Posted on 07/23/2013 3:59:18 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
Young black males are at greater risk from their peers than from the police or white civilians.
Last week President Obama weighed in again on the Trayvon Martin episode. Sadly, most of what he said was wrong, both literally and ethically.
Pace the president, the Zimmerman case was not about Stand Your Ground laws. It was not a white-on-black episode. The shooting involved a Latino of mixed heritage in a violent altercation with a black youth.
Is it ethical for the president to weigh in on a civil-rights case apparently being examined by his own Justice Department? The president knows that if it is true that African-American males are viewed suspiciously, it is probably because statistically they commit a disproportionate amount of violent crime. If that were not true, they might well be given no more attention as supposed suspects than is accorded to white, Asian, or Latino youths. Had George Zimmerman been black, he would have been, statistically at least, more likely to have shot Trayvon Martin — and statistically likewise less likely to have been tried. (snip)
... few people — and certainly not Barack Obama or Eric Holder, who have a bad habit, in an increasingly multiracial country, of claiming solidarity on the basis of race — will care that Khin Min and Lina Lim were torn to pieces by bullets and a knife. Few will care that they died in a vicious assault that had nothing to do with stereotyping, Stand Your Ground self-defense, weak gun laws, insufficient federal civil-rights legislation, or any of the other causes of interracial violence falsely advanced by the attorney general — but quite a lot to do with an urban culture that for unspoken reasons has spawned an epidemic of disproportionate violent crime on the part of young African-American males.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
bfl
I didn’t have time to go into the whole education problem but I just did a search and found a fantastic post about research done by John Ogbu on the schools in Shaker Heights, Ohio, a “partially-wealthy” integrated suburb of Cleveland.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/916557/posts
The post is 10-years-old and Dr. Ogbu is deceased, but the whole thing is still very relevant.
Traveon Banks-Austin and Alexander Tyvon Brandon.
It's weird. Whenever I see blacks in the news because of crime, it's more likely than not that they have a name that I never heard or saw before. It appears they were named using oppositional defiant disorder.
Sadly, that is the way they want it to be. This is nothing like 1960. The way of race politics now is not unification, but separation. It is a kind of reverse Sam Crow. I know. I heard it from white segregationists of that day.
The spineless media has not the courage to call things as it is. Politically, there has to be a wedge between the races, and that wedge will be carefully be manipulated for the best effect.
Sorry Dr. King, that they distorted your work so horribly.
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