Did I miss anyone/thing?

An older resident told me just yesterday about a neighbor who used to smoke crack in his sister’s backyard/alley. He later died of an overdose. This white resident was PROUD that he never called the police because it showed he was “cool.”

My response? One more dead brother that the white man helped hasten to his grave by accepting homeless CRACK SMOKING amongst people of color as being just about what their capable of doing. Of course he thought my charge of racist murder was hyperbolic and psychotic.

No, white people think that rats, crime, drug use, etc are “ok” in the district because they are racists who want to see black people kept under their thumb. White people who demand the same from African Americans as they do from other whites call the police so that everyone will be uplifted, including the sons and daughters, nieces and nephews who will hear the stories of the man who went straight.

They’re not “gangs” or “crews”. They are packs of feral adolescents, juvenile criminal groups, or just criminals for short. And they aren’t “beefing”. They’re committing attempted murder, assaults with deadly weapons, or just plain fighting.

Ending this problem requires de-legitimizing it as a social construct. Using their language merely perpetuates the problem.