The Failure of Urban Black Leaders and Inner City Nightmares

See also: Sam Kiva Finkelstein / DRAX Realty Corp.
Part Deux: An Actual Inner City Nightmare!

Here's a copy of an e-mail sent to friends, members of law enforcement and other agencies.

And keep in mind the crimes I mention in and around Al Sharpton's National Action Network, I personally witnessed within a matter of months, while documenting with agencies, including law enforcement, along the way. I was shocked that people were living this way with no integrity, morals or values, yet place a level of perfection and unrealistic scrutiny upon the NYPD.


Not to mention the first blacks I met in this area were members of the cop-shooting/drug dealing/murdering Larry Davis crime crew who opened my eyes for the first time to unbelievable black organized crime, including by manipulating the NYPD to commit further crimes (death threats, witness tampering, extortion, money laundering, etc.). Their website (www.nycstreetstars.com or www.myspace.com/nycstreetstars) was even created by the criminals who help them daily with their crimes. And all of these prideful thugs have children who are learning directly from them! And I'm quite sure all were also involved in the Sean Bell protests and denounced the NYPD as corrupt, a word their leader can't even spell.

As depressed as I am from having my life severely altered from back-to-back organized crime, I can no longer keep quiet about what I've experienced as well as witnessed. That would be no different from the "don't snitch" policy keepers I detest!

From: Tamra MB
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:40:33 +0000
Subject: 41-year-old NYC Corrections Officer Kenneth Duncan

Don't believe the Al Sharpton hype! The city of New York was not enraged, nor was there a massive protest. Just a small number of people protesting around Al Sharpton's Nat'l Action Network, and the same persons protesting over and over, which is ironic because of the following.

As a black woman, I'm appalled by the behavior of the majority of blacks and latinos in and around the NYPD areas, all of which is done with excuses and the common blame that "it's the white man's fault". The ones not doing harm are being overshadowed grossly.

Funny, 25 years ago and earlier during Jim Crow, blacks had few rights and options, yet behaved with self-respect and dignity in spite of. Now, the Dept. of Justice, if not the Southern Poverty Law Center, has shut down the klan and in your face racism on all visible levels. The rest is now up to each individual. There is still racism, but not to the point where decency and self-respect is prevented in one's own home and neighborhood.

And yes I know there are bad cops, but there are bad persons in every profession: priesthood, teachers, lawyers, accountants, builders and more! Labeling them all as bad, and reacting immediately to them as such, is no different from the racism of the KKK.

While Al Sharpton is up to his usual nonsense, the following are just accepted as a daily way of life directly in the location of Al Sharpton's National Action Network and other predominantly black and latino areas of NYC: robberies, stabbings, shootings, rapes, hard core drug trafficking, housing fraud, welfare fraud, immigration fraud, teenage strippers, teenage strippers committing housing fraud, piracy/counterfeiting, vehicle registration fraud on a wide scale level, illiteracy with pride, foul language from children as young as 7 years old, and too often murders along with a slew of felonious crimes. And all crimes are supported with a don't snitch policy. To add to the decor of these crimes, used condoms, alcohol bottles and non-stop trash align the streets, even with trash cans placed on nearly every corner.

Just recently, a black mother, Nancy Williams, was shot and killed while out playing with her child in Brooklyn. The bullets were sprayed recklessly during a beef between two blacks. I'm more than sure many of the Sean Bell protesters don't even know her name or care to know. Or their response would typically be, "oh well, that's how it is in the hood."

Just prior to that another black mother in Brooklyn was shot in front of her child as she was exiting her home. A neighborhood shootout began just as she was leaving her home. Charles Barron, another black community leader who stands besides Sharpton to criticize the NYPD, had to beg and plead to residents to come forward with the name of her killer as there were witnesses but no one wanted to come forward . He literally stated, "if you don't want to snitch, snitch to me and I'll snitch for you." I'm wondering if any members of the community will help raise the two children now without mothers.

In the Bronx, shootings occur almost daily, including at parties. Residents just keep triple locks on their doors and pretend it's not happening.

Yet the first words out of these same community members is "they (the NYPD) don't respect and value our lives" or "they (the NYPD) are killing us". Perhaps if there was more respect for the victim than the thug, then maybe others like me would take these same community members seriously when they are complaining about an officer involved shooting, especially a shooting that occurred between someone who is known for being confrontational.

Uniformed NYPD officers Russel Timoshenko and Herman Yan, now both Detectives, were shot by three black men who were stopped because the vehicle they were riding in was stolen. Officer Timoshenko was shot point blank in the face and died a few days later. Officer Yan was severely wounded but recovered. Both officers were promoted to Detectives, Timoshenko, posthumously. The shooters shot recklessly and didn't care who was hurt.

There was 0 community outrage about these senseless killings. I didn't see a statement from the local NAACP, Al Sharpton or Charles Barron about either of these killings which all occurred AFTER the death of Sean Bell (which stemmed from an argument at a strip club) and after repeated protests which claimed the NYPD was "racist" and had little respect for black lives. And all of the cops involved in the Sean Bell shooting were minorities - 1 African-American, 1 African-American/Mexican/island heritage, and 1 of Arab descent.

Black rapper Remy Ma was recently sent to prison for opening fire in a public area in Greenwich Village because she wanted to settle a beef with someone who stole money from her. In the process she shot an innocent woman who was simply sitting in her vehicle. Luckily, the woman who was shot lived. There was 0 community outrage from the same folks complaining about Sean Bell. Remy Ma was praised for keeping it real.

The irony is Remy Ma brought a gun in public obviously with intent to use it. Whereas police officers carry a gun because they are required to do so, yet it is the last thing they want to use, and don't leave their home with intent to use their gun.

These are just a few examples of what happens regularly directly around Al Sharpton's Nat'l Action Network in Harlem that Sharpton and the local NAACP literally ignore while blaming the white man and the NYPD for destroying "their community".

Yes I know 50 shots is what everyone keeps focusing on, but it was not one cop shooting. And if you saw what I saw when bouncing around Manhattan after a realtor scam (and the unlicensed realtor was latino who even broke multiple laws in court), you would understand the daily fear the NYPD lives with and how an officer who has never fired his weapon can react from fear for his life during gunfire.

I can't count the number of ready to die thugs, plus literal mobsters and organized criminals. General crime is down, but in the predominantly black and latino communities of New York City crime runs rampant! Just view one week alone of the NYPD's crime log for Queens, Harlem, Brooklyn and Bronx. Ironically, organized crime mobsters live in quiet safe neighborhoods. Even they can't stand the nonsense in high crime urban areas, and don't even want their children around it either.

And I've heard people call the presiding judge over the case, Judge Cooperman, a racist. That is wrong, especially given he is retiring and shouldn't have his career end with a false title of being a racist. Some even claimed the judge shouldn't have used the criminal convictions of the shooting victims as part of his decision because their criminal records were not stamped on their foreheads the night of the shooting.

Well, the judge was not present at the shooting, if so, THAT would make him prejudiced! But again, I'm just crazy and the only one who can see this. The criminal records were entered into evidence AND allowed by the prosecution in regards to the credibility of the witnesses on the stand - Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield. Their stories didn't add up, including against medical experts and evidence.

And Guzman behaved with less decorum than a rape victim actually facing her known attacker in court. While testifying on the stand, Guzman had one arm draped along the area behind his chair, as if he was chilling on his couch at home, and menacingly stared at the accused cops while referring to them as "kid". WTF?!

That alone tells me he was more than likely confrontational the night of the shooting. Guzman also served 5 years for a drug conviction. Please show me a choir boy drug dealer. I've yet to meet one! And bring Santa and that leprechaun and his gold with you!

It's strange how Al Sharpton and the repeat lemmings who follow him want to say "our community". Well, if their areas were treated like "their community", social responsibility would be taken to ensure a better quality of life and safety for all.

People ARE NOT supposed to live with robberies, stabbings, shootings, rapes, fraud, tagging and destruction of buildings, and other degenerate acts all day long. This is NOT a normal way of life, it's abnormal and has just been accepted as part of life, which is a slap in the face to Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.

And do you think Coretta Scott King or Dr. King would have rammed anyone's car while driving drunk after leaving a strip club where there were probably teenage strippers too?! Had someone snitched in "their community", there wouldn't have been a need for undercover cops in the first place. So duuuh back at cha! If you don't value your community (where you live), then don't complain about people just doing their job. And it's not WHERE you live, it's HOW you live. Morals, integrity and self-respect don't cost anything.

In my opinion, until I see otherwise, black leaders in the NYC area and urban areas across the United States have failed their communities miserably, while having the audacity to blame law enforcement when an after the fact perceived problem occurs. They've not only dropped Dr. King's ball, but let the air get stolen from it!

Meanwhile, Jam Master Jay's widow is STILL suffering in silence while her husband's killer remains free. Others were in the room when her husband was shot, but no one wants to be the snitch. The thug is protected!

If Sean Bell's car had rammed an armed drug dealer's car (which the three detectives could have been dealers since all 3 shooting victims claimed to have not known who they were or why being stopped), that armed drug dealer would have surely executed all three persons in Sean Bell's car, with as many bullets as the armed drug dealer felt necessary. And 3 families would be suffering in silence and constantly wondering where the murderer was, like Jam Master Jay's widow is.

No one in the same community outraged by the Sean Bell killing would have said anything (the don't snitch policy), and the drug dealer would have been praised for "keeping it real".

A rapper would have wrote a song about the execution of Bell, Guzman and Benefield, praising the drug dealer and now murderer (like the degenerate Larry Davis has been repeatedly praised). That song would be on the MP3 players of almost all the persons claiming the NYPD is corrupt and trying to kill us all!

And the only thing that would have died once the NYPD got involved would have been the leads followed to solve the murders, because no one wants to be the snitch!

Think I'm wrong?! Well, let's ask 50 Cent! Or even Busta Rhymes who was standing right next to his bodyguard who was shot, but he ain't no snitch. And I wonder if Lil Kim feels improved after a prison stint for not snitching. Has anyone checked to see how Shyne is doing for taking the rap for someone to avoid snitching?! How have all those things bettered urban communities led by Sharpton?

Just last week 41-year-old Kenneth Duncan, a black New York City Corrections Officer, was gunned down outside of his own home while off-duty working on his motorcycle. No one in the city cared enough to protest about this! He was black. Yet, since the Sean Bell shooting and all weekend long the protest chants were "stop killing our black people" with reference to the NYPD as the killers while labeling the NYPD as corrupt. Yet no one wants to come forward about Officer Duncan's shooting or any other unsolved neighborhood shooting, robbery, etc. which is not only corrupt, but foul on so many levels!

Enough is enough! The nonsense has to stop within the community first before blaming others outside the community, with "blame game" help from folks who DON'T live directly within the community.

Sharpton is planning civil disobedience, or as I call it "a day in any inner city neighborhood", but where's his outrage for yet another senseless killing (see below)! Apparently, urban leaders want the monopoly on killing other blacks!

Click Here to see more daily nonsense that is overlooked daily by Sharpton, Barron and the local NAACP while the NYPD is scrutinized instead.