How can the Black community justify the outrage displayed over “Police shootings” but operate with such underwhelming concern about Black on Black homicides?

I accept the fact that a police man shooting a Black man is a more “qualitatively” significant shooting incident than if a thug with a gun does so in the act of robbery. The police will always have a higher standard to which they must be held to.

However, when we cross reference “quality” with “QUANTITY” of killings within our community and worse, the low “Homicide Closure rate” that allows some killers of Black people to walk away with impunity – this entire episode is shown to be a ruse.

I am NOT placing a point of obfuscation regarding the serious issue of the conflict between Blacks and the Police. But for some people to pretend that the contextual backdrop of violence and murder that takes place within our communities is nothing short of dishonest.

Being one who is asked to proved SOLUTIONS to accompany my frequent criticisms of the Black Political and Civil Rights Establishment – I am made to wonder if THEY with their antics in regards to amplifying the police conflict but effectively keeping the Black on Black violence muffled – want a SOLUTION or just are interested in practicing in the space of their forte.

I haven't qualified the activity as either operational or aspirational – the entertrainment industry on the other hand, has gone to great lengths to glamorize and romanticize it.

You seem to assume that drug dealing is an aspiration rather than an expedient for young black men with few employment options. I've never seen any evidence that supports that assumption.

I could not agree with you more.

Neighborhoods ruled by young men are incompatible with the normative social order. So either they are restored to management by older, more responsible, and communitarian men, or, they are subject to colonial occupation by paramilitary police.