Posted on 12/09/2021 6:28:30 PM PST by karpov
On April 19, 2021, McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski suggested in a text to Chicago’s mayor that the parents of two children recently killed in Chicago’s gang activity had “failed those kids.” Kempczinski’s text became public in November 2021, prompting widespread accusations of racism and calls for his resignation. Kempczinski confessed to his white privilege and apologized profusely for holding parents responsible for the fate of their children.
On December 3, a district attorney in Michigan filed involuntary manslaughter charges against the parents of Ethan Crumbley. The 15-year-old Crumbley allegedly killed four fellow students during a shooting rampage at his Oxford, Michigan high school on November 30. The prosecutor based her indictment of Crumbley’s parents on the fact that they had allowed Ethan to access a legally purchased handgun and ought to have known that the boy was primed to kill his classmates. The press, Democratic politicians, and gun control advocates greeted the homicide charges against the Crumbley parents with ecstatic approbation.
The divergent reactions to the Kempczinski text message and the Crumbleys’ indictment illuminate the different standards to which minority parents and white parents are held. When black juveniles perpetrate street violence, the press and public officials almost never ask: where were the parents? The less involved a parent is in a child’s life, the less society expects of him. These double standards may have a benign intent, but they enable a cultural dysfunction whose effects are thousands of times more lethal than school shootings.
Kempczinski made his ill-fated suggestion of parental responsibility after seven-year-old Jaslyn Adams was gunned down by her father’s gang rivals.
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Black culture and community has failed, but they do not care because a few people get rich and famous from it, so it becomes a career path for them.
Celebrate the worst and aspire to be even more depraved than the previous generation.
I’m beginning to think perhaps the minority community is incapable of obeying the law.
She is speaking truth to power.
This needs to be talked about, openly and with honesty.
Feathers will be ruffled, but so what?
Deal with the undeniable truth.
Funny how the white libs that shriek about “systemic racism” never get around to the damage done by Great Society policies
Why should they? The media tells them they don’t have to. The courts dismiss the cases as racist. Corporate amerika goes along with it.
White and Black are not always considered to be colors.
Tru dat, but,
“These double standards may have benign intent ...”
Umm, no.
Refusal to recognize and to vehemently call out the inherent racism in the double standards contributes to the unparalleled racism since Obama’s promotion of it.
I guess it all comes down to location, location, location.
Blameless because they are the victims of poverty, no fathers and white oppression, you see.
Our whole legal system has already come to the same conclusion about certain minority groups. It is racist to expect some to register/insure/inspect vehicles, for example - so now cops are told to avoid taking action for those offenses.
An interesting thing about NYC’s vaccine mandates: The same ethnic minorities that allegedly can’t produce ID to vote MUST produce a PHOTO ID in conjunction with a vax passport (to ensure the person with the vax card is actually the person trying to enter a restaurant, for example).
Not a peep from the enemedia about this...
Exactly.
It is nonsense like this that that makes one think that maybe segregation wasn’t such a bad idea after all.
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