Posted on 10/01/2007 10:26:05 AM PDT by neverdem
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“The high incarceration rate of black males is not solely the result of white racism,
Not solely? How about NOT AT ALL? It’s because they broke the law.
Don’t blacks have the highest drop-out rate of any race from our free educational system?
I agree with the writer about the legitimacy of judicial restoration, but I think she misses the point of the issue from a leftist stand point.
What the leftists believe is that the crime is a cultural phenomenon, which has been greatly influenced by the exploitation of race by the White Man. They see mandatory sentencing as being inherently unfair because the break down of the Black family is the fault of the White Man and that makes the high level of Blacks in jail, the fault of the White Man, too. All you have to do to see how well judicial restoration works is to look at Philadelphia. Black criminals are never sentenced to serve the mandatory minimum time in Phila.
This is difficult to explain because I am listening to Clarence Thomas on Rush, but I think that Justice Thomas would agree that judicial restoration is all about blaming someone else for the problems of minorities and not taking responsibility for their own lives.
That honor would belong to Hispanics, but keep in mind many of them are recent immigrants who can barely speak the language, if they can.
People want dealers off the street because dealers and violence go together - a feature of the War on Drugs.
End the War on Drugs, and the dealers disappear from the streets, without the expense of prison.
The violent crime won’t disappear, but it might diminish. And we’ll have more room for real criminals.
A real obstacle to reducing crime: political fear of speaking truth to race activists.
Despite the very real oppression inflicted upon blacks by segregation centered in the firmly Democrat-controlled states of the old South, on the whole, they remained patriotic Americans with demonstrably strong family values.
It's also interesting to note that the illegitimacy rate among white people has surpassed that of African Americans during that period, while the rate of illegitimate birth among African-Americans has absolutely skyrocketed to over 90% in many inner city neighborhoods and to well over 70% nationwide.
It's the same percentage of African-Americans that unthinkingly deliver their votes (whether they know it or not) to the Democrat Party that runs their lives through Government Programs they installed and that won't go away no matter who's in office.
And now they are outnumbered by illegal aliens and their illegal offspring, who are also entitled to Affirmative Action. If the Republicans had half-a-brain, they would run a very strong African-American candidate for Vice President, (my pick is Steele from my MD, or Blackwell from Ohio) and lay this painful concept out on the table.
Before their fellow Americans turn against them completely, the crime, substance abuse, and illegitimacy that drive the lives of the black "underclass" have to be confronted. It ain't gonna be pretty.
There used to be an essay on the Democratic Socialists of America site that explained that the term progressive was chosen as a euphemism for socialism because the Blacks were turned off by the term socialism.
It seems that the Black population feared the government intrusion that socialism represented, but weren’t opposed to the free hand outs, once they were convinced that they were victims, and therefore deserved the hand outs.
Clarence Thomas was explaining in his Rush interview, how he had become enraged during the civil rights/Black power period and how he finally realized that the hate and desire for pay back was destroying him and how he prayed to God to remove the hate from his heart. I think that I am going to buy his book for people for a Christmas gift. It sounds like something everyone could learn from.
In some respects is IS the fault of the White Man. White Democrats designed the welfare state to keep recipients from developing their independence in order to maintain an indentured constituency.
True, true, but that’s not the particular meta-narrative that the left is promoting.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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