Persuasive Essay On Black Crime

As a criminal justice professor, I am often engaged in conversations about crime in the black community. Many ask the reason so many black men are incarcerated; why are black people less concerned with black on black crime yet overly concerned when a black person is killed by an individual of another race? The questions seem to be neverending, especially during the current uprisings related to the police killings of unarmed black men across America.

The answers are never simple; many of them in fact are extremely complex. However, the answer that most people are waiting to hear is that black people, specifically black males deserve to die in the most horrific ways possible. Yet, since the forced relocation to the Americas, horrific deaths of black men seems to be a common occurrence.
Acceptance of responsibility begins with the courage to denounce actions and terms that continue to vilify us as a people. The continued escalation of crimes committed in our homes and communities by people of color is an action that needs to cease immediately. The deep rooted anger that blacks have for each other is extremely damaging and only helps to annihilate the black community. Terms that we have embraced such as nigger, thug, goon, and even the term black on black crime paints a very vivid picture of how little respect we have for ourselves and one another. The current rap industry continues to plague us with these terms by describing other black entertainers, black athletes, and black women. If we are publicly showing so much disrespect for ourselves, how can we possibly expect respect from others? Not only are other ethnicities disrespectful to people of color but some have even gone as far as using our ignorance for financial