Why are so many young African-American men shooting each other so much?

@4meAndyou That seems to be the consensus. What breaks my heart is when the victim is an exemplary person like and honor student who wasn't part of that culture, and that happens all the time. I don't understand why everyone ignores the elephant in the room, and burns down cities when there is an occasional police shooting, or they freak out over some nut cases who march and wave flags but have not hurt anyone in decades, or some statues of generals from another age. It's down right silly but tragic.

@puck61 Well, Puck, I think we have to imagine ourselves in a reverse situation. Let us imagine that a disproportionate number of murders with guns or knives were committed by white men. (Right now, the stats show that the disproportionate number of murders are committed by black men.)

But we're just pretending for a minute that young white men are viewed by the police as MORE likely to pull out a gun and shoot them as not. As a white mother, I KNOW that my child is in danger every time he leaves the house, because mistakes are made. And if it happened over and over again, I might consider marching and protesting, too. I would never burn down a city, but nut jobs like to join every serious protest just so they can act out their fantasies.

This business of tearing down statues is just Woke stupidity. Woke folks are so constantly bullied into compliance with what their peers consider to be politically correct that they say and do the stupidest things imaginable in order to avoid the bullying, which can be quite horrible.

@4meAndyou These protests and rallies are nothing but leftist social events so they can feel relevant. That's the problem with leftist thinking. It makes you feel irrelevant so you do crazy things to try and feel relevant.

@puck61 Oh, I thought you were talking about the emotion driven protests by black families who feel their children are being targeted by the police unjustly.

@4meAndyou I was, but it ties in with the left who have created the dynamic that causes that behavior. Sorry if it seemed like a rabbit trail.

@puck61 I will say that I believe such families are often exploited and used by those with a leftist agenda. The families themselves may be honest in their feelings and their needs, but then they are co-opted by those who wish to destroy our society. Most marches are organized by groups with definite agendas.

@4meAndyou I am all for social safety nets. I am all for helping those in need, but LBJ's work in 1964 was a deliberate major attack on African Americans and he bragged about it! My grandparents and their friends talked about it when I was a kid, and several other old people have backed the story. Johnson's intention was to form a strong dependable voting block and cripple the black community for centuries to come. He bragged about it!

@puck61 LBJ also said we would NEVER go to Viet-Nam. My father was already IN Thailand doing groundwork when he said that. I don't think we need to discuss LBJ further. He was a fossil...a throwback, and a liar.

That being said, it was LBJ and people exactly like him who created a society of inequities which are now being addressed. Unfortunately, the people who are trying to overcome these social injustices are just as left leaning as LBJ was to the right. Extremism will always, always, hurt our country.

@4meAndyou It's getting awfully extreme lately. It's coming down to whether we surrender this country to an opposing faction or keep it and protect it. It's getting there real fast. We can forget about melanin when the friction turns to fire.

@puck61 Politics are formed upon our wishes for our future society. We are engaged in a multi-issue struggle at the moment, fueled on one side by emotion and fear, and fueled on the other side by fear of the first side and where their short-sightedness will lead us.