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.The author is painting with a somewhat broad brush here but nonetheless there are too many within the Black community who spend too much time excusing/condoning Black crime. It's too bad that past and present inequities within the criminal justice system are used to justify such attitudes.
My antidote is this, and I pass it on freely to fellow Blacks: "If you know the system sucks don't do things that allow it to suck you in."
(Happy New Year and thanks for the ping)