Paying The Hood To Defend Itself.

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(ThyBlackMan.com) What would life in the inner city be if the federal government paid residents ( called hostages from this sentence forward) to defend themselves? It’s a good thought experiment given millions spent with little or no safety to show for it.

Self-government seems to pass us by. By ” us ” I mean fellow would-be urban hostages. This is written from first hand experience. Could would-be hostages, armed and adequately financed, do worse than commuting officers policing the same problems? Sounds wild I’m sure. The nerve of promoting broke

Negroes being mobilized and funded on their own behalf. If it’s good enough for Iraqis and Afghans it should be good enough for us. Especially when underwritten by our tax dollars!

Oh I forgot, the government game plan isn’t actually stopping neighborhood crime. The role offered hostages is playing silent Sambo while law enforcement and lawless enjoyment use our community as their profitable playing field.

Returning tax dollars to provide our own hometown security makes for novel civil rights legislation. Minus stationing officers here garrison style, urban hostages are the only available full time defenders. We live in these high risk areas; we know the bad actors and their supporting casts. Standing up neighborhood watches and citizen patrols with some punch serves notice the reign of terror is over. Most thugs are bullies seeking easy prey. Once little old ladies and the Hood’s shrinking supply of viable men patrol armed and on alert news will quickly spread. The goal isn’t inciting more urban violence. Reducing it from within is the method to this bit of madness. Hostages didn’t get the memo about war being declared where we live. No call; no text; no e-mail, nothing! One day we awakened to a nightmare of mounting drugs and violence. This idea seeks to seriously turn this tide.

One major argument to the contrary is:

1. Civilians shouldn’t be armed and on the loose, especially Black ones. This official hesitancy hails from the plantation. Fear of slave revolts makes 2nd Amendment use in out zip codes problematic to racist minds. Better we’re hostages than scare other people by lawfully defending ourselves en masse.

The fact private security and gun license laws exist shoot holes in that callous talking point. Police alone aren’t adequate to sufficiently control crime. There’s no way handfuls of officers can secure neighborhoods better than mobilized hostages. We out number the police and possibly predators too. Fighting crime is the only logical alternative to being voiceless victims. Every other outside strategy has failed so why not give community self-defense a try? Using our tax dollars to personally protect life and property is a march on Washington worth making.

Rich neighborhoods hire armed security to patrol their areas so please don’t trot out tired allegations of vigilantism. Vigilance isn’t illegal, even when done by poor Black folks. Being taxed with nothing in return makes society less safe from the high income to the no income.

2. When in doubt, refer to answer number 1.

Supporters of prevention will howl these dollars should be used for social programs and outreach. Prevention takes a back seat to basic safety. We can ‘t have a safer inner city absent equipping hostages to reclaim it. Anyone who thinks this suggestion far fetched should read headlines more closely. The fine print almost screams that there are good people who didn’t sign off on such chaos. Inner city taxes help finance security globally. Is it too much to give some of it back in the form of weapons and public safety training?

Paying the Hood to defend itself is a good investment no city nor law enforcement agency dares make. Here’s one more concern for a lengthy list of considerations: is it acceptable for tax paying, law abiding Americans to be imprisoned within their homes because of zip code or skin color? That’s why paying the Hood to defend itself makes good sense. It’s cheaper than deploying the National Guard. It’s also the right thing to do.

Staff Writer; Nadra Enzi

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toomanygrandkids says:
July 6, 2014 at 6:51 pm
minded should get paid to defend themselves. Puh-leeze! What people in the oughtta do is stop being so ga-ga-goo-goo over drugs and weapons, learn the true meaning of unity and respect, stop blaming others for their own misery and problems, and learn how to own/operate a legit business. Years ago, Kool Mo Dee stated on national television that “the hood’s problem is that they don’t invest in themselves.” He’s absolutely correct.
Anyway, the black cops who were screwing these broads back in the day were never held accountable for their actions/behavior. And residents never reported them. But yet folks wanna complain about cops being against black males. Didn’t/Doesn’t seem as though black cops was that much against black teenagers while they were selling drugs. The way I see it is that black females and their male relatives both got screwed by these black cops and they went along with the program.
toomanygrandkids says:
July 6, 2014 at 6:32 pm
This article is un-fucking-believable! Hood- or Ghetto-minded people are selfish, troublemakers, freeloaders, illiterate, criminals, and cry babies. I could go on and on because there are so many other words that describe them. Let me tell you what I noticed about the hood from the time I had some type of understanding of life as a teenager. Blacks couldn’t hide the fact that they were having sex with anybody who moved. “Fucking” is what they normally called it. The phrases “making love” or “love-making” was hardly ever used. The word “love” had/has so many definitions it ain’t funny. Folks really didn’t know/have a true, sensible definition of love.
I have read/heard about elders who raised their children, worked for a living, and were respected in the community. That didn’t apply to ALL elders. Alot of them were/still are hell-raisers causing just as much harm/pain/hurt/embarrassment as younger adults, if not more. I remember back when I was a teenager how young black males sold weed in their mom’s house. Didn’t matter whether they lived in the projects or a regular house. Well, black police officers in towns where I lived helped these males get away with selling drugs. Cops were either related to them or friends with the families. More than a few times, I saw at least one black cop standing in the kitchen while the weed was being bagged up. I thought of it as odd. As a young teenager, of course, I didn’t question what was going on in other people’s houses.
Anyway, if the boy(s) who sold drugs out of his mom’s (aunt’s, cousin’s, etc) house (s) didn’t give her the right amount of money at the right time, she cussed him out up one side, across, and down the other. She’d also inform him that if it wasn’t for her banging one or two black cops, he’d be locked up. Other females replied that the dealer should’ve been grateful that his mom, aunt, or cousin was keeping him (them) out of jail. And the author of this article suggests that the hood
Vickie says:
October 21, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Interesting article. This Ron Paul supporter likes your idea of true community self rule. If the Government has a monopoly on force, money creation and rules of commerce, we all slaves. One real problem is how you avoid vigilante situations where the wrong person is accused and suffers gross injustice as a consequence. Still, local control sounds a lot better than Leviathan with its no-knock raids.
jd says:
October 11, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Many elders in the black community have told me this is the way things were handled back in the days. Black police officers, and black men protected their own communities. As DG says, this definitely deserves more thought.
DG says:
October 3, 2011 at 11:27 am
That is a very interesting concept and deserves more thought.