The KnockOut Game is in Town

[Bham1982]

That's a disturbing sentiment. This behavior is reprehensible but it shouldn't have anything to do with eliminating social injustice. You see, "justice" requires that you treat each individual the way they deserve to be treated.

I disagree. I am not African American, and I do not think anyone "speaks for" a community, but I think it is sad that you have a [[metaphorical) house burning down and the leadership is only complaing about extraneous stuff.

You have tens of thousands of African American males being slaughtered by other African American males, and you will never hear a thing from leadership. You will hear constaint complaints about Macys stopping people for alleged shoplifting though, you will hear about the Trayvon Martin killing, you will hear about police profiling.

The differnce, to me, is that in the former, we have something that threatens the African American community down to its foundations. In the latter, we have very murky circumstances where a reasonable person could conclude that Macys is trying to prevent getting ripped off [[the same reason Hudsons closed downtown), and where the police are trying to prevent kids from killing each other.

Also, part of the reason that the latter episodes occur is because of the former. IMO, you solve the latter by solving the former. If young African American males were not involved in such a wildly disproportionate amount of criminal behavior, there would be less Macys incidents, less police profiling incidents, etc. As it stands, it makes perfect sense that Macys would be watching young African American males more than any other demographic cohort.