Black-on-Black crime

"the Black-on-Black criminal must be made to realize that one of his principal problems is one of identity. he must understand how the criminal complex with which he currently identifies was constructed by europeans for their own benefit and his ultimate demise. his criminal identity must be exorcised and a new, authentic one constructed through a new infusion of afrocentric information, supportive social interactions, the development of new competencies, knowledges and associations. he must come to understand that what he perceives as 'his' needs, desires, ideals, motives, goals, etc., are manufactured and implanted in him by europeans for the benefit of europeans at the price of the destruction of his humanity, body, community, and future. he must understand that his vain attempts to satisfy those introjected desires, etc., do not represent what it means to be free, to be a man, to have arrived at the pinnacle of human possibilities, or success, but instead represent the grossest form of slavery, animality, and thinginess."

*excerpted from"Black-on-Black violence" by amos wilson, pg.30