How to Get Black People to Kill Each Other

"Part of the mechanics of oppressing people is to pervert them to the extent that they become the instruments of their own oppression." 

Kumasi 
Crips and Bloods: Made in America (2008)

I was thinking about that line and started pondering--in a Paris "Evil" way--and I thought, "The best way to make sure that violence continues in the black community . . . and to make sure that the police can arrest pretty much any black person at any time  . . . would be to make it easy for impoverished black people to get hold of guns and drugs.  A powerful lobbying group like the National Rifle Association could be ready to apply pressure to keep guns on the streets so that black people would keep getting (at best) killed or (at least) arrested.  But that's just liberal paranoid bullshit, right?  The NRA exists to defend our right to bear arms, not to contribute to the oppression of black people.

Well . . . I did a little quick research and found some data on a government web site.

Keeping in mind that  77.7% of the U.S. population is white,  13.2% of the population is black, and 17.1% of the population is Hispanic and Latino . . . of the 5,723 total gun deaths reported here, you'd expect there to be                           Instead, there are
4447 White deaths,                                  3,005
755 Black deaths, and                              2,491
979 Hispanic and Latino deaths.                 159
                                                                  and that mysterious 68             
                                                                 "unknown race."

If that's not startling, then look at it this way:  if Whites died at the same rate as Blacks,  then 13,341 White deaths would be recorded here.  

I was looking at a review of Crips and Bloods: Made in America and saw this

" . . . let's not forget about how many guns and assault rifles are on the street, thanks to the NRA."

from cdowning423.  So if I'm a paranoid liberal propagandist, at least I've got some company.

Another line from the documentary . . . 

"That's the new cotton field right there:  the pen."

W.E.B. DuBois said the same thing in The Souls of Black Folk.  Which was published in 1903.  So much for The Post-Racial America.

For a little dose of reality, check out "8 Stats That Dispel The Myth of Black Violence" on the Atlanta Backstar website.