Black men vs black men

Who is beasty making "excuses" for, Bliss?

Trayvon? :mrgreen: Zimmerman?

Try not to think in reflexes.

 

Huh? No luv... never said that in the least. :smt102

Re-read my post.

 

Very true.

I know I report all crime I witness. To the sometimes chagrin of some of my friends. They tell me 'don't get involved, they will come after you." I have felt scared to sometimes, but I did/do it anyway.

 

Point being, beasty wasn't making excuses for anything. We all agree that it's mayhem.

But what we don't all agree on is whether me, or beasty, or a straight-A black student, or you for that matter, should be accountable for it.

I didn't watch the vid, because the guy took too damn long to get to his point, but judging from this thread, he's saying that our outrage is misdirected and implying that until we solve the inner-city carnage it should be okay if we're all considered suspects, hunted down and killed.

Oh I see: because there's mayhem in inner-city chicago, we shouldn't be outraged if zimmerman stalked you down and killed you and then was let off.

After all, you're human, just like those guys in the inner city. And you're american so you're double the suspect. So wave that magic wand and get gangbangers to stop being so menacing in the news on tv!

And until you do, stop whining when wolves want to stop you and yank you around a bit.

 

See at the bolded? That in fact is NOT AT ALL what he ever said. Yet you said you refuse to watch the video to see what he did say?? :smt102 Ok then.

He asked, where is the ALSO outrage? And the ALSO protest marches for all the other slain dead boys. It's really not rocket-science. .....

But it's not just 'old fart-who-don't know-shit" dude.... young men are asking it, too..

 

Why do these people always ASSUME there is no outrage from black people about the murders in black communities?? Why is it always black people who don't live in black communities along with mostly ignorant non black people who always think this way??

 

Okay, I'm still not gonna watch that fool in the video cough through his nonsense, it's just too tedious.

But let's look at cyhi's statement.

For one:

"Niggas get kilt by each other in the streets but that's cool/normal"

Cool and normal with who? You? Me? The people with post-traumatic stress?

No, it's not cool or normal. But there's a whole so-called "justice" system to deal with it. Those guys killing each other go to prison, like they're supposed to. Does cyhi have some other solution?

For two:

"But when another race kill a black boy everybody want justice."

So should we NOT want justice? We expect more of the damn LAW than we do the fools who kill each other in the gangs. The law is there to protect us, just like it protects "other races" from the gang members. When the law won't protect us, not only are gang members stuck, we're all stuck, no matter how we live our lives.

You can't compare the two issues. That tweet, and that fool in the video compare the two issues. They're different issues. Both are serious problems, but one is more dangerous than the other.

It's not that trayvon was killed (that's tragic, but people get killed). It's that we all knew that zimmerman would walk, and we all know that if the races had been reversed trayvon would have served a long prison sentence. Right here in 2013.

The message this verdict sends to the bullies and to black kids is reprehensible. It will have reverberations in the lives of young black men, as they face the prospect of "just ignoring" a myriad of slights -or- killing or being killed and facing long jail terms. No matter how they live their lives. No escape from that, unlike the gang issue.

It's ignorant to compare the two issues. It just gives ammunition to those people (yeah I know, they don't really exist :roll who have a spiritual grudge against black men.

And you could as easily say: "Cyhi the Prince ignores the issue of gang violence every day, but when someone of another race goes free after killing an unarmed, innocent black teen, Cyhi brings up gang violence."

Cyhi is ignorant.

Personally, I think a great solution would be for the gangs to go after Zimmerman and his family for a cash prize. Now that would be "cool".

 

Good post. Same thing could be asked about the exclusively all black male members here who chose to defend/support Zimmerman. They all chose to ignore the fact that Zimmerman's actions created the whole situation to begin with but took every opportunity they could to imply Martin was somehow responsible in someway or should have been submissive to Zimmerman's whims or he instigated the fight forcing Zimmerman to defend himself. From their POV everything fell on Martin.

 

Co-siggy. Great post, Medulla.

And, I could never understand the positions the guys you refer to took. I understand that you can't convict on feelings, only facts, and I figured maybe that's what their position was all about, and I was misunderstanding. But the more I read, it did seem as though there were a few who blamed TM, and GZ was innocent. No matter how I look at what went down, I can't begin to see things from that angle.

 

And that's one of the big reasons why those same individuals or like minded individuals who frequent the site, when they choose to focus on the issues surrounding the black community, catch heat from most of us other black males here. Their logic on everything involving the black community seems to be based on the fact that black people & black people alone are responsible in some way for any & all of the unfortunate things that occur to either individuals or black people as a whole. Look at Paniro's "victim mentality" response in this thread. Is he saying that everything that goes down in the black community & that black people both those in & out of the community, are not doing anything about the problems is due to "victim mentality"? So what does that say about those without "victim mentality" who see what goes on & say "Not my problem, not my responsibility?"

 

Kilt?

That be dem Scottish boys, I guess.

The most obvious answer based on this "young man asking the same question" would a basic school level education so he would understand and apply the difference between killed and kilt.

 

That's exactly what the implication is

 

Like I keep saying, it's ignorant black people trying to prove to all of the ignorant non black people that they are just as, if not more, ignorant as they are.

 

It's a common Urban slang word used... it's not a misspell, it's short for killed. (usually to express in symbol, not literal)

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kilt

the passed tense of killed.

"So how was i up there?"

"Aw, you kilt it..."

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I would think reading the articulation and spelling of the rest of his tweet you would have deciphered that it was intentional...
That "Kilt" was also not an indication that he is uneducated, or that he didn't know how to spell 'Killed', nor that he is 'ignorant".
If you'd rather mock the young man's grammar/spelling (despite it being deliberate), rather than what he is trying to express to us, that's fine.

 

Yeah. I get that it's slang. I wasn't referring to that, but the whole thought process in general. The use of slang only makes it worst in my book.

 

But you see the problem, right?

It's like if you and I went out to party and I said to you:

Eh, bliss! You get da choken beer for tonight?

(You)...uh...what?

You know! Da kine?

(You) excuse me?

Auwe den. I ges if you no gef 'um I gef 'um. And if no can den no can.

Any literate, marginally educated person would think I was stupid as fuck if they listened in on this convo.

 

I *just* now fell so hard in *love* with you I think I broke some bones in the process.

Imma need you to handle the medical bills, Kay?

Bai.

Seriously though?
That was "ermahgerd youse whens teh internets" awesome.

 

hehe.. thank u honeybunch. :smt058 love is the refuge :freehug:

 

He's got all the ladies falling in line!! There's just something about his posts that makes me want to hear more from him! I want to see the face behind those words! Just sayin :smt050

 

So its up to private citizens to stop crime? Isn't that what the police is for? The issue of crime is always out of the hands of the disenfranchised they don't have the means nor the political capital to stop its unrealistic to believe so. Its like that allo over the world. The violence stops when the economics are better.