Chicago Youth Shot 13 Times: When The Indictment Call "THEY" Is Not Available For Exploitation

Another week goes by in the summer of 2010 in America. Another case of the wanton murder of a Black person is exhibited. Pick the large metro area of your choice and you will find your own exhibit to focus upon.

This time the location is Chicago Illinois.  We see the usual respondents to such an event:

• The local news
• A community march
• Jesse Jackson
• Huffington Post (Notice the straight news report from HuffPo - no expanded analysis linking this one killing in to a larger pattern that threatens the Black community - as would be the case if a right-wing militia group had struck even once.  They know that Blacks are killing each other.  It would do more damage to their relationship with Progressive Blacks to make such a connection than it is to stay silent and merely wait until  "unifying Republican" says something stupid that the White Snarling Fox and the "Progressive who is Black" can retain their solemn unity around. )

The fact remains that none of them have the scenario at hand that allows them to make their strongest of indictments.  These are typically notated by the words said to the camera:  "THEY cannot do this to Black people!!!  Shooting us dead like we are animals.  Their hated of our race shown in the wanton violence of the attack".

The notation of a pattern of violence in which Black people are being killed is not enough of an indictment that can trigger forces near and far to converge upon the violent streets of Chicago or any other place where this pattern exists.  Instead it is the value of the assailant that is the key determining factor of how much "legs" the story will have.  How far they will travel to make a national statement which says "The Black community will not tolerate such a violent attack against US". 

Indeed it is awesome to see this community come together for a "stop the violence" march.  The fact that the aggrieved parents of the 13 year old who was violently murdered participated in the march makes it even more powerful.  Everyone's outrage is real.   However, in as much as a march symbolizes the unity of the individuals in the community against these violent acts - the fact remains that a march is most effective against those who have POWER.  A march is a statement of POWER against an opposing force that is POWERFUL.  It shows that the individuals standing together is too powerful to be rolled over.  An accompanying sit-in shows this power that this mass will not be moved until they relent.

The terrorizers of this particular community in Chicago, and so many others where Black people live in our highest concentrations come from WITHIN the domain of the community.
Unfortunately the Street Pirates don't have a building that can be picketed or any advertisers that can be boycotted in order to force change upon the target.

 Thus, I argue that a MARCH is not the most effective tool to foment change in the consciousness of those who have so much contempt for the life of a fellow human being that he would shoot him between 13 and 22 times - UNCERTAIN of the identify of the human who's life he took.  Not giving a DAMN about the other human beings who are extended to the being that he is about to slay.  Shot after shot to vent his hatred, an empty clip telling them to stop.

Clearly something with more fortitude than a march is needed.

The Disconnectedness Between The Black Political Operatives And The Main Threats On The Street Which Terrorize The Black Community

This was a relatively quiet week as compared to the week prior in which Shirly Sherrod was the headliner in which some are saying she was "lynched".  The week prior we had the NAACP indicting the Tea Party for racism as they decided upon the marquee message specifying the "primary threat to Black people" from their convention.

When we clear the decks of the issues that the Black Progressive Establishment would prefer to focus upon - we are left, all alone in our secret spaces, having to deal with the problems that suffer from the benign neglect as those who purport to be our community consciousness leaders have their attention focused elsewhere.

I am not arguing for one minute that anyone caused this violent and senseless death besides the Street Pirate who pulled the trigger at least 13 times, pumping bullets into the body of the young Black male who looked like him.

I am only arguing that those adults who have control over our communities are allowing this murderous consciousness to metastasize, unabated.   Those who seek to set the agenda for Black America have us focused upon enemies the enemies that garner the greatest political advantage in the "Malcolm X political football game" in which we are now starters.   This focus has a greater unifying effect upon the Black masses.  In advancing this agreed upon focus no one has to get their toes stepped upon.

If the Southern States of the past were "Killing Fields" for Black people and thus required the interdiction of  an array of forces to ensure the well-being and safety for the Black community then why aren't the same observations being made of today's "killing fields" in which an inordinate amount of Black people are allowed to live their final moments on this Earth, their lives snatched away by the same SPIRIT which once possessed the body of our long time oppressors AND which was not checked by the force of AUTHORITY which allowed them to act with impunity?

Indeed it is a SPIRIT that we are fighting.  Those who stand within our consciousness nucleus would prefer to place a skin color, ideology and political party on this SPIRIT.  As they chase after their windmill they leave our jugular vein exposed to be slashed by those who are reside WITHIN yet go unregulated.  RACIAL PROFILING, indeed.

Unfortunately for the prevailing consciousness within our community to change this requires a bit of SELF-INDICTMENT and their commitment to a framework for change.  Since self-correction is so rare among groups who suffer from "insider trading" - our community is bound to suffer even more of these senseless deaths. They don't present the usual suspects with the exploitable vector by which to operate upon.

WHO is really devaluing the lives of Black people but Black people?