by Reid Fitzsimons (Note: This article is primarily about intraracial crime, especially black-on-black murder. It also discusses killings by police. I am far from the mindset of "police can do no wrong," but to concentrate only on the small fraction of black people killed by police - sometimes truly in cold blood- and ignore the 1,000s upon 1,000s of black people murdered by other black people demonstrates that, to the elite, black lives really don't matter)
LeBron James is a black basketball player of renown with a net worth in 2025 around $1.2 billion. In April 2021 he posted on Twitter, in part, “I’m so damn tired of seeing Black people killed by police.” This was in response to a shooting of a 16-year-old black female by a white Columbus, OH cop. The associated headline on NPR (4/21/21) stated, “Columbus Police Shoot And Kill Black Teenage Girl,”and their URL for this story was, “16-year-old-black-girl-who-called-for-help-fatally-shot-by-police-ohio-family-said.” It wasn’t until the 8th paragraph that NPR mentioned something kind of pertinent, which will be discussed in a moment.
Other headlines included (CNN) “ Ma’Khia Bryant was shot 4 times by officer, autopsy shows,” and the Columbus Dispatch newspaper “Ma'Khia Bryant was helpful and kind, her friends and family say.” Lebron James preceded his “I’m so damn tired...” post by one that included a photo of the cop involved and stated "YOU'RE NEXT:"
Alfred Finocchiaro
It's obvious, they (the elite blacks and whites) do not want to recognize the facts. The most powerful are making bank on the situation one way or another. To admit to these problems of the inner city ethnic communities of drug abuse, poverty, crime, broken families is to admit to 60+ plus years of failed policy.
Or has it failed? Maybe this has been the plan all along. Give them just enough and keep the n&^%$# down. Not my words, but the words of LBJ who had a hand in starting this mess.
Carole Ann Milljour
You certainly did a lot of research on that one Reid. That was another thorough article and a great read. However, I did check out the video, and was sorry I did...but there was that warning! So sad, huh? I don’t know how our police force do it, going out every day and dealing with the chaos they have to deal with. I wonder what frame of mind that officer was in at the time. No doubt, was tired of the demands of the job, somewhat unsure of what he would be facing that could have caused him to act so violently. I don’t know. It just takes one time to destroy a lifetime of being an officer in good standing.
I recall too, the officer who I believe is still serving a prison sentence for using a martial arts hold on George Floyd’s neck when trying to control the situation. I felt really bad for that office only because Floyd was not in the least cooperative and the officer felt he had to do something. The video you showed was quite the opposite and bad things do happen to the best of intention individuals. I would never want to be put in that type of situation, being an officer requires a great deal from the men and women who carry those badges!
I am glad that President Trump has officially declared antifa a terrorist organization. I realize there is a great deal of controversy over that one, but to me it is most definitely a step in the right direction.
This country has to start somewhere.
Recently someone I am well acquainted with had negative comments around Charlie Kirks’ murder and all the elaborate displays of sadness, etc. She shocked me for one thing because she was more concerned about the fact that the flag was going to be flown at half-mast for four days, all the media’s (on the right) acknowledgment of him as someone who tried to encourage our youth, etc. (She thought he was arrogant and pushed a radical agenda.) When I tried to interject, she would not let me...and so I finally ended saying that a young man was assassinated and he left behind a loving wife and two small children and that in itself was something for the country and his followers to mourn over. I could not believe she actually was more in line with the leftist’s lies and being as intelligent as I thought she was, was not very bright in my line of thinking after all for being so narrowed minded as to believe such garbage. (Obvious to me, she never saw or heard any of his debates...only listened to the far left news media.) I don’t know, it certainly shows how divided our country still is although I think there are more right wing believers than left now that DJ Trump has gotten in office. Thank God for that!
I do believe things will improve eventually to some degree, however, it is going to take a great deal to change the minds and hearts of some of the followers who are only intent on ruining lives and don’t really care as much as they profess they do. At least with cleaning up the horrific crime in our cities, getting some type of living arrangement for our street people, deporting illegals, etc. we should start to see some positive results from the hard work and efforts of those who truly care about doing the right thing over those who are greedy and corrupt.
And yes, Albert, I agree 100 per cent on your comment about LBJ. He was a terrible president ...I often wondered if he had something to do with Kennedy’s assassination. He did create the nanny state and that certainly didn’t help our country’s situation any!