You can keep the hypothetical rhetoric. The fact remains that for every white person that kills a black person in this country there are probably 5 blacks that kill other blacks. And yes, there are war zones here and for the most part all of them are black on black minus the hispanics out west and the southwest. (See Chicago, Detroit, Camden, New Orleans, Miami, Trenton... hell I could go on.) And that's UNDER the "white mans" law. That much isn't even debatable. And we ALL know the mentality that many of us HATE to see others succeed and will go spend their money at a white restaurant before a black one. Or an asian beauty supply store before a black one. Can't use the "blame the man" cop out on that one, sorry.
sys·tem·ic
adj.
1. Of or relating to systems or a system.
2.
a. Relating to or affecting the entire body or an entire organism: systemic symptoms; a systemic poison.
b. Relating to or affecting a particular body system, especially the nervous system: a systemic lesion.
c. Physiology Of or relating to systemic circulation.
You're looking at what we do in a vacuum. Look at the legacy of slavery... Really look at it.
You're enslaved so you're unable to read or write. You're hated because of the color of your skin. You have no culture no religion no past no future you have NOTHING...
ONE group of people is doing this to you. ONE. White people. You're taught to hate yourself. You're taught to hate your women. You're taught to hate your color. You're taught to hate your lips and your nose and your hair. You're taught to hate everything about you and everything about everyone that looks like you.
Then you have children who are taught the same thing and their children are taught the same thing for 15 generations.
15 GENERATIONS
Here is a colorful example...
Start with a cage containing five monkeys.
Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the other monkeys with cold water.
After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result: all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon, when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it. Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage andreplace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attack him.
After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted. Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previousnewcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm! Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey. After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs to try for the banana.
We've been behaving in ways that we were programmed for for 15 Generations and you want to say that it's a cop out. smh. We didn't do this to ourselves. We didn't just become the way that we are by happenstance.