The Jena Dodge

http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2007-09-24hm.html ^ | Heather Mac Donald

[ventanax5]

The reason that the black incarceration rate is the highest in the country is that blacks have the highest crime rate—by a long shot. Don’t trust the police, prosecutors, or judges to give a fair picture of black crime? Then go where the bodies are. Los Angeles is representative. In the first seven months of 2007, blacks in Los Angeles were murdered at a rate ten times that of whites and Asians. Who’s killing them? It’s not whites and Asians. While a minor proportion of the assailants of blacks are Hispanic, the vast majority are black themselves. Nationally, blacks commit murder at about eight times the frequency of whites. In New York, any given violent crime is 13 times more likely to have been committed by a black person than by a white person, according to the reports of victims and witnesses. Though they are only 24 percent of the city’s population, blacks committed 68.5 percent of all murders, rapes, robberies, and assaults in New York last year. Whites, who make up 34.5 percent of New Yorkers, committed only 5.3 percent of violent crimes. These ratios are similar across the country. In Los Angeles, blacks committed 41 percent of all robberies in 2001, according to victims’ descriptions, though they constitute only 11 percent of the city’s population. Robbery victims identified whites, who make up 30 percent of the Los Angeles population, just 4 percent of the time

[ventanax5]

No one in the Jena stampede dares whisper a word about black crime, because it undercuts the portrait of a victimized race. You can listen to every protest across the country glorifying the “Jena Six” and you will never hear an acknowledgement of the massive social breakdown that is the black crime rate: no mention of the violence in inner-city schools that black students commit overwhelmingly; no mention of the rising homicides in midsize cities that young black males commit when they feel “disrespected.” It is not racism that is putting black men in jail; it’s their own behavior

[Enterprise]

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[RolandBurnam]

pimp and ho culture gone bad. years of gangsta rap tells kids (white and black) that violence is the way.

[Hatband]

I suppose that you have some statistics to back up your assertion that ‘gangsta rap’ causes young White men to commit violent crime at the same rates of young Negro men.

[Taggart_D]

I guess Al Sharpton forgot to emphasize that the white kid that hung the noose got the sh*t kicked out of him by a gang of black teens and was hospitalized.....I guess that’s beside the point.

[vetvetdoug]

Jared Taylor wrote a book ten years ago, The Color of Crime, and used the cold figures of crime and statistics to show who in the US is committing the majority of crimes and was vilified by the MSM, ACLU, Democrats, and the NAACP. If one were to remove the crimes committed by blacks in the US, the US would have a lower crime rate than all of Europe. The facts speak for themselves.

[crazydad]

As someone that listened to NWA in 88 when it came out I can tell you at 16-17 I wanted to be like what NWA was saying so we would go fight and tell the police off and do all kinds of crazy stuff. So yes some gangsta rap does influence even whitey to do stupid things...

[crazydad]

That is the thought among alot of aa(african americans). They been fed this crap for 50 years by the liberals and media. So as Geobells said “tell a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”. This is a prime example of that...

[Sherman Logan]

I guess Al Sharpton forgot to emphasize that the white kid that hung the noose got the sh*t kicked out of him by a gang of black teens and was hospitalized.

Not correct. The sh*t kicking took place several months later, and the white kid who was almost killed was not involved in the noose incident. As far as I know, the only thing he did to provoke the attack was ASWBW (attending school while being white.)

I particularly like the way the MSM routinely refers to the six football players who attacked the lone white kid as being involved in "a fight."

[Hatband]

Well, that was a real nice anecdote about how you used to be a whigger. Do you have any evidence to back it up?

[lOKKI]

suppose that you have some statistics to back up your assertion that ‘gangsta rap’ causes young White men to commit violent crime at the same rates of young Negro men. Good point. The article which started this tread points out that whites DON'T commit violent crimes at anything near the rates of young Negro men. So the cause of the high crime rate among young Negro men must be something other than 'gansta rap'.

[kempo]

I wonder what percentage of prison inmates had no father in the home while they were growing up? Any guesses? Who’s fault was that?

[Fraxinus]

I suspect somewhere in excess of 70% of prison inmates grew up in a home with one or more of the following indicators of poverty and social decay.

No father in home
No one in home with a regular legal job
No one in home graduated high school (doubt many of the criminals have a HS diploma either)