Posted on 03/22/2021 7:42:01 AM PDT by The Houston Courant
Houston has a race and criminal justice problem. There is an enormous racial disparity of Black criminals and Black crime victims versus White criminals and White crime victims.
While the Black population of Houston, according to 2019 estimates, is about 22 percent, Black crime victims are about 44 percent of all crime victims, according to the Houston Police Department data of Race of Violent Victims for 2019. Furthermore, Blacks make up 61.5 percent of offenders of Reported Violent Crimes in 2019.
Strangely, or perhaps not so strangely, there is a lack of righteous indignation from the well financed - to the tune of about $90 million - “civil rights” international organization called Black Lives Matter. Why? Where are the violent protests against this blatant racial gap? Blacks are many times more likely to be killed by other Blacks than Blacks are to be killed by Whites, by White police officers, by police officers of any race, by Asians, by Hispanics, by Catholics, by Jews, by Muslims, by Buddhists, or by Hindus.
The poor innocent Black victims of crime should want to see some reaction from the self-anointed guardians of Blacks. After all, Houston's favorite son, George Floyd, who died while being arrested for passing counterfeit money in Minneapolis - after serving time for threatening to kill a pregnant woman during a home invasion- was given a royal send off, complete with a solid gold casket, by these self-anointed guardians.
Do not elderly Black women, who are murdered in Houston by young male Black criminals, deserve at least the ceremony, the funds, the publicity of a drug addict, with a prior conviction for a violent felony? So where is Floyd Mayweather, Beyonce, Lebron James, and Snoop Dog? Why are they not using their substantial wealth to support Black crime victims? Why the silence from Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Rev. Al Sharpton, “Civil Rights” Attorney Benjamin Crump, Slim Thug, Leela James, Paul Wall, Congressman Al Green (D-TX), and Bishop James Dixon?
Granted there must not be any political benefit to speaking out on behalf of Black crime victims murdered by Black criminals. But do they not have compassion for Black crime victims? Why do they only go public when a racial controversy they helped stoke can be exploited by them for fame and fortune?
We all know the answers to these questions! The exploitation of race in America for fame and fortune is an absolute disgrace. The line of people looking for personal profit, for professional profit, for publicity, and for political benefit is endless.
What is even worse is the fear and acquiescence by those who should be defending the forces of law and order in society. The silence of those who should be outraged by the idea that crime pays handsomely in America as long as it couched in racial terms is every bit as disgraceful as the exploitation of racial divisiveness.
Great article
Well, one of their problems is moving to Miami to be Miami’s problem. No doubt they’ll hire another problem to take chief ass-evade-ohs place.
It is. When will the author be doxxed, canceled and he and family lives threatened?
It is. When will the author be doxxed, canceled and he and family lives threatened?
Houston has many problems.
DA Kim Ogg will not prosecute criminals
Mayor Turner doesn’t give a damn.
It is a sanctuary city for illegals.
Now the feds are bring thousands more in.
Houston is another Texas city cesspool. Maybe the worst of them all. There are no redeeming values to Houston. It is a pool table that alternates between bone dry and flood but always humid and smothering. It is a city of gated enclaves surrounded by no city planning or zoning run by real estate investors. On top of it all there are the mind boggling property taxes that go on whether you are working or not unlike an income tax. Money to run the state has to come from somewhere.
I hate what’s happened to my hometown......makes me sick!!
What a raciss’ article. Guess the author didn’t get the memo what says ya can’t use facts when describing blacks and black crime. That just don’t fit the talking point what says all blacks are victims, including the criminals. Ain’t their fault, dontcha know.
Black on black crime, which the likes of BLM tells everyone is a “fake” story and just a “white” excuse for racism.
Yet, BLM’s claim to importance is the “killing of blacks”, but the biggest factor in the “killing of blacks”, is factually, black on black crime. The data tells the facts, not a political narrative.
“On top of it all there are the mind boggling property taxes that go on whether you are working or not unlike an income tax. Money to run the state has to come from somewhere.”
Regarding property taxes, of which I also pay plenty, they are OPTIONAL, in that people in Texas can live in $100,000 houses and pay next to nothing (maybe $2,000/year, at most). But if they want to live in a $500k house, then yep, an easy $10k a year. I’ll take the Texas system any day, just for that...and that doesn’t even get into filling out state income tax forms, which I’ve done, and they suck (far worse than federal, which appear to at least be reviewed by quite a few people before being released to the public).
Since they cannot blame any Whitey, this is not covered by most of the media and the dems don’t care.
If the truth sets you free..then lies must keep you in shackles?
I wonder how they would spin it if Tiger Woods, half Black and half Asian was the Victim of Black on semi Asian / semi Black Crime?
Too bad he didn’t inherit his Black Father’s Driving Skills, but that’s a topic for another day. #;^)
Good article. Hate the font.
Not to mention when a bird tinkles, it causes mass flooding.
Houston always was nonredeemable and always will be.
Or you can live in an old rundown small house which at one time was valued at $50k but today’s property tax collectors say it’s worth $500k. Why? Because of the CA invasion or just because they can.
I remember when Houston took in huge number of displaced residents from New Orleans as a result of Hurricane Katrina. At least 40,000 of them stayed permanently.
Big mistake.
Like trying to drain a pool table.
Lived and worked there for the better part of 30 years. Felt trapped the whole time. The short drive to get out is Louisiana, oh boy. Medium, Oklahoma, yawn. Long way, the Panhandle and desert.
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