Posted on 08/21/2014 6:50:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Perhaps it’s time to finally concede that Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and their fellow civil-rights crusaders have apparently been correct all along: There is indeed a whole lot of racism in America that just won’t go away. It may be time to admit that Sharpton is justified in so passionately condemning the recent police “execution” of Michael Brown in Missouri—calling it a “defining moment” for our country, a moment where the nation itself, with all its weighty, racist baggage, “is on trial.”
The numbers, after all, don’t lie. During the most recent five-year period for which single-offender, interracial crime statistics are available, whites committed, on average, 65,923 assaults annually against black victims.[1] To frame it another way, 33.5 of every 100,000 whites in the U.S. assaulted a black victim at some point during each of those five years.
Oh, sure, the nitpickers will point out that during the same five-year period, blacks in the U.S. committed, on average, some 327,900 assaults annually against whites—meaning that about 898 of every 100,000 blacks nationwide assaulted a white victim at some point each year. In other words, statistically the average black was nearly 27 times more likely to assault a white, than vice versa—898 versus 33.5 (out of every 100,000).
But therein is the heart of the problem, though you may have missed it: The white-on-black assault rate may be low, but it isn’t absolute zero. And as our modern-day civil rights leaders dutifully teach us, anything more than zero means, ultimately, that “we still have a long way to go” before we can finally get past our country’s “troubled racial past.” Any white-on-black incident—however rare it may be—automatically becomes the exception that proves the rule. Get it?
We find similar bountiful evidence of white racism in other statistics as well. During the same five-year period, whites committed, on average, 2,738 robberies annually against black victims. In other words, about 1.4 out of every 100,000 whites in the U.S. robbed a black victim each year.
Meanwhile, 70,302 blacks annually robbed white victims—a rate of 192.4 per 100,000. Statistically the average black was 137 times more likely to rob interracially than the average white—192.4 versus 1.4 (out of every 100,000).[2]
Once again, we must bear in mind that any white-on-black crime total exceeding zero means that the hearts of too many whites still percolate with secret, racist longings to return to “the good-ol’ days” of lynchings and Jim Crow. Make sense?
But if you really want your blood to boil, consider the stats on interracial sex crimes. During the same five-year period, black offenders were responsible for about 22,980 actual and threatened sexual assaults annually against white victims. By contrast, the number of white-on-black incidents of the same description were so infinitesimal that, in each of those five years, whites were estimated to have accounted for 0.0% of all sexual assaults—actual or threatened—against black victims in the United States.
Such a statistic, of course, runs the dangerous risk of persuading shallow thinkers to wrongly conclude that maybe America’s streets and alleyways aren’t filled with hordes of white racists poised to abuse black women whenever they get an opportunity. But thankfully, we have deep thinkers and keen-eyed social critics like Al Sharpton to shine the light of truth on white sex offenders, even where a white-dominated criminal-justice apparatus turns a blind eye.
Remember, for instance, how Sharpton helped us all become aware of Tawana Brawley’s brutal gang-rape at the hands of white supremacists in 1987? Oh sure, the nitpickers again will moan that the whole thing was one big lie. But don’t ever forget: The only thing that prevented young Tawana from actually being raped by a pack of Klansmen was the fact that … well, no one raped her or even attempted to. But apart from that, everything Sharpton said about the case was true.
We must also thank Mr. Sharpton for having alerted us all to the horrors of the “rich white boys” on the Duke University lacrosse team who gang-raped a black stripper in 2006. Sure, it turned out to be another hoax that dragged several innocent young men through a cesspool of pain and public humiliation—but hey, the noble quest for racial justice is bound to spit out a few collateral victims every now and then. No omelet can be made without breaking an egg or two.
Murder stats likewise bring into stark relief the white racism that continues to infest our nation. In 2012, for example, 6,454 blacks in the U.S. were victims of homicide. Some 91% of those were killed by other blacks, and 9% were killed by everybody else, including whites. It’s unlikely that whites were responsible for any more than about 3% of all black deaths by homicide. But these were the most significant and troubling 3%, don’t ya know? The other 97% of victims can all rot in their graves, but these—ah, these—were the cream of the crop, just like Michael Brown.
In light of the numbers cited above, perhaps you can find it in your heart to be sympathetic to Al, Jesse, and similar proverbial skunks who are forever seeking out the next picnic where they can show up and spray the potato salad. They have to make the most of Ferguson, you see, because golden opportunities like that just don’t come around very often.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] All statistics are from Criminal Victimization in the United States, published annually by the Department of Justice Statistics.
[2] These assault and robbery statistics do not necessarily prove that black offenders are specifically targeting white victims. One reason why the multiples are so high (27:1 and 137:1) is because there are 5.4 times as many whites as blacks in the U.S. In other words, blacks, in course of their daily travels, are 5.4 times more likely to encounter whites—and thus, potential white vicims—than to encounter other blacks (and potential black victims). To correct for this difference in the respective sizes of America’s white and black populations, we must divide each of the multiples by 5.4. In the case of assaults, the 27:1 ratio becomes 5:1, meaning that the average black offender is 5 times more likely to choose a white victim, than a white offender is likely to choose a black victim. And in the case of robbery, the 137:1 ratio becomes 25.4:1, meaning that the average black offender is 25.4 times more likely to choose a white victim, than a white offender is likely to choose a black victim.
It’s Rasis to use statistics that makes blacks look bad...
Bookmarking a lot of these posts, lately.
Thanks!
It seems to me that we have reverse racism nowadays.
We can talk about the legacy of discrimination and Jim Crow laws and all that, but now they work in reverse.
In the old days, blacks were rightly afraid of getting into some altercation with whites, because of fears of being blamed for whatever happened, and getting in legal trouble.
Nowadays, whites need to be afraid of altercations with blacks, because of fears of being blamed, and getting in legal trouble. Nowadays, whites have to fear that somehow the perception will be that whatever happened is somehow the fault of the white person. And the black person involved is blameless.
Comedian: The economy must be really bad.
Audience: How bad is it?
Comedian: The economy is so bad, I just saw a white guy hold up a liquor store................
If Sharpton is correct about racism being rampant...it is only in a sense. The vast majority of racism these days is found mostly in the crime-ridden Black communities. Racism has been encouraged/taught there for decades by so-called leaders like Sharpton, Jackson, etc. ...as well as many of the policies implemented by the “progressive” Democrat party.
Very sad. The people are stuck in a sort of past history time warp and perpetuate a type of colonial mentality. The Democrat Party perpetuates this to maintain power.
What is the RACE of the Comedian?
If he is so right stop paying him and his rent a mob and see how soon he shows up.
Elbonian.............
The idea behind the term “reverse racism” is the assumption that racism is only committed by whites, and when blacks engage in the same behavior it isn’t racism. It’s just turning the tables. It’s not really racism. It’s the reverse of racism. The opposite.
There is no such thing as “reverse racism.” It’s either racism, or it isn’t.
“ah, these—were the cream of the crop, just like Michael Brown.”
Love that sentence
I dislike the term “reverse racism” as used to mean black racism against whites. It implies that only white racism against black constitutes “real” racism.
There is only racism. The races of those involved are irrelevant.
OTOH, I think there is a perfectly good and logical potential use for the term “reverse racism.” It would be the opposite of real racism, so it would be the dislike/hatred of one’s own race, and a belief in its inferiority compared to other races.
Tax Evader Al is being protected by the Obama Crime Organization
For later
There are many fine upstanding black people but most of them buy into black racist lies about interracial crime and victimization garbage too All while any black with education has affirmative action galore available for him
Sorta explains why the average white (and Jesse Jackson)is leery of walking down a street at night and seeing young black men walking toward him.
“There is no such thing as “reverse racism.” It’s either racism, or it isn’t.”
True. However, racism has several varieties. The two most popular seem to be “affirmative action”, which is nothing more than institutionalized racism on a massive scale. The whole point of the civil rights movement was to make skin color irrelevant, as it should be. However, in its clumsy attempt to “level the playing field”, government mandated racism made skin color everything with regards to education, hiring, promotions, and direct disbursements.
The second most common form of racism is the prevailing assumption that skin color determines an individual’s need of taxpayer funded assistance. It’s the “soft racism of lowered expectations” that says, in essence, a person of color is incapable of competing on their own. How demeaning and insulting is that?
One interesting fact is that many times Hispanics are included as whites in these statistics. In one recent year in NYC, of the total amount of homicides, 98% were committed by Blacks and Hispanics who constituted two thirds of the city’s population. Whites accounted for only 2%.
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