Why do black men shoot other black men in the inner cities ? This question was asked on the internet: Why do black men shoot other black men in the inner cities, and these are the many...

travelwp Loc: New Jersey

This question was asked on the internet:
Why do black men shoot other black men in the inner cities, and these are the many reasons:

• Unemployed or stuck in a low wage hard work job where his contributions are unrecognized
• Lives with his mother and has little control over his home environment
• Has a child but no custody and a bad relationship with his baby mama
• Been profiled and harassed by the police
• Observes community members driving nice cars
• Rejected for better jobs
• Feels unable to change his life status and is insignificant in the world
• Seeks to overcome feelings of impotence
• Often immature,
• lacking self-identity
• Little life happiness
• thrill seeker often brags and talks about his toughness and ‘hood status.
• Wants to make a real name for himself
• Will recklessly escalate a situation
• Too often black men suffer an inferiority complex.
• Society vilifies and criminalizes black men on a daily basis.
• American culture is based upon the notion that black people and specifically black men are less intelligent, completely unpredictable, beast like, lazy etc., etc.
• Black men internalize this notion and are conditioned to see little value when they look in the mirror.
• Beset by internal angst and torment.
• Unresolved pain combined with poverty, ignorance, oppression, violent police, violent neighborhoods, etc.
• The symptoms of an inferiority complex include a high sensitivity to criticism, perceiving others as a threat, jealousy, a lack of dreams.

The daily feeling of isolation, powerlessness and impotence is like being a prisoner of war. One reason black men grab their genitals is to stress their vitality. Men who have been literally stripped of the ability to display their manhood – great jobs, big houses, educational attainment and all the other accoutrements of modern society- are literally killing others to express their power in life.
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After reading the list one has to ask: "How do you start to fix this?"

ecblackiii Loc: Maryland

Change has to come from within the culture. Trying to impose change from the outside does not work because it is perceived as oppression.

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

It's not that complicated. Events tend to happen within the "Neighborhood" in a black neighborhood blacks kill other blacks.

travelwp Loc: New Jersey

ecblackiii wrote:

Change has to come from within the culture. Trying to impose change from the outside does not work because it is perceived as oppression.

I think you are right. I for one have always blamed the Democrats because they run most of the inner cities, but as you say, change has to come from within.

On the other hand, there are blacks who start out life in that terrible environment and manage to escape for a better life, but there are no stories of how they did it.

ecblackiii Loc: Maryland

There is one that I know of. It's "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story." It tells his life story, from growing up in a single parent home in the ghetto to becoming a world renowned brain surgeon at Johns Hopkins Medical Center. It's a great read.

travelwp Loc: New Jersey

boberic wrote:

It's not that complicated. Events tend to happen within the "Neighborhood" in a black neighborhood blacks kill other blacks.

The cause is not complicated, but what do you think is the solution?

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

Everyone of these so-called reasons could apply to Whites or anyone else regardless of skin color. Except, "American culture is based upon the notion that black people and specifically black men are less intelligent, completely unpredictable, beast like, lazy etc., etc." which is a lie. The majority of White America has elected a Black President twice and a Black VP once after all. Some of the most intelligent and accomplished people in the country are Black.

ecblackiii Loc: Maryland

travelwp wrote:

I think you are right. I for one have always blamed the Democrats because they run most of the inner cities, but as you say, change has to come from within.

On the other hand, there are blacks who start out life in that terrible environment and manage to escape for a better life, but there are no stories of how they did it.

Justice Clarence Thomas is another great story of a black rising up from poverty in a single parent home. His books are on Amazon also.

travelwp Loc: New Jersey

ecblackiii wrote:

There is one that I know of. It's "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story." It tells his life story, from growing up in a single parent home in the ghetto to becoming a world renowned brain surgeon at Johns Hopkins Medical Center. It's a great read.

Wow ! I checked out Carson's story with the movie and interviews. I's absolutely amazing that someone can escape and have an amazing life. How many mothers were like Ben's mother.....

travelwp Loc: New Jersey

ecblackiii wrote:

Justice Clarence Thomas is another great story of a black rising up from poverty in a single parent home. His books are on Amazon also.

Yes, I remember seeing the hassle Thomas had to endure on his way to the Supreme Court.

Amazing !

IDguy Loc: Idaho

travelwp wrote:

The cause is not complicated, but what do you think is the solution?

Ask Rudi. He cleaned up New York between left administrations that increase it.

One of the more powerful tools that took down the gun violence was “stop and frisk”. We all are happy with it getting on an Airplane or into a Federal building. But somehow it was made not OK in crime ridden illegal gun violence neighborhoods.

“ The violent crime rate dropped by 56 percent during the eight years he served as mayor. Murder, down nearly two-thirds. Robbery, down 67 percent. Aggravated assault, down 28 percent.”

Instead Biden invites the families of OD’d criminals to dinner at the White House.

travelwp Loc: New Jersey

IDguy wrote:

Instead Biden invites the families of OD’d criminals to dinner at the White House.

It's disgraceful, they want to defund the police and one group in New York wants to close down a prison and let the prisoners out to run free.

pendennis

Besides the esteemed Dr. Carson, check out the lives of Walter Williams, and Thomas Sowell. These two men came up from poverty in the era before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, yet they succeeded beyond anyone's expectations.

Another problem that has a relatively simple solution, and has been propagated by Drs. Williams and Sowell is the following for young black men:

Graduate from high school.
Get a job and establish ones self financially.
THEN get married and have children.

The largest number of these problems arises because of the lack of the nuclear family. Yes, there are exceptions, but the primary cause is the lack of parenting by either a father or mother, preferably both.

thom w Loc: San Jose, CA

ecblackiii wrote:

There is one that I know of. It's "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story." It tells his life story, from growing up in a single parent home in the ghetto to becoming a world renowned brain surgeon at Johns Hopkins Medical Center. It's a great read.

Until Carson, I always thought brain surgeons were bright.

thom w Loc: San Jose, CA

travelwp wrote:

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Blacks mostly kill blacks, whites mostly kill whites, etc. We kill who we know. We kill who we are in the vicinity of.