“Sticking it to The Man”: Black Crime and Its Supporters

My previous two columns showed how network TV series populate a parallel universe in their depiction of crime. As opposed to the real world, in TV-Land, almost all violent crime is carried out by white men, while blacks are either the victims of white racism, or heroic defenders of law and order. It remains to examine how things came to such a pass.

With the rise of the system of apartheid that I call Jim Snow, a funny thing happened, that the mainstream media has refused to report on. In an age of equal or even superior opportunity for blacks, instead of encouraging black boys to grow up straight, take advantage of widespread opportunities, and make successful lives for themselves, ever greater numbers of black parents and authority figures have encouraged black children — especially boys — to engage in violent, criminal behavior. This insane conduct on the part of black adults — who cut off black children's noses, to spite whites' faces — has been due to their boundless hatred for whites, and the surge of self-esteem they receive, every time they succeed in encouraging a young black to "stick it to the man." Millions of black adults have found such self-indulgence more important than facing the fact that they are pushing ever more young black men down the path to prison. Perhaps black adults feel that if they push hard enough, no blacks will be incarcerated, no matter what crimes they commit.

Black criminals also enjoy powerful support from influential, white leftwing and humanitarian groups who have long used blacks as a wedge with which to drive through their socialist goals. Oddly, though, white leftists have gone beyond the embrace of socialism to ape the anti-white racism of their black clients. I believe that there is also a class warfare element to such groups' support of black crime. These people's affluence affords them a layer of protection, in the form of security guards, taxi cabs, and work that keeps them far from dangerous neighborhoods, and which is an important status symbol to them. Meanwhile, they celebrate crime against whites who lack such privileges; when the whites complain about violent, black criminals, the leftists and humanitiarians denounce them as "racists" who deserve their fate.

The result of such race-baiting is that, according to the leftwing Washington, D.C. Sentencing Project, between 1989 and 1994, the percentage of black men between the ages of 20 and 29 either incarcerated, on probation, or on parole, rose over 30 percent. In 1989, astoundingly, almost one in four black men from that age group were under supervision by criminal justice authorities. In 1995, the Sentencing Project reported that "Nearly one in three (32.2%) African American males in the age group 20-29 — 827,440 — is under criminal justice supervision on any given day — in prison or jail, on probation or parole." (This organization's numbers are generally accepted across the political spectrum.)

Supporters of black criminals, such as the Sentencing Project, typically argue that the drug laws have a "disproportionate impact" on black men, especially in the case of crack cocaine, and that the men in question are "non-violent" offenders. Such arguments ignore the support that the War on Drugs has received from black leaders and ordinary folks alike — blacks are, by and large, the least liberty-oriented group in America — and perpetuate the myth of the peaceful, urban drug dealer. Groups such as the Sentencing Project also employ an apartheidist criterion of lawmaking, whereby laws should be enacted, in order to shield favored groups from prosecution. They are hostile to the great progress represented by the principle, enshrined in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, whereby all citizens are equal before the law.

Supporters of black criminals are also hostile to the lessons of history. In earlier phases of American history, groups of whites were heavily involved in crime. These groups included immigrant Irishmen, Eastern-European Jews, and Italians, or their American-born children. In previous generations, however, powerful, organized humanitarians did not arise to argue that the problem was not with the criminals, but with laws that persecuted members of "minority" groups. And so, those miscreants who did not die at the hands of their enemies or their intended "victims," ended their days on the gallows, in the electric chair, or in prison. Subsequent generations drew the proper lessons, and found legal ways to earn a living.

Few Americans today are aware, for instance, that during the first half of the twentieth century, the most cutthroat urban mobsters were to a large degree Jews whose families had come from Eastern Europe. Some of the most colorful portions of Howard M. Sachar's masterful book, A History of the Jews in America, are devoted to murderous Jewish sociopaths such as "Dutch Schultz" (Arthur Flegenheimer), Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro, Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, "Big Maxie" Greenberg, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Moses Annenberg (the father of the late TV Guide founder, Walter Annenberg), "Longy" Zwillman, "Legs" Diamond, et al.

By contrast, when American gentiles think of Jews, they are more likely to think of the schlemiel characters made famous by Allen Konigsberg (Woody Allen), than of bloodthirsty gangsters. What a difference apartheid makes.

In contrast to the racial profiling myth, which claims that innocent young black men are targeted by racist, white policemen, today law enforcement officers are more likely to avoid confrontations with black suspects like the plague. And great numbers of crimes committed by urban black criminals not involving guns or drugs are "disappeared" by the authorities. If the supporters of black criminals studied history, they would know that in the days when black men really were targeted by racist, white law enforcement officials and violent, private, white supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (whose respective memberships often overlapped), the black crime rate was a fraction what it is today.

To comment on this article or express your opinion directly to the author, you are invited to e-mail Nicholas at adddda@earthlink.net .

It's rather depressing to think about but I think he may be right.

Indeed...

The Black Soul is Dead and We Are to Blame
By Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.

--Deuteronomy 28:15, 18-20

The soul of the black community is dead.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust; a fire still burns in those very few who have clung to the values of old, but our days as a people of character, unshakeable spirit, and respectability are, for all intents and purposes, dead. Though I had long been pained at what I perceived to be the gradual decline of the black community, it donned on me in recent months that the dismal and prolonged downturn of my people had greatly accelerated. Tonight I again take survey of my brethren; spiritually, we are no more.

This revelation knocked the wind out of me. It had been largely to the purpose of helping blacks wake up and see the error of their ways that I committed myself to some 13 years ago. I thought then that, though blacks had already fallen so far, there was a great chance to overcome. But with this new realization I now sat motionless, wondering if the battle had been lost, if we had eternally surrendered. Or if there was hope.

After an internally tumultuous and spiritually troublesome wait, an answer came on this question. It went as follows:

I saw the death of Jesus Christ. I saw the death of the black soul. I saw the miraculous resurrection of Christ. And therein, I saw the glimmer of hope. The only hope of the black community is for a resurrection of miraculous proportions. Blacks of today must atone for the sins of our fathers to command the mercy and love that would precipitate such a resurrection.

A daunting task this is. Whereas Christ died with a holy nature, the black soul has died in the gallows of weakness and immorality. A representative snapshot of the black community today:

Seventy percent of black babies born out of wedlock has lent itself to an epidemic of fatherlessness. The black woman carries no respect for a man of such weakness and harbors perpetual hatred for this man who bedded, and then abandoned, her. The father's absence made the mother the influential figure to the family. But her anger toward the man who left her is so great that she cannot be a positive influence. The black youth is victimized by his mother's dominant hatred. With no father as a figure of guidance and respect, the child can't help but yield to this force of darkness.

So the young black man comes to what he is today-incidentally a perfect representation of the overall downfall of the black community. No direction. No drive. No soul. Generally today, young black men carry with them no sense of responsibility to be productive, no aversion to undisciplined behavior, nor any indication that they can overcome the sin into which they're born. Rather than work and strive to move up in the world, they opt to abuse drugs, chase women, and act like immature fools.

Usually when one is born into dire circumstances he is accompanied by a sense of desperation to succeed. He innately feels that he must work hard, harder than all those around him just to be able to survive. The young black man of today feels none of this. His focus is on his next joint. The emasculation of the young black man by the dominant black women has destroyed this drive. His innate sense now is to lust after a woman. In doing so, the black man is forever subject to "momma."

Meanwhile, young black girls do as their mothers do and adopt the same vicious, emasculatory techniques. Thus a cycle perpetuates. With few strong examples of God's commandments among black men, unprecedented destruction nears.

Not all of the members of the black community are like this-but this is, sad to say, an accurate representation of the evil that has taken hold of black America. This outright rejection of God by the black community has so angered Him that, I believe, He has decidedly pulled the plug on our people. Spit in God's face, and, well, he let's you do so, but from hereon you're on your own.

The penance that the black community is going to have to pay to regain God's favor is incalculable. Ever since the black community began viciously forsaking God in the early sixties, all the plague and curse spoken of in Deuteronomy has come to pass. The dawn of the civil rights movement was the dawn of unprecedented sin in the black community. This forty-year history of unconstrained sin began with the black man's weakness in letting women take over, therein committing an outright insult of God.

God ordained a spiritual order of God in Christ, Christ in man, man over woman, and woman over children. Black men have lost their connection with Christ and in their weakness, women have become the head of the temporal realm. This is a violation of God's established order and will never work. This violation has reached such epic proportions that black women today are not only in charge of the home, but they hold great power in public schools and are now becoming the head of the black church! It is because black men refuse to be strong and speak against this that God has seemingly let the black community go. So far lost have we become that it is going to require a huge step up by black men to regain God's blessing.

Just a few men stepping up will not absolve this sin. Many will have to come forward prepared to sacrifice greatly to rediscover our once sacred relationship with Him. We all know by now that none of our leaders will lift a finger to this end. They have made it clear that their sole purpose is to push us farther downward, all the while taking satisfaction in their growing power and wealth. Therefore we must self-mobilize. We no longer have leaders to rely upon-we have only ourselves. So great is the demoralization in the black community, particularly among young black men, that it will take a great many of us in an unparalleled effort over an indefinite time frame if we have any hope.

I once heard Mel Gibson say in a movie, "I have long feared that my sins would come back to visit me, and the cost is more than I can bear." Well those sins have come back to visit the black community with a vengeance, and the cost may be more than we can bear. But at least out of respect for the values we once held dear and the strength we once had as a people, we are obligated to attempt with all our hearts to regain that ideal, or die trying. We must now forget all our petty angers, our weaknesses, and our unfounded rage and come forward prepared for the great penance that lies ahead. And we must do so without self-pity.

After all, the black soul is dead and we ourselves are to blame.

Something all the african americans in NYC always conveniently forget. There were more police shooting by NYPD officers on african americans under David Dinkins then there were under Guiliani. In fact, in one year under Dinkins, something like 40 african americans were killed by cops. There was never a year under Rudy that ever, even came remotely close and yet they villanize Rudy and loved Dinkins.

I don't think they were interested in the truth. They just knew that Giuliani was white, and Dinkins was black. Hence, they hated Giuliani.

After Benjamin Ward and Lee Brown served as police commissioner, a great many New York blacks simply decided that the NYPD was a black franchise, never again to be led by a white.

And then, when David Dinkins was elected mayor, they decided that the mayoralty was also a black franchise, as if NYC were "Chocolate City." And so, when Giuliani beat Dinkins in their 1993 rematch, in the closest election in NYC history, they hated Giulaini with a consuming passion. Al the talk about his "policies" and "police shootings" was beside the point. Note that the hatred was loud and public, before the man was so much as inaugurated.

(I had kids in my class in college who believed anytime a politican talked about cutting down on crime it was code for persecuting african americans. I never understood that, not even to this day).

This sounds like the story the Democrats concocted after Nixon's 1968 victory, and have repeated ever since, claiming that the president who was the father of affirmative action crafted a racist, "Southern strategy," whereby "law-and-order" was a code word for putting blacks in their place. Although I'm no Buchananite, Pat Buchanan recently wrote a brilliant article debunking the "Southern strategy" myth.

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.