'Urban Death Culture': A Carnivorous Control Mechanism

'Black people with sense', once the solid center of our community, fight a holding action against 'urban death culture'

The net result of this carnivorous control mechanism is taking the 'bad side of town' per se and making it the factory setting for much of the present Black community, and ironically (intentionally?) young emulators of 'urban death culture' in distant communities now attacking authority figures and peers in an eerily familiar fashion.

From a once-hesitant MTV to BET and now broadcast on cell phones, 'urban death culture' was popularized and as a result, seeped into suburban and rural mainstream minds far removed from its ground zero- neighborhoods like mine.

Watching this multi-billion dollar, multi-media assault on courtesy, respect for boundaries and survivability has been as enlightening as it has been off-putting.

My decades-long warning to communities beyond mine remains: Black America was the beachhead for turning a disturbing percentage of community members against once-solid norms promoting safety and stability.

What some dismissed as dysfunction unique to one demographic is duplicated in collectives far removed from the urban laboratory serving as its epicenter.

White youth disrupt classes, 'flash mob' rob stores, livestream fights, use slang , do dances, and politically, loudly stalk and battle federal agents making deportation arrests, all without having lived a moment in the proverbial 'hood.

The carnivorous control mechanism of 'urban death culture' has largely succeeded in disrupting communal mechanisms in its target group from producing activists and aspirants of the caliber of a Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall or the recently departed Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Too many today twerk, go berserk and work against basic safety and civility automatically. 'Black people with sense', once the solid center of our community, fight a holding action against 'urban death culture' embraced by a disturbing percentage. Politicians in elected office and corporate suites capitalize off of an ignorant populace.

We're in for a fight folks, from the 'hood to the heartland

Across the racial and political railroad tracks, White conservatives find themselves fighting their own holding action, as a 'vanilla' version of 'urban death culture' weaponizes their youth against the status quo that is supposed to be their inheritance.

They watched the leading conservative youth organizer assassinated in real time, influencers pummelled online at protests, federal agents 'doxxed' and presidential appointees living on military bases for security reasons.

Let the record reflect the absence of Black culprits in these examples. 'Urban death culture' is now active where it never would have been imagined outside of apocalyptic fiction and ministry.

The right is doing all it can to stop what is happening in my community from replicating in theirs.

I won't say it's a losing battle. It is definitely an uphill one!

If the right loses it hold on safety and civility, ultimately that means defeat happened in my neck of the woods. Never forget, the carnivorous control mechanism of 'urban death culture' is like pirranha, it never stops devouring.

Never!

We're in for a fight folks, from the 'hood to the heartland. And it doesn't matter if we don't like each other. It's immaterial whether we vote the same.

The selection process is painfully simple:

If you don't accept house rattling, vulgar music, ATVs filling the streets, mass shootings as inevitable or DHS agents being attacked as free speech, however you arrived at these conclusions, congratulations: you oppose the carnivorous control mechanism of 'urban death culture' eating its way toward you.

Welcome to the fight! I've been here since the nineties.

Nadra Enzi aka Cap Black addresses 'anti safety' theory and policies through advocacy and consulting usually for free but please don't tell hardcore capitalist friends.