"Confederate Outcomes For Black Mortality" In The State Of Pennsyvania

Pennsylvania Is Second In Rate Of Black Homicides

From The Article:

Pennsylvania has the second-highest rate of black homicide victims in the nation, and Philadelphia was responsible for more than half of those slayings, according to a study released yesterday by the Violence Policy Center in Washington.

The study looked at 2008 FBI data, the most recent available, and found that 449 of the state's homicide victims that year were black, which resulted in a black homicide rate of 31.05 per 100,000.

Of those victims, 263 were killed in Philadelphia. Pittsburgh had the second-most black homicide victims with 66, and Chester came in third with 16, according to statistics provided by the Violence Policy Center.

Pennsylvania has ranked either first or second in the study for the past five years, said Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the Violence Policy Center.

"Pennsylvania residents should be deeply concerned and very troubled," he said. "What this shows is that there's a consistent problem."

Chad Dion Lassiter, race professor at the University of Pennsylvania and West Chester University, said the stats were "extremely alarming."

"You let three white men die in one given Saturday because of gun violence, there would be an uproar," he said. "But here in Philadelphia, if three black men don't die in one weekend, we wonder what was going on. Was there a sporting event or something happening?

"The larger society does not put value on the price of a black body."

The last line proves to be most frustrating to me.
It attempts to INDICT the "larger society" for its lack of care of Black people.

• I heard entertainment mogul Russell Simmons itemize the number of "cold case" murders who's victims appear on a wall in his neighborhood, surrounding the image of the late "Jam Master Jay"
• I watched a documentary on Flint Michigan which noted that there are 400 UNSOLVED murders in the city in the past 8 years

When we realize that NONE OF THESE unsolved murders that will be made into "Civil Rights Cold Case Files" - EQUAL in offense to the slashings done over the past 70 years by the "CCC" and "Confederate Sympathizers" - then we can begin to understand the problem.  There will never be as much passion to find the murderer that compares to that which is shown i the "Civil Rights Cold Case File".

Sadly - if the "authorities" were to doggedly turn over every lead in their attempt to bring the killer to justice - certain operatives WITHIN the community would speak out about the drag net that too many people have been ensnared in.

I am forced to conclude that only the community has the power to define the acceptable level of homicide and violent assault that is tolerated within their own community.  From there they will provide evidence of their commitment to this standard by the policies and actions that they are seen enacting to fortify these claims.


The Misappropriated Leadership In The Black Community Today

The news that "Confederate Sympathizers" were to have a banquet to commemorate the anniversary of the start of the Civil War will garner more attention than this shameful factoid that this "Black Murder Rate" of genocidal proportions represents.   Since there is no direct "indicitable adversary" - SILENCE and eventual REDIRECTION is the preferred response.  They want "ideological unity" and not internal controversy, after all.  By showing audacity in actually defending the Permanent Interests of "Safe Streets" within our community, not worried about the toes that are stepped upon - such a person risks being called "AGAINST Black people" per the "hatred" that they show in "painting Black people as criminals".

 I have suggested previously the need to not accept the worn out label of "RACIST" as it has been hijacked as a mere ideological and political weapon.

The ENEMY OF BLACK PEOPLE shows his face based upon:

• His willingness to murder, assault, rape our people as a means of keeping them in their place via his projection of power
• His willingness to destroy the Human Resource Development potential of Black people by derailing Black Education 
• His willingness to undercut the Black community's Economic foundations by assaulting the ability of Organic Economic Institutions to create wealth and deploy Black people
• His willingness to disrupt the Quality of Life of individual people and the society by derailing the social order between Black people and their healthy living activities

When you use THIS framework as a means of profiling the enemy of Black people - the face of your enemy will be shown:

I see no difference between the "Machine" that actively conspired to assist those who killed Black people and the machine today - who in the face of a precipitous amount of Black people being murdered on their watch - they realize that by OBFUSCATING outward, getting the Black Rank & File to agree to focus upon their popular ideological enemy, thus producing the environment of BENIGN NEGLECT in which the Street Pirates fester.