Posted on 07/19/2013 7:47:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
Eric Holder dismissed America as a "nation of cowards" because we wouldn't, he argued, have a "national conversation" about race. It's a slander wrapped in a farce. We talk of race unremittingly. That's the farce. The slander is hydra-headed.
No honest conversation about race is possible when accusations of racism replace reasoned arguments. Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, who mentioned high rates of crime among black males, was rewarded with the racist label within minutes by some of those (The Atlantic, Slate) who presumably agree with Holder that we are too timid when discussing race.
Many American liberals are achingly nostalgic for old-fashioned racism. It offered them a helium high of moral superiority. It was deserved ... in 1967. But by perpetuating the fiction that modern America has not changed, they've become more than ridiculous, more even than grossly unjust - they've become dangerous. Look around you. The violence and bitterness that have followed the Zimmerman verdict were virtually ordered up by convicted slanderer Al Sharpton and his many imitators.
The Zimmerman case was complicated. Any fair-minded person could see that it was difficult to conclude that Zimmerman was not acting in self-defense (however unwise his initial actions may have been). But the racial-grievance industrial complex doesn't permit complexity. Racial enmity is their living. Stirring feelings of victimization and injustice among blacks and, to a lesser extent, among other designated minorities is their delight.
When you consider the steady agitprop churned out by the racial-grievance industrial complex (RGI), it's amazing that race relations aren't worse. The RGI has circulated falsehoods about black voter "disenfranchisement" in the 2000 presidential election, about a spate of "racially motivated" arsons at black churches, about George W. Bush's "indifference" to the lynching of a black man in Texas, about voter ID laws being a conspiracy to suppress the black vote, about Republicans opposing the civil rights act of 1964 (MSNBC recently ran a picture of George Wallace that ID'd him as a Republican), about "racial profiling" by New Jersey state troopers, and about "racist" killings of black immigrants by New York cops. Each of these is an outright falsehood. There was zero voter disenfranchisement in 2000, George W. Bush signed the death warrant of the killer in Texas, Republicans were more in favor of the Voting Rights Act than Democrats, the tragic shootings of two black men in New York were mistakes, and on and on.
This is not to suggest that racism has been expunged from the heart of every American. But while the RGI bravely fights the battles of 1954, African-Americans, and all Americans, face new challenges that require serious attention, free of the cant and destructive incitement that characterize the grievance mongers.
The RGI propounds the myth that the criminal justice system is indelibly racist. Young black males, we are told, are far more likely than whites to be arrested and to serve time in prison. When it is observed that a disproportionate share of offenders are black; that significant numbers of most city police forces are black; and that most victims are also black, we are invited to consider the ultimate proof -- the glaring disparity in the penalties for powder and crack cocaine.
The federal criminal penalties for crack, passed in the 1980s, were a response to the devastation crack was causing in black neighborhoods. The huge spike in crime during the 1980s -- and the vast victimization of inner city blacks -- was primarily attributable to crack addiction. If it was racist to impose these penalties, why were members of the Congressional Black Caucus the first to champion the legislation? Heather MacDonald noted in City Journal that the laws on crystal meth have a similarly "disparate impact" on whites. "In 2006, the 5,391 sentenced federal meth defendants (nearly as many as the crack defendants) were 54 percent white, 39 percent Hispanic, and 2 percent black."
From 1976 to 2004, 65 percent of executions involved whites, but whites committed only 47 percent of murders. Evidence of anti-white bias in the system? You could make such a case, and it would have as much validity as the manufactured panic about anti-black bias in America.
America continues to muddle along. Black/white unions comprised 11 percent of marriages in 2008. Black married couple families had an average income of $63,566 in 2010. Barack Obama was re-elected in 2012 -- which is evidence of poor judgment, but clearly not of the kind of racist cauldron the grievance industry eternally conjures.
Since racial truths are always racist, why bother?
Eric Witholder has been amply shown to be the coward who hides behind his office and his race to throw stones. Like everything else the left does, he and his cohorts have badly overplayed the race card and now it will not go away and it’s splashing back onto them - where it belonged in the first place.
“Twitter Explodes with Racial Epithets Towards Larry Elder”
(not for the faint of heart)
George Corley Wallace a Republican?? Is this what our so-called news media has come to? Which one of the imbeciles at MSLSD made that statement?
WOW, thank you Ms. Charin. Great article!
Mona correctly point out that George Wallace was a Dem, yet the majority of the public (those that have heard the name anyway) probably think he was a Repub.
The Dems in the South created the KKK, the Dems comprised most of the slave holders, and the Dems perpetuate laws that keep blacks in bondage.
Who's going to start this "national dialogue"?
George Wallace was a Democrat, Bull Conner was a Democrat, KKK Byrd was a Democrat, "Fritz" Hollings (who brought the confederate flag back in the 60's) was a Democrat. The only one who 'flipped' was Maddox... All the rest of the racists were democrats who changed their choice of victim from blacks to conservatives. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/richard-cohen-racism-vs-reality/2013/07/15/4f419eb6-ed7a-11e2-a1f9-ea873b7e0424_story.html
What, Mona Charen a racist?
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“There’s no national conversation on race, there’s a left wing monologue on race.” - Dennis Prager
2. Does anyone not see how ludicrous it is for Holder & his Media enablers to identify the cause of American Negroes with the worst elements of their race, rather than those who actually live moral lives, pursuing worthy goals, and benefiting America in doing so? Is this whole gambit not an insult to millions of Black Americans, who are not out sucker punching neighborhood watch volunteers? (Think how absurd it would be if White leaders decided to no longer look to such role models as the Founding Fathers, and embraced instead demands for altering our culture, to put more efforts into explaining away the actions of the White criminal, while blaming his problems on those who live according to traditional principles.)
3. After "Fast & Furious," does the House of Representatives not see its duty in starting the process to remove Holder? Were they not already on notice that the Chief Legal Officer of the Federal Government is a "scoff-law," not a defender of justice? Is stirring up race riots in American cities, over a just verdict, in order to intimidate our people, not so clearly criminal as to mandate impeachment?
Does anybody dissent from this analysis?
William Flax
He’s probably never to anxious to take a call from Sinaloa.
Blacks kill blacks.
Discuss among yourselves, Eric.
Who knows. It could have been Al (Tawana Brawley hoakster Sharpton, or Chris Matthews
Excellent read. She should include all those questionable college and university programs in that ‘grievance industrial complex’.
Current Black culture is toxic to the black race. Anything considered “white” is denigrated such as skills in reading math or science. Until this root cause is corrected there will be no hope for blacks in this country.
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