Excellent points, though it feels a bit one-sided. There is a serious codependency between black and white culture, and not just from liberals...
E Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 9, 2017, at 08:14, BILROJ via Centroids: The Center of the Radical > Centrist Community <[email protected]> wrote: > > > City Journal > A Window Into a Depraved Culture > The Chicago torture video provides a close-up look at gang-centered criminal > mayhem. > Heather Mac Donald > January 8, 2017 > > > Anti-police activists and the mainstream media are incensed at the suggestion > that the Black Lives Matter movement could have influenced the behavior of > the four individuals in Chicago who tortured a disabled white man for hours > last week while yelling “Fuck white people” and “Fuck Donald Trump.” In one > sense, the activists and media are right: The influences were broader than > that. They include the reign of racial victimology, inner-city gang culture, > and black anti-white animus. > We live in Ta-Nehesi Coates’s America, characterized by the assumption that > blacks are the eternal targets of lethal white oppression. Coates’s central > thesis in Between the World and Me, his acclaimed phantasmagoria of racial > victimology, is that America continuously aspires to the “shackling” and > “destruction” of “black bodies.” > Chicago’s four torturers certainly have not read Between the World and Me. > But the book’s worldview echoes throughout our society, including in the > inner city. Michelle Alexander’s equally publicized book, The New Jim Crow, > argues that the U.S. seeks to reimpose de facto segregation on blacks via the > criminal justice system. Alexander has been a staple on black media, among > many other outlets. President Obamahas insisted, even up to his last days in > office, that blacks are the victims of a racist criminal-justice system. The > press routinely disseminates phony statistics that purport to demonstrate a > police war on blacks. These ideas matter. > Black Lives Matter ideology is just a more in-your-face manifestation of the > Coatesian conceit that blacks are living in a system determined to destroy > them. The Chicago Black Lives Matter chapter embraces the motto “Stop killing > us,” aimed at the Chicago Police Department. It chants: “CPD, KKK: How many > children did you kill today?” (The answer is: Virtually none. Last year, over > 3,400 people in Chicago were shot, overwhelmingly black. Victims included 24 > children 12 years of age or younger. The Chicago cops shot 25 people, > virtually all armed and dangerous, or .6 percent of the total.) The Chicago > Black Lives Matter chapter disseminates inflammatory lies about the Chicago > police, such as that BLM activist Ja’Mal Green was beaten for 30 hours > following an arrest for battery against an officer and trying to disarm an > officer. Increasing the size of the Chicago Police department, per the > Chicago BLM, will simply result in “more killings by police, more police > torture and violence.” > These anti-law enforcement claims reinforce existing anti-white animus in the > inner city. The notion that the dominant or exclusive racism in America today > is white anti-black racism is absurd. Though many urban residents harbor no > racial animosity, the recurrent “Fuck Whitey” and “Kill the cops” themes in > rap music are not accidental. (Sample: “Kill the White people; we gonna make > them hurt; kill the White people; but buy my record first,” by Apache; “The > White man is the devil… Drive-by shooting on this White genetic mutant,” by > Menace Clan.) I have been warned by residents of one East Harlem housing > project not to go to a neighboring project because “they really hate whites > there.” > Even if there weren’t already a strain of racial hostility in inner-city > culture, the constant establishment refrain that whites oppress blacks at > every opportunity would create it. Every highly publicized cop assassination > in the last two years has triggered gloating on social media. Ja’Mal Green > told the New York Times that the assassination of five Dallas police officers > was “not a setback at all” for Black Lives Matter. The Dallas gunman had said > he wanted to kill white people and white cops. Though Green insisted that he > was not encouraging violence, he said that the assassination showed “the > people of this country that black people are getting to a boiling point. We > are tired of watching police kill our brothers and sisters. We are tired of > being tired.” At some point, there “comes a time when black people will > snap,” he said. While one is grateful for Green’s avowal not to be > encouraging violence, such sentiments come close to rationalizing it. > The establishment typically looks the other way at manifestations of black > anti-white animus. Racism in rap music is usually ignored. The Associated > Press excluded any reference to the race of the victim and assailants in its > initial report on the Chicago torture episode, as John Hinderaker observed at > Powerline, and merely noted that police were investigating a “beating” > captured on social media. The AP’s follow-up report acknowledged that someone > in the video appeared to use profanities about “white people” and that the > victim “appeared to be white,” while “others shown in the video appeared to > be black.” > Radley Balko rushed to tweet out that the Chicago kidnapping is not a trend > because since 2001, 80–85 percent of white murder victims were killed by > whites. True, but the percentage of blacks killed by blacks is higher. From > 1980 to 2008, 93 percent of black victims were killed by blacks. > White-on-black homicides are much rarer than black-on-white homicides. The > vast bulk of interracial violence is committed by blacks. In 2012, blacks > committed 560,600 acts of violence against whites, and whites committed > 99,403 acts of violence against blacks, according to data from the National > Crime Victimization Survey provided to the author: > Distribution of violent victimizations, by race/Hispanic origin of victim and > perceived race/Hispanic origin of offender, 2012–2013 > > Blacks, in other words, committed 85% of the interracial crimes between > blacks and whites, even though they are 13 percent of the population. This > data accords with the last published report on interracial crime from the > Bureau of Justice Statistics; the Bureau stopped publishing its table on > interracial crime after 2008, the first year of the Obama presidency. > Some portion of those black-on-white crimes may be driven by the same racial > hostility that gives rise to urban flash mobs and the knockout game. As Dead > Prez rapped: “We gonna order take out and when we see the driver/We gonna > stick the 25 up in his face . . . White boy in the wrong place at the right > time.” Even if the higher rate of black-on-white violence is simply a product > of blacks’ higher rate of violence generally, that violent crime rate is > another fact suppressed by the mainstream media whenever possible. In > response to the Chicago torture video, Callum Borchers of the Washington Post > sneered at conservatives’ supposed delusions, such as that “Chicago is a war > zone.” This idea struck Borchers as so preposterous that he repeated it later > in his column: “Oh, and by the way, Chicago (the part inhabited mostly by > black people, anyway) is a super-dangerous place, just like Trump said.” > One wonders how quickly Collum would move his family out of the allegedly > pacific South and West Sides of Chicago if he actually had to live there. The > following is a partial sampling of crime headlines from Chicago papers over > the last few weeks, in reverse chronological order: > FAMILY SINGALONG ENDS AS BULLETS FLY THROUGH CAR WINDOW ON PULASKI ROAD > SHOOTINGS KILL 4 PEOPLE, WOUND 24 SINCE SATURDAY, POLICE SAY [referring to > the 24-hour period from December 31, 2016 to January 1, 2017] > TWO BOYS, 16, KILLED IN SHOOTING THAT ALSO WOUNDED 65-YEAR-OLD WOMAN > A VIOLENT CHRISTMAS IN A VIOLENT YEAR FOR CHICAGO: 11 KILLED, 50 WOUNDED > BROTHERS KILLED, 5 OTHER PEOPLE WOUNDED IN CHRISTMAS SHOOTING > 3 KILLED, 17 WOUNDED IN CITY SHOOTINGS > 4 DEAD IN FERNWOOD ATTACK, 15 OTHERS WOUNDED IN SHOOTINGS > 3 WOUNDED IN PARTY BUS SHOOTING NEAR LAKE SHORE DRIVE > WOMAN RAPED BY ARMED MEN AFTER ROBBERY IN HUMBOLDT PARK > MAN WHO ATTACKED, ROBBED 94-YEAR-OLD GARFIELD RIDGE WOMAN SOUGHT BY POLICE > 47 SHOOTINGS SO FAR ON EXPRESSWAYS IN CHICAGO, 10 ABOVE ALL OF LAST YEAR > BOY, 16, SHOT ON HIS WAY TO SCHOOL — BUT WENT TO CLASS ANYWAY > INBOUND EISENHOWER SHUT DOWN AFTER SHOOTOUT BETWEEN CARS > MEN CHARGED WITH ROBBING WOMEN WALKING ALONE IN LAKEVIEW, POLICE SAY > SHOOTINGS KILL 9, WOUND 66 OVER THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY, POLICE SAY > Or maybe Borchers is only interested in the white areas of Chicago, which are > not yet a “war zone.” > Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King, responding to the Chicago torture, > rejected the idea of speaking out “on crimes committed by black folk because > nobody in this country is held more responsible for the crimes they commit, > and even the crimes they don’t commit, than black folk in America. . . . > American prisons are full of black folk who are being held responsible for > every mistake they’ve ever made.” Try telling that to Chicago Police > Superintendent Eddie Johnson. Johnson regularly bemoans the fact that > convicted gun felons in Chicago have little to fear from the criminal-justice > system, because they are so quickly back on the streets following a shooting. > The Illinois Black Caucus has blocked stiffer penalties for gun crime. > The victims of a November 2016 robbery spree in Chicago may also disagree > with King that the criminal-justice system is vindictive against black > criminals. Isaiah Scaife had already been convicted of theft, attempted > theft, criminal trespass, and possession of a stolen motor vehicle before he > turned 18, according to DNAInfo. He continued to commit gun crimes as a young > adult. At age 19, after a conviction for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, > Scaife was already out on parole. That’s when he began his five-day crime > spree on November 18, robbing a Subway store’s customers after sticking his > gun in a baby’s face and trying to manhandle his way behind the restaurant’s > counter. A few minutes later, he robbed a man leaving a Citgo gas station, > beating the victim unconscious with his gun before shooting him in the face. > The next day, Scaife returned to the same Subway, where he robbed and choked > a man while a juvenile accomplice pointed a gun at the victim. A few days > later, Scaife pulled a gun on a man at another gas station and stole his > possessions and car. At his arraignment, he yelled at the court deputies: > “I’m going to spit on your ass.” > Scaife is hardly unique. A huge percentage of violent crime is committed by > people with serious criminal histories who are free to continue terrorizing > the innocent. And, pace King, if you commit a drug crime, you’ll get more > leniency in a large urban jurisdiction than in a rural county, where > sentences for white drug dealers dwarf those of inner-city traffickers, > according to the New York Times. > At least one of the Facebook torture assailants belonged to the gang culture > that produces Chicago’s violent crime. Tesfaye Cooper posted a video on his > YouTube channel in October in which he points a rifle at the camera and says: > “I’ll put a bullet in your ass,” reports DNAInfo Chicago. Cooper’s Facebook > page glorifies him posing with guns and paying homage to local murderers. His > raps threaten to kill people who disrespect him and his crew. > The violence in the Chicago torture video does not arise in a vacuum. Most > residents of inner-city areas are hardworking bourgeois citizens longing to > live in safety and in racial harmony. But the video opens a window into a > culture that America would prefer to turn its eyes away from—and which it has > helped create. > Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, > a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of the New York Times > bestseller The W0.0.07.-1418600992nArwv4i/ES18R:05df0adc E:328 > -- > -- > Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community > <[email protected]> > Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism > Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. 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