Fixing the problem with the system, whether internally or externally, would be far easier than fixing the problem with very poor neighbourhoods filled with poverty and despair. That would take far longer. Poverty breeds crime. Not skin colour. You think it's the well to do whites driving White crime rates. Of course, the criminals in the financial sector is another matter. What do well to do whites dismiss them as? White Trash. Check the crime rates among poor Whites.
As to the culture of not snitching. That is also not a race thing, whether it's a rat (Italians) or a grass (British). Of course people are in those poor communities won't talk. Do you really expect them to? A lot of them want those criminals off the street but they take their chances in keeping their lives. You think the distrust between the authorities and those communities came about overnight?
How is getting criminals to stop killing other criminals and innocents going to stop police brutalising and harassing people or the system from punishing one group of people harsher than another set for the SAME offence? Then you have police who see people who are not 'supposed' to be in certain areas and then harass them. Their are COUNTLESS interactions like this. COUNTLESS.
If you think Police are only targeting high crime areas, boy have I got news for you. Hell, they target their own when he or she is out of uniform. When the blue is removed from the black...
I'm not so sure that will change under a broken, corrupt and oppressive system. But let's keep that system where corrupt law officials are not held accountable for their dirty deeds and incompetence.
Good to know that there is some sensible thought rattling around in there rather than the same old tired rhetoric.
Poverty breeds despair, resentment, hate and envy. It leads people to crime.
As you mentioned gangsters have been around since man started walking upright. The difference is that they have not been able to completely hijack their people.
With the explosion of social media, the vocal idiots that no one listened to before, now have a platform to spew their garbage, and a vehicle for finding others like themselves to
latch onto. As these self interested idiots start to band together, they begin to feel like they actually have intelligent thought. They are like the uncle/cousin at family gatherings that
always talks a bunch of nonsense. He/she shoots their mouth off, but the rest of the relatives are so tired of arguing with them that they just ignore it. Miraculously, since no one argues with
them, they believe they have won the moral ground.
If you are thinking "I don't have a relative like that".. Chances are you are that relative.
So let me break it down for you. Most of us agree that there are issues with police conduct, and that blacks are targeted for more scrutiny from police.
Most of us agree that racism exists and that many of us are discriminated against on a daily basis (including discrimination by age, religion, sex, sexual preference,
weight, the way we look, color of our hair (poor blondes, they suffer so much), etc.. ).
Most of us also agree that the statistics show a real problem with Black crime, and specifically show police violence against blacks is a very very very very small percentage
vs. black on black violence.
Having said that, most of us understand the implications of police violence against blacks and the concern of inherent discrimination, but we are confident that there are
enough good people on the police force (both on the streets, and in the executive offices) who recognize this problem, and we trust they are trying to solve the problem.
Regardless of our trust, we also know that we are a free and somewhat just society, and if the problems continue, there will be protests.
Most people are with BLM in raising awareness of the issue.
So what is really pissing us off??
1. The obvious vilification of the white race (its called racism).
2. The blaming of all the issues on our society, or on slavery
3. Liars, and lazy asses, and cowards... If you really care about black people, then you should be
protesting black on black violence 10X more than you should be protesting police violence.
Why is that not happening?
4. Liars and Lazy Asses, and cowards. if you are really against inherent racism, you should be including
all races who are victimized
5. Liars and Lazy Asses, and cowards.. you understand that poverty is a large part of the issue, but you refuse to understand
that a mentality that you are being victimized leads to despair and exacerbates the problem.
6. Liars and Lazy Asses, and cowards.. .... in your own post you seem to understand the problem. But instead of tackling the
problem, you decide that blaming everything on the police, the system or on slavery makes a lot more sense. The system has
some fault, but fixing the system will not fix most of the problems of black on black violence.
Conclusion: There are many of us who want to see real change in our society. Change that will benefit all races, religions, cultures etc.
People like BLM and to some extent yourself do more damage to that cause than the racists out there because we just get tired of listening
to BS, and turn a blind eye to it.