Perspectives: Hanging Nooses, Hate Pose a National Health Risk
Addressing, preventing and eradicating hate is not just a “Black issue,” it is a human rights issue, says this group of psychology faculty from Pepperdine University. If we, as a nation, fail to address it, we are at risk for regression, for descending into a previous state of unhealthy functioning. Choice and free will are important concepts in mental health. What is our will as a nation? Do we choose to ignore these signs of impending illness and let the sickness of racism ravage the soul of our nation?
October 31st, 2007 at 9:49 pm
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/press/bvvcpr.htm
“Black Americans accounted for 13 percent of the U.S.
population in 2005 …but were the victims of 49 percent of all homicides. Among single victim-single offender homicides, about 93 percent of black victims were murdered by black offenders.”
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/bvvc.htm
“Blacks were victims of an estimated 805,000 nonfatal violent crimes and of about 8,000 homicides in 2005.”
PLEASE KEEP IN MIND that 93% of those 8,000 black people killed in 2005 were killed BY OTHER BLACKS.
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Much has been made about the percieved threat that blacks feel from whites regarding noose-hangings lately.
What do you make of these following facts? This comes from “The History of Lynching In The United States”, a class at The University of Massachusetts.
http://www.umass.edu/complit/aclanet/ACLAText/USLynch.html
“There are “2805 [documented] victims of lynch mobs killed between 1882 and 1930 in ten southern states. Although mobs murdered almost 300 white men and women, the vast majority - almost 2,500 - of lynch victims were African-American.”
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I do find it intersting that according to the US Government, at
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/press/bvvcpr.htm
and
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/bvvc.htm
that at least 8,000 black people were murdered in 2005 alone, and that 93% of the murderers of these black people were black people themselves.
In light of the recent “Jena 6″ situation, and the threat that black people have claimed to feel from whites because of it, what do you think about the fact that more black people were murdered by other black people (7,440 people, which is 93% of 8,000) in one year alone, 2005, than were murdered by all the white lynch mobs during the 48 years of 1882 through 1930 combined (about 2,500 people)?
This means that, in only one year, blacks killed almost 3 times the number of blacks than were killed by all the white lynch mobs during the 48 “peak-lynching years” combined!
Therefore, it stands to reason that the real, most dangerous threat to black people these days is not from racist white people or lynchings, but from black people themselves.
November 1st, 2007 at 7:42 pm
As a Black American, I am concerned that there is an obvious attempt to return to the atrocities perpertrated upon my grandparents and great grandparents. There is, without a doubt, a segment of white America that wants to see the Black race eliminated. Those of us who lived through the 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s know all too well what this type of mindset can produce. The level of greed, ingnorance and selfishness that has grown among our own people, particularly those born in the 70’s and 80’s will be our downfall. We no longer respect each other, or have mutual love as a general rule. We cannot allow those that mean us harm to use that ignorance and selfishness against. We must educate our young people who have taken no interest in the things for which our grandparents suffered. They do not appreciate the suffering that was endured which allows them to do the things they do today. While we do have many young people who show great promise and potential for our race, there are still far too many who will turn their achivements into a useless effort. We must remain on guard, arm ourselves with knowledge and share that knowledge.