For those looking for a painless, safe, and risk-free way to end the violence and homicides in South Chicago, and Black communities throughout the US; I’m sorry but you ain’t gonna find one.
There are very powerful interest, who dwell far from our communities who profit greatly from the status-quo, and if you take steps to make Black communities save, empowered, and sustainable; you will disrupt their profits, their power, and their long-term agendas. So you are facing a dangerous internal enemy, and an even more dangerous, more violent, more criminal, wealthier, and more powerful external enemy. You should understand this if you want to address this issue with more than just Facebook post.
Many ignore the more powerful external enemies who wear tailored suits, and only focus on the internal enemy who prefer sagging True Religion Brand Jeans. That is a half measure and a tactic that will not only fail to reduce violence, but generate more self-hate, internal divisions, and Black flight from Black communities. If you must go after one enemy on this issue it should be the enemy that put this whole thing in motion, and derives the all the profit from the chaos.
There is only one proven method to stop oppressed, undereducated, and violent youth from killing each other, and that’s to refocus their aggression toward that external enemy; that’s how all other oppressed communities have managed to stop their youth from cannibalizing each other and eventually won full or partial liberation.
In the Warsaw Ghetto, the Jewish youth who failed to embrace the Resistance movement were attacking and killing other Jewish youth in the ghettp, they would participate in the illegal smuggling trade, and rape Jewish girls who were often too weak to resist due to starvation and illness. Not until the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising did those Jewish thugs realize that they needed to focus on the Nazis, not on getting by and attacking their own.
The same is true of Palestinian youth before the 1987 First Intifada. Palestinian youth would form gangs, and engage in vandalism, the smuggling trade, rapes, and murders. Throughout the Gaza Strip and the Israeli-occupied territories; police would find bodies of Arab youth who’d been stabbed to death, with dozens of stab wounds that were inflected by other Arab youth. When the resistance was formalized by the Palestine Liberation Organization, Arab gang violence came to a halt, and the youth turned their attention to the common enemy.
The trend has been repeated throughout history and all over the world. Those that fail to Revolutionize their youth in the face of oppression will face ongoing oppression or genocide, like the Native Americans and Africans in America.
Our oppressors understand this better than we seem to. That is way they will destroy organizations like the The Black Panther Party in just a couple of years, but allow violent street gangs to thrive for decades. You will never see this government enact a COINTELPRO against Black criminals or their organizations, but even non-violent intergraionist like SNCC and SCLC get the hammer when they start to move the youth from criminality to community connectedness and responsibility.
So if you want to save the youth you must radicalize the youth, you must educate, equip, and guide them for Revolution; not jobs, not mandated indoctrination(schooling), not god, and not the F-ing US military!
Please check out Guerrillas by Johan Lee Anderson for some additional history on youth radicalization.
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