(ThyBlackMan.com) Tavon Austin, Baltimore native who along with his Rams teammates showed solidarity with the black community saying hands up don’t shoot, torched Richard Sherman and the Seattle Seahawks leaving them looking fricasseed and baked in the secondary badly needing Virginia native Kam Chancellor. In a post game conference Richard Sherman decided to address a post that was made by King Noble that was mistakenly attributed to him and decided to trash and drag Black Lives Matter because there is crime in the black community.?!
Now I am NOT denying that there is crime in our community full disclosure my brother was murdered at the hands of another young black man and honestly the neighborhood and community that he lived in knew what happen and said nothing. For very good reason. Because a 13 year old girl was murdered when she agreed to help police identify a murderer in that very same community. To this very day the murder remains unsolved of both my brother and the 13 year old girl so nobody can tell me how crime in our community affect us. With that being said I’m not stupid enough to conflate the two arguments. Avoiding using the obvious reason as to why this is an apples to steak comparison such as;
1) Black Lives Matter is a response to law enforcement seemingly being unprosecutable in obvious cases of police brutality and murder of Black People ..
2) “Black on Black crime” is a Byproduct of white supremacy. Even a “Stanford Educated brother ” like Richard Sherman knows that years of systematic oppression, Cointelpro, throw in a little crack thanks to Ollie North, brought to you by Ronald Reagan and the next thing you know you’ve got the crack epidemic…. Hey it happens? But what about black on black crime?
Well, according to Richard Sherman, until we take care of that we can’t talk about any social issue outside of the community. So if the police are brutalizing us and not solving murder cases (like the case of my brother) but causing murders (like in the case of my friend Tyrone Hines murdered by police two days before the murder of 
my brother) we shouldn’t address either because black on black crime still exists.
Well if that is the case why was Richard Sherman whining about being called a thug? I mean we do have black elements in our community we would probably consider thugs, so using Richards logic we have to clean up the Thugs first before we worry about what other people call us.
I WONDER IF IT SOUNDS AS STUPID TO HIM AS IT DOES TO ME.
Now let’s get down to business, the fact of the matter is that Richard is way off on this one. In the cases of black on black crime it is only brought up or talked about by the white media when it is brought up that the police are killing unarm black man for no reason at all other than them being black. For a black man to parrot this is not only counterproductive but it is downright treasonous! If you want to bring up how Black Lives Matter coincides with so-called black on black crime, bring up how in the cases of so-called black on black crime the police never seemed to fully investigate or do their due diligence or house in many cases the police do not protect those who are willing to come forward in cases of so-called black on black crime. Just recently here in Washington DC a couple was murdered by an anonymous person after a few days of investigation the police found the killer who had fled the area.
In the case of my brother who was murdered outside in front of people he grew up with not only could the police not guarantee the safety if anyone have pointed out the killer they were all so quick to let me and my father know that even though we knew who the killer was they were watching us in case we decided to retaliate. All the while me and my brother we’re frequently stopped and frisked by police officers carrying a notebook full of pictures looking to arrest us if we were in that book.This was brought up into town hall meeting to DC Police Chief Kathy Lanier, which she denied but I can assure you as being a victim of this more than once it’s actually happening.
But what about black on black crime?
What about the fact that the people who always say “we can’t talk about racism until we deal with what’s going on in our community” never seem to say that white people can’t say racism doesn’t exist until they clean up their community, they can’t talk about the problems that blacks cause until they clean up their community. Why is it that they never say “white people can never say we’re equal until they give us full reparations and land of our own? I guess it’s easier to point the finger at yourself and ignore your own history, then it is to be a Man and speak truth to power.
But maybe somebody should tell Richard Sherman to watch Discovery ID because there’s a whole lot of white on white crime going on that nobody seems to be addressing. The Aurora shooting in Colorado was white on white crime . How come he isn’t speaking out against white guys dressed like the Joker? Most of the police that have been murdered this year have been murdered by white people. In fact most of the police murdered last year were murdered by white supremacist!
But What About Black on Black crime?
Men like Richard Sherman only see racism when it is practice against them but he never sees the impact that racism and white supremacy has on his own community. This is why they get on TV and spew white supremacist talking points with such ease. My advice to Richard Sherman is read some books and get with Marshawn Lynch and learn how to be quiet! And most importantly I cannot forget this one Richard Sherman…….
STOP COONING!
Staff Writer; LeVar Smith