Nurah Speaks

This is not an “either or” scenario.  We can and must address community violence and police brutality at the same time as both are issues of great importance. We should not be persuaded that we have to quiet down about police brutality because we have an ongoing issue with so-called 'Black on Black' crime.  The presence of one issue does not disqualify us addressing the severity of the other. Let’s also be careful with the alarmist narrative about community violence as if Black people are the only ones killing their own kind.  Violence is generally committed against someone by someone of the same racial class. For example, in 2018 of 3,315 white murder victims, 2,677 white perpetrators were identified, roughly 81%.  In the same year, of 2,925 Black murder victims, 2,6000 perpetrators were black, roughly 89%.  https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls. This does not mean that we give our own community violence a pass-