"Black On Black Murder" - The Civil Rights Violation Not Labeled As Such

President Obama's Civil Rights Agenda

As I perused the "Change Has Come" website of the newly christened president I look for the major themes contained within. Since the civil rights community believed that their interests have not been addressed for these past 8 years, I was curious as to how a more favorable president to them would handle the key Civil Rights Violation that even they are loathed to talk about:

Black on Black Homicides

In so many other areas the notion of the "disproportionate representation of Black people" would be used as proof in itself of the lingering racism that is present within this nation.

For some strange reason - when Blacks are also the perpetrators of these murders - the Black victim's "civil rights" get jettisoned as an important issue for consideration as a "civil rights violation".

It is also true that the race of the victim is of relevance to the definition of a "civil rights violation". A Black perpetrator is a disqualifier for the offense being called a "civil rights violation".

The Inspection Of Barack Obama's So-Called Civil Rights Agenda

"The teenagers and college students who left their homes to march in the streets of Birmingham and Montgomery; the mothers who walked instead of taking the bus after a long day of doing somebody else's laundry and cleaning somebody else's kitchen -- they didn't brave fire hoses and Billy clubs so that their grandchildren and their great-grandchildren would still wonder at the beginning of the 21st century whether their vote would be counted; whether their civil rights would be protected by their government; whether justice would be equal and opportunity would be theirs.... We have more work to do."

-- Barack Obama, Speech at Howard University, September 28, 2007

President Barack Obama's Civil Rights Agenda

(The Black and Racial Minority Section)

* Combat Employment Discrimination
* Expand Hate Crimes Statutes
Reinvigorate enforcement at the Department of Justice's Criminal Section.
* End Deceptive Voting Practices
* End Racial Profiling
* Reduce Crime Recidivism by Providing Ex-Offender Support
* Eliminate Sentencing Disparities
The disparity between sentencing crack and powder-based cocaine is
wrong and should be completely eliminated.
* Expand Use of Drug Courts

Support For the Lesbian Gay Bi-Sexual And Transgendered Community
* Expand Hate Crimes Statutes
* Fight Workplace Discrimination
*Support Full Civil Unions and Federal Rights for LGBT Couples
* Oppose a Constitutional Ban on Same-Sex Marriage
*Repeal Don't Ask-Don't Tell
* Expand Adoption Rights
* Promote AIDS Prevention
* Empower Women to Prevent HIV/AIDS

In as much as the Black community is the disproportionate victims of homicides - where will the outrage be that this subject is not contained in the agenda for Barack Obama?

Is a Black person only a legitimate victim of a civil rights violation when a qualifying assailant does the attacking?

How is it that AIDS and Adoption rights make it into the agenda but not the low Homicide Closure Rates and the systematic witness intimidation stemming from "Stop Snitching" does not?