Race and Violence In America

Racial strife is a fact in America--a gruesome, shameful fact, but a fact.  But America s changing.  up through the 50s, "Race Riot" had a specific connotation of European Americans--Oh screw politcal correctness White People--engaging in mob violence directed against Black, Asian and Hispanic people.  (Even the Zoot Suit Riots, billed as draftees being upset by those not in uniform, were largely whites against Hispanics.)  Then in the 60s, the connotation changed, to Blacks giving vent to range int the streets.

Black rage. Black rage because of systematic denial of civil rights, Black rage because of lynchings. Black rage because of rape and oppression.  Rage because of pervasive, almost systemic racial violence.

Racial violence persists. A 13 year old Boy was set on fire.  A man beaten by a mob,   a 12 year old girl lured into a house and strangled for having too nice a bike. A young couple, taken brutally beaten, both raped and killed.

NBC commentator Al Sharpton is planning 100 protests in different cities. 

The problem is, he is not protesting the crimes above, or hundreds like them.  He is protesting a man being found innocent of a crime.  Sharpton isn't a commentator--he's a race baiting opportunistic parasite, who sees influence to be gained and money to be made.  He doesn't care about the crimes above--because they were committed by black people against whites. 

Let me put it this way:  Antonio Santiago is dead.  He was shot in his stroller while walking with his mother, because she had no money to give to a pan handler.  Who then shot her baby.  But we can't talk abut this sort of crime.    Because the narrative we are offered is that whites are the racists, that whites are the violent group.  Unfortunately the facts do not support his.  The new racism is America is against whites.  And it's enabled, and most prevalent among whites of a certain scial class--the upper middle class and their liberal arts degreed spawn.  Thes people cannot say othat there is even such a thing as black racism, or criticize blacks.

Let me give you an example:  I don't like Zoe Saldana.  I don't think she's attractive.  I find her to be overly made up, and way to skinny, as well as trying to hard to look like she's in her early 20s and being a mediocre actress.  A liberal, PhD having ex-friend , when I said I didn't think she was hot, and was so skinny she loked like a refugee went of on me.  Why?  Because Ms. Saldana was black, and had been in a Latin American Country.  So any criticism I used must be race based.  Saying she was  as skinny as a refugee simply showed that I thought that "women of color" were unable to manage a life and needed white males to do it for them, etc. When I pointed out that she was judging based on color and nation of origin, and that was racist and bigoted, she never spoke to me again.  I'm glad.

If Sharpton was really concerned about the safety of black men, he would work on this statistic: 93% of all black murdered are murdered by blacks.  That's about 7440 of the 8000 blacks murdered in the US in an average year.  Lets make that a little clearer--in a decade + of war, 6,400 Americans were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.  Perhaps Rev.Sharpton should work on that.

 Consider this--the 500 to 550 blacks killed by whites in America per year isn't even 50% the number of whites killed by blacks.    Perhaps we should be the ones in the streets protesting racial violence, because we are the most frequent victims of it.  Of course there is the Hispanic dimension too, and ethnic tension between Balcks and Hispanics is high--check buried news stories in LA, where wars over which ethnic group is going to take over which neighborhood are ongoing.  Or even stuff like this now--Baltimore beating,   

Not being a fan of  Martin Luther, I shall quote him anyway:  "Humanity is like a drunken peasant trying to ride a horse.  We mount, fall off, climb back up, and fall off the other side"

The narrative is so deeply ingrained in the Liberal American Mind, that if I say this on my blog, I will be branded a hater, I may well get death threats, and all I've done is cite fact. No matter that the Black community is often violent, that black men go to prison in disparate numbers, not because they are black, but because they are found guilty because they are guilty of crime in numbers all out of proportion to their numbers in society.  No matter that they are more likely to act out violently againstthe Liberal Narratives other favored victims, gays.

Justice for Trayvon?  How about Justice for Zimmerman?  How about a just enough society that I don't need to check for ethnic identity before I can defend myself from an attack, or a thuggish boy who just hasn't got clue?

How about we finally confront the cancer of racism, and clear it out of our society, even when the racists aren't white?  Oh--that's right, we are a racist society, that teaches our young people, and tells our adults that ONLY white people can be racists.