Good kids and Bad kids alike get killed these days

"We tend to want to classify — the bad families and the good families, the violent kids and the victims…It's much more complex than that, but our discomfort leads us into overly simplistic thinking,..We withdraw rather than confront the complexities." - Nancy Erbe



Dear friends,

On the heels of the murder of Trayvon Martin, I thought of an article that I posted almost two years ago, regarding the notion of teenage homicides - its victims and suspects. Moreover, the idea that an African American, male or female, poses a threat, when wearing a "hoodie" suggests that White Supremacy, euphemistically-called racism has so rendered us to be less than human that we kill our own as senselessly as George Zimmerman did Trayvon - as if he were killing an insect.

Consequently, with all of the community support, nationwide, for the Martins at this time, let us hope to embrace this new found Black Love. That means that our "hip-hop" artists will have to stop using the word "niggah" in their discourse, for example, in order to stop showing such a lack of respect for themselves and hatred for themselves that is so easily acceptable to both Jewish and Italian recording moguls.

In any case, on the link below is a thoughtful story by Sandy Banks of the Los Angeles Times that shows one of the ways that the Crime Industry devastates our communities. However, because of our own inadequacies, as Sandy points out, we may have a distorted vision about both the victims and perpetrators of crime.

Cheers!

G.Djata Bumpus
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-banks-20100629,0,7982683,full.column