Weirdly enough, young black men would benefit more from Derbyshire's talk, given that the vast majority of black men are murdered by other black men, often under the precise conditions the Derb lists.
As one who was born and raised in Baltimore, until I left to go to college and then get married, I lived in a city that was very good for whites (there was prejudice against Jews, which I experienced first hand, but it was not pervasive).
When integration hit in the late 50’s, it was not handled properly and black groups created fear among whites, and we were often picked on as an individual by the group. Some blacks feared whites and there was some justification for that. I also feared some whites even in Junior High - white trash drapes/punks. I also feared a couple white Jewish guys who were just plain bullies but always worked as a pack.
In high school, with a demographic of 2/3rds white (50% of them Jewish; 50% Christians of all denominations), and 1/3rd blacks, there was very little racial trouble. Our school administrators/principal/advisors were firm and alert. Our black classmates and teammates gave everyone mutual respect, one of the most important concepts, to getting along with one another.
College, north Philadelphia right in the heart of the black ghetto. Some crime but not a lot against students. The black community valued the help that mainly white students gave them in tutoring their children, cleaning up the area, etc.
By the time I graduated Temple Un. in 1966, Baltimore had started to go to hell and in the riots of 1968, the white, Democratic, liberal administration of Nancy Pelosi’s brother, Mayor D’Alessandro Jr or III, abandoned the Jewish working class and many of the non-Jewish white areas (they were left to defend themselves and did, heavily armed and willing to use them).
The other failure was that of the black establishment to unite against black extremists such as H. Rap Brown and Stokely Carmichael, and this broke the once firm white/liberal/Democratic/and Jewish alliance that had been formed in the 1950’s and thru the work of Dr. King Jr.
Today, Mr. Derbyshire has to write a damning article (some statements with which I strongly disagree re IQ), warning his daughter about going to school in Baltimore. However, he is right about safety at the Un. of Maryland, downtown Johns Hopkins Hospital, etc. Even decent, hardworking blacks are are risk in these areas, as well as where they live.
This is unfair to all decent people, and the major blame lies in the cowardness and patronizing leadership of white,Democrats/liberals and the black machines who run a good part of that city and most other major cities with significant black populations (Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, DC, Baltimore, Phila and NYC).
Your first goal in life is survival. After that, you can be a liberal or conservative as you want, but you do have to respect all decent people no matter what their skin color is, or religion, or ethnic background, etc.
It will only be when these decent people unite to help each other survive the onslaught of the criminal and political barbarians, will a Mr. Derbyshire NOT have to write the column that he did. Unfortunately, the way things are today, with the two top US government officials being as hardcore racists as they are (Obama and Holder), it will take another generation to repair the damage that they have done and allowed to be done in the name of “diversity”.
Reality is a bitch and it can be hard, to deadly, if you are not aware of the world around you.
PS: My sister, white and Jewish, was literally driven at gunpoint out of a downtown Baltimore area, Bolton Hill, and one of her neighbors was killed in his apartment right next to her.
Lessons learned. Lessons remembered. Kumbaya never stopped a bullet.