Beep Beep wrote:
Mz Berry, standing against authoritative brutality is commendable. Please don't neglect the killing of black Americans by other black Americans. You can develop a huge platform by bringing the other real problem, to light.
By not acknowledging the problem, you, and others are saying that it is okay. You are simply turning your head.
White Americans, and many other racial groups, are not racist when we are asking black America to stop killing itself. We are asking you to save each other.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/6/1/21275944/chicago-weekend-shootings-most-violent-weekend-2020-may-29-june-1
I'm pretty sure that black people are upset about murder, in general. Just like everyone else. But black people generally don't get away with it when they murder other black people. American police officers do often get away with it. Talking about black on black crime is a distraction (though, again, I'm sure that black communities are saddened whenever there is violence within their community).
Murder of anyone is abhorrent, obviously. It's particularly upsetting that it should be done by someone who has voluntarily signed up for a job where they are harming the people they are supposed to protect, and in many cases are held to a lower standard.
An analogy: Say you have a group of teachers that were bullying their students. Shoving them into lockers, dumping them in garbage cans, saying hurtful things about them to other students. And the investigative panel composed of other teachers kept granting very light sentences, or none at all. The students organize protests against this obvious injustice. Would you be saying: "But you guys bully each other all the time, why is nobody talking about that?"
These protests are not about murders of black people, they are about murders committed by authority figures that result in little to no repercussions for the perpetrators. It's ok to be upset about both issues, but that's not what this is about right now.