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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)

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)

Sure thing. Happy New Year to you, too, and thanks for your observations.

When I was about 17, a white kid who lived down the hall from me, complained "Nassau's eggs suck." he was referring to the Nassau County Jail. I told him, "If you don't like the eggs, don't get in trouble." Unfortunately, he wasn't really complaining; his point was to brag that he had been inside.

I've worked very hard for my entire adult life, so that I would never have to taste jailhouse eggs. That has included eating crow from some bad cops as recently as eight years or nine ago. (Actually, I could kick myself for not having made a formal complaint at the time.)

Two or three years ago, there was a debate on the letters page of the New York Daily News ("The People's Voice"). Some black correspondents were complaining about the idea of having to submit, and follow orders, when stopped by police. At least one white correspondent (who, to judge form his letter, was at least in his 40s), responded that his and many other parents taught young men to do just that in years gone by.

We have to re-invent the wheel.

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."

Good advice for anybody. Here's another: There's only one species of Human.