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Should Black People Tolerate This?
Town Hall ^ | May 22, 2012 | Walter E. Williams

Posted on 05/23/2012 7:53:20 AM PDT by yoe

Each year, roughly 7,000 blacks are murdered. Ninety-four percent of the time, the murderer is another black person. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, between 1976 and 2011, there were 279,384 black murder victims. Using the 94 percent figure means that 262,621 were murdered by other blacks. Though blacks are 13 percent of the nation's population, they account for more than 50 percent of homicide victims. Nationally, black homicide victimization rate is six times that of whites, and in some cities, it's 22 times that of whites. Coupled with being most of the nation's homicide victims, blacks are most of the victims of violent personal crimes, such as assault and robbery.

The magnitude of this tragic mayhem can be viewed in another light. According to a Tuskegee Institute study, between the years 1882 and 1968, 3,446 blacks were lynched at the hands of whites. Black fatalities during the Korean War (3,075), Vietnam War (7,243) and all wars since 1980 (8,197) come to 18,515, a number that pales in comparison with black loss of life at home. It's a tragic commentary to be able to say that young black males have a greater chance of reaching maturity on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan than on the streets of Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Oakland, Newark and other cities.

A much larger issue is how might we interpret the deafening silence about the day-to-day murder in black communities compared with the national uproar over the killing of Trayvon Martin. Such a response by politicians, civil rights organizations and the mainstream news media could easily be interpreted as "blacks killing other blacks is of little concern, but it's unacceptable for a white to kill a black person."

There are a few civil rights leaders with a different vision. When President Barack Obama commented about the Trayvon Martin case, T. Willard Fair, president of the Urban League of Greater Miami, told The Daily Caller that "the outrage should be about us killing each other, about black-on-black crime." He asked rhetorically, "Wouldn't you think to have 41 people shot (in Chicago) between Friday morning and Monday morning would be much more newsworthy and deserve much more outrage?" Former NAACP leader Pastor C.L. Bryant said the rallies organized by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson suggest there is an epidemic of "white men killing black young men," adding: "The epidemic is truly black-on-black crime. The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men."

Not only is there silence about black-on-black crime; there's silence and concealment about black racist attacks on whites -- for example, the recent attacks on two Virginian-Pilot newspaper reporters set upon and beaten by a mob of young blacks. The story wasn't even covered by their own newspaper. In March, a black mob assaulted, knocked unconscious, disrobed and robbed a white tourist in downtown Baltimore. Black mobs have roamed the streets of Denver, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Cleveland, Washington, Los Angeles and other cities, making unprovoked attacks on whites and running off with their belongings.

Racist attacks have been against not only whites but also Asians. Such attacks include the San Francisco beating death of an 83-year-old Chinese man, the pushing of a 57-year-old woman off a train platform and the knocking of a 59-year-old Chinese man to the ground, which killed him. For years, Asian school students in New York and Philadelphia have been beaten up by their black classmates and called racist epithets -- for example, "Hey, Chinese!" and "Yo, dragon ball!" But that kind of bullying, unlike the bullying of homosexuals, goes unreported and unpunished.

Racial demagoguery from the president on down is not in our nation's best interests, plus it's dangerous. As my colleague Thomas Sowell recently put it, "if there is anything worse than a one-sided race war, it is a two-sided race war, especially when one of the races outnumbers the other several times over."


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1 posted on 05/23/2012 7:53:24 AM PDT by yoe
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To: yoe

No, of course they shouldn’t... but they’ve been indoctrinated for generations that Whitey is to blame for all their ills, and only more government money will help fix it all.


2 posted on 05/23/2012 8:00:38 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... yet voting doesn't???)
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To: yoe

Great article but it won’t be read by any black people. End of story.


3 posted on 05/23/2012 8:01:17 AM PDT by albie
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To: yoe

It’s always easier to blame “Whitey” than to look and criticize yourself.


4 posted on 05/23/2012 8:02:23 AM PDT by Hodar (Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.- A. Schopenhauer)
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To: yoe
The party of slavery
5 posted on 05/23/2012 8:07:34 AM PDT by BO Stinkss
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To: yoe

To this very day - the most celebrated member of the democrat party is Robert KKK Byrd. No other democrat in history has received more internal party promotions then Robert KKK Byrd. He was even recently third in line to the Presidency as voted internally by his fellow democrats. He was called the ‘conscience of the senate’ by many of his fellow democrats. Robert KKK Byrd is the face of the democrat party today in 2012.

Coincidence?


6 posted on 05/23/2012 8:08:26 AM PDT by TheBigIf
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To: albie
Great article but it won’t be read by any black people. End of story.

I used to watch the A&E true-life program "The First 48". Almost every week the murder victim was black and the murderer was black and it was over drugs/turf.

7 posted on 05/23/2012 8:09:24 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: yoe

8 posted on 05/23/2012 8:10:58 AM PDT by BO Stinkss
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I heard two callers to the Mildred Gaddis radio program (Urban Talk Radio WCHB AM Detroit—”she’s stronger than black coffee”) last Friday morning who blamed white suburbanites who work in the City of Detroit for incidents of black on black crime. Seems that the “suboibanites” should hang around after work, buy gas at the gang infested Detroit gas stations and thus get robbed and otherwise assaulted. Then the crime problem would be addressed.

It bes the white man’s fault.


9 posted on 05/23/2012 8:12:12 AM PDT by RushLake (Liberalism/Progressivism--Domestic terrorism financed by your tax dollars)
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To: yoe
Blacks Are More Racist than Whites

~ Larry Elder, "The Ten Things You Can't Say In America"

10 posted on 05/23/2012 8:12:20 AM PDT by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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To: TheBigIf
Robert KKK Byrd is the face of the democrat party today in 2012.

Robert Byrd died in the summer of 2010.

11 posted on 05/23/2012 8:16:33 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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12 posted on 05/23/2012 8:17:40 AM PDT by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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To: yoe

The crime problems are caused by neighborhood watch volunteers.


13 posted on 05/23/2012 8:20:03 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: pgyanke

He still though is the most internally promoted democrat in history, the most praised by fellow democrats and is thus the face of their party.


14 posted on 05/23/2012 8:22:03 AM PDT by TheBigIf
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To: yoe

It seems the majority of the black population is suffering from a type of Stockholm Syndrome.

They have been held captive by the democrat party for so long, they thoroughly identify with there captors, apparently there is no solution to this problem.

Just saying this is the method of operation for the liberal progressive, socialist, demoncrat party.


15 posted on 05/23/2012 8:22:49 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: yoe
Anyone can see the facts with a simple test...

Just do a search for stories of whites attacking/robbing/killing blacks, and then reverse that and see what you find for last two weeks or so.

The only problem you will have at getting the true stats is that you will have to study the articles to see the ones that are black on white.

White on black would be in the headline, likely with photos.

16 posted on 05/23/2012 8:24:29 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: PoloSec

oopps on the there, should read their.


17 posted on 05/23/2012 8:24:51 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: BO Stinkss

“Democrat Party... enslave” pic.

Stolen and cross-posted!

Most excellent!


18 posted on 05/23/2012 8:24:54 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ('RETRO' Abortions = performed on 84th trimester individuals who think killing babies is a "right.")
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To: yoe
Dear "black" people:

You want to fix your communities? Here are a few pieces of advice:

1) Bastardy is not good for anybody. "Black" ladies: quit spreading your legs for any and every criminal slob that wants in. You deserve better. Your children deserve better. Your children should all have the same father, and he should be called your "husband". "Babydaddy" doesn't cut it.

2) Crime and indolence is not good for anybody. Neither is bastardy. "Black" gentlemen: quite screwing every slut that will let you in. Get an education, get honest work, stay out of prison. You deserve better. Your children deserve better. Your children should all have the same mother, and she should be called your "wife". "Babymama" doesn't cut it.

3) Quit expecting the government to take care of you. It can't, and it does a piss-poor job when it tries. You deserve better. Honest work is, well, work ... but it comes with pride and dignity that you'll never get from welfare, no matter what lies the democrat party and the idiots in your pulpits tell you. You don't have to demand respect when you've earned it.

4) Quit expecting the government to protect you. It can't, and it doesn't even try. You deserve better. Quit supporting "gun control". Quit voting for gun-ban politicians. Quit pretending that thugs, gang-bangers, and hoodlums are "good kids. Exercise your right to keep and bear arms. Thugs and gang-bangers can't terrorize you, your kids, and your neighbourhood when you shoot them down like the rabid dogs that they are. You'll have peaceful, safe communities when you make your communities peaceful and safe.

Since this advice comes from a damn white honkey cracker, I expect it to be ignored.

Pity.

19 posted on 05/23/2012 8:35:51 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ScottinVA

” but they’ve been indoctrinated for generations that Whitey is to blame for all their ills,”

Exactly! That is why black “civil rights leaders” keep silent on this black on black murder scourge. Blacks must never be blamed for their own failures. It is always the whites fault.

That explains why they are still incensed over whites enslaving their ancestors which ended 150 years ago in the USA, but dont care one wit about the enslavement of black Africans that still exists today. They cant easily blame white Americans for black slaves still being bought in the Sudan, Chad, and Mauritania,so they ignore it.

Also they have unwavering allies with guilt tripping white “liberals” who grovel before their Race Card and support this racist double standard.


20 posted on 05/23/2012 8:52:40 AM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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