And there are real leaders out there, if they will follow them. People like Tim Scott, Mia Love, Ben Carson, Condi Rice (yes, Condi Rice), and others. But they are not being listened to by the majority of “their community”. We are hearing talk of White House summits on race relations coming out of Ferguson, but the real truth is that whites and “white oppression”: aren’t anywhere near the top of the list of the struggles that the black community faces today. Here is an article in National Review that discuses some of them:
The recent White House summit regarding the events in Ferguson was held to address (as New York mayor Bill de Blasio put it) the “scourge” of killings by police of blacks.
According to a study by USA Today, an average of 96 blacks are killed by white cops per year. Last year, 6,000 blacks were murdered by other blacks — more than 60 times the number of blacks killed by white cops. Time for another White House summit?
In 2013, 409 whites were murdered by blacks. Summit?
The figures below suggest the White House also may want to consider summits on black unemployment, educational achievement, single motherhood, household income, poverty rates, and school discipline — just to name a few concerns that have an impact on American blacks at least as profound as blacks being killed by white cops.
I have been saying for some time now that you need to look at the results that are coming from the policies of the Democrat Party to really understand what their overall goals and motivations are. The black on black homicide rate is appalling. In raw numbers black kill about as many other blacks as whites kill other whites. In raw numbers. Blacks are 12% of the population, more or less, and whites are 72% of the population, more or less. That the raw numbers are anywhere in the same order of magnitude of each other is appalling. But you can’t mention this without getting called a “racist” by the Left. Concern for the lives of young black males, and a desire to spare them, is racism today, according to the Left. It is mind-blowing when you write it out. You have to think, WTF? No, that can’t be. But it is the effect of the dialog that we have on race coming from the Left. The Article goes on:
How about a summit on how the president’s unlawful executive order granting amnesty to 5 million illegal aliens will drive up black unemployment and poverty figures? Maybe a summit on the effect on black employment created by Obamacare’s $3,000 incentive for hiring the newly amnestied immigrants over American workers? How about a summit the worst labor-force participation rates in 40 years?
This is a biggie. The Left blame the homicide rate in the black community on the poverty rate in the black community, and there is some correlation there (but remember, correlation is not causation, one of the many fallacies that the Left use to forward their argument). One of the key factors in poverty is unemployment. If you don’t have a job, you can’t get the money to support yourself to get the training and education that it takes to get a better job. This is, theoretically, where the Welfare State can step in and give a helping hand to help those in poverty up out of their condition. That isn’t, of course, how it works in practice. Maybe we need a summit on that. He concludes:
The White House Ferguson summit will do nothing to improve the lot of Americans, regardless of race. It was a sham wrapped in a fraud inside a photo op. The perfect event for an unserious media and an unserious president.
And that is the truth. What the black community needs right now is not more seminars for white police officers to teach them how to better coddle young thugs when they are trying to question them on their participation in a strong-arm robbery, or even just ask them to quit blocking traffic (there is no Civil Right to walk in the street and block traffic, after all). That won’t help the black community with its real problems at all. White racism isn’t what is keeping the black community down, nor is it what is killing their youth. We need to move past that dialog, both black and white, and focus on the real problems, which are truly appalling.