☕ Morning fam,
Black youth are in crisis… failed by black leaders who ignore their angst to cape for everything from trans rights to aid for illegals. By actorvists, protesters and orgs that pursue come ups over justice. And a clergy that puts party agenda over religious beliefs. There is a cost for these failures.
One, the message sent to black youth. specially after the grift that is BLM is that their lives don’t matter, their lives (and deaths) are exploited for political/professional/personal gain and/or to push agendas. They’re not stupid.
Two, the message this sends to George Zimmerman and Darren Wilson types, that nobody is advocating for black youth, emboldening them.
And omg the message images of black youth wilding out, pre justification for the heavy hand that is to come. And putting targets on their backs.
And finally, the message this sends to other groups, that black elites hold the same if not worse contempt for black youth.
We’re seeing the fallout throughout the country.. in Chicago where black youth let their anger be felt downtown when hundreds convened and wrecked havoc, people were attacked, businesses were broken into and cars were vandalized.
Mayor elect Johnson’s response? Doubling down on the rhetoric that got Mayor Lightfoot ousted.
MLK said “Riot is the voice of the unheard”. The solution isn’t allowing wrongdoing without consequence and or robbing black youth of growing, evolving or learning from their mistakes. Consequence is how we learn. Consequence, not to be confused with overkill. And the solution is addressing the failures, not worsening them.
In Kansas City where 16 year old Ralph Yarl was shot and killed by a George Zimmerman type after going to the wrong house to pick up his younger brothers. Nobody even says “Black lives matter.” anymore.
And in Alabama where 20 were shot, 4 killed in a mass shooting at a sweet 16 party including the brother of the birthday girl, a promising young football star who just received a scholarship and was looking forward to starting college in the fall.
Black youth are in danger and black leaders are more concerned about party agenda, going after Trump, making headlines, going viral, illegal immigration, affirmation, drag shows and the use of pronouns.
THIS in lieu of a black agenda at a time the ground is shaking, the world is resetting and in the aftermath of a global health pandemic that hit blacks harder than every other group.
If children are the future what does this say about the future of black America?
