(ThyBlackMan.com) It is a sad day when a white police officer kills a “black” man. It is awful when a Hispanic sociopath kills a young black teenager. It is a tragedy when a mentally unstable African American woman mysteriously dies in a jail cell. But it is far worse when we do it to ourselves, to each other, to members of our own community. Yet when there is black on black crime, where are the protests, the riots, the marches or the rallies? We rally for Sandra Bland but not when a black man recently killed his ex-wife, her husband and all 6 children. Black people riot for Michael Brown and Eric Garner, march for Samuel Dubose or protest for Trayvon Martin – but not for the dozens of victims who die in Chicago every month. We need to face the facts, all of them – not just the ones that “blame the white man”, though he has lately been at fault. Do we expect less of ourselves and our own kind than we do of other races or ethnic groups?
We need to look in the mirror and examine what we expect of our own people. We tolerate our daughters dressing like whores, our sons saggin (niggas spelled backwards) like convict homosexuals, trashy women like Trikki Mirage, rap music that degrades and objectifies our women, jello pudding eating rapists, confused but rich talk show hosts with no spiritual foundation, pastors who fly around in jets and fleece the flock instead of feeding the sheep, our politicians who only pretend to help us, our adults clouding their minds with cheap street weed and our people defend it all – the right to degrade, divide and annihilate ourselves with racist-programmed, self-imposed genocide. Then we wonder why we are targeted, oppressed and ostracized as a people. WAKE UP!
Government statistics from 1980 to 2008 show that the “white man” is not our problem. During that period, 93% of crimes 
committed against black people were committed by black people. Likewise, we are not the white man’s main problem either. Those same Bureau of Justice statistics show that 84% of crimes committed against white people are committed by white people. Each group seems to be its own worst enemy, but this article is about us and solving our problems – not about them. We have been programmed to annihilate each other but we are too busy walking in denial and looking at a few incidents to see the big picture. That is not to devalue the importance of those cases, but to point to a picture that is much worse. http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf
It has further been reported that The 2013 FBI Uniform Crime Report which receives crime data from all law enforcement agencies around the country showed the following: 83% of white victims were killed by white offenders and 90% of black victims were killed by black offenders. Only 14% of white victims were killed by black offenders and only 7.6% of black victims were killed by white offenders. The media, the racists (black and white) and the powers that be would find it hard to push towards a race war if these facts were widely known.
In July of 2015, 13 people were shot in Chicago – all in one week. In August of 2015, 18 people were shot between a Friday and a Sunday night. Where are our protests, marches, rallies and riots for those who lost their lives at the hands of someone the same color as they were?
Hundreds of years ago white racists and slave owners led the way in teaching Africans how to mistreat each other. But today we are teaching them how to see us, how to treat us, what they can get away with and how to destroy us. African Americans (not all) are leading the way to the destruction of the African American dollar, the African American family, the roles of our men, the roles of our women and the likelihood of our future. And instead of our scholars writing about this, speaking about this and seeking to reverse the cycle towards annihilation, they are too busy being bought off by corporate jobs, marching “against the white man” and quieting down to teach in some university classroom. Wake up people. Real activism stands against the core of real problems. We cannot afford to fall for diversions and distractions any longer. And if your enemy can get you to destroy yourself, you must blame yourself as much as you blame your enemy. WE MUST TURN TO EACH OTHER – NOT AGAINST EACH OTHER ANY LONGER!
A 2011 Bureau of Justice Statistics report found the black victimization rate (27.8 per 100,000) was six times higher than the white victimization rate (4.5 per 100,000). The black offending rate (34.4 per 100,000) was almost eight times higher than whites (4.5 per 100,000). One could argue that those who set up the economic, financial and political systems of this country have created the conditions for those very statistics to occur. However, nobody makes our people break into a house, rape a woman, rob a bank or pull a trigger. The old cliche’ which states “the devil made me do it” is simply an outdated way of walking in denial. Our people must look in the mirror of personal accountability or we will not survive.
So now what are you going to do? Criticize this article or change our community from within? We are our own solution. And if black lives do indeed matter, they must matter to our people first and foremost. Not only when someone of a different color takes one, but even more so when we stop our people from taking the lives of our men, women and children. Only when we assign the ultimate value to black lives will others be forced to assign the same value. Until then, why should they if we won’t?
Staff Writer; Marque-Anthony