You're a good man BD and Lord knows we need more Black men like You out there "fighting the good fight," if you will.

Heck, in light of all this country is going through right now I'm now looking around in my own community to see where I can help make a difference.

I think this is a rare moment in American history when We (Americans who truly care about Our families, Our communities and Our nation) get to choose (by Our words and actions) which direction America takes.

There are plenty of people trying to stop black men from killing each other in Chicago and a lot of places. I know because I am one of them. I volunteer in a mentor program and we do this kind of thing everyday. So I get a little mad when people say nobody is doing anything about black on black crime because we are. Alot of us are. I believe black lives matter and all lives matter. That has nothing to do with any organizationr. I don't want authority figures that should be trusted like cops killing black men. But I don't want black men killing black men either.

We're asking cops to do too much in this country. We are. We just ask of us to do too much. Every societal failure, we put it off on the cops to solve. Not enough mental-health funding. Let the cop handle it. Not enough drug-addiction funding. Let’s give it to the cops. Here in Dallas, we got a loose-dog problem. Let’s have the cops chase loose dogs. Schools fail, give it to the cops. Seventy percent of the African American community is being raised by single women. Let’s give it to the cops to solve that as well. That’s too much to ask. Policing was never meant to solve all those problems, and I just ask for other parts of our democracy, along with the free press, to help us. . . .

Serve your communities. Don’t be a part of the problem. We’re hiring. We’re hiring. Get off that protest line and put an application in. And we’ll put you in your neighborhood, and we will help you resolve some of the problems you’re protesting about. […]

H/T: TAC

But seriously. I get it. I understand the difference. And please know that I most certainly DO support the idea that "Black lives have value" and "Black lives do matter" too.

In fact, I embrace that idea so much so that I am baffled by the fact that Blacks want to raise h*ll about black men being unjustly killed by bad (mostly white) cops, while Blacks are killed DAILY in America by other Blacks, totaling about 6,000 deaths last year alone.

And what do I hear in response to Black-on-Black homicides? Crickets…

Where is the Black outrage BD? Where are the large-scale protests demanding accountability within Black communities? …and Black families?

As I have expressed before, we want White people to own their madness. Well we MUST own our madness too BD. And until we do why should we expect other people to care more about Us than we care about ourselves?

For me, it's simple- I value ALL innocent Black lives, just as I value ALL innocent lives of ANY race and ethnicity.

An innocent life taken grieves my heart and "weighs heavily on the soul" no matter who takes that life.

See a lot of people confuse the movement and the idea. The movement and the organization called Black Lives matter is one thing. Saying you believe that "black lives matter' is another thing. That's what Guliani and a lot of Repubs are getting wrong. They don't like the black lives organization so they have a problem talking about the worth of black lives. Borrowing one of DJ's examples I don't have to support the American Cancer society, but I can still support fighting cancer. Same thing here. You don't have to support the group "Black Lives Matter" but you can still support the idea that "black lives have value and black lives do matter." Those are two different things. I hope this makes sense.