In the summer of 2013, after neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman, a Hispanic, was acquitted in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, the political left wanted to have a discussion about everything except the black crime rates that lead people to view young black males with suspicion.
President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder wanted to talk about gun control. The NAACP wanted to talk about racial profiling. Assorted academics and MSNBC talking heads wanted to discuss poverty, “stand-your-ground” laws, unemployment and the supposedly racist criminal justice system.
But any candid debate on race and criminality in the United States must begin with the fact that blacks are responsible for an astoundingly disproportionate number of crimes, which has been the case for at least the past half a century.
“High rates of black violence in the late twentieth century are a matter of historical fact, not bigoted imagination,” wrote William Stuntz, a Harvard law professor. “The trends reached their peak not in the land of Jim Crow but in the more civilized North, and not in the age of segregation but in the decades that saw the rise of civil rights for African Americans — and of African American control of city governments.” The left wants to blame these outcomes on racial animus and “the system,” but blacks have long been part of running that system. Black crime and incarceration rates spiked in the 1970s and ’80s in cities such as Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Washington under black mayors and black police chiefs. Some of the most violent cities in the United States today are run by blacks.
Black people are not shooting each other at these alarming rates in Chicago and other urban areas because of our gun laws or our drug laws or a criminal justice system that has it in for them. The problem is primarily cultural — self-destructive behaviors and attitudes all too common among the black underclass. The problem is black criminal behavior, which is one manifestation of a black pathology that ultimately stems from the breakdown of the black family.
Keep reading..
Try growing up in poverty like us with no way out but death or prison. We are hunted by the police for no reason. Either got a wicked jump shot or sling crack rock:)
ReplyDelete2:14 That is something you need to take up with the democrat politicians. They desire blacks to kept in chains. They never wanted to free the slaves to begin with and keeping blacks in poverty is a way to keep them in chains.
ReplyDeleteInstead of helping to build up black communities in the form of jobs, they throw them a bone every once in the while in the form of welfare and this shuts them up. They are living. They are just surviving. It's horrible what the democrat policies have done to blacks.
Being sarcastic 3:24. Americans (black,white,red,blue,whatever)have no idea what poverty is. Go to a third world country and see what poverty is. We should all be thankful for the USA and if they don't like it get out.
ReplyDelete