So last night 7 people got shot during an album release in Chicago for Lil Mouse and King Samson. It’s heartbreaking to see the continued carnage in the windy city with seemingly no end in sight.. It’s also heartbreaking to hear these stories on national news ala CNN.. You go to Google to look up the story and here’s whats listed as the number 2 story for all to see..
Stop the Violence March in Chicago
Now before get into a free speech argument, which I clearly understand.. this issue here is not that..For me its how Google goes about listing stories in its vaunted news feeds. There are lots of folks who covered this story.. Why was this number 2? Why is it that we have some sites that put out consistent stories of note that can never get listed.. Case in point the Black Agenda Report who deliver compelling articles on issues with the intent of holding the President accountable.. Their stories don’t get listed and they been around more than 10 years.. Maybe there’s a simple explanation or maybe the most vile and most racist among us have a tight SEO game.. who knows.. Middle finger to google for making that their number 2 story..
On another note, we still have the very real issue of seven people being shot at a nightclub. This is happening so much that even Presidential visits addressing the violence has done very little to deter this disconnect and disdain for life that many seem to have in the Chi. Is there a simple solution? It’s not like we don’t have scores of groups and organizations in Chicago working diligently to turn things around..From the outside looking in, it seems like there are other forces at work.. It just seems like there is no real investment to change the systemic conditions that are leading up to this ongoing violence. It’s all about more police and more jails.. and obviously that’s not working..It seems like that hard work we see folks doing to bring about peace is being continuously undermined.
Maybe this generation and a few others are permanently lost..Perhaps all hands gotta be on deck to reach the youngest and the most impressionable with us pushing a steady diet of peace, affirmation for life, social upliftment, social justice, conflict resolution and love..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFZ3jZlcurM
So the earth stood still yesterday and we’re on our way backward. Watch them signs. Banks, corps, systems reboot. I’m not surprised. Get your “house” in order. Know yourSelf and you’ll know the seasons.
all this blood…why…why…why…
Now its #1 when you search
WOW . . . that is ridiculous.
It is the culture that prohibition(s) created. Honor the intent of our Constitution by legalizing all intoxicants, and the criminal culture will ween itself away.
Our ninth amendment demands the end to prohibitions. Read it with the “intoxicant” alcohol as the “enumerated right” already in the constitution.
1) I’m not an IT engineer but I’m pretty sure that Google is the # 1 search engine on the planet because they know how to find what people are talking about online and what people are searching for online. “Seven niggers shot, fled like cockroaches” is what people were talking about online and what people were searching for online.
2) My question though, is how come this story isn’t on Google as “13-month-old white baby executed in vicious black on white hate crime” Seriously. If the races were reversed this would be Treyvon Martin times 100
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/22/us/georgia-baby-killed/index.html?hpt=hp_t1