While Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson were continuing to stir up racial animosity in Sanford Florida, one of the worst mass shootings in Florida history was taking place in Miami. But in Louisville, it was already a gruesome scene -- two dead bodies covered with white sheets on a city street. Dozens of police officers worked the case Thursday as crowds of neighbors and family members pressed close, anxious for news about the victims. Then more shots rang out in the middle of the scene; one woman died and the shooter, another woman, was shot by police. In all, three people were shot to death and three others wounded in a two-hour spree that horrified neighbors and left city officials vowing to curtail the mayhem. Why no outrage or calls for massive demonstrations? Because the shooters were black. In other words, there’s nothing that can be politically exploited here by those willing to ignore the harsh reality that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, black Americans are being victimized by other black Americans. Thus, it was more than a little ironic that days after former Black Panther Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) was demonstrating “solidarity” with Trayvon Martin by donning a hoodie during a speech in the U.S. House of Representatives last Wednesday. But this past Thursday's events began at 1:10 p.m. when 911 dispatchers got a call that there were three people shot at 32nd and Kentucky streets. Within moments, another call alerted them of a man shot at Elliott Avenue and 26th Street, according to MetroSafe Communications. "This kind of violence is unacceptable," said Louisville Metro Police Chief Steve Conrad, who was at the scene when the second shooting broke out.
But about 2:30 p.m., two women standing outside the crime tape that cordoned off the area nearest to Greenwood Avenue began arguing, Conrad said. One woman pulled a gun and shot the other, he said. A nearby officer ordered the woman to stop and put down the gun. But she pointed it at the officer and he fired at her.
Where is the pubic outcry, why do we as a city not look at this? The answer is no one has an agenda, we the community manages to remain willfully oblivious to reality. Those who place less value on the lives of black men are overwhelmingly other black men: the U.S. Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics found that between the years 2001 and 2005, nine-out-of-ten black murder victims were killed by other blacks. Seventy-five percent of those victims were killed with a gun. The DOJ also determined that homicide is the leading cause of death for black males between the ages of 15 and 34. Such is the “value of life” as it is measured far too many times within black American communities.
There are no protests planned here, we have not elicited the kind of protests that have attended the death of Trayvon Martin.
Why not? Because black-on-black killings don’t fit the “template” that animates the likes of the racial arsonists and their media enablers, both of whom are so desperate to fit a racialist square peg into a round hole that the term “White Hispanic” was used by the New York Times to describe alleged shooter George Zimmerman. How often has the paper used the term?
The national media doesn’t do stories about black-on-black crime. It doesn’t interest them, They don’t do stories about black-on-white crime, which happens in far, far greater numbers than white-on-black crimes. They don’t do those stories either. But this is like a movie script handed to them from Hollywood. ‘Oh my goodness! A white guy–or, in this case, a white Hispanic guy–shoots an unarmed black kid. Perfect story..Zimmerman is only a white Hispanic, because they need the word ‘white’ to further the storyline, which is white, probably racist vigilante, shoots unarmed black kid.
The death of any 17-year-old boy is a tragedy. Yet the sad truth is Trayvon Martin is one victim in an ocean of black victims who remain virtually anonymous–and largely ignored–by the demagogues and their media enablers whose agenda isn’t served by such a sobering reality. How sobering? In 2005 alone 8000 black Americans were homicide victims. If one assumes that measurement has remained relatively constant on an annual basis, it means that 56,000 blacks have been killed over the last seven years. For perspective’s sake, 5,000 American troops were killed during combat in Iraq over the same period of time.
One would think it’s fairly difficult to ignore that which amounts to de facto warfare in many black American communities around the nation. Warfare in which the victims and the perpetrators are overwhelmingly black. Nonetheless, the media and racial demagogues are ably convincing black Americans to believe that their real problem is racist America; that the white-controlled “System” is what really threatens their lives, when this is the furthest thing from the truth. This is the lesson from the Trayvon Martin tragedy. A woeful state of affairs in and of itself.
