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Black and White: African-American Criminals and Leftist Racism
This is a follow up on my previous entry. In fact, this entry consists mainly of the comments under the previous entry. That is because I regard the principle I am trying to get across as truely important. That priciple is that it is vastly HARMFUL to African-Americans to try to make heroes of, or excuses for, African-American criminals. The major statistic in the previous entry was not the statistic that 50% of murderers in prison are black, but the statistic that 9 out of 10 VICTIMS of black muerders were black. It is well established that African-Americans are the PRIMARY vicitims of ALL types of African-American crime. Making heroes of black criminals is BAD for the African-American VICTIMS of those criminals. It is WORSE for the future of African-American children groing up--both to be told that crminals are heroes AND to be told that the system is so biased against them that they have NO CHANCE, and no choice but to become a criminal. This is a LIE, and an insidious from of RACISM. It merely encourages an endless cycle of destroyed lives, which is what leftists are best at.
Anyway here is the promised repeat of the comments to the entry below:
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I guess what I meant by my comment is that the excuse that "the system is biased" is warranted to some extent. Maybe some groups go too far in saying that certain minority criminals are mere victims of a biased system and not personally responsible at all, but in their defense, these are the situations that give black and other minority groups the opportunity to discuss the bias in the system. You cannot discuss the bias in the system and have people listen without discussing a particular racial minority alleged to have comitted a crime, and saying that person is being prosecuted unfairly or being sentenced too harshly. Now I agree it is an extreme view if someone in fact comitted a heinous crime and these groups attempt to say they should be absolved of all responsibility becuase the system is biased against minorities and in any event society made them do it. Certainly such individuals should not be championed as martyrs, but their situations may indeed provide a valuable forum for discussion of the bias of the system. I agree more focus should be on those that overcome general bias than on championing criminals who are possibly sentenced more harshly as a result of it, but again, if you want to discuss the bias of the criminal justice system, what other opportunity do you have to bring it up than when a minority is suspected of a crime and later, even if guilty, treated unfairly.
To one degree or another, the system IS biased against them--if only, as Kyla says, because the system is harder on the poor. But the PRIMARY victims of African-American criminals are African-Americans. Further, the people you DESTRYOY (either literally or figruatively) by making heroes of, and excuses for, black criminals are PRIMARILY African-Americans themselves. Having what is now called "white middle class vales", which used to be merely "values" accepted by basically everyione, is MORE important to both African-Americans and the poor.
We need to be making heroes of people who OVERCOME their background, and not of people who are trying to drag everyone down with them. Leftists don't understand this, which is why I say they have blood on their hands--not to mention the virtual DESTRUCTION of the African-American family in this country (speaking, of course, in general, without intending to disparage the MANY African-Americans who live an exemplary life).