Urban Carnage

If shooting and killing other blacks were a sport, too many young black men would be as skilled and adept as LeBron James and Kobe Bryant. In what is being called one of the "deadliest shootings in years" by the Washington Post, 9 people were injured, 4 of them fatally, in a drive-by shooting last night less than 8 miles away from the White House. This same pathetic scene is played out time and time again in black neighborhoods all across America. Not only are we the only race of people who routinely kill each other with reckless abandon; we are also the only race of people who make excuse after excuse for the punks that commit these heinous crimes. However un-representative these thugs may be of the black community overall, the constant killings demand both outrage and action from ALL blacks. Someone needs to start getting mad! Better yet, two or three "someones" need to start gettin mad, and that needs to spread like the H1N1 virus to every hood, every city and every town in this country where black blood is spilled like oil. This senseless violence should signal a "State of Emergency" in our communities!! Everyone has to take responsibility: parents, teachers, clergymen/women, community leaders, politicians, etc. We must return to the days where RESPECT was not just a hit song, and where UNITY was not just an ideal concept that we talked about. Mentalities have to change. There's plenty of blame to go around. We all need to be held accountable. I honestly believe that we should adopt Islamic-style law in the black community. Rape and murder are punishable by death. I say arm all the civilized, pro-life blacks (PLBs) with guns, and let them execute all the would-be murderers that are currently terrorizing entire black communities. Perhaps the creation of a black militia to deal with other blacks is even in order! To my Christian friends who would beat me over the head with the 6th commandment: "Thou shalt not kill", I say that what's been done in the past hasn't worked!! Desperate times call for desperate measures. What we have advocated in the past (letting the criminal justice system deal with these punks) has proved to be woefully inadequate. If not us, then who?! If not now, then, when?!