Posted on 08/23/2007 1:23:12 PM PDT by Main Street
Newark, like New York, is a “sanctuary city,” where cops are not to ask criminal suspects if they are in the country legally. Mitt Romney has been hammering Rudy Giuliani on the issue, trashing his tough-cop resume by painting the mayor as den mother of the Big Apple’s playpen for illegal aliens.
The arrest of Jose Carranza in that Newark massacre, amid reports he had Hispanic accomplices and the murders may have been part of a gang initiation, has also elevated the issue of the black-brown war raging in U.S. big cities.
In the Aug. 10 Washington Post story that covered the Carranza arrest, the same page had two related articles. One was headlined, “Study: Almost Half of Murder Victims Black,” the other, “Slaying of Popular Editor Stuns Blacks in Oakland.”
The second headline reveals an ideological slant. One would assume that everyone in Oakland was stunned by the daylight execution of African-American editor Chauncey Bailey, allegedly by a teenage foot soldier at Your Black Muslim Bakery, which Bailey was investigating.
At Bailey’s funeral, a mourner held up a sign reading, “Stop Black on Black Violence.” That was the subject of the second Post story.
“Nearly half the people murdered in the United States are black,” declared the opening paragraph, “part of a persistent pattern in which African-Americans are disproportionately victimized by violent crime, according to a new Justice Department study.”
Among other conclusions reported by the Post:
* Blacks are more likely than whites or Hispanics to be victims of crime.
* Blacks are more likely than any other group to be victims of “serious violent crime,” such as rape, assault and robbery.
* Blacks were more than twice as likely as whites to be confronted with a firearm during a crime.
“Overall, the new Justice findings jibe with previous studies,” said the Post. “For example, a review of FBI data from 2004 by the Violence Policy Center, a liberal-leaning group that campaigns for stricter gun control laws, found that blacks accounted for about half of the nation’s murder victims that year.”
“Black victimization is a real problem, and it’s often black on black,” said David Harris, a law professor at the University of Toledo who studies crime statistics.
“Often”? Correction, Harris. As the Post reports and Justice concedes, in more than nine out of 10 cases, black victims are murdered by fellow blacks.
Utterly absent from the Post story and Justice Department stats is anything about white victims of crime. Not a word. Do white folks not count, though they are two-thirds of the population?
Yet, in “The Color of Crime: Race, Crime and Justice in America,” produced by the “right-leaning” New Century Foundation in 2005, using the same FBI and Justice surveys, startling facts emerge:
* “Blacks commit more violent crime against whites than against other blacks.” Forty-five percent of the victims of violent crime by blacks are white folks, 43 percent are black, 10 percent are Hispanic.
* Blacks are seven times as likely as people of other races to commit murder, eight times more likely to commit robbery and three times more likely to use a gun in a crime.
* “Blacks are an estimated 39 times more likely to commit violent crime against a white person than vice versa, and 136 times more likely to commit robbery.” (If decent black folks have trouble hailing a cab, and they do, these numbers may help explain it.)
* Black-on-white rape is 115 times more common than the reverse.
Even the two most famous sexual assaults by white men on black women in the last two decades – the Tawana Brawley and Duke rape cases – turned out to be hoaxes.
What do these statistics tell us? A message the Post will not report. The real repository of racism in America – manifest in violent interracial assault, rape and murder – is to be found not in the white community, but the African-American community. In almost all interracial attacks, whites are the victims, not the victimizers.
Why does the Post not report such statistics? My guess: Because the stats would shatter the Post’s cultivated image of America as a land where white racism is the great lurking malevolent monster. Stories that conform to the image get play. Stories that contradict it are buried.
But, if the Bush Justice Department is doing in-depth studies on black victims of crime and who is responsible, why not one on the victimization of Americans of all colors and who is responsible?
Or is that information we ought not know, and news not fit to print?
Hopefully readers will address its content, rather than the personality of the writer.
That information doesn’t count, it’s not part of the leftist playbook.
from NewsBusters and pookies toons this morning
The fact that blacks and whites are pretty much equally victimized by violent crimes would seem to indicate that the good and decent people of whatever race have more in common than the overstressed difference of “skin color”.
I’m wondering when people will start to insist that statistical information on insurance losses be compiled by race. In the Atlanta area it was my strong suspicion, based on anecdotal observation of black drivers talking on cell phones and driving rather recklessly, that black drivers produce a disproportionate share of losses. They definitely had a disproportionate shear of mortgage fraud in the Atlanta area. While there are statutory and constitutional boundaries to what constitutes illegal discrimination - at some point it becomes irrational not to allow discrimination, say in insurance rates, based on race. If blacks are 1.81x as likely to cause a $1000 loss in a given 12 month period, maybe excluding race as a rating characteristic is reasonable. But what if it is 181x?
pat buchanan ‘08
self bump for later
Yes Yes
Every thing Buchanan says about the crime situation is TRUE
BUT
The real enemy is the WHITE LIBERAL and the Knee Jerk White Democrat Voter
They created this monster
They flee the cities to avoid it and then vote for the Democrats
It doesn’t matter if its 1810 times the loss for other drivers, Wally. The goals of liberal social engineering are for your own good so just shut-up and pay-up.
This is conclusion pretty clearly true based on a cursory viewing of TV news. However it is not allowed to be remarked on because it runs counter to the liberal mindset that collectively runs all the multimedia in this country.
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Wow! You had to do some superhuman mental contortions to reach that conclusion. You truly must be a jedi master.
"Get their figurative act together?" LOL. And how are they supposed to do that? Doesn't it really come down to individual responsibility?
Buchanan isn't being petty by commenting upon a WAPO article. The liberal mantra is that society is composed of victims, mainly minorities, the poor, women, and gays. White males are usually atributed as the source of all the problems that afflict the society. The WaPo article is clearly biased in that regard as is much of MSM's reporting of crime in this country. Anyone pointing out that the emperor has no clothes is branded as a racist or bigot.
The fact is that AADs and ALDs commit a disproportionate share of the crime in this country. And when it comes to interracial crime, whites are a disproportionate share of the victims than the other way around. For example, white on black rape is virtually non-existent, at least as reported in official statistics. Yet, the MSM [and NAACP] quickly drew the conclusion that the white Duke lacrosse players were guilty. The Tawana Brawley case was another one.
The Truth of Interracial Rape in the United States
Officially, we collect crime statistics by race along with virtually every other kind of official information. Why? Because of the continuing pressure from the AAD to collect this information to reinforce their minority victim status and to demand certain rights and prvileges not enjoyed by the majority. Do you consider "hate crime" legislation to be necessary? Affirmative action?
If you are looking for race-baiting, what the statistics here show is that 'minorities' tend to live in violent situations (not mentioning whose fault that is, just what seems to be the case), and not that AED are being specifically targeted.
Why do "'minorities' tend to live in violent situations?" Who is responsible for that? Is this part of the victimization mantra? Most of the race baiting in this country is not done by AEDs. They can't pull the "race card."
Hey, I'm depraved on account I'm deprived.
Today, half of the children ages 0-5 are minorities. By 2050, non-Hispanic whites will be 50% of the population. I guess shortly thereafter, AEDs can claim minority status.
*Black-on-white rape is 115 times more common than the reverse.”
For anyone trying to separate the facts from the lies in the early days of the “Duke Rape Case”, this was as good starting point as any. Anyone half paying attention would have known that white on black rape is very rare, and we were being told that three white guys at Duke had committed that act the same night.
That was my first point of suspicion at what was being said in the MSM, and things quickly feel apart, but Nifong and the MSM kept it alive for a full year afterward.
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