Shouldn't "Aspiring Rapper" Just be "Expiring Rapper?"

Michael Brown was an aspiring rapper. 

DeAndre Joshua, whose body was found in Ferguson on November 24, 2014, was also an aspiring rapper.

If you Google "Aspiring Rapper Killed," you get more than 337,000 results. 

Including this one. [Man arrested in murder of aspiring D.C. rapper during music video filming, WJLA.com, 4-3-15]:

Prince George's County Police have arrested a 21-year-old Northeast Washington man on a murder charge in the fatal shooting of an aspiring D.C. rapper. 

Sources told ABC 7 News that Lafonzo Iracks was taken into custody in D.C. early Friday. 

Twenty-one-year-old Keaway Lafonz Ivy, who went by the rap name Kealo, was shot and killed while filming a music video Wednesday night. Sources said Iracks was part of a group of people involved with the video. 

Police officers found Ivy suffering from an a gunshot wound in the 400 block of Eastern Avenue in Seat Pleasant around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. He was pronounced dead on the scene. 

Police had offered a $25,000 reward for information in the case. It was not immediately known if a reward tip led to the arrest.

And you wonder why the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are funding an initiative to highlight positive stories of young men of color...

Black Lives Don't Matter: “There is a callousness about the value of life here (in St. Louis), period”

Since the start of 2015, nine black juveniles have been shot in the St. Louis metropolitan area. 

Nine. [Girl, 9, ninth juvenile victim of gun violence in St. Louis in 2015, KMOV.com, 3-31-15]

Nine black juveniles shot by fellow blacks. 

You do know who the "we" means in this yard sign (commonly found in St. Louis) represents, right?

Not police. Not members of the Klan. But by black people. 

Only days before Easter (and a day before Good Friday), three black people would be murdered and four others shot. [3 dead, 4 injured in 4 shootings since Thursday evening in St. Louis, KMOV, 4-2-15]

And only one black person has dared to confront the rising levels of black-in-origin violence in St. Louis.

One. ['Lone Ranger' protester takes to the streets for the first time after St. Louis shooting, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 3-31-15]:

The Tuesday morning protest seemed odd compared to the crush of demonstrators, reporters and activists who flocked to Ferguson. 

It consisted of one Michelle Hawkins, 49, walking laps around Ray Leisure Park at Park Avenue and Tucker Boulevard. A few cars passing by during morning rush hour honked. Some drivers flashed the peace sign back at her.   

"I don't know what else to do," Hawkins said, large tears rolling down both sides of her face. "I don't want to live in fear, but it seems like that's what's it's coming to."   

Like any day, she woke up Tuesday between 5:30 and 6 a.m. to take medication for poor circulation in her leg. The Navy veteran boiled an egg, brewed a cup of tea. She put on support stockings and walking shoes, but she felt more motivated than to just do laps around the park this time.  

She'd heard all the gunfire the night before that killed a man and woman, and injured a 9-year-old girl in the hand. Hawkins, who has a grown daughter in community college, didn't have any art supplies laying around. She went across the street from her apartment and borrowed two crayons and one sheet of yellow paper from the same rec center that serves as the city's emergency homeless shelter during cold nights.   

She drew six hearts on the paper and spelled out the word "PEACE" in large letters.  

"You don't need a big crowd to make a big shine," she said. "The Lone Ranger made a big impact."  

She did what she thought she could do to avoid any more violence by carrying her sign.   

"You know, we just spread peace one slice at a time," she said.But there was no we. 

It was just Hawkins who said she was protesting for the first time in her life.  

It's funny: back in 1961 (when St. Louis was 28 percent black), Martin Luther King addressed a black church, and he said, "Do you know that Negroes are 10 percent (sic) of the population of St. Louis and are responsible for 58% of its crimes? We've got to face that. And we've got to do something about our moral standards," Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. told a congregation in 1961. "We know that there are many things wrong in the white world, but there are many things wrong in the black world, too. We can't keep on blaming the white man. There are things we must do for ourselves."

Blacks just don't care. Blaming the "white man" is a successful tactic for blacks to immunize themselves and their community from any criticism (primarily because so many Disingenuous White Liberals will immediately concede this blame);  and when you have a black President of United States of America and a black Attorney General of Department of Justice who have spent months blaming the white men of Ferguson for black people's problems, who would even believe there is anything wrong in the black world?

Enter the black clergy, demanding jobs as a stop-gap against the black violence in St. Louis driving away jobs... [Local clergymen taking stand against gun violence in St. Louis, KMOV.com, 4-3-15]:

A recent round of shootings has prompted pastors in north St. Louis to start a plan of action to fight violent crime. 

Pastors of local African American Methodist Episcopal Churches (AME) said Thursday's three double shootings was the last straw. 

“I know the Christian church does not tolerate this kind of hatred or this kind of killing. The question what are we going to do?” said Pastor Spencer L. Booker of St. Paul AME Church. 

At a Good Friday service Booker announced that local AME congregations would join with other churches this summer to promote an extensive anti-violence campaign. 

“It's devastating and deadly,” said Jeffrey Boyd, the 22nd Ward Alderman. He says he knows the father of one of the shooting victims in one of the double shootings. He knows police can't be on every street corner. The city offers recreation centers and many resources to help families and youth, but Boyd says he thinks that's not enough. 

“I guarantee you most of the violence we see in our neighborhoods, when you dig deep enough, go back to the family structure,” Boyd said. 

AME church leaders say they want an effort to reduce to the number of guns in the urban core, and plan to set up GED programs. They also will be pressing business and community leaders to create jobs, but pastors say young people need to learn to respect human life.

"Respect for human life...?"
Enter The Evening Whirl, a black-run paper in St. Louis that has documented black crime and depravity for 77 years. [Inside St Louis's lurid crime tabloid: 'There's a callousness about the value of life here', The Guardian, 3-31-15]:

“Pow. Pow. Pow. Pow. Pow. That’s how three street goons came at a dude as he said goodbye to his lovely wife on the North Side last week. If that’s too much for you, pick up the Times and read the theatre reviews.” 

So begins a typical article from the Evening Whirl, St Louis’s weekly print tabloid which bills itself as “an uninterrupted crime-fighting publication since 1938”. As the world’s attention fell on Ferguson last fall, the Whirl, resolutely non-digital, flew under the radar. But the paper is a St Louis institution: a 77-year-old, African American-run media enterprise that speaks to the complicated questions of race, crime and policing dogging the region today. 

For those 77 years, the Evening Whirl has covered the underworld of St Louis in lurid language, cataloging crimes under headlines like “Loon Chucks Shiv at 5-0” and “Bungling Bandit Bagged and Booked”. Regular features include a column called Where Not To Be, which provides a helpful map of where readers are most likely to be murdered, and Behind the Bars, an advice column from a prisoner named Jus Bleezy, who in the latest issue calls upon readers not to flush their lives “down the drain for a chain and some street fame”. 

Many articles start with a question: “WHY did a stone-cold gunslinger end a South Side squabble with slugs?” asks one query. “WHO is the con man from the womb who can steal the tighty off your whities that is being sought by North Patrol?” asks another. There are no bylines, giving it the feel of omniscient narration from an alternatively bemused and outraged voice. 

You can’t find the Evening Whirl online – it is only available for $1.50 at gas stations and convenience stores. Its strongholds are the impoverished neighborhoods of St Louis proper and north St Louis County, the suburban area that includes Ferguson. The Whirl is also available across the street from the St Louis County police headquarters, where it is devoured by cops chasing gossip and leads. 

“People read the Whirl because we tell it like it is,” says Anthony Sanders, the paper’s 55-year-old editor-in-chief. “If you’re a criminal and we feel that you’re a scumbag, then that’s what we call you.” 

Sanders took over the Whirl in 1995 following the long tenure of Ben Thomas, an entrepreneur who founded the paper in 1938 to document St Louis’s black nightlife. Thomas soon realized he had an audience hungry for crime, and for seven decades the Whirl documented St Louis’s spiral into poverty and depravity, at times attracting national media attention. 

“There is a callousness about the value of life here, period,” says Sanders. “We are among the most savage and brutal people on the face of the earth. We are killing people indiscriminately. It doesn’t always have to be gang or drug related. There are people just going off and killing people. That happens all over the country.” 

Since the Ferguson protest movement began, detractors have responded with the catch-all question: “What about black-on-black crime?” It’s a question that stems from the baseless assumption that black communities do not really care about violence, or grieve their own losses. The Whirl, for all its breathless tabloid hectoring, is a rebuttal to that derailment. Its purple prose rides the line between condemnation and celebration, but its stock in trade is morality tales.

The racial angle to St. Louis' spiral into poverty and depravity is, of course, unworthy of mentioning by anyone in polite society.

But, then again, in polite society white people must endure racial taunts as they eat their brunch...

Black Lives Don't Matter.

They never have, and they never will.

Ferguson was a story only because it's necessary to remove control of police departments from local hands to federal ones in Washington; and high rates of black criminality serve as a way to cleanse communities of pesky middle-class white people who would otherwise stay there for generations and work to build equity in their homes.

A community can only be created when people have a vested interest in building something permanent, and the black underclass in America has been used by the ruling class as a biological weapon to destroy whatever social capital was erected (with the founding population quickly resorting to white flight/abandonment of the city).

If a people can't put roots down in a place, they'll never have anything to fight for (and the black underclass, equipped with Section 8 Vouchers, represent the equivalent of the herbicide Spike 80DF when it comes to eliminating those 'roots' necessary for the creation of social capital), which pretty much sums up America post-1948.*

"To move forward, we have to leave something behind"

Newton's Third Law: 'Every action has an opposite and equal reaction'

There are moments in your life where you understand the necessity of change; where your concepts of reality shift so severely, you instantly become completely detached from the previous paradigm. 

Completely. 

Imagine a city where the citizens of the community simply refuse to pay their water bills. [Detroit plans mass water shutoffs over $260M in delinquent bills, Detroit News, 3-21-2014]

Imagine a city where the citizens of the community simply refuse to pay their property tax. [Half of Detroit property owners don't pay taxes: News analysis finds $246.5M in taxes went unpaid last year, Detroit News, 2-21-2013]

Imagine a city where the refusal of the citizens within the community results in mass foreclosures. [Detroit property tax assessments to decline as 62,000 properties face foreclosure, Michigan Live, 1-28-15]

Stop imagining. This is what a seven percent white and 83 percent black city in America actually resembles. 

Detroit. 

And this 83 percent black city could only be breed the type of world individual black people can collectively create. 

Enter the aptly Martin Luther King homes on the 800 block of St. Aubin in Detroit, a "low-income" (meaning: subsidized housing) complex full of black people. [Focus turns to mom after kids found in freezer, Detroit News, 3-25-15]:

The bodies of two dead children lay inside a freezer for months in a low-income townhouse on Detroit's near east side, while two siblings lived there with their mother, who was handcuffed, taken into custody and questioned by police.

The woman, identified as 35-year-old Mitchelle Blair, had not been charged by prosecutors as of Tuesday evening in connection with the deaths of her children, a boy about 11 years old and a girl about 14.

Blair's Facebook profile declared: "Loyal to my babies." One recent post was of the words: "There is no greater blessing than being called Mom."

"This is so tragic," said neighbor Tori Childs. "They were the nicest kids, so respectable."

It was not immediately known if the two surviving children, ages 11 and 17, were aware the bodies of their sister and brother were in the home. They were being questioned by police and social workers Tuesday, police said, and are in protective custody.

The children's frozen bodies were found around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday inside a townhouse at the Martin Luther King homes on the 800 block of St. Aubin by a crew from 36th District Court charged with evicting Blair for non-payment of rent. The bailiffs, whose job is to clear furniture out of the townhouse, first discovered the female child and dialed 911, police said. The boy's body was found later in the freezer, according to police.

Terrance West, a member of the eviction crew, said the freezer was next to the front door.

"Unfortunately, we see a lot of bad things on this job," he said.

Neighbor Shanetria Lanier, 21, said people in the apartment complex wondered what happened to the two children, who suddenly dropped out of sight about a year ago.

"When people asked her where her other two kids are, she said they were at their aunt's house," Lanier said. "Or sometimes she'd tell people they stayed inside because they didn't like to be around people."

But it gets better. The sperm donor to one of the black children found in the freezer of the subsidized apartment in the Martin Luther King complex in Detroit is a poster child for "deadbeat" fathers, now back in the picture with his child dead. [Father of one child found dead in freezer shares grief, WXYZ.com, 3-30-15]:

“For two years. Every time I asked she said they were never there. She was right there. She was right there,” said Alex Dorsey as grief for his daughter Stoni overcame him.  

He is the father of one of two children found in a freezer in a Detroit woman’s apartment on Tuesday. 

After performing autopsies, the Wayne County Medical Examiner said Stoni Ann Blair and Stephen Gage Berry died from multiple blunt trauma and multiple blunt trauma and thermal injuries respectively. 

Police say their two surviving siblings endured years of abuse in the home. They were forced to stay in the home, not allowed to go to school, and knew their brother and sister were in the freezer. 

The 17-year-old daughter who is still alive told investigators Stephen died in August 2012 after their mother tortured him for weeks. He would have been nine years old at the time.   

She allegedly tied a belt around his neck, threw hot water on him in the shower, and put a plastic bag over his head before he died. Stoni allegedly was strangled and suffocated by their mother in May 2013. 

“Why did she have to die? She didn’t do anything wrong to nobody?” said Dorsey. 

Alex Dorsey says he didn’t understand why Mitchelle Blair stopped letting him take his two daughters for visits two years ago until he got a phone call this week that Stoni was dead.  She had been dead for a long time. 

“Lord have mercy.  She was right there,” said Dorsey. 

Dorsey says he used to stop by the apartment every month.  He now realizes his daughters’ mom stopped letting him take them for visits around the time Stoni would have been killed.   

“That is why she kept me outside.  Said you can’t come inside. Why can’t I come in?  She didn’t tell me why,” said Dorsey. 

He would ask to see Stoni.  Her mom would say she was out. 

Dorsey says seven months ago is the last time he came to the house. His daughter’s mother wouldn’t let him see his daughters because he didn’t “have enough money.” 

He had lost his job a few months prior. 

The state is now trying to take away his rights to his 17-year-old daughter. A petition says he abandoned his girls, failed to take legal action to obtain parenting time, and owes $39,000 in child support.

Only $39,000 in child support? Of course, the two competing sperm donors in the case of the two black children turned into popsicles in the Martin Luther King housing complex (subsidized, mind you, by you the taxpayer) in 83 percent black Detroit are now fighting over who gets to the money donated to the GoFundMe account. ['Body hustlers' complicate kids' burial plans, Detroit News, 4-1-15]

"To move forward, we have to leave something behind."

Anthony Stokes... your story has nothing on the blackness originating from the Martin Luther King housing (subsidized, mind you) in 83 percent black Detroit. 

But both represent what we must leave behind... we could have been on Mars, but instead we fund situations like what happened in Detroit and with Anthony Stokes. 

Anthony Stokes: A literal change of heart couldn't change the leopard's spots.

Back in 2013, Think Progress declared war.

And, as usual, they won. 

The final social media Anthony Stokes posted...

Cry 'racism' loud enough and long, and you'll win in Black-Run America (BRA). [Dying Teen Is Being Denied A Heart Transplant Because He’s Had Trouble With The Law, Think Progress, August 12, 2013]:

Fifteen-year-old Anthony Stokes has less than six months to live unless he receives an emergency heart transplant. But his family has been told that Anthony doesn’t qualify for the transplant list because he has a “history of non-compliance” — partly due to his history of earning low grades and having some trouble with the law. 

“They said they don’t have any evidence that he would take his medicine or that he would go to his follow-ups,” Melencia Hamilton, Anthony’s mother, told WSBTV News. Hamilton explained that her son has an enlarged heart, and a transplant is the only thing that will help his condition. 

The doctors at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta weren’t very specific about what exactly contributed to their decision to label Anthony as “non-compliant.” But family friendsexplained to WSBTV News that they were told it’s partly because of Anthony’s performance in school and run-ins with law enforcement. 

His family and friends don’t accept that as a valid reason to deny the teen life-saving treatment. “We must save Anthony’s life,” family friend Mack Major, identified as Anthony’s mentor, told CBS Atlanta. “We don’t have a lot of time to do it, but it’s something that must be done.”

For a few years, Anthony's life was saved because the cry of "racism" is far more powerful than decisions based on common sense. [Hospital Reverses Decision On Anthony Stokes Heart Transplant, ColorLine.com, 8-15-2013]:

Anthony Stokes has a chance at a heart transplant now that doctors at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta will put him on the wait list, reversing last week’s decision to keep him off the list because of “non-compliance.” The hospital has yet to comment on why Stokes was found “non-compliant,” saying only that they “follow very specific criteria in determining eligibility” for transplants and that they would be working “closely with the family.”  

Stokes’s mother Melencia Hamilton told CNN the doctors said their decision was partly based on her son’s poor grades in school and juvenile criminal record. He also has tattoos and wears an ankle bracelet, allegedly from an incident where he was defending his younger brother. According to a spokesman for the family, Stokes will be put at the top of the list because his condition is so severe.

Racial Justice indeed!

Poor academic record, juvenile criminal record and an ankle bracelet are the exact criteria necessary for pushing aside the Tin Woodman from The Wizard of Oz to receive a new heart. 

Not exactly the Tin Woodman...

But a literal change of heart couldn't change the leopard's spots... [Who was controversial heart recipient Anthony Stokes?, Atlanta Journal Constitution, 4-1-15]

Anthony Stokes, 17, of Decatur, died Tuesday after crashing a stolen car while running from police. At the time, he was a suspect in a failed burglary and a carjacking, which police believe were linked to the fatal crash of the black Honda Accord on Ga. 9, Officer Lisa Holland said. 

Aug. 13, 2013: The hospital agreed to put Stokes on the donor list for a new heart, the teen’s family said. 

“We met with hospital officials about 30 minutes ago,” family spokesman Mark Bell said this afternoon. “After reviewing the situation, they said Anthony would be placed on the list for a heart transplant and that he would be first in line, due to his weakened heart condition.” 

Aug. 21, 2013: Stokes underwent a five-hour transplant surgery. 

Oct. 3, 2013: In an interview with Jovita Moore of Channel 2 Action News, Stokes said he had gotten into trouble after some fights at school. He said he had forgiven the hospital for judging him. 

“Because God, he like, said forgive,” Stokes said. 

Stokes said he deserved a second chance because he has the rest of his life to live.“So I can live. A second chance. Get a second chance and do, do things I want to do,” Stokes said. 

Nov. 20, 2014: Stokes turns 17. 

Jan 10, 2015: Stokes was arrested and charged with possession of tools for the commission of a crime and criminal attempt, DeKalb County jail records showed. 

Feb. 3, 2015: Stokes was released from jail after posting $5,000 bond, records showed. 

March 30, 2015: Stokes died after fleeing police following a carjacking and a burglary.An elderly Roswell woman told Channel 2 that Stokes shot at her after he kicked in her door and found her inside watching television. 

Stokes clipped a car in the intersection and then jumped the curb and hit a pedestrian before colliding with a SunTrust Bank sign, Holland said. 

“He lost control and there was a long set of skid marks,” she said. 

Stokes died after rescue workers cut him out of Honda, Holland said. The pedestrian was taken to the hospital, but is expected to survive her injuries, police said.

How many people did Stokes bypass in the line for a new heart all because the charge of "racism" was too much deflect? [Anthony Stokes: 15-year old Georgia boy gets on heart transplant list after earlier denial, WPTV.com, August 14, 2013]:

An August 7 letter from the hospital, which Bell provided to CNN, said that "Anthony is currently not a transplant candidate due to having a history of noncompliance, which is one of our center's contraindications to listing for heart transplant." 

Noncompliance generally means that doctors doubt that a patient will take his medicine or go to follow-up appointments. 

In a statement Tuesday, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta said, "While there has been misinformation circulating, Children's cannot discuss the specifics of this case or any other case due to privacy rules." 

The hospital earlier had said it was working "closely with the family" to find solutions. 

"The doctor made the decision that he wasn't a good candidate because of that," Bell said. "I guess he didn't think Anthony was going to be a productive citizen." 

Anthony's mother, Melencia Hamilton, told CNN affiliate WGCL-TV that doctors said Anthony would live only three to six months if he didn't get the heart transplant. 

In the meantime, the story became public in local media. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Georgia chapter got involved because Anthony's family called, and the organization has "a longtime relationship with the child," said the Rev. Samuel Mosteller, the chapter's president. 

The complexity of transplants 

Federal records show that 3,400 people were on waiting lists for heart transplants in 2012, but only 2,000 of these procedures were performed. While waiting for a heart transplant, 331 people died.  

No, family friend Mark Bell, Anthony was never going to be a productive citizen (and thankfully, he was never a "reproductive" citizen either).

But because of the charge of "racism," we can surmise a person on the waiting list for a new heart died so Anthony Stokes could live for a another 20 months...

This wasn't an April Fools' Day joke, for in Black-Run America (BRA), the joke is on white America every day.