Sharika Soal: Black Violence Is Trending And A Growing Threat To Western Civilization (VIDEO)

Guest post by Sharika Soal

Undoubtedly, Social Justice has accomplished much for American laws and values. Nevertheless, critics emphasize the importance of a positive representation of the black experience in America when discussing it. Still, the definition of “positive representation” has blurred from domestic violence videos to McDonald’s brawls.

These videos depicting black violence in public places have garnered 100k-1,000,000 views. Simultaneously, shows like Zeus Network and NowThats’s TV include a predominantly black cast among vh1 love and hip hop crossovers. The shows include black women and black men fist-fighting in 40-minute episodes over petty arguments that won’t matter in 50 years. Why is this significant?

Apps like TikTok allow anyone to upload content anytime; many of that audience are children. What does it say to the youth when violence between blacks and whites is presented as “racial hate,” but millions of non-black children watch black Americans beat each other and destroy local businesses become normalized?

Congress is ignoring this boom in trending black violence and seems to have labeled this as  “entertainment.” Leaving police to address black rioters and disturbances that result in millions worth of damages like we saw with the Philadelphia riots. Leaving the crisis to be watered down to “teenagers acting out.” 

The effects of this are not just confined to the youth but also affect adults when it comes to conversations about black violence. Recently, we have seen several fatal attacks committed by black men; the victims were white. Instead of taking these anti-white attacks as a journalistic opportunity to have honest conversations about how black violence affects the safety of all Americans, legacy media instead created headlines omitting the race of the offenders, which doesn’t fix the problem or hold the community accountable for posing the same level threat as a violent member of the white race.  On the other hand, neither legacy media nor Congress have a problem using the word “black” in headlines where the offender is white. 

It is a significant threat to civilized society to use the omission of an entire race to pacify a community that is struggling to see themselves as what they are in modern society—sometimes the aggressors. Is America going to wait until 100 more hate crimes involving BIPOC offenders take place? Must the number of black women killed by black men increase to even more outrageous numbers?

As of 2018, black men kill each other more than any anti-black group ever did. If we go by the stats on the FBI website, it says black men kill each other every 30 minutes in America. What will it take to address an issue millions of people can see and experience firsthand, including black leaders whose calls for an end to violence are ignored by Democrat Congress, who shift the plight of poor black Americans to white America?

“Civil rights activist Al Sharpton urged black lawmakers to approve new measures to end recidivist lawbreaking and assist district attorneys in prosecuting criminals,” the New York Post reported at the beginning of this year. Nine months later, it doesn’t appear to be a priority to congress members like Cori Bush or anti-Trump entertainers like Snoop Dogg. 

As a black American myself, it is pretty disturbing to watch what used to be a respected political forum be used to protect criminals like George Floyd and Jacob Blake, as well as create laws that put offenders back in the neighborhoods of BIPOC children like the No cash bail law.” 

None of it addresses the real issues plaguing the black community. Violence in the homes and the community. Treating theft as a weekend hobby. Gun violence is routine in BIPOC communities, and it would do the country a lot of good for congressional leaders to acknowledge the people they are fighting for aren’t above criticism and honest analysis.

You cannot point out that racism can threaten a person’s quality of life without including that able-bodied BIPOC adults are responsible for conducting themselves appropriately so that other people aren’t harmed. America has removed agency away from black Americans. That isn’t protection. That is a door to black supremacy, and no one benefits from that, which is apparent by looking at African countries. They are still using slavery as a means of labor in Libya and other areas and have been for quite some time. 

The threat of black violence being an ingredient to the downfall of Western civilization isn’t a “conservative talking point.” It’s the reality for small businesses in predominantly black areas and vulnerable children who depend on the adults around them to survive. It’s happening right now, and pretending some violence isn’t hindering progress to a bigger picture, which is a safe quality of life for law-abiding Americans, isn’t going to “save black America” or make America great again.