With this objective in mind, some facts:
Blacks accounted for half the murders in America in 2011. They are 13-14% of the population which means
that their murder rate is about six or seven times greater than the murder rate
of the larger, mostly white population.
If one wishes to deal with violence in America, be it gun violence or
other forms of personal violence, one needs to address the violence in black
America and not whitewash it into a broader problem.
So where would you go to address gun and personal violence
in America? Minneapolis, MN; Newtown, CT
or Chicago, IL?
We could go on with statistics about black children having
children – about black education results versus white education results – about
black incarceration rates versus white incarceration results – about black
youth unemployment and job preparedness and even more. We could talk about black children in homes
without discipline or two parents or positive educational and developmental
environments but we all know the facts.
They are simply depressing. Few
wish to even enter sections of Detroit or Chicago or Philadelphia or Los Angeles
and many other neighborhoods and communities in America. In many forms, the desperation of the old
south has simply relocated to violent domiciles in America’s northern ghettos.
Who/what will change America’s black problems? Is it possible to think, much less suggest,
that America’s first black president would face a problem squarely – head
on? And if not, why not? Why would America’s first black president
define a problem as something different from what it is? Why can’t Obama and his neighbors – Jackson and
Farrakhan deal with their own neighborhood; their own community? Why do they always make their problem
someone else’s problem?
What we just wrote above is not a rhetorical set of
questions. We cannot grasp why President
Obama chooses to make America’s black problem a much broader, country wide
problem and so we ask the question, “Minneapolis, Newtown or Chicago?”
Why does he whitewash America’s black problem? Be it guns or employment or education or
family values or the broader societal issue of discipline? Does he really believe that whitewashing the
truth – making it something it isn’t; works?
Does he believe money will solve this problem? If so, he is facing decades of evidence to
the contrary which means he is simply wrong.
Which also could mean he is afraid to face facts – perhaps, because he
has no answer? Perhaps because his rhetoric combined with David
Axelrod’s propaganda just plain works in getting votes and that is all he
really cares about? We hope not.
Whitewashing America’s black problem is neither an answer
nor a temporary solution. The evidence
to date would suggest that what we are doing is just making America’s problem
worse. And President Obama is selling
out the principal component of his electoral coalition because he is simply
afraid to face facts. We know of no
problem that has ever been solved by whitewashing it.
“Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson
and relatives of victims of fatal shootings in Chicago urged President Barack
Obama on Saturday to come back to his hometown and address the gun violence
plaguing the city.” See: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-crime-chicagobre91200x-20130202,0,2230435.story
"My greatest fear about the gun
violence in Chicago is that we're adjusting to it," he said.
Jackson is partially right – we have
“adjusted to” not only gun violence but the entire societal decline of large
portions of America’s urban black society.
He is wrong in thinking that a politician will solve the problem. Politicians throw other people’s money at
problems and then go home and ask their propagandists to spin a good
story.
Whitewashing is propaganda – fear based avoidance of facing
a real problem head on. Propaganda and
political correctness are no substitute for leadership – for discipline – for responsibility.
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