The Pain That No One Seems To Have An Answer For Within The Black Community

The Pain That No One Seems To Have An Answer For Within The Black Community

The words of one of the people in the audio interviews said all that needs to be said about the high homicide rate amoung young Black people:

In Chicago recently 27 high school aged kids were killed in a short time period. This is more people than were killed in Columbine and nearly the amount dead in the Virginia Tech shootings. Where as these first two incidents got front page attention for several days and are still being talked about.........the slower dripping blood that is coming from the Black community goes unnotice.

To be clear I am not challenging the "Mainstream Media" to bring more attention to this problem with my plea. I am demanding that the BLACK COMMUNITY get our priority straight. Our attention on this problem has been distracted by the national politics that appear to be more important to our racial bottom line. Unfortunately this is not the case on the ground. We are losing the battle in our own streets as many political operatives within our race would have us to place our hopes and dreams into the electoral success of a particular political party that they favor.

These series of audio reports from National Public Radio keep the focus on the problems WITHIN THE BLACK COMMUNITY.


Youth Violence An Issue of Public Health?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10694258


Chicago Schools Suffered 27 Deaths in 2006
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10239461


Philadelphia Homicides Rise Dramatically
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10041811

Philadelphia Confidential - The Crime Blog from the Philly Inquirer newspaper
http://blogs.phillynews.com/dailynews/crime/2007/05/race_and_urban_murderthe_pink.html#more