By Paul Kersey
09/07/2020
Previously by Paul Kersey: Seattle Is 7% Black: Between 2012â2016, Blacks Committed 56% of Firearm Homicides in the 65% White City
Even as a Black Lives Matter/Antifa insurgency (purely motivated by 100% anti-white animosity) rages across the country, you can still find humor in the reality of gun crime/gun violence and who/whom is actually impacted.
Again, a real debate on gun control would be unequivocally centered around the reality black people (primarily young black males) commit the overwhelmingly disproportionate amount of nonfatal/fatal gun crime in America, and weâd craft laws centered solely around this fact. Itâs indisputable, save to those who want to blame implicit bias/redlining/systemic racism/white privilege as the real reason individual black people collectively pull the trigger so oftenâŚ
[Black activists use casket at Seattle rally to denounce gun violence in the community, KING5.com, August 29, 2020]:
Friday, several dozen people came to the intersection of Rainier Avenue South and Martin Luther King Jr. Way South in the Mount Baker neighborhood of Seattle to say âenough.â
âIt hurts me to see that casket because that could have been me,â said Warlina Wheeler, who spoke at the âWe want to liveâ anti-gun violence rally. It was meant to call attention to the impact gun violence has on the Black community.
âIâm tired of waking up and seeing my homegirls on the news, my homeboys, and people I grew up with burying their kids,â Wheeler said.
The rally featured several community activists, each taking a turn to speak to their concern gun violence is having.
âI think this is a damn shame that we have to get a casket and put it out on the street in our community, to get the attention thatâs needed for our Black and brown bodies that are steadily dropping,â said Dom Davis, CEO of Community Passageways.
A casket was brought to the rally as a symbolism of the groupâs grief. They also did a casket viewing and asked each attendee to think about why this [looking into a casket] is a reality far too often for the Black community.
âWe know most of these people that are droppinâ, we know their familiesâŚIâm tired of seeing mamas cryinâ, babies cryinâ, daddies cryinâ because theyâre traumatized with the consistent loss that theyâre feeling,â said Davis.
Some of the speakers demanded more accountability from elected leaders and criticized Mayor Jenny Durkanâs recent decision to veto drastic changes to the police budget. Speakers also challenged those within the community to stop killing each other.
Shamar Slaughter, who also spoke at the rally, said to stop gun violence it will require every community and a united effort.
âWe need everybody to come together, just to show that there donât gotta be no problems, we can all come together if we want. Black people better off as one, cuz we getting killed by everybody. We getting killed by ourselves more thoughâŚless white people killinâ Black people than Black people killinâ Black people you feel me?â Slaughter said.
He implored people to get involved with community programs like Choose 180, Community Passageways, Freedom Project, and others.
âIf there ainât nobody out here tellinâ us what not to do, whos gonna tell us what to do? You feel me? Kids have no guidance itâs gonna be wild like a zoo out here,â he said.
Slaughter knows right now something has to change.
âIâm afraid for myself, Iâm afraid my family my friends, Iâm afraid for anybody thatâs black walking up and down these streets cuz itâs not safe, you know, itâs dangerous out here. Everybody buyinâ up guns, everybody shooting each other, itâs not safe bro, itâs not cool,â he said.
We arenât supposed to notice the reality of gun crime in America, because it might cause an actual debate on who/whom is committing all of the fatal/nonfatal shootings. Itâs not white racists/white supremacists running around and gunning down innocent black bodies in Chicago/DC/New York/Atlanta/Memphis/New Orleans/Philadelphia/or even merely seven percent black Seattle, but almost exclusively black individuals doing this on a daily basis.
So, even as a Black Lives Matter/Antifa insurgency (purely motivated by 100% anti-white animosity) rages across the country, you can still find a story of the small black community in Seattle coming together to lament the fact black-on-black gun violence is pretty much the only type of gun crime found in the city.