There is something wrong with the premise behind the statement “Black lives don’t matter to #BlackLivesMatter” and (mis)using FBI stats to back it up, as the always-ill-informed Milo Yiannopoulos has done.

It assumes that African-Americans are not doing anything to reduce violent offenses in predominately African-American urban areas, despite the evidence to the contrary that Yiannopoulos simply ignores.

The “solutions” to “Black-on-black crime” put forward by those most extremely critical of the anti-police brutality protests are usually embarrassingly parochial, petty and emphasizing upon a moral policing of African-Americans which would never reasonably happen to White Americans.

The “solutions” are usually harder militarization of the inner-city police, harder prosecution of the Drug War, re-introducing religious control into the public school system and civil government, encouraging corporal violence against children, shaming single parents, and powerless obeisance to the force of arms.

None of these will bring back the manufacturing jobs. None of these will address our mental health crisis. None of these will fix our collapsing infrastructure. None of these will empower us with democratic power. None of these will address how, as an ethnicity descended from slaves, we ended up here in the wrong way. None of these will fix our education system’s lack of scale. None of these will address how we feel trapped in our own cities in the underclass.

They’re just crap solutions. Meaningless, nostalgic platitudes to violently-flawed bygones. Hypocritical des to a hypocritical culture which masks its violent stench as it condemns Black people for our terrors.

And what’s worse is that the same people who propose these “solutions” do not institutionally benefit from these solutions either! They screw over other White people!

Sad!