The Big, Huge ,Well-Known Secret Shaun King, Marc L. Hill And The Black Lives Matter (BLM) Movement Don't Want You To Know--And The Question You Should Never Ask

ATLANTA, GA--The Black Lives Matter movement spends its energy in the wrong places. The fight against police brutality in the black community is a noble cause. Fighting against police brutality in any community is a noble cause. In most police precincts and sheriff departments across America, the police support this fight. But here's where BLM leaders like Shaun King and Marc L. Hill get it wrong.


Why do BLM leaders get it so wrong? Confirmation bias? Unwillingness to entertain alternate points of view? Who knows? But the one thing most people do know is ...

The surest and easiest way to raise the ire of BLM activists, like King and Hill, is to mention black on black crime--specifically black on black murders.

What's the one fact BLM activists hate to acknowledge?


The leading killer of black men aged 15-34 is homicide. Homicides committed by other black people.


Mention that to King or Hill and you're likely to be accused of just raising an inflammatory straw man (at the least) or being a racist, white supremacist or Uncle Tom (at the worst).

First, let's review the facts.

The numbers below were published by the CDC.

(If you believe the CDC is just another conspiratorial agent of white supremacy, stop reading now because a) you're not going to get anything out of this b) you're not going to get anything out of this.)

The facts (2011):

• Most homicides occur within a person's race i.e. white people usually kill white people, black people usually kill black people
• Black make up about 13% of the population of the United States
• Whites make up about 62% of the United States
• 40.0% of black men between 15-34 years of age who died were murdered by a black person (approx. 4600)
• 3.8% of white men between 15-34 years of age who died were murdered by a white person (approx.2500)

On its face, the percentage of black men murdering other black men is striking. When you add in population statistics and contrast it with white on white murder, it's even more alarming. Epidemic, in fact.

Here's why the black on black murder rate is significant. Here's why it matters ...

It doesn't take a rocket scientist or a neurosurgeon to figure this out ...

Where there is murder committed, there are often more violent crimes committed. And where there are violent crimes committed, the police are called in to deal with the perpetrators of violent crimes.

So here's the simple logic ... an easy to understand hypothesis.

1. If you decrease the number of black on black murders, you implicitly decrease violent crime in black communities.
2. If you decrease violent crime in black communities, you decrease the level (and the nature) of police interaction in the black community.
3. If you decrease the police interaction in the black community, you decrease the likelihood of police brutality in black communities.

So why isn't the default narrative of the Black Lives Matter movement to look inward first?

Why isn't more of the massive amount of energy spent marching and disrupting spent in black communities?(And no, rioting and looting doesn't count.)

To put it in church lingo, it's easier to point at the splinter in a neighbor's eye than pluck the log out of your own.

When was the last time you saw Shaun King or Marc L. Hill disrupting and marching down the streets of Baltimore or Atlanta or Chicago decrying the criminal activities of gangs? Demanding black men stop the violence? Demanding they stop the brutality?

Those are good questions.

The easy answer--the sad but true answer--Black Lives Matter leaders like Shaun King and Marc L. Hill prefer to sit in comfortable, protected sky box seats looking down at the action while sipping Mai Tais and sending out misleading, passion-filled, galvanizing tweets as the police deal with the violent crime and the life endangering, ground realities in the arenas of the streets.


Link to data about black on black murder.