and then crickets about Black on Black killings which is through the roof, so BLM need to come thru as well as all of us.
I agree with that and add to it that many of those raising their children were you and viewed them as friends. Instead of raising them they just associate with them. No guidance. I try to help and guide those around me. I’d rather them learn from me than the SOHK.
North Koreans are treated the way the US treats Mexicans when they go to China. But again deflecting the issue is innocent black men being murdered at the hand shot of police point blank
But you brought up North Koreans.
So when are we gonna address the historical and socioeconomic relationship to so called black on black crime…which has its roots in white on black crime? Oh we’re going to continue victim blaming? Ok. Just checking. Stevie Wonder needs to listen to his own Living for the City in order to re-understand the roots of so called black on black crime. Come on STAY WOKE!
Yep because ALL cultures have issues not just black people