Black Males in a Perpetual Crisis

I just stumbled across this article on the Buffalo News website. More accurately, I stumbled upon the adorable face of this little guy

and couldn't help but read on.

"The nation's young black males are in a state of crisis,"

Well...that's not new information. The Nation's young black males have been in a state of crisis since 1863 when they became part of the nation, since 1954, sine 1992, since 2008. Year after year, decade after decade, generation after generation, a combination of legal and de facto external and internal policy has put the young black male on the chopping block. Even today. Don't tell me about Obama, his election may have well been one of the most detrimental things to happen to YBMs. Wars on Communism, Wars on Drugs, Wars on Terror--Fights for our right at the sake of their rights, Protect our communities, Secure our families--We want our country back...

Whatever banner waved above them, people have been seeking policies and change that more or less not only disenfranchise the young Black male, but the poor, the old, the disabled--the other of all colors. The Civil Rights Movement fractured, small groups of fighters formed their own coalitions, demanded their own things, and failed to support each other, thereby failing to acknowledge their common enemy, and failing to defeat Him. Disgust of immigrants, of Muslims, of terrorism, of Gays, of Obamacare has fueled the support of the most non-helpful, racist, classist, elitist candidates, who have risen to power in this past election, or eagerly seek it.

Of course not everyone recognizes this. No one is out to overtly systematically destroy the Black male. But that's exactly what's been happening for centuries. Mentors within the community and White House Meetings on the current "crisis" are nice....but those are not the solutions. The problems are not coming from the YBM community. Those are just the results. The problems are coming....have been coming....from us. From our own hate, fear, and ignorance. From politicians selling themselves on the fear ticket, from voters too ignorant to truly research their platforms. From "scholars" and "professionals" and "historians" failing to demand the external change that is required for the internal change to occur. From self-centered activists, too narrow in their scope. From artists, who have been stolen from the community. From the everyday individual: uneducated, unchallenged, and complacent.

WE will kill the black male. We will kill him like we killed the red male. We will kill them all, all the browns, slaughtering them with ignorance, silence, and hate until there are no more left. They will cease to exist. They will face erasure.

That little boy's eyes will fail to matter.

Where is our report? Where is our coalition, our White House Committee.....Where are we?