Derrion Albert’s life was brutally taken by the brutality that lives in the depths of the black community – but ultimately he is the latest Sacrificial Lamb offered up for no reason at all.The Beating
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#33063688
http://news.aol.com/article/derrion-alberts-beating-death-captured/690024?icid=mainmaindl1link1http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fderrion-alberts-beating-death-captured%2F690024
Open Letter from NAS
http://globalgrind.com/content/1020340/Open-Letter-To-Young-Warriors-In-Chicago/
The Black Rebel's Say
I began to formulate my thoughts yesterday after seeing the disturbing video. Video images that honestly forced me to think:
‘What are these savages thinking/doing?’
I referred to the black boys featured in the video as what I think of when thinking about untrained, short-fused, uncontrollable mammals: SAVAGES.
I later scrolled down the AOL web page to read the comments. Not surprisingly, I was able to determine which responses were posted from non-black folk and black folk.
Guess what?
I claim that I was able to distinguish – but the word ‘savage’ was used quite a bit in the countless comments. So perhaps, I was not able to make the determination as I thought?
In my BLACK mind the behavior was beast-like. It had a tone of savagery. Considering that my first thought inclination was SAVAGE, am I a hater of black people?
If there is a white person reading this or who read the comments I read repeatedly – and referred to those black boys as savages while viewing the video clip please do not ‘adjust’ your thinking or opinion.
Why?
You (white person) are right (with me, a BLACK man) the behavior was brutally animalistic. You are not racist for thinking this. I, myself, was wrong in my assumptions of labeling: “A white man left that comment.”
I should have concluded:
A logically person made that comment. He/she just decided to use terminology that describes behavior that has been connected (well deserved in many cases) to black people for centuries.
We hate ourselves. Fail to do anything about it. Watch our children kill themselves. But, then we have the audacity to yell/riot/protest when a white man slaps a black woman.
Shared by The Black Rebel.
Reader Response:
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of intelligent people on here and I am really shocked that you don't see what the real issue is. There is no story here for the media to get all hyped up about. There is no need for outrage. WHY? Black people kill black people everyday. It's kinda sad but it's true. This won't make headlines because no one famous is involved and because people don't care. The media is powerful because it preys of human weakness and curiosity. We are culture of blogging, texting, tweeting and if there is no one famous in an news story there is no news. Year ago mother Theresa died a quiet death around the same time as Princess Diana's car accident. The news on Mother Theresa was limited but the Princess Di news was all over everything.
Look at the people who normally post here. Most were more interested in Officer Crowley and Skip Gates making an ass of themselves. The media even reported the types of beer they drank at the sit down. Clearly our priorities not just as a race but as a culture (American) are out of line.
Tragic!
-LS
Question from The Black Rebel:
ReplyDeleteQuestion on Balentine Show:
Should the young black men who beat the young black man be forced to go to the military versus prison if convicted?
What ya think?
-The Black Rebel
NAY responds to LS:
ReplyDeleteI do see what the issue is. The issue is that a lot of folks I've spoken to recently are quick to ignore the gravity of continued black-on-black violence, yet are infuriated, at least momentarily, when it's "white"-on-black violence. As long as we have defeatist parents raising defeatist children, Black people will continue to destroy each other.
You're right, this is not a media story, and my intention was not that it should be. This is a Black story that happens all too often and needs to be dealt with by Black people in the right way.
-NAY
LS responds to The Black Rebel:
ReplyDeleteMilitary? Now way. If you harm others your ass should do hard time. They need to bring the chain gang back. They have cell phones in prison nowadays. It's like a resort with thugs. Prison should be tougher.
-LS
NAY responds to The Black Rebel:
ReplyDeleteWhy would you send them there? To truly serve in the best interests of their enemy? Both "institutions" are prisons for the Black mind.
Can these boys be redeemed? That's a question only time can answer? Do they deserve redemption? In another world, the deceased child's family would be the deciders of that.
These boys are only a symptom of a much greater problem, one that began with the forced arrival and ensuing enslavement of Afrikans to this country and continues pretty much unchecked up to present day. And as long as Black people stand disunited in their own warring factions, it will continue undaunted, just as it was planned when they no longer became useful to their kidnappers. This is about self-extermination of a people. A people who wholeheartedly don't seem to be putting up much of a fight, save with each other.
-NAy
NAY responds to NAY:
ReplyDeleteAlso, Larikus, the initial portion of the comment posted to my blog was meant as sarcasm. Black people are quick to rally, protest, etc., against perceived wrongs of other groups of people, but pretty much go into hiding and try to explain away violent incidents by our own. That, in itself, is hypocrisy.
-NAY
Reader Response:
ReplyDeleteI agree on the “prison is too good for them”. If you want free housing, 3 square meals a day, gym, TV ( cable at that!), cell phones, etc…..a FREE LIFE. Then that’s where you go…to prison. These boys…and I use that word with ALL of the definition of a BOY should go to the military. If they have that much hate in their hearts and such a great disregard for life. Then let them go to a place where each of them might be taken away. And… in the brutal way in which they took this young man’s life. And further to that point, the 2 ( a boy and a girl) that filmed the beating with their phone and were laughing while they were watching. They need to go as well. I’d like to personally ask them both, “What’s funny now?”
I am ashamed and embarrassed by what I saw. I’m just sorry that an innocent life was taken, a family was destroyed and a people continue to turn left, when they should be traveling to the right. I am so angry about this.
Oh and one more comment. We DON’T ALL hate ourselves. It is a section of our people that do, indeed.
-NJ
The Rebel Responds:
ReplyDeleteBlack Hypocrisy, along with a few other actions, has destroyed us. Black Silence in an effort to not address issues is also dangerous.
Many of us have interfaced with the consequences of slavery - and that many have risen above the ramifications.
Slavery is not a strong argument anymore. No disrespect: it is weak.
The white man has nothing to do with this. Mentioning the white man and the system diverts attention from bad decision making.
-The Black Rebel
Reader Response:
ReplyDeleteCollectively we need to return to the source, for some that may mean returing to our culture of collectivity. The real question for us is why are we afraid of our own children? howcome no-one stopped the fight? where was the community when a child was getting killed? i was not there, but I will bet my last dollar that because we have moved so far away from our culture that we were there and decided not to intervene. when we see an injustice in our community how many of us would step in? when we see a young person's doing wrong how many of us will say something? the real issue lies in our inability to take control of our own destiny!! until we decide as a people that it is time to stand up and take back our lives, families, communities and land we will be the witness to many more incidents like this. let this be an opportunity for us not just to be horrified and upset at these young people who so carelessly took another life. let this be the jolt that propels us to take action and change our conditions. we all know that the internal fight is often the hardest fight to lodge and win, this is why we so often look externally for the answers to our problems. not knowning that the extrenal answers are meant for external problems.
-MF
LS responds to The Black Rebel:
ReplyDeleteDeep! The funny thing is that all should be common sense but clearly common sense is not all that common. This has more to do with the breakdown of the black family community since 1970. I call it the black family community because it was sort of a family in the community. We lost that during desegregation and that's not something we can blame on anyone. It's gotten so much worse over the years.
This needs to be addressed.It takes a socio-path or a very troubled youth to do something like this. How do I know? We didn't kill anyone back in the day but we certainly put some kids and adults in the hospital. We were not socio-paths.We were just young, without guidance and angry.
-LS