Black Culture Is Not the Problem

NY Times ^ | 5/1/2015

[Altura Ct.]

IN the wake of the Michael Brown shooting and subsequent unrest in Ferguson, Mo., commentators noted the absence of black representatives among Ferguson’s elected officials and its police leadership. A Department of Justice report highlighted how Ferguson’s mostly white City Council and its courts spurred on explicitly racist policing, in part to harvest fines from black residents.

Then came Baltimore. The death of Freddie Gray, like those of Eric Garner, John Crawford III, Rekia Boyd and so many other unarmed African-Americans, at first seemed to fit the all-too-familiar template — white cops, black suspect, black corpse.

But unlike New York, Chicago and other cities with white leaders, Baltimore has a black mayor, a black police commissioner and a majority-black City Council. Yet the city still has one of the most stained records of police brutality in recent years.

In the absence of a perceptible “white power structure,” the discussion around Baltimore has quickly turned to one about the failings of black culture. This confuses even those who sympathize with black hardship. When people took to the streets and destroyed property, most observers did not see an understandable social response to apparent state inaction. They saw, in the words of Baltimore’s mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, “thugs,” or in the words of President Obama, “criminals and thugs.”

To be fair, the mayor later expressed regret, and both she and the president have tried to show empathy for the dispossessed. But they are also fighting myths about degenerate black culture. Condemning “criminals” and “thugs” seems to get them away from beliefs about broad black inferiority.

Yet when black people of influence make these arguments, it prevents us from questioning Baltimore the way we questioned Ferguson.

[American Constitutionalist]

Black priviage : It’s all whitey’s fault.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Arrest-Related Deaths (ARD)

Of all reported deaths during the process of arrest

• 42% white
• 32% black
• 20% Hispanic.

For the years in the study counting homicides only

• White, non-Hispanic 1,233
• Black, non-Hispanic 937
• Hispanic 599
• Other* 107
• Unknown 82

Arrest-Related Deaths, 2003-2009 - Statistical Tables Select PDF (1M).

From the posted article. . . . the all-too-familiar template — white cops, black suspect, black corpse.

At this point I stopped reading and searched for "white" -- nothing but whites in power and to blame.

I did scan the article and found the usual "it's American racism, greed, capitalism thats to blame." He ends acknowledging the need for jobs.. I bet he supports immigration "reform" and its tens of millions of immigrants.

Going back to ARD if the employee of some university lacks the knowledge to teach what does he do there?

[Johnny_cash]

I have had enough of this crap!
I used to look at the economy before I moved. Now I look at the people of color that suck the american tax payers tits before I move.

Am I racist? Yes! Can you thank the POS in the whiteHut YES!

I PROFILE 24/7 and it has paid in dividends!

I have not used my CCW in the last 20 plus years because of good decision making on my part!

[Leep]

Black culture mostly died out due to the “great Society”

Yep, In 1965, only eight percent of childbirths in the Black community occurred out-of-wedlock.

[BilLies]

“But unlike New York, Chicago and other cities with white leaders, Baltimore (EAST SAINT LOUIS, GARY IN, CAMDEN NJ, DETROIT, FLINT MI, NEWARK NJ, OAKLAND, ETC, ETC) ARE BLACK CULTURAL CITIES

[Old Yeller]

Black culture is 99.99% of the problem.

[sergeantdave]

We need a thousand black thugs to rampage thru the NYT offices and steal what they want, beat who they want and rifle the personnel files to get names and addresses of the liberal NY slime to continue the racist rampage.

[MasterGunner01]

Black gangstra culture IS the problem — along with idolization of sports thugs, pimps and their girls, race baiters, educational ignorance, community organizer hustlers, and assorted black trash.

[SkyPilot]

Black Culture Is Not the Problem

Sure.

[GOPJ]

The problem originates in a political culture that has long bound black bodies to questions of property. Yes, I’m referring to slavery. Slavery was not so much a labor system as it was a property regime, with slaves serving not just as workers, but as commodities.

Liberal elites at the New York Times are blaming slavery for the riots in Baltimore? They've totally lost it this time. What a joke - it's like they're pretending to be some crazy caricature of a nutty white liberal elite...Except that really IS who they are.

[cherry]

well, its either culture, intellect, genetics, or just plain old evil.....its SOMETHING.....take your pick...

[trebb]

But they are also fighting myths about degenerate black culture. Condemning “criminals” and “thugs” seems to get them away from beliefs about broad black inferiority.

I don't even drink, but I want some of whatever the "author" is using - an occasional trip from reality might be soothing.......I guess the song, Your lying Eyes might be apropos as background music for this "author".

[Joe Boucher]

Crappola,
Fatherless families,
Drug use,
Criminal behavoir,
Refusal to apply oneself in school.
Don’t tell me black culture doesn’t blow.

[jughandle]

“A Department of Justice report highlighted how Ferguson’s mostly white City Council and its courts spurred on explicitly racist policing, in part to harvest fines from black residents.”

Wait, the NYT is admitting white democrat elites treat colored people like slaves??? Never would have imagined...