Posted on 06/07/2011 5:05:56 AM PDT by scottfactor
Once again, a gunshot got me to thinking—fuming really—about the steadily declining state of morality of the younger black generations in America today, and I’m wondering if it’s just my imagination that the bad behavior by young blacks running in packs has escalated since Obama took office.
Hang on a minute before you jump in and tell me not to “unfairly” single out young blacks, when people of all “makes and models” do bad things. Of course it’s true that bad behavior occurs among all people, but you would have to be blind not to see that in America, black crime is disproportionately high among young black people, especially males.
The murder statistics alone are a staggering example of this lopsided reality. When black people make up only thirteen percent of the U.S. population, yet they account for almost half of murder victims (the vast majority being black on black murders), then you know there’s something awry.
As for the gunshot, my husband and I were sitting on our porch Sunday evening listening to “The Big Broadcast,” a weekly program of old-time radio shows that airs out of Washington DC. It was after dark, around 8:30 or so, and my husband stepped inside for a moment when I heard a single gunshot very close to our house. So much for our peaceful enjoyment of The Big Broadcast.
This is not the first or even the second time gunshots have been fired near us, and I have reported on another time the gunshots got me to thinking.
I walked out into my yard and looked past the trees in the direction of the shot, and lo and behold, two black teenaged boys were casually walking down the street about to pass our house. So, there was the source of the gunshot. No, I didn’t see them with a gun, because trees blocked my line of sight, but at this quiet time of night, they were the only ones about, and the very near shot came from right where they had just been walking in their baggy, droopy pants.
As they approached, I asked, “Did y’all hear that?” They said yes. Even though I knew darned well what it was, I asked, “What was it?” The strange reply was, “I don’t know. We’re clean.” Oh, sure. They were as clean as the wind-driven snow. I walked back to my porch in furious disgust, having decided not to point out the absurdity of their denial in the face of the apparent likelihood that they had fired the shot. Had I pointed out that fact, perhaps they would have proven me right by firing a second shot a little closer to home for me.
Thoughts have been building in my mind about the awful state of these younger generations of black kids, but I have hesitated to write about this, because I don’t have a solution that will “fix” the problems faced by the black community. Oh, I do have a solution, but it involves changing hearts and turning around the degenerate spirits of people who are walking ever deeper into darkness, but you cannot force people to choose to do what’s right and true. As it stands, we are seeing ourselves being led by the nose into a police state, because we have taken God out of the education of our kids and replaced Him with doctrines of hell.
This is a touchy topic, because the race baiters of the Left have rigged the system to screech and wail “racism” against anyone who states the obvious about bad behavior by black people; however, it’s not that easy to shut me up, and the more gunshots are fired by our house and the more headlines I see about “flash mobs” of black kids robbing stores and gangs of black kids fighting, rioting, and killing each other, the more determined I will be to speak out against it.
I’m not the only one who has had it with the lawless culture among young blacks of today, which is perversely blamed on white people. Patrick J. Buchanan wrote a refreshingly bold column back in March titled, “A Brief for Whitey,” in which he unapologetically lays the truth bare.
Mr. Buchanan begins the column recounting the fact that Barack Obama spent 20 years in the “church” of black racist agitator, Jeremiah Wright. He wrote that he had wondered how Obama would deal with his history with Wright, and Mr. Buchanan said he figured Obama correctly—that he would turn the tables on the whole story.
As Mr. Buchanan wrote,
“Yes, Barack agreed, Wright’s statements were ‘controversial,’ and ‘divisive,’ and ‘racially charged,’ reflecting a ‘distorted view of America.’
But we must understand the man in full and the black experience out of which the Rev. Wright came: 350 years of slavery and segregation.
Barack then listed black grievances and informed us what white America must do to close the racial divide and heal the country.
The ‘white community,’ said Barack, must start ‘acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination—and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past—are real and must be addressed. Not just with words, but with deeds…’”
What might whitey do to redeem himself and make America right for the black man? Mr. Buchanan continues,
“The ‘white community’ must invest more money in black schools and communities, enforce civil rights laws, ensure fairness in the criminal justice system and provide this generation of blacks with ‘ladders of opportunity’ that were ‘unavailable’ to Barack’s and the Rev. Wright’s generations.
What is wrong with Barack’s prognosis and Barack’s cure?
Only this. It is the same old con, the same old shakedown that black hustlers have been running since the Kerner Commission blamed the riots in Harlem, Watts, Newark, Detroit and a hundred other cities on, as Nixon put it, ‘everybody but the rioters themselves.’
Was ‘white racism’ really responsible for those black men looting auto dealerships and liquor stories, and burning down their own communities, as Otto Kerner said—that liberal icon until the feds put him away for bribery[?]”
There’s a central point. Our entitlement mentality nation has developed a crippling habit of blaming people’s bad behavior on anything but the badly behaving people. I’m sick of it, and I’m not going to buy it. Neither does Mr. Buchanan buy it. He says what so many Americans know to be true about the myth of the oppressed black community of today’s America.
“… [N]o people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the ’60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream.
Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks—with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas—to advance black applicants over white applicants.
Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.
We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?
… Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America? Is it really white America’s fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?
Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?
As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?
Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?
… Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago. ”
Patrick J. Buchanan is right, and unless mainstream America is willing to stand up to the race hustlers and the pressure groups they represent, this downward spiral will continue to grow worse.
Just look at all the stories of out-of-control gangs of young, black “revelers” who coordinate on their expensive cell phones via Facebook and Twitter to converge on a hapless business or other location to behave like lawless, wild animals. You may recall the staggering number of fights and riots headlined on the Drudge Report after the recent Memorial Day weekend. And, the disturbing trend of vicious black girls getting into brawls in fast food restaurants is quite disturbing.
During the 2008 presidential campaign, some of us on the right were astonished to hear Barack Obama speak of wanting to develop a “civilian national security force.” I look at this trend of “flash mob” activity as being an integral part of the American Left’s “civilian national anarchy force.” Yes, anarchy. And, what quicker way to usher in a police state—which might just require a civilian national security force—than to set in motion your anarchy force to get American citizens to demand that the government step in and put a stop to the lawless gangs?
Sounds like ole Barak is saying “We just threatening you-all whites a little —so pay up!!! Make it right with your money!!!
Well, cant reason with a mob, and make no mistake, this is the mob mentality being justified by “hatred generated by slavery and ill treatment”
Solution? Don't feel guilty, none of us perpetrated slavery and ill treatment upon the blacks.
Depending on where one lives-—Gun Up!! Self defense is easy to prove in court!!!
I say that it will get worse, a lot worse, before it gets better. Too many promises and not enough money.
Along with all of the other issued entitlements, all they need are brown shirts they can wear with the tail out to cover the sagging pants.
Let’s not forget that it was BLACKS in AFRICA that Held WHITES as SLAVES for a Thousand Years before America was even Discovered.
Liberalism, as Coulter has so pointedly proferred, is a mob. Liberalism has been making the ghetto comfy for 100 years. But, of course, it is not. It is the quintessential heart of the liberal’s dream, a spawning pit of violence. Liberals demand that blacks remain in slavery. They want to have running water in the slave’s quarters just no hot water.
I always say it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets worse.
I live in a small city in Southwestern Washington State. Our home is within city limits but it is still a heavily forested area and lots of deer, elk, and coyotes roam about.
It is not at all unusual to hear gunshots. I suspect some neighbors have venison or elk in their freezers originating from the local resident herds. As to the coyotes, no one misses them if they are shot and buried.
Could some of the shots be from youths out to do no good? Probably.
“I live in a small city in Southwestern Washington State”
I live in the confines of an urban area. It’s not unusual to hear gunshots here, either. But, we don’t have coyotes, deer, elk, bear...we have scumbags, rapists and muggers.
Are you saying that because you have game hunters in your area that the points in the column are somehow untrue?
Maybe I’m missing something...
Nope.
But I personally wouldn’t assume that because two young men are in an area where the gunshot was supposed to have originated, that they are carrying guns and that they had fired those guns.
Good article.
Having at one time worked in an almost 100% black area (Anacostia DC), I feel very sorry for those folks (and there are many) who are trying to live decent, productive surrounded by this mentality. They’d be solid citizens, but they just can’t get out of the trap.
decent, productive lives (oops)
Ah, I see.
Well I was here, and I know the troublesome history of the home of the “two young men” in question, and I have seen the problems that eminate from their Section 8 rental home (since it is 3 houses down from us); plus, they were not simply “in the area” of the gunshot; the gunshot was right where they were. There was nothing else near them. I would not say what I said if I were not quite sure.
I guess you’ll just have to trust me on this one, since you were not here.
Make that “emanate,” not “eminate.” Proof-reading is our friend!
True, I don’t live where you live.
If the neighborhood is as awful as you describe, I would move. No matter how much you’ve invested in your home, losing your lives isn’t worth it.
If the house won’t sell, rent it out.
Remaining in a dangerous neighborhood is stressful beyond belief, particularly if you’re at the point of being deeply suspicious of a couple of kids out in the street.
P.S.: my sister lives in a Section 8 apartment. She says the majority of people living there are OK with just a couple of bad actors spoiling the rep for everyone else.
Satin Doll, we live in a good neighborhood on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. We are two blocks off the beach, but the bad “’hood” (predominantly black, and crime-ridden) is just across the tracks from us just one street away, so those kids are always walking back and forth to that neighborhood to hang out with their fellow lawless degenerate vegetable pals.
The house in question on our street is the only “sore spot” on our block. The people that bought it, a two-story duplex, are black people who only rent to black people (housing discrimination, anyone?).
They are the only black people on our side of the tracks in this neighborhood. We are not about to give our neighborhood over to them. “White flight” is a result of established, decent citizens allowing the lawless “hoardes” to run them off. We’re not giving up so easily, and those schmucks do NOT want to mess with us, if you get my drift, because we will not hesitate to defend our lives with our own firepower.
On a lighter note, your screen name is one of the all-time great American standards—as you know! I LOVE Satin Doll, whoever does it, from Ella to Duke to whoever.
Here’s one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDDCzb3dv_Y
Thank you for the compliment.
I’ve had many freepers tell me about the song, and particularly about the prostitutes that were its inspiration!
My screen name inspiration came from the European porcelain dolls, dressed in silk Mardi Gras costumes, that I use as artist models.
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