All cultures are not equal. The fact of a black socioeconomic disparity is obvious. While I do not deny the continued existence of white anti-black racism, I contend that such racism to no longer a major contributing factor. However, while I do not deny that Mother Nature may well be a racist, such is life, sue her, the major cause of the black socioeconomic disparity is chronically dysfunctional culture, from rom Shelby Steele, Wall Street Journal:
The civil rights community and the liberal media live by the poetic truth that America is still a reflexively racist society, and that this remains the great barrier to black equality. But this “truth” has a lot of lie in it. America has greatly evolved since the 1960s. There are no longer any respectable advocates of racial segregation. And blacks today are nine times more likely to be killed by other blacks than by whites.
If Trayvon Martin was a victim of white racism (hard to conceive since the shooter is apparently Hispanic), his murder would be an anomaly, not a commonplace. It would be a bizarre exception to the way so many young black males are murdered today. If there must be a generalization in all this—a call “to turn the moment into a movement”—it would have to be a movement against blacks who kill other blacks. The absurdity of Messrs. Jackson and Sharpton is that they want to make a movement out of an anomaly. Black teenagers today are afraid of other black teenagers, not whites
A media inspired judicial lynching of George Zimmerman will do nothing to solve the problems besetting the black population.
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