[Nat Turner]

Well he started out ok until that structural racism thing came out

Unless he meant the liberal power structure (ie govt schools, media , politics)

[English Nationalist]

As usual, it's all the fault of the white man. Excuse me while I grab a sick bag.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Benin Dakar

I wonder if this is his real name?

[2banana]

However, due to ongoing structural racism, gross inequality in educational opportunity, and the lack of job training and high-wage jobs in many African-American communities, black males have more chances to become involved with the criminal justice system.

I guess 75% of black babies born out of wedlock and into the welfare system has nothing to do with it...

[ExpatGator]

Black on black crime? Has this chump read the DOJ statistics? Blacks commit the majority of ALL violent crime. The figures are even uglier when adjusted for their representation of the population.

[CobaltBlue]

I think it's a good article.

Racism and injustice do exist but that's no excuse for not living right.

[Brilliant]

The main reason blacks are in this position is that anytime a white police officer goes near a black man, the accusations of racism are rampant.

[pageonetoo]

It is up to us — black Americans — to do what we can and must do to save ourselves.

Not true. It is up to us — Americans — to do what we can and must do to save our countrymen.

I could start a school tomorrow, in a black community, but few kids would listen to a white guy...

I've thought about it, and done some research. It does require leadership from role models, though. That much is absolute. We just need to open that both ways.

Our downfall is that we now worship Mickey Mantle, more than Thomas Jefferson. Martin Luther King gets a holiday, and we don't even know which Presidents are celebrated on their day. Christmas has been replaced with Winter Break, and Easter has everything to do with eggs.

The courts have allowed perverts to be given rights, reserved for families, and want to give further blessing to illicit relationships through marriage. Meanwhile millions of tiny babies have been sucked from the womb.

It isn't just a black and white problem, though it often is. Our country is going to hell, in a handbasket...

[Terabitten]

What's important here is that this guy at least gets half of it right. He's right that black communities must begin policing themselves. That's the important thing.

The guy seems to me to be what I call an honest liberal: one who identifies the same problem as a conservative, but simply differs on how best to correct it. Most liberals now deny that the problem even exists, and create new and different problems.

[starfed]

it is a seemingly impossible task given the life-styles handed down through the welfare system. we did it to ourselves... i grew up down the street from the porjects. the things i heard and saw left me with many questions about generational welfare. how did we get to this place? what can we do to change it?

it's a very hard thing... we started passing out free food and now we can't stop without destroying whole families. and not just african american families but european americans who are on welfare as well.

white and black is not at issue. revival of good core values is... a belief that people can change is needed. the huge welfare estate needs to be replaced by an investment estate... there is a solution.

[SuziQ]

Instead, black people must discuss and decide what we can do as individuals and as a group to help more of our people stay out of the criminal justice system and make our predominantly black communities safer places.

I hope that conversation gets started, in earnest, very soon!

[joesnuffy]

Nevah happen....no money in it

[Chode]

the lack of job training ummmmm... it's pronounced HIGH SCHOOL!!! can't get a job without it.

[PAR35]

Like all babies, black male babies are born as innocent human beings.

The writer is certainly not reformed in his or her (what kind of name is Benin, anyway) theology.

[reelfoot]

"due to ongoing structural racism, gross inequality in educational opportunity, and the lack of job training and high-wage jobs in many African-American communities, black males have more chances to become involved with the criminal justice system."

Try breakdown of the black family, absence of fathers, lack of discipline, and a culture where studying hard, working hard, and being successful is considered "acting white" and thus to be avoided. (By the way, since the author wants to bring up "structural racism", why doesn't he chastise the racism inherent in the black culture's stigmatizing of "acting white"?)

At least we can congratulate him for realizing there's a problem. But he's so far off base on the causes of the problem that he'll never arrive at the solution.