Remembering Wilkinsburg-Mass Shooting In the Hood.

March 9, 2016 was a very warm day in Wilkinsbug PA,  about 2 miles from the City of Pittsburgh. So warm you can cook out.
At 11 pm shots rang out in Wilkinsburg nothing unusual Wilkinsburg is the hood.  Eight people were shot including a pregnant woman.  Six people including 4 women,  1 man, and an unborn baby boy.  They werent just shot they were slaughtered.

One man stood in the back alley behind Britney Powell's house and fired a hand gun as the victims ran to safety the second man shot them down with an AK 47 on the porch less than a foot away from safety.  In a few seconds three of Jessica Shelton's children were dead and two of her nieces were dead and her unborn grandchild.

The Suspects were caught,  nothing lights a fire under people's butt quicker than an International story in your County. Cheron Shelton, no relation to the victims, was angry because he believed one of the Survivors of the shooting and the brother of Brittney, Mike,  and Netta Powell, shot and killed his best friend and he saw an opportunity to hurt him by killing his loved ones.  They are still down the County jail awaiting trail. They will now spend the rest of their lives behind bars for nothing. 

RIP Netta Powell, and Unborn Baby,  Brittney Powell,  Tina Shelton,  Jerry Shelton, and Shada Mahone.

I promise you that I will never let anyone forget you.  

Where is our grief Counseling and where is Black Lives Matter?

This morning, on his Facebook page, my nephew tagged his friends begging them to be safe because he doesn't want to lose anymore friends.  He's 16 years old. No 16 year old should ever have to beg his friends to be careful out there.

My Hood lost two teenagers and a 24 year old young man to homicide. Not one but three people yet we haven't heard a peep out of Black Lives Matter nor has anyone offered to give our Community grief counseling. Do they think it's so normal here that we don't need it? As for Black Lives Matter, I'm going to need for them to either start giving a damn about all black lives or change their name. They claim to think black lives matter but they don't get involved unless whites and cops are doing the killing well guess what BLM the majority of black men are killed by other black men. Do you really think to the families and Communities that lose young black men every day care that these young lives were stolen by black men? They don't. They want Justice not a group who hate the police so much that they actually tell black people not to cooperate with the police. That's because like the White Middle Class, BLM, gun violence is not something they deal with daily. I understand that but unlike Whites they deny that black men kill other black men. Well guess what it happens and I'm gonna need you to either care or change your name.

The last time BLM showed up in the hood was to protest the Klan. We have had several protests in the hood to protest the genocide going on in the hood. They get online and create cute little hash tags like #sayhername and many others but they don't even try to learn the names of people killed here.

As for mental health counsling, we never get offered that. Why not? One of my dear White Middle Class female friends pointed out that the entire hood suffers from PTSD. If a white middle class woman who lives in Maine knows this why doesn't the Professional Mental Health facilities think the Community needs to heal. Are we super human that multiple homicides leave no psychological scars. Are we so strong that no one thinks we may suffer from PTSD. We are not Superhuman and we are angry, sad, and confused. We hurt just like the people in Las Vegas, New York or any other city that suffers major loss of life. The only difference is for us this is a 32 year nightmare that seems like it will never end.

To the Hood, we have to continue to love and care about each other because it seems no one else does. #onehoodoneloveuse
#stoptheviolence
#putthegunsdown
#stopshootingweloveyou
#prayersforpittsburgh
#pittsburghisthenewiraq

Urban Violence In the United States is ignored by UN. Why the UN ignores problems in United States concerning the poor.

                                         Police trying to investigate a shooting in Chicago




I am doing research into Urban Violence in America.  I found a lot of information from the UN report on Urban Violence.  They talked about the drug trade in all these third world Country but ignored the United States. This is not surprising to me because this isn't the first time that the UN ignored problems that plague the United States.  I get that they can not afford to piss off the United States but they need to be held accountable. They are to blame for the racism, sexism, and the failed war on drugs and oppressive laws that have destroyed the Urban communities in the United States.


The Politicians in the United States usually ignore the poor people in this Country both Urban and Rural because they usually do a good job of making the poor seem stupid, trashy, or violent.  The Middle class throughout my life time have always screamed and  yelled about various issues that resulted in outrageous laws regarding sentencing.  The Republicans can bare some of the blame but the Democrats really can't call them out because the most oppressive, racist laws are those in Blue States like California with its three strikes your out laws and New York's Rockefeller law that tripled the time served for selling crack rather than cocaine. There are literally people spending life in prison for pick pocketing. Then they want to know why their damn taxes are so high. Your paying to house and feed people for picking pockets instead of giving them maybe a year or two. New York's Rockefeller laws put mainly black and brown men in prison for 30 years even though the most you got for the same amount of Cocaine was 5 years. You would think Politicians would learn right? Nope they did the same thing to poor whites with Crystal Meth, mainly used by Poor Rural Whites.
Heroin used to be a biggie but since Middle class whites are now the Primary users of Heroin now they get rehab.  What is the difference between an addict hooked on Crack, Crystal Meth, or heroin.? There is no difference at all.

A ritual done every day in the hood for someone we lost to homicide

Marijuana, which has a lot of medical uses is a Class One Drug, that is appalling and needs to change but the screamers and snowflakes continue to cause people to be forced to take poison into your body such as Chemo, because they are so holier than thou. I bet the majority of people who bitch about weed are those that drink wine. What is the difference? Your still getting high. The next Federal vs States rights is going on now with a half dozen or more states making Marijuana legal and will not cooperate with the Feds with arresting people.


Why does the UN refuse to believe all the legitimate claims that the hood has against the United States for unjust and illegal laws? Because they are afraid of the United States and Russia. Those two counties and commit Genocide on their people and the UN will ignore it and pretend it is not their business.  How ever let some despot in Africa try doing that and watch what happens.  They can do something. Shame the Middle class who actually with all their crying and screaming and being the snow flakes they are so that they at least try to find out what is going on before they start screaming and yelling and crying.  Then people wonder why we look at the Middle Class like they are dangerous its because to us they are.

A Street gang hanging on the Corner

People in the hood would not sell drugs if they had jobs but no one will give them a job especially if he did time.  A person convicted of selling drugs is not likely to steal from your store any more than any one else and with the job you give him/her maybe he or she can actually remain out of trouble because you took a chance on them and gave them a job. Who knows they may turn out to be your best employees.   No one dreams of becoming a Drug dealer but if no one gives them a chance then they have no choice but to sell drugs.

A gang member holding his gun

Now of course not all Middle Class people are snowflakes, most men are but most women aren't. Yes Middle Class men you really are the biggest snow flakes white and black..


So UN if you are allowing The United States and Russia to get away with things that you are not allowing Africa or North Korea to get away with then what good are you. Remember something Africa and the rest of the third world countries can not do without sanctions. then perhaps you should disband because you are not helping anyone. 

Tired of loosing our babies.

Yesterday a young man lost his life he was 12 years old, a baby, really but someone murdered that young man shot him cold and left him to die all alone. This time it was a 12 year old boy. Last week it was a 7 year old girl and next week it may be a toddler. This happens so much that the community that these children reside in are shedding so many tears when we lose so many young people that its starting to destroy our community. 


So many people who live here are shell shocked and along with the sadness and heart break is anger and fear. When a neighbor across the street or next door to you is having a party you think to yourself "Will I get shot if someone starts shooting because they have beef with another party guest. 

Back in the day, gangs began to limit who got shot, because women and little kids brought heat to the gang and they were arrested or it interfered with the drug trade. Now the major gangs, like the CRIPs or BLOODS are not generally shooting each other. Small gangs and people who have an axe to grind or someone who lost a fight to someone else gets angry and shoots someone.  The little kids and women get killed because someone started shooting and can't shoot.  They may shoot up the house and a stray bullet kills them through their window.  


Most people that I know living in the hood has had their house shot up either because someone went to the wrong house or because the bullets went other places because the person couldn't shoot.


How do you explain to small children that a 7 year old girl was shot while sleeping in her bed? How do you explain to 12 year olds that the Quarterback on their football team was shot and killed while he was playing in the park?  Children in the hood are more familiar with homicide because most kids know someone in their family that got shot and killed. Its part of life that children do not even need adults to help them memorialize people who were killed in their neighborhoods this is something they see a lot especially in the Spring and Summer.

Our children are very resourceful but they are also afraid. The times, as a parent, that were the hardest is explaining to your teenager or pre teen why they had to live in a place where so many people were murdered.  I didn't have the answers then and I still do not have the answers. Now it is up to them to explain it to their kids and like me they do not have any answers.  The cycle of violence continues.

Why Do White Liberals ignore the problems in the Hood? Why do Black Middle Class Liberals deny that that any problem exists?

A young man posing with a gun

 

I have had this question on my mind for at least 26 years. Why do White Liberals ignore that the Inner city has this high homicide rate?

These white liberals will scream for Gun control laws from the Mountain top  if a mass shooting happens in the Suburbs.  I wondered if these same liberals would scream about gun control when we were the victim of a mass shooting.

On March 9, 2016 in Wilkinsburg, PA two gun man slaughtered 5 people and since one of the women were pregnant they were charged with six homicides.

I was surprised that the only people who posted this story or even mentioned it were Conservative Whites and Hood Whites. As for the Black people they commented. Black people from the hood and black Conservatives expressed outrage and sympathy for the family and joined the chorus that we needed to do something.  Black Liberals blamed the white man and even the police.

The international press carried this story and even some Conservative press covered it. Black magazines like The Root, and The Griot—two online black magazines covered it. It was on these sites that the people of the hood saw black middle class Liberals tell people who lived in the hood that they should be ashamed for  telling people where they lived. They told us that black on black crime was a myth that we were foolish enough to believe this myth.  The people in the hood grew angry and refused to help groups like Black Lives Matter during their protests we weren’t going to join their protest when they denied that we were killing ourselves.

We watched as black Middle class young people called people racist or threatened to get them fired from their jobs if they did not stick to the story that black on black crime was a myth and that white cops were killing these black men.

We watched in horror as black middle class Liberals told our children that they had better not snitch on someone black. They really have no idea how it feels to watch several people die every year during the Killing season. They really have no idea how we need to start snitching when it comes to people committing homicide. We were angry that they would do that to our children.

So to the White Liberal—the black middle class Liberal is only a small percentage of the people likely to vote Democratic. They will vote for the Democrat no matter who is running.  The black from the Hood may not vote because he/she feels both parties are bad for them.  The other 10% of Black people are Conservative and tend to vote Republican.

Unless White Liberals stop listening to the small amount of people in your party and start listening to the larger community of people who live in these communities you will continue to lose.

To the white liberal Black on Black crime is NOT racist it’s a reality that millions of people every day have to live with.  It’s not a myth. White cops are not coming into poor black hoods and killing black men and setting up other black men. The fact that you believe this stupid foolish mess makes me wonder about you

You should never ignore gun violence because the victim and killer are the same color. You would never ignore a white killing another white. Why would you ignore us?

A Street gang member with his gun

To The Hood Spring Means Death

This Saturday my granddaughter's father lost another cousin to homicide. Big Tone was 31 years old. He and his little brother Trillis used to hang out at my house, several years ago.
Last year Trillis lost his life; he was also shot. Last weekend another young man, Purderty, age 25, was killed in a bar on the South Side of Pittsburgh. He grew up in Hawkins Village and knew my kids.
These three men are by no means the only people I know who have been murdered. I have been dealing with losing people to homicide for 31 years. It never gets easier. It just gets passed down to the next generation.
My adult children in their 20s and 30s have all lost several friends. My granddaughter who is seven has now lost three cousins.
We are tired of it but nothing ever changes because of the no-snitching rules. Little kids are taught that snitches get stitches. People who snitch have been killed. So every spring the Hood USA loses people. Thousands of young men are murdered every year.
People in the Hood often ask themselves: Does the rest of America know what is going on in the Hood? Do they even care?