Black mans burden read the headline in the Los Angeles Times piece. African-American men read the subheading are still often judged by the color of their skin rather than the content of their character.
It must be MLK Day.
This is when the guilt-ridden blame-seeking personal-responsibility-avoiding racism-under-every-rock oh-so-sympathetic victicrat media tell us about Martin Luther Kings unfinished legacy. Never mind that America two years ago elected a black president.
Racism is like that Judy Belk wrote. A dripping faucet of sorts. You ignore it until you cant anymore. As proof of todays dripping faucet of racism Belk gives three examples.
First she warned her son then 13 to be wary of strange-acting folks when riding on Oaklands BART rapid transit system. Her son however told her that riders assumed him to be in the category of strange-acting folks. I just noticed he said the last couple of times I was on BART I could feel I was making several white women nervous when I sat near them. ... I could just tell. Her son says Belk was being ... stereotyped! Racism!
News bulletin: The crimes committed by a minority of young blacks affect how others -- of all races -- view the majority of law-abiding young blacks. And Oakland is one of Americas most crime-ridden cities with a disproportionately large amount of the crime committed by young black men. And though a lot of crime is same-race crime when it is black-white interracial by an overwhelming margin the perps are black and the victims are white.
By their early 30s 3.2 percent of white males have been imprisoned while 22.4 percent of black males -- nearly 1 in 4 -- have spent time behind bars. Yes people find young black men especially if they look and dress like Coolio scarier than old white men who look and dress like Bob Newhart. Weird.
Jesse Jackson once told an interviewer that when hearing footsteps behind him while walking down a street at night he is relieved if he turns to see the sound is coming from white feet.
Michelle Obama when asked whether she worried about the safety of her then-presidential candidate husband said I dont lose sleep over it because the realities are that you know as a black man you know Barack can get shot going to the gas station. She probably didnt mean a gas station in Beverly Hills.
Second Belk said that her 6-foot-5-inch son then 16 stormed into the house complaining to no one in particular: Why does everyone assume that just because Im black I play basketball? Thats just plain racist. Sure while his height was undoubtedly part of the equation it wasnt all of it (emphasis added). Whats the rest of the equation? That a lot of black men who are tall dont play basketball -- and its racist to assume that they do? Oh where have you gone Rosa Parks?!
Third Belks son then starting graduate studies at the University of North Carolina and her husband were victims of racial profiling on a road considered treacherous territory for black men: The night he and my husband arrived in town to move him into his new apartment they were stopped on the interstate by the police allegedly for not moving to the outer lane when passing a police car that had stopped another driver. ... Like it or not racial profiling still plays into many law enforcement decisions. Racism case closed!!!
Police departments in many major cities have long required cops to write down the race of those stopped as well as the race of the cop doing the stopping. In some cases cops do indeed stop a disproportionate number of black motorists -- compared with their percentage of actual drivers. Does this show illegal racial profiling as opposed to cops focusing on high-crime areas or cops responding to the very behavior of the drivers stopped?
New Jersey state troopers during the late 90s were accused of illegally profiling black drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike. At the request of the U.S. Justice Department the state commissioned an independent study to find out why troopers stopped so many black motorists. It turned out that black drivers drove faster than white drivers -- and the faster the speed the more likely the driver was black. The Justice Department citing flawed methodology refused to accept the study. New Jersey commissioned a second study. Same result.
More to the point Belk writes My husband told me he was glad to have been there to model ... how to behave during a police stop something every black man needs to be prepared to handle. Exactly. Behave appropriately and so will the cops the occasional bad apple aside.
Belk is right. There are certain things every young black person needs to be prepared to handle. And one of them is this: learning to reject newspaper articles relatives friends teachers and the media that are determined to convince them that they remain forever victims. Now more than ever hard work drive and focus win the race.
Larry Elder: A firebrand libertarian" according to Daily Variety best-selling author radio and TV talk show host Larry Elder has a take-no-prisoners style using such old-fashioned things as evidence and logic. ©Creators Syndicate
Black mans burden read the headline in the Los Angeles Times piece. African-American men read the subheading are still often judged by the color of their skin rather than the content of their character.
It must be MLK Day.
This is when the guilt-ridden blame-seeking personal-responsibility-avoiding racism-under-every-rock oh-so-sympathetic victicrat media tell us about Martin Luther Kings unfinished legacy. Never mind that America two years ago elected a black president.
Racism is like that Judy Belk wrote. A dripping faucet of sorts. You ignore it until you cant anymore. As proof of todays dripping faucet of racism Belk gives three examples.
First she warned her son then 13 to be wary of strange-acting folks when riding on Oaklands BART rapid transit system. Her son however told her that riders assumed him to be in the category of strange-acting folks. I just noticed he said the last couple of times I was on BART I could feel I was making several white women nervous when I sat near them. ... I could just tell. Her son says Belk was being ... stereotyped! Racism!
News bulletin: The crimes committed by a minority of young blacks affect how others -- of all races -- view the majority of law-abiding young blacks. And Oakland is one of Americas most crime-ridden cities with a disproportionately large amount of the crime committed by young black men. And though a lot of crime is same-race crime when it is black-white interracial by an overwhelming margin the perps are black and the victims are white.
By their early 30s 3.2 percent of white males have been imprisoned while 22.4 percent of black males -- nearly 1 in 4 -- have spent time behind bars. Yes people find young black men especially if they look and dress like Coolio scarier than old white men who look and dress like Bob Newhart. Weird.
Jesse Jackson once told an interviewer that when hearing footsteps behind him while walking down a street at night he is relieved if he turns to see the sound is coming from white feet.
Michelle Obama when asked whether she worried about the safety of her then-presidential candidate husband said I dont lose sleep over it because the realities are that you know as a black man you know Barack can get shot going to the gas station. She probably didnt mean a gas station in Beverly Hills.
Second Belk said that her 6-foot-5-inch son then 16 stormed into the house complaining to no one in particular: Why does everyone assume that just because Im black I play basketball? Thats just plain racist. Sure while his height was undoubtedly part of the equation it wasnt all of it (emphasis added). Whats the rest of the equation? That a lot of black men who are tall dont play basketball -- and its racist to assume that they do? Oh where have you gone Rosa Parks?!
Third Belks son then starting graduate studies at the University of North Carolina and her husband were victims of racial profiling on a road considered treacherous territory for black men: The night he and my husband arrived in town to move him into his new apartment they were stopped on the interstate by the police allegedly for not moving to the outer lane when passing a police car that had stopped another driver. ... Like it or not racial profiling still plays into many law enforcement decisions. Racism case closed!!!
Police departments in many major cities have long required cops to write down the race of those stopped as well as the race of the cop doing the stopping. In some cases cops do indeed stop a disproportionate number of black motorists -- compared with their percentage of actual drivers. Does this show illegal racial profiling as opposed to cops focusing on high-crime areas or cops responding to the very behavior of the drivers stopped?
New Jersey state troopers during the late 90s were accused of illegally profiling black drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike. At the request of the U.S. Justice Department the state commissioned an independent study to find out why troopers stopped so many black motorists. It turned out that black drivers drove faster than white drivers -- and the faster the speed the more likely the driver was black. The Justice Department citing flawed methodology refused to accept the study. New Jersey commissioned a second study. Same result.
More to the point Belk writes My husband told me he was glad to have been there to model ... how to behave during a police stop something every black man needs to be prepared to handle. Exactly. Behave appropriately and so will the cops the occasional bad apple aside.
Belk is right. There are certain things every young black person needs to be prepared to handle. And one of them is this: learning to reject newspaper articles relatives friends teachers and the media that are determined to convince them that they remain forever victims. Now more than ever hard work drive and focus win the race.
Larry Elder: A firebrand libertarian" according to Daily Variety best-selling author radio and TV talk show host Larry Elder has a take-no-prisoners style using such old-fashioned things as evidence and logic. ©Creators Syndicate
