Baltimore has the fifth
highest big city murder rate in the country. The four cities ahead
of it are Detroit, New Orleans, Newark and St. Louis. All these cities have
something in common. Not racism, but race. The killers and the
dead are black.
The murder rate in
Baltimore stood at 37.4 to 100,000 people. There have already been 63 murders
this year. Fifty-six of the victims were black. Of the 16 murders
in the last 30 days, 14 of the victims were black. If black lives
really mattered, then black violence would matter. But that would mean taking
responsibility for a broken culture which few leaders in the black community
are ready to do. Instead the death
of Freddie Gray in police custody became the excuse for another round of
#BlackLivesMatter riots, looting and assaults. Rather than dealing with the
violence killing black Baltimore, it became another excuse for more of the
same.......For black lives to start really mattering, black violence has to matter.
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