Friday, August 7, 2020
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Nuttin...
"The greatest danger for Black men in America is not a police officer, not somebody in a blue uniform, by any stretch of the imagination -- it doesn't even compare. The greatest danger for a Black man in America today is another Black man," said E.W Bishop, an African American minister and lawyer who identifies as a conservative, on his podcast in October 2019.
In his essay, "Challenges for Black People," economics professor Walter E. Williams, who is affiliated with George Mason University, also referenced "Black-on-Black crime," writing, "Black people need to have frank conversations among ourselves, no matter how uncomfortable and embarrassing the topics may be." Williams even suggests that Black people should patrol their own neighborhoods armed, and "ignore the liberal agenda."
And firebrand Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke told Fox News that Black people should be most afraid of "being on the street in any American ghetto where the Black-on-Black crime is a bigger threat and bigger problem in the community then the police use-of-force."
A look at the biographies of some of America's most prominent Black conservatives seems to show them typically to be older people. Historian and professor of history, race and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, Khalil Gibran Muhammad said there is definitely a generational difference between Black people who use the phrase and ones who criticize it.
"Black people can also articulate racist ideas, and in the Trump era a lot more of them are," he said of some of those who self-identify as Black conservatives.
However, older Black people who use the term "Black-on-Black" crime are not necessarily conservative, he said.
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Chop-chop...
Visitors to CHOP walk past a [cardboard] sign which states: ‘YOU ARE NOW LEAVING THE USA’ – not that such signage is necessary. In a generous gift of what amounts to foreign aid, the city of Seattle provided CHOP with free dumpsters, garbage cans and portable toilets.
Monday, August 3, 2020
Topless...
Gov.Cuomo slammed New York’s finest Saturday for not taking action against bars and restaurants that are ignoring coronavirus safety rules.
The governor said 27 Manhattan establishments got violations overnight out of a total 41 statewide.
“We need the NYPD to step up and do enforcement,” Cuomo said.
Inspectors found that one of the establishments, Shinsen, which is supposed to be a Japanese restaurant on the Bowery in Chinatown, was hosting a booze-fueled event Thursday night with topless women who were giving lap dances to patrons who paid a $40 cover charge.
Sunday, August 2, 2020
Ebony...
"If Black lives matter, they have to matter all the time."
Those who use the term say it is an important point in describing the disproportionate amount of crime perpetrated by Black people against other Black people.
The earliest modern references to Black-on-Black crime came from Black media. In 1979, Ebony magazine, the first commercially successful Black-owned magazine focusing on the African American community, featured an article about Black-on-Black crime.
"Although the Black community is not responsible for the external conditions that systematically create breeding grounds for crime, the community has the responsibility of doing what it can to attack the problem from within," the article from the August 1979 issue read.
Black Enterprise magazine, a Black-owned publication focusing on Black business and economics, also referenced Black-on-Black crime in its June 1979 issue. "You might not know it from reading the daily newspaper or watching the evening news on television, but most big-city crime is committed by blacks upon blacks," an article in the issue stated.