[Britster]

Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

Because it keeps certain people relevant and in the spotlight to hype black-on-white crime and keep their followers upset and angry and turning to them as their representatives.

I don't understand why black and hispanic leaders are not camped out in Chicago and Detroit and other high-crime urban areas where children kill children daily in the streets and tenements and try to give them some hope and education, taking along football players and Harvard professors on loan and truck drivers and plumbers, doctors, scientists to work with those kids, inspire them, talk to them, hear them out on a regular basis. I guarantee you if Sharpton and Jackson and leaders like that would speak regularly in high schools and on the streetcorners or movie theaters there in urban crime areas, then introduce the people they brought with them to talk to some of those children and meet with them, talk to them, take them to lunch or dinner regularly, it could inspire some of them to turn from the gang culture in time. Celebrities, leaders in their fields of work and noted civil rights leaders could stop Tweeting for a change and take turns going into those areas and attending classes with those kids, helping them, meeting with them, spending time with them. Some of them don't even have fathers around and are raised only by women and other children in gangs.

But these "leaders" are on TV shows and doing interviews, Tweeing, talking and raging about one child while not helping those children in any direct or ongoing way, man to child. It's tragic how so many black and hispanic children without any structure or hope are just left to kill each other and all of the noted leaders are talking about one child - Trayvon Martin - because a man with lighter-colored skin shot him during a fight. It's appalling.

Very true and very sad.