Black Man Tells It Like It Is Regarding Black on Black Violence

Time for Jesse/Al and the people that follow them in blaming whites and the rest of America for their ills need to start looking in the mirror for a change towards taking control of their own lives and destiny before they become victims or perpetrators of the next black on black violent act like took place with Sean Taylor last week.

Jason Whitlock says as much in a column he penned a week ago that was reprinted over the weekend and before 4 suspects were rounded up and charged in the shooting that claimed Taylor's life in his own home.

Taylor's death a grim reminder for us all:

Jason Whitlock: FOXSports.com, - NFL - "EDITOR'S NOTE: This column originally appeared Wednesday, two days before Friday's arrests of four men in the shooting death of Sean Taylor. There's a reason I call them the Black KKK. The pain, the fear and the destruction are all the same." There's a reason I call them the Black KKK. The pain, the fear and the destruction are all the same.

Someone who loved Sean Taylor is crying right now. The life they knew has been destroyed, an 18-month-old baby lost her father, and, if you're a black man living in America, you've been reminded once again that your life is in constant jeopardy of violent death.

The Black KKK claimed another victim, a high-profile professional football player with a checkered past this time.

No, we don't know for certain the circumstances surrounding Taylor's death. I could very well be proven wrong for engaging in this sort of aggressive speculation. But it's no different than if you saw a fat man fall to the ground clutching his chest. You'd assume a heart attack, and you'd know, no matter the cause, the man needed to lose weight.

Well, when shots are fired and a black man hits the pavement, there's every statistical reason to believe another black man pulled the trigger. That's not some negative, unfair stereotype. It's a reality we've been living with, tolerating and rationalizing for far too long.

When the traditional, white KKK lynched, terrorized and intimidated black folks at a slower rate than its modern-day dark-skinned replacement, at least we had the good sense to be outraged and in no mood to contemplate rationalizations or be fooled by distractions.

Our new millennium strategy is to pray the Black KKK goes away or ignores us. How's that working?

Not at all and it will only get worse unless a strategy similar to the one the outlines is followed by the black community abandoning the Jesse and Al blame game they are so good at. continued

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