This is bullshit. Is there some epidemic of white-on-black murder, assault, burglary, etc.? No. Not just no, fuck no, there isn't. As Shelby Steele says:
The civil rights community and the liberal media live by the poetic truth that America is still a reflexively racist society, and that this remains the great barrier to black equality. But this "truth" has a lot of lie in it. America has greatly evolved since the 1960s. There are no longer any respectable advocates of racial segregation. And blacks today are nine times more likely to be killed by other blacks than by whites. If Trayvon Martin was a victim of white racism (hard to conceive since the shooter is apparently Hispanic), his murder would be an anomaly, not a commonplace. It would be a bizarre exception to the way so many young black males are murdered today. If there must be a generalization in all this-a call "to turn the moment into a movement"-it would have to be a movement against blacks who kill other blacks. The absurdity of Messrs. Jackson and Sharpton is that they
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I find it hard to take seriously a source that thinks that a person can't be white because of having a parent from a Hispanic nation. The fact that the US considers there to be some huge gulf between 'White people' and people who have any sort of Hispanic ancestry tends to strike me as very telling about American attitudes towards race.
I'd also note that what the woman in this video is saying is far more profound than just addressing the issue of white people murdering black people. She's talking about how western culture presents black men as threatening. Zimmerman took that message to an extreme but it's not just Zimmerman whose attitudes she'd like to see change.
Wait a sec. Are you seriously saying that Western Culture presents black men as threatening, but the reality is that black men are no more dangerous than, say, Asian men or White men? Is this what you're saying? That the stereotype is not born out by the statistics on violent crime?
Suppose every white person's attitude changed and not a single white person on the planet viewed black males as threatening. How would this even begin to address the real threat to blacks???
While African Americans comprise 13.5% of the U.S. Population, 43% of all murder victims in 2007 were African American, 93.1% of whom were killed by African Americans.
Victimizations of African Americans from violent crime which include the following; rape/sexual assault, robbery, aggravated and simple Assault was 24.3% in 2007, with the highest percentages of victimizations within the age ranges of 15-24 totaling a percentage greater than 38%.
White attitudes toward blacks are IRRELEVANT for the purposes of keeping blacks alive. That's the point.
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The civil rights community and the liberal media live by the poetic truth that America is still a reflexively racist society, and that this remains the great barrier to black equality. But this "truth" has a lot of lie in it. America has greatly evolved since the 1960s. There are no longer any respectable advocates of racial segregation. And blacks today are nine times more likely to be killed by other blacks than by whites. If Trayvon Martin was a victim of white racism (hard to conceive since the shooter is apparently Hispanic), his murder would be an anomaly, not a commonplace. It would be a bizarre exception to the way so many young black males are murdered today. If there must be a generalization in all this-a call "to turn the moment into a movement"-it would have to be a movement against blacks who kill other blacks. The absurdity of Messrs. Jackson and Sharpton is that they ( ... )
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I'd also note that what the woman in this video is saying is far more profound than just addressing the issue of white people murdering black people. She's talking about how western culture presents black men as threatening. Zimmerman took that message to an extreme but it's not just Zimmerman whose attitudes she'd like to see change.
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Suppose every white person's attitude changed and not a single white person on the planet viewed black males as threatening. How would this even begin to address the real threat to blacks???
While African Americans comprise 13.5% of the U.S. Population, 43% of all murder victims in 2007 were African American, 93.1% of whom were killed by African Americans.
Victimizations of African Americans from violent crime which include the following; rape/sexual assault, robbery, aggravated and simple Assault was 24.3% in 2007, with the highest percentages of victimizations within the age ranges of 15-24 totaling a percentage greater than 38%.
White attitudes toward blacks are IRRELEVANT for the purposes of keeping blacks alive. That's the point.
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