{"id":245564,"date":"2021-11-14T08:46:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T08:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=245564"},"modified":"2021-11-15T09:05:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T09:05:58","slug":"but-black-lives-matter-right-in-peoria-illinois-black-leaders-gather-to-beg-blacks-to-stop-other-black-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=245564","title":{"rendered":"But Black Lives Matter, Right? In Peoria, Illinois, Black Leaders Gather to Beg Blacks to Stop Other Black People…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Kersey \u2013 The Unz Review Nov 13, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Ask yourself: has such a community meeting ever been necessary in any white community in any city across America? [Addressing crime among Peoria\u2019s Black community, city leaders hope to inspire dialogue and collaboration<\/a>, Central Illinois Proud, November 13, 2021]:<\/p>\n

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) \u2014 Some Peoria community leaders are fighting what they call a \u201cspiritual war.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, Nov. 13, various Peoria clergy, school and community leaders held a panel at Peoria\u2019s Greater City of Refuge Worship Center to address black-on-black crime in the city. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Some called the recent uptick of violence in the city a \u201cblack genocide.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cNow with a record-setting number of homicides, we thought that it\u2019s time to revisit this event with the war of black genocide in the black community,\u201d said Agbara Bryson with the Annie Malone Center for Development<\/a> and organizer of the panel. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The purpose of the panel was to discuss and educate what causes black-on-black crime and offer community solutions. <\/strong><\/p>\n

One big topic of discussion was modern music that young children listen to. <\/strong><\/p>\n

One panel member spoke on the harmful \u201cdrill\u201d lyrics from rappers like Lil Durk. He argued the lyrics glorify violence, and young children chase violence in order to chase fame. <\/strong><\/p>\n

He asked the audience if anyone knew who Lil Durk was, and only the youngest two children raised their hands. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Police Chief Eric Echevarria was in attendance. He called on the clergy of the community, saying there are 300 churches in the city that can make a big change. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Director of School Safety for District 150, Demario Boone, was also in attendance, said there needs to be an abundance of collaboration to achieve violence intervention and prevention. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe secret to my success: I use everybody else,\u201d he said. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to know that this is systemic. We have to know that it\u2019s baked in the system and make sure that resources are brought to the areas that are having the most issues. And make sure we fully understand why these things are happening,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A self-identified former gang member and drug dealer said he realizes he is part of the problem that catapulted the violence. He asked the panel, specifically the chief, where the guns are coming from. He said he would never have been able to get weapons like that. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Chief Echevarria said there have been about 300 guns stolen in Peoria this year, and they have only been able to recover about half of them. He said many are also purchasing gun parts online and making \u201cghost guns.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

Carl Holloway, the Executive Director of Motivating Adult and Youth Individually, or May I Community Outreach,<\/a> said mentorship can be a very powerful tool to curb violence.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIf we can increase the positive options for our youth, I think that will decrease the negative actions and thoughts that they put into behavior,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There was a lot of talk about solutions to gun violence and black-on-black crime. A large consensus among the panel was any solution will need to be a community effort. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The evidence is just piling up that black lives don\u2019t matter to other black people. So why should white people be made to feel guilty?<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interesting that one of the causes of violence in the Black community was identified as a \u201cspiritual war\u201d and \u201cmusic\u201d. Indeed, we believe that the rap culture has been deliberately fashioned to promote and glorify violence and misogyny. Think of the way rappers pose with guns or routinely refer to women as \u201cBitches\u201d and \u201cwhores\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245564"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245600,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245564\/revisions\/245600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}