As a collective fighting for position and power in a foreign system, we must be careful of the narratives we accept and how we frame them. We have a responsibility to use critical analysis to decipher the language that my hide within itself nefarious intent against us as a collective.
A term that we must give serious consideration to is Black on Black crime. Check out this article the digs deep into the use of this term and what it means.
There is an African Proverb that says, “If there is no enemy on the inside, the enemy on the outside can do us no harm.” The problem with the Black collective is that the enemy on the inside is one that we refuse to acknowledge — one we like to…