Heather Mac Donald on the Jena 6
Heather Mac Donald, one of America’s most penetrating writers on race, culture, and crime, looks beyond the Jena Six theatrics and tells unvarnished truths:
The race industry will try to keep Jena in the media and political spotlight for as long as possible, and to reinforce the notion that this episode exemplifies blacks’ situation in America. But if there were many other instances of (arguable) overcharging for black crime, we would have heard about them by now. The orgy of Jena coverage will not just fail to improve the lagging performance of blacks; it will impede such improvement by strengthening the victim mentality. Both whites and blacks are complicit in this sabotage. These ecstatic festivals of racism-bashing are a crippling ritual in the codependency between absolution-seeking whites and angry blacks, a phenomenon that Shelby Steele has powerfully analyzed. The demonstrators exhibit a palpable desire for the moral clarity of the civil rights era, as do the reporters, who have covered their every utterance. “This is the first time something like this has happened for our generation,” one student told the New York Times. “You always heard about it from history books and relatives. This is a chance to experience it for ourselves.”
He’s right; there has been nothing like Selma or Montgomery for the current generation, because much of America has accomplished almost an about-face on race since the 1950s. The current martyrs to American bigotry are a far cry from Rosa Parks. Like the “Jena Six,” they tend to have committed acts of violence or other crimes for which they are allegedly being excessively punished. Think of the six high school hooligans from Decatur, Illinois, whom Jesse Jackson tried to beatify in 1999 when their schools expelled them for a violent stadium fight; their backgrounds included robbery, trespassing, truancy, and failing whole school years. We are only belatedly learning that Mychal Bell, the sole member of the “Jena Six” to have been prosecuted for knocking out and kicking Justin Barker, has a previous arrest record that includes battery and property damage. Barker’s injuries led to $14,000 in medical bills, according to a lawyer.
The Jena situation is undoubtedly a bit more complex than the tale that the press has woven of hate-filled whites and peace-loving blacks. But even if it were not, the catharsis that this morality play has offered to its participants is spurious. The real tragedy is the dysfunctional culture that holds back too many blacks from seizing the many opportunities open to them.
Read the whole thing at City Journal.
More of Heather’s work here.
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Nice article from Miss Heather Mac Donald and its very sad that most African-Americans that follow the je$$ie and $harpton are either to gulliable to know that they are being taken advantage of or they know the truth and want to maintain the privledge of being a “perpetual victim”.
Thanks for a good read this morning prior to class.
This faux victim mentality permeates throughout our country…add to the equation – the illegals.
This just never ends. Seems liberals perpetuate it to their advantage.
I have no sympathy for these so called victims. I have sympathy for citizens that obey laws, pay taxes, and have a moral compass. We are the TRUE victims.
True, Gayle. When you work hard, provide for your family, pay your bills/taxes, and maintain a sense of responsibility for your own actions/morals, you are the “bad guy”.
First, I am not an “absolution-seeking white.” I am someone who doesn’t naively think that racism and double-standards don’t still exist today. The criminal record of Mychal Bell is of little importance to the Jena saga. The problem here is that Justice isn’t blind in Jena.
Should Bell and his accomplices be prosecuted? Of course. But the “boys will boys” standard given to whites in Jena created a terrible precedent that was bound to cause trouble. And here we are.
Jena isn’t about nooses hanging from trees, a stolen shotgun, or even a terrible 6-on-1 assault. It’s about the inequality that blacks face that many deny still exists. That’s why people have to march in Jena.
Does it have the same moral clarity as Rosa Parks? Unfortunately, no. But this is a powerful example of institutional racism that demands the public’s attention.
Bullseye!
Has anyone else noticed that the NAACP isn’t touching the OJ thing with a ten foot pole??? Not to mention that there was just an incident in Norfolk Virginia where a group of black teens randomly attacked a a white teen with what seems to be purely racial motivations. Only Fox News is covering the story as far as I can tell. Where is the NAACP at on this one?
The NAACP is an advocacy organization. They wouldn’t touch bad publicity with a ten-foot pole.
That’s like asking the NRA to condemn every single act of gun violence.
I don’t think that many people can understand that the hanging of the nooses at that school was not something that the kids considered related to lynchings in 1930. I don’t know of a single teen, white or black, who could make this association without help from adults. I am in my 50’s and this was not something that would come to my mind if I saw hanging nooses.
There are several things here that the blacks community needs to digest and try and learn from. First, most whites do not understand or have sympathy for the large number of objects that seem to cause blacks to feel bad. The Confederate flag, for instance, is viewed by most whites in the South as a symbol of freedom lost and the ongoing desire to have that freedom restored, not a symbol of hate by the KKK or repression. If many black would read some history, they may find that the stars and strips were as repressive as any Confederate symbol and this repression is excalating daily. I sat with a black friend and tried to make a list of the things that were uncomfortable for her. The list is massive. At some point, blacks need to put the past behind them. It is pulling them back into slavery and exclusion.
Another problem with the black reaction to this episode is the ready acceptance of violence and anti-social behavior. There are certainly whites who have preformed bad acts in Jena. But the DA chose to act on the blacks because of a long history of crime that these kids had, not just one incident. If my child had been involved in any of the episodes in which these kids participated I would have taken him to the jail myself. Yet the parents of the black thugs can see nothing abnormal about their extensive criminal history. This is pervasive in many black families that I know and is something that black leaders need to address rather than white racism.
You’re kidding, right? The South’s history of lynching combined with the fact that the nooses were only there after some black kids were seen at a white hang-out…any one who doesn’t associate nooses with the intimidation of blacks is kidding themselves.
Those whites are wrong. Freedom lost? You mean the freedom to own slaves? The freedom to rape and kill humans because they’re little more than property? Or the right to start a bloody civil war that killed more Americans than any other war. Frankly, the Confederacy is little more than a more successful version of al-Queda. The Confederacy killed hundreds of thousands of people because they hated the freedom of others. The Stars n Bars represents the rape and murder of innocent humans. Anyone who has any pride in that disgusting flag is the worst kind of human being.
The display of nooses and the Confederate flag are both proof-positive that races in this country aren’t even close to being on even ground. As long as there are two different version of justice based on the color of one’s skin, people must march.
That’s like asking the NRA to condemn every single act of gun violence.
As a matter of fact they do.What they don’t condemn is acts of self-defense while using firearms.
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You hit the nail on the head, and with all the things that an African-American can find offensive, its a wonder that America can have anything at all.
You see, everything can be offensive to some person-some where. It doesn’t matter what it is, and it can range from the idiotic (e.g. being offended at a Bugs Bunny cartoon with Taz in it), to looking for racism where it doesn’t exist (e.g. the airline where a stewardess said eeny-meeny-miny moe, grab a seat we gotta go! and two black passengers complained that the tune had a racial connocation with it), and to the profane of ignoring real racism when it is practiced by members of their own culture while being quick to condem other ethnic groups for any racial indiscretion-real or imagined.
I have been a victim of black on white racism numerous times, and have always taken the high road by not lowering myself down to that level. Its hard, and the urge to retaliate is there-but when it comes down to it I have to face my toughest critic everyday and he looks at me in the mirror.
BTW-The University of Memphis didn’t publish or acknowledge my editorial against the “Jena Six” in today’s student newspaper.
Well done.
There is no question these young men were guilty of a crime involving beating another student unconscious and kicking him while he was out.
Contrast that to the Duke rape case. The race baiters were out in force, with Jesse Jackson even offering financial aid to the alledged “victim”. In the end, the white males accused of the crime were victims themselves, victims of a young black woman who made the whole thing up.
Lives were ruined, careers ruined, yet not a peep out of the race hustlers who wrap themselves in the equal justice banner.
Then there is the case of the Christian/Newsome murders. Perhaps the most henious crime to date of this new century. Torture, rape involving every orafice of both the male and female victims, multilation, and slow death. The black perpetrators have yet to go to trial.
Again, not so much as a peep from the professional race agitators decrying this most vile crime.
Then there was the execution style murders of several young white men and women in Kansas. Kidnapping, rape, torture and an execution style group murder of the nude victims. The perpetrators were not caucasian, nor Asian nor Hispanic nor American Indian. Where were the marches, protests, media and public self flagellation of the Sharptons and Jacksons of the world?
Not only were there no public outcrys of the self appointed protectors of racial equality, the media was absent and silent.
let’s not lose perspective here. There is indeed a difference between the situation in Jena and the Duke, Christian/Newsome and the Kansas cases. In the latter, the victims were white and the perpetrators were black. In the former, the victim was white and the perpetrators were black. No difference you say? The difference is in the Jena case, the assailants are the ones for whom the race hustle is geared. And it is a hustle, when the magic of racial fear which is keep burning by those whose livlihood depend on that fear, turns a criminal into a victim.
My personal view on this is that attempted murder was going too far as a charge for the Jena six. Perhaps there was some discrimination going on, but we cannot be certain unless we compare comparable crimes by whites against blacks and the treatment of the perpetrators in those cases.
In the meantime, Jackson, Sharpton and others in the industry of keeping racial hatred alive have put the US under an international microscope. The press all over the world accepts their word as gospel, and notes how bigoted and racist the US is as a nation. Yet they ignore more glaring and severe instances of flat out racial discrimination around the world – the seizure of land from White citizens in Zimbabwe to be given to black citizens; the slaughter of Christians in the Sudan by Muslims; the land redistribution going on in South Africa which is “Zimbabwe lite”; and on and on. Where are the race police that have appointed themselves international guardians of racial justice?
The hypocracy is incredible.
Well said, and you have provided more examples than most Americans are aware of.
Sad to say, this is the first time I am hearing about the murders in Kansas-can you provide a link for it?
Re South Africa and Zimbabwe…that is not an example of reverse racism. That is an example of people taken back their stolen land. If the American Indian community ever has a coup, can we really blame them for taking their land back?
(And yes I know South Africa and especially Zimbabwe are hopelessly corrupt. I just found that example to be a little weird.)
I think it’s unfair to ask black leaders to condemn every incident of black-on-white violence. Or, heck, every incident of white-on-black violence. Jena isn’t about violence. It’s about equality. Blacks who torture and kill are bound to get the same punishment as whites who torture and kill (well, blacks are more likely to get the death penalty, but that’s a whole ‘nother debate).
Blacks who assault people should get the same punishment as whites who assualt people. That didn’t happen in Jena and there’s the problem.
Rusty, I have foung you interesting and to have some good points although I often disagree. In the threads about the Jena issues your knee-jerking, irrationality is distracting to say the least. Your post at 10:47 shows so much ignorance on so many levels I wouldn’t even begin to know where to start correcting it. For example, if you really sit there as a literate, seemingly intelligence human being in 2007 and honestly think that the American Civil War was primarily about slavery, it is either willful ignorance or a biased perspective so twisted and irrational in the face of reality as to leave no room to reconcile. I’m sad to see the worst of you spew out in these threads.
Rusty,
Unfortunately, you are so far gone – you have bought into the race hustling that the Rev. Sharpton and those like him sell – that it is impossible to have a rational discussion with you.
It is my sincere hope that you will someday open your eyes and begin to think for yourself, look for yourself, and recognize that America is no longer the home of slavery and Jim Crow. It still may not be perfect, but it is far from the racist pit that you seem to think it is.
Jena is not about equality. Jena is the opportunity for the old guard of race baiters led by Jackson, Sharpton, et.al. to try to retain their positions of influence over people who refuse to let go of the victim mentality – and an attempt to indoctrinate as many people of a new generation into that mentality as they possibly can.
In your case, I congratulate them. They have been successful.
I will post no further about this topic, simply because you have proven in this thread and the previous one that your mind is set in stone on this subject. Despite some of your words which say that everything should be the same, most of your words speak just the opposite. Your white man’s guilt will not be relieved until . . . well, I’m not sure that it can ever be relieved.
Good bye Rusty and good luck. I wish that you could find your Utopia somewhere on this earth. More than that, I hope you believe in God, because despite your idealism, you won’t find that Utopia on this world or in this life.
# 9 Rusty, I am with you on this one. (amazing.
But, just to be fair, I believe their were reports that after the nooses were hung from the trees, there were both Black and White kids hanging on them, sticking their heads in them, swinging on them..basically farting around.
I don’t believe the kids that hung these really understood the gravity or background of how horrible the symbol of a noose is/was. It certainly did not help the tensions at the school…but I am not entirely convinced they really knew the weight of this situation, especially given the horseplay surrounding the display.
Just my take on it.
Great stuff. Now, we could use someone (preferably from the “black community”) that would be the opposite of Je$$ie Jerk$on and “The Reverend” Al $harple$$ to come along side of her and agree.
We’re not as far apart as you think. I don’t support the Revs. Jackson and Sharpton any more than you do. (Well, a little more, but not much.) It angers me that any time there is grass roots activism in racial matters, they jump to the foreground and the media goes to them first for sound bites.
And I don’t America is a racist pit. I think that with all of the improvements in race relations in America starting in the 20th Century that some people think the problem is gone. That’s not the case and that’s why I think it’s important to remind people that we still have a long way to go.
As for the Civil War thing, yeah, sorry. I mean, secession didn’t begin until an abolitionist (and a moderate abolitionist at that) was elected to the presidency. I think that serves as pretty concrete evidence that slavery was the defining issue of the Civil War. Sure, economics played a role, but when slavery is the backbone of your economy, it’s hard for me to separate the two. As for “states’ rights,” the states’ rights that they were talking about was the right to own slaves. And the Confederacy made it that much worse by ordering the enslavement of Union black POWs (source). Slavery was clearly the defining issue of a war that killed hundreds of thousands of America. The Confederacy fought to prevent freedom and perpetuate one of the greatest human rights abuses of all time. Which is why the Stars and Bars represent evil in one of its purest forms.
Gunslinger-here is a link to a website on the Kansas murders http://www.wichita-massacre.com/
Rusty – the situation in Zimbabwe and South Africa is not about “stolen” lands. That is an incredibly uniformed and uneducated comment to make.
In pre-colonial times, these “lands” were virtually uninhabited. Under colonial rule, any lands “taken”, as you say, involved compensation to those who might have had claims to them.
The land involved was virtually worthless. With a lot of hard work involving drilling wells, irrigating fields and building a solid infrastructure, these properties became viable agricultural enterprises.
When independence came to Zimbabwe, there was a period of calm. In those early days of Mugabe’s rule, Zimbabwe was the breadbasket of Africa, exporting much more food than it could use domestically. Now, the people of Zimbabwe are starving. Over 2000 farms were seized (and no compensation paid to the former owners) and given to black citizens. The farms fell into ruin.
In South Africa, we are seeing the beginning of much the same thing. While the SA plan involves compensation to the former owners, it is well below the value of the land and improvements. And, if Zimbabwe is any indication, those farms redistributed in SA will soon be in ruins.
Stolen land? Are you serious?
You may want to do a little research on these issues before you speak as an authority rather than looking like a tool for Move On.
Newsome/ Christiansen Murders?
“There can be no really pervasive system of oppression . . . without the consent of the oppressed” Florynce R. Kennedy
‘Bout sums it up for me.
Keep up the good work J. Jerk$on and Al $harple$$
I think a number of you need to look a The War of Northern Aggression and Lincoln in their real light and understand that the fact that we do not have slavery today is an exception in the long history of the human race. In 1860, slavery was morally accepted and legal and both North and South accepted the practice.
You really should look at what we lost as a result of the Union victory and the centralization of our government.
Christian/Newsome Murders:
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/05/17/covering-the-christiannewsom-murders/
http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2007/05/14/media-blackout-on-christian-newsom-murders/
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-070610hatecrime-story,1,6739028.story
http://web.knoxnews.com/pdf/0202body_presentment.pdf
Rusty, (jumping on #23’s comments here)
I don’t mean to impugn the character of our 16th president. I think he was a good man. He was responsible for ending slavery, and yes believed in equality and freedom for all. However, after reading his book Think Anew and Act Anew, in college, in his own words I have to say freeing the slaves seem to have less to do with Freedom and Equality of that particular class than the ultimate exercise of strength of the Federal Government’s over the State. (note, I am not advocating for the South’s attempted secession)
By this I mean, that it was to Lincoln’s ultimate advantage to provide freedom for slaves (not only from a moral perspective-which i believe he did feel strongly about, but from a strategic perspective as well). Their sacrifices contributed greatly to winning the war. Many of them fought as union soldiers, suffered and died alongside free men.
I do not doubt for a second that Lincoln was not a fan of slavery, but considering it was not the social stigma it is today and had it not been for the South’s attempts to secede from the union, would he have started a Civil War because of it? I am not entirely sure.
It is not a subject up for debate that ending slavery was the right thing to do. To place a human in those conditions are deplorable on any level. Any human being worth their salt would tell you slavery is an absolutely dispicable act.
It would just be my honest opinion that the Civil War was more about the Federal Government’s exercise of power over the South, ending slavery was a secondary.
I agree that the Union, especially in the early stages of the war, was more concerned with maintaining a strong federal government than with the abolition of slavery. Lincoln was no saint on the issue of slavery.
But the election of a moderate abolitionist was the cause of secession. Which is why the Confederacy is evil and the Stars and Bars are a national disgrace. It’s perfectly reasonable for blacks and anyone else with a sense of right and wrong, to be disgusted by someone showing pride for the Confederate flag.
I’m loving this threadjack, btw.
I would have to say the sight of the confederate flag would have to depend on the context in which it is being flown. It sounds strange, I know…but many southerners do consider this as Southern Pride not to promote the oppression of slavery. The south has changed a lot. I may not understand it but people from the south insist they can love Ol’ Dixie and Not Slavery…the two according to them, are not mutually exclusive.
I find the Nazi Flag, Che Guevera T-Shirts, USSR sports attire (like that A$$HAT figure skater this last winter Olympics) much more offensive than the confederate flag waving above a Southerners home. I may not a fan of it, but I could not necessarily concede to your views that it is EVIL and ALL ABOUT SLAVERY.
It’s coming out of your ears.
I’m not loving the hijack. Rusty you have been proven wrong time and again in the Jena threads. You have also now reminded me of why I gave up trying to talk to liberals. It wasn’t until these threads that I realized the level of willful ignorance you maintain to sustain your world view. The only thing I can remotely enjoy about the hijack is that you have wandered into a subject matter on which I am so well versed and educated that I can smell it on your shoes every time you log into the thread. I’ll leave the thread with the words two others posted to you, both of whom appear to share my opinion on the uselessness of this “Rusty ‘look what I can do’ thread”
Jim M-
Thanks for the link and information. I’ll print up the 80 page later on and read it between class.
GSP
People representing the Stars and Bars have killed more Americans than the Nazis, Cubans, and Soviets combined. We can throw Islamic terrorists in there for good measure too.
Flying the Confederate Flag is more unpatriotic than any MoveOn ad could ever hope to be.
And deepdiver, you can’t say I’ve been “proven wrong” and use no evidence. I mean, there’s a clear difference of opinion here. What am I being ignorant about? What have I been proven wrong about? Are you saying that race relations in America are hunky dorey? Or that I’m making stuff up?
Disagreement, no matter how strongly you feel about something, does not mean I have been “proven wrong.”
I understand the anger over the Revs. Jackson and Sharpton and I sympathize with people who are upset that people are marching to defend people involved in a nasty assault.
But I refuse to accept that hanging nooses isn’t a racial threat. And I refuse to accept that the situation in Jena was handled properly.
It’s official, you’re retarded. I am going to take deepdiver’s lead, as i should have to begin with.
Sorry. Couldn’t resist after reading Rusty’s absurd last post.
People! Please don’t feed the troll!
Ok. Way off topic now but have to defend my comment.
US-Soviet war fatalities: 0
US-Cuban war fatalities: 115 (Cuban exiles in the Bay of Pigs, but I’m feeling charitable)
US WWII fatalities in the European theatre: apx. 175,000. I admit my research is dodgy here. Help here would be appreciated.
American fatalities caused by Islamic terrorism: 3,000+ (WTC attacks 1 and 2, USS Cole, Beirut)
So, let’s round up to 180,000.
US Civil War fatalities: apx. 618,000
Now, to be fair, many of those 618,000 could have been saved with contemporary medical technology. So, let’s do this:
US Civil War KIA: apx. 203,000
It’s still pretty close.
So, no, not retarded. Trolling a little, but only because I have to defend what I’m saying.
The exact numbers are unimportant. What’s important is that being annoyed at stupid college kids wearing Che shirts, stupid figure skaters wearing CCCP gear, and/or stupid racists brandishing swastikas while not being annoyed at the Confederate flag shows a stunning disconnect between what we find acceptable and the cold, hard facts.
Rusty, go ahead and continue to hang your self with your stupidity rope – It appears you have provided your self with PLEANTY of slack on the last post.
Go back to sleep and have a nice nap.
Is the MAN holding Colin Powel down, or Condi? How about Justice Thomas, and Michel Vick? I am sick of reading that crap from so many folks.
Those nice young black, held down by the man boys, need the Rev. Big Al.
“You boys better learn to rap, or hoops, or something.” Coach Carter.
Feebie, this is what you get for agreeing with me on comment #17. I get the feeling that won’t happen again any time soon
Rusty, it seems to have escaped your notice that you are comparing foreign countries (Cuba, Germany, Russia) to the CSA, which consisted of AMERICANS attempting to secede from the Union and prevented from doing so by a Civil War.
Attempted secession didn’t make them “foreigners” to the North any more than Shiite Iraqis fighting Sunni Iraqis are to “foreigners” each other.
In any case you are wrong about the Russians killing no Americans during the Cold War. Remember KAL 007? Remember the AF recon planes shot down in that same area of the North Pacific and Turkey? Remember the Russian weapons, materiel, planes , etc. supplied to North VietNam and North Korea, when the Russkis made proxy war against us?
And of course, there are the hundreds of billions of dollars spent SO THAT the Russians could notattack and kill us by the millions.
Conceptually and factually, your point –whatever it was —-doesn’t hold up.
Rusty,
I am not going to get into a long discourse as it would not help. Just to say you need to read, alot. And try not to read the liberal junk and the Lincoln religious books.
So then – if I’m following this – it’s OK to beat people up?
And the white kids with the nooses driving by the bus station were arrested for inciting a riot according to the report I saw.
So, um, kids arrested for beating someone up, kids arrested for inciting a riot with symbols of murder and oppression – isn’t that the way this is supposed to work? And then ultimately a jury decides?
I have been reading some of the links Jim M. has put out-definately something to ponder about folks.
Libs-don’t dismiss them because the links are being posted by a conservative.
Rusty, you are attempting to guess or divine other people’s intentions and even “feelings”. There is plenty of overt racism by African-Americans in the USA without making up today’s reality from past behaviors by a few people. Only about 3% owned slaves back in the 1800s including quite a few negroes themselves and many from the New England states.
The confederate flag represents a type of rebellion from the paternity imposed by liberals in general and northerners in particular. The Civil War was fought on the main for economic reasons; again imposed in the form of tarriffs. The south wanted to trade directly with England and the north wanted a piece of the action.
Well, DD, if you’ve tried to talk with the libs you likely know Rusty’s problem. As with other liberals (with few exceptions) what’s happening is the confusing of emotions with facts. Liberals very typically make the strange relativistic equation: “how I feel = material fact”.
This is very clearly displayed in this bizarre bit of relativism:
To Rusty, some idiot kids putting a few nooses in a tree = a gang of thugs beating and kicking a human being unconscious.
Actually, I noted that fact in the comments of the previous Jena entry. This thug is a 4 time loser – had he been put in prison for his previous crimes he wouldn’t have been running free to assault more innocent people.
Marxism is now the mainstream.
Purlepeep, I am not equating hanging nooses with assault (although, frankly, I think the nooses are worse since they are meant to invoke terror). I am, however, equating the six blacks on one white assault with the assault of a black student who tried attending a white party. The assailants there were charged only with misdemeanors.
That’s a pretty easy comparison, no?
I for one am proud of the Confederate flag.
So shoot me.
I was going to leave you all to your happy denial-fest on racism. But I couldn’t do it.
You are the most insensitive people I have encountered. You want to look at effect without looking at cause.
You think that the onging campaign of making Black people out to be some kind of demons is fun?
Well it wasn’t our ancestors who tried to write your ancestors out of history.
It wasn’t our ancestors who were savages, there aren’t sories on every continent in the world that say Blacks (Africans) went around the world raping and pillaging.
Then presenting people with a god that looks like someone else.
I think you all really need to do your work around your emotions tied to race.
An Heather needs to look at statistics from the 50’s and 60’s before we gave our children over to a system that cares not about their well being.
As a matter of fact if you have no compassion about the plight of our youth – then stop taking jobs dealing with them – oh I forgot exploitation is an acceptable industry with you people. And the bottom line is money.
There is plenty of evidence of grave cruelties on the part of your ancestors toward Blacks and every other race on the planet.
Heather states that she knows of no evidence of Blacks being treated unfairly in the criminal justice system.
Well I’m not sure what rock she is living under but we can go back 100’s of years with evidence.
The funny thing is if we don’t address these issues by the time the population of the U. S. (you all are so arrogant you say Americans) gets to where you are minorities – your children could suffer greatly.
And I am not one to believe in vengeance but there are plenty of other Blacks and Hispanics who won’t have a problem with that.
So if you believe in God (that’s not the bible by the way) then you will work with current minorities to make sure we build a better paradigm for the future.
Rod