“DJ- I don’t like what I am seeing from the black community..instead of addressing the fact that the black committed a crime, figuring out how to stop the black youth from committing a crime, they want to try and push this a racial inequality issue..”

I don’t think that’s quite it, I don’t think the “black community”is doing what you assert. The so-called “leadership”has the camera time and that is what you see.

For example, with Jena, I and many other blacks were concerned about the perps getting fair and equal justice, “Freeing”the Jena 6 became a media rallying cry for the camera hogs that it seems that the media likes to give camera time to.

In this case, every Black person I have talked to has found the actions of that Pastor and the NAACP as silly and stupid. Fact is, Blacks are most often the victims of crimes committed by Blacks, the Black community has very little patience for these types of criminal sociopaths.

However, it isn’t as good of a news story to show that:

Being called a racist has lost it’s sting..it’s like being called a jerk or a bitch…

I had the pleasure of riding on the train with a black male, aged 41, grew up in the Cabrini Greens(sp?), got out alive, and has 5 kids under the age of 17. He is proud that he didn’t become the sterotypical black male from his projects, dead before 19. He is proud that he has been with the same woman for 26 years. Other than doing the ‘midwest shuffle” to afford to live in the burbs, his biggest challenge is raising his kids to stay away from the “easy money” of drugs..keeping his kids away from the gangs..showing his kids through example that he isn’t a chump for working to pay for his family, rather than sell some dope and make quick money…We then went onto illegals and how they are taking jobs from citizens but people within the community are making good money(illegally) selling them illegal social security cards..It was a fascinating discussion…

I really don’t care if this guy gets more jail time, I am tired of the NAACP going to the defense of criminals, Mike Vick etc., while they ignore the real problems within the African American community that need to be dealt with.

This guy was committing a crime and got his friends killed in the process, I see nothing racial about this, a man can defend his house, that is a basic right.

The White Liberal media needs to stop putting Jesse and Al as our so called leaders, I didn’t vote for Jesse or Al, and know a few African American leaders inside the community who are doing real work without the media hype. I guess since they are dealing with things that may not involve a “white person”, they can’t get camera time.