No, let’s cut the PC nonsense here. I know it’s popular to blame “black culture” for gun violence in cities like Chicago but let’s be honest. This aspect of so called “black culture” did not emerge in a vacuum. It is truly, in fact and unequivocally due to white supremacist culture that has and still does infect American culture at large. Full stop. Yes, we can in fact blame systemic racism, white people(And their racist attitudes that, in all our democratic glory, inform government policy and the media), the government(At all levels) and law enforcement(At every stinking, racist, corrupt level, from the Executive branch on down to the police)for the shitty situation many inner city black neighborhoods find themselves in. Whether it is the crumbling infrastructure, abject poverty, piss poor services, crappy schools, lack of businesses and jobs to the explicit discrimination in housing, fund allotment, policing and judicial convictions and sentencing, the blame is RACISM! Say it with me, RACISM! It’s not that hard. Racism is an actual, living, active “force” that works through the entire body of a nation state to ensure that a race based hierarchy of opportunity, access, liberty, and resources is maintained. Fact is, facts support this claim and the root cause of these issues is pretty obvious to anyone who isn’t either stupid or ignorant. The ghetto is by design! Always has been and always will be. you’ve got to be sick, ignorant and heartless to ultimately blame the most impoverished, powerless and stigmatized population of people for what’s happening in cities of Chicago. Its like beating somebody and throwing them in the sewer and then locking up every access route to the surface. Once they find a way to live and survive in the sewer you point and say, “See, they’ve always lived in the sewer, they like living in the sewer and, gosh darn it, they probably want to stay in the sewer. The sewer is their nature(or culture)” Power in this nation is still white. Our representatives and bureaucrats, our business leaders and investors, our media movers and shakers: All of them still operate under the implicit and explicit belief that black communities and black citizens do not matter as much as white communities and white citizens. You can sit here all day and equivocate, defer, ignore, whimper and cry about how you are color blind and are not personally to blame. It doesn’t matter. This is the reality. White supremacy, as a culture retaining a set of beliefs and practices that work to structure human social relations based on a racial hierarchy, is hard at work to this day to maintain the ghetto's of America.

    Ahmad Khalid Qadafi

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