Comment: You need to view them as a domestic Nation within a Nation – a tribe if you will – with its own mythos akin to the trail of tears in the Great Migration. Blacks see black-0n-black violence as an intrafamilial matter that’s none of your business. The more you point to blacks killing blacks for accidentally stepping on one’s new white sneakers as the real problem (statistically and proportionately it is), the more obstinate they’ll get and the more they’ll reject reality in favor of narratives of racial conflict with the dominant population. As with families they can beat one another up night and day but they’ll all lose it if someone outside of the family engages in a justified dispute with one of its members.
The BLM narrative is in many ways a sublimation of the anxieties and tragedy of the real problem to express it in a way that is not disloyal to the tribe. This is a psychological and emotionally-based response, not one founded in reason and as a result no amount of reasoning and argument and cold facts will change it (of course, since the BLM narrative is politically useful to the Left and a true look at black violence is not, the media feeds the former while eliding the contrary facts).
This WaPo piece from September is actually pretty good at getting to the heart of the matter of black political involvement – blacks vote Democrat out of a sense of tribal solidarity even when they have significant disagreements with the positions and platforms of the Democratic party and the individual candidates on offer.
This is why Republicans pranging on about gay marriage, the Left’s hostility to Christianity and family, school choice, pointing to poorly-run urban governments, outright corruption, etc. and even fielding black GOP candidates doesn’t move the needle of black voting at all. The best that Republicans can do is to hope that blacks are less than enthusiastic in any cycle and just don’t bother to vote.
* As Lee Kuan Yew noticed, “In multiracial societies, you don’t vote in accordance with your economic interests and social interests, you vote in accordance with race and religion.”
* I think it’s people with the liberal view of race who get themselves into situations like this. As a race realist, I would never confront a group of NAMs over smoking in a no-smoking area, or littering, or using bad language. I know how volatile and indifferent to the consequences of employing violence they are. A lot of white liberals actually believe that NAMs are not that different from themselves. They think they’re capable of calmly accepting criticism from a white person.
I’ve read numerous stories about whites being killed after remonstrating with NAMs about their bad behavior and assume these people had liberal views about race. You have to be realistic. I have my CCW permit, but would never want to have to employ deadly force in any situation I could have ignored or walked away from. Not in today’s America.
* The dudes I train with call it, ‘don’t go to Walmart at 3 a.m. to get milk’.
AKA situational awareness.
AKA the best way to not lose a gunfight is not to get into a gunfight.
AKA mind your own damn bizness when it comes to NAMs.
AKA why you can’t have nice things (hat tip Derb).