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BlackAmerica's Real Problem Isn't White RacismPatBuchanan In the aftermath of the acquittal of GeorgeZimmerman, Eric Holder, Al Sharpton and Ben Jealous of the NAACP are calling onthe black community to rise up in national protest. Yet they know — and Barack Obama, whosesilence speaks volumes, knows — nothing is going to happen. "Stand-Your-Ground" laws inFlorida and other states are not going to be repealed. George Zimmerman is notgoing to be prosecuted for a federal "hate crime" in the death ofTrayvon Martin. The result of all this ginned-up rage thathas produced vandalism and violence is simply going to be an ever-deepeningracial divide. Consider the matter of crime and fear ofcrime. From listening to cable channels and hearingHolder, Sharpton, Jealous and others, one would think the great threat to blackchildren today emanates from white vigilantes and white cops. Hence, every black father must have a"conversation" with his son, warning him not to resist or run ifpulled over or hassled by a cop. Make the wrong move, son, and you may bedead is the implication. But is this the reality in Black America? When Holder delivered his 2009"nation-of-cowards" speech blaming racism for racial separation,Manhattan Institute's Heather Mac Donald suggested that our attorney generalstudy his crime statistics. In New York from January to June 2008, 83percent of all gun assailants were black, according to witnesses and victims,though blacks were only 24 percent of the population. Blacks and Hispanicstogether accounted for 98 percent of all gun assailants. Forty-nine of every 50muggings and murders in the Big Apple were the work of black or Hispaniccriminals. New York Police Commissioner Ray Kellyconfirms Mac Donald's facts. Blacks and Hispanics commit 96 percent of allcrimes in the city, he says, but only 85 percent of the stop-and-frisks are ofblacks and Hispanics. And these may involve the kind of pat-downsall of us have had at the airport. Is stop-and-frisk the work of racist cops inNew York, where the crime rate has been driven down to levels unseen indecades? According to Kelly, a majority of his policeforce, which he has been able to cut from 41,000 officers to 35,000, is nowmade up of minorities. But blacks are also, per capita, theprincipal victims of crime. Would black fathers prefer their sons to grow up inChicago, rather than low-crime New York City, with its stop-and-frisk policy? Fernando Mateo, head of the New York taxicabunion, urges his drivers to profile blacks and Hispanics for their own safety:"The God's honest truth is that 99 percent of the people that are robbing,stealing, killing these drivers are blacks and Hispanics." Mateo is what The New York Times woulddescribe as "a black Hispanic" Yet he may be closer to the 'hood thanHolder, who says he was stopped by police when running to a movie — inGeorgetown. Which raises a relevant question. Georgetownis an elitist enclave of a national capital that has been ruled by black mayorsfor half a century. It's never had a white mayor. Is Holder saying we've got racist cops inthe district where Obama carried 86 percent of the white vote and 97 percent ofthe black vote? And his son should fear the white cops in Washington, D.C.? What about interracial crime, white-on-blackattacks and the reverse? After researching the FBI numbers for"Suicide of a Superpower," this writer concluded: "An analysisof 'single offender victimization figures' from the FBI for 2007 finds blackscommitted 433,934 crimes against whites, eight times the 55,685 whitescommitted against blacks. Interracial rape is almost exclusively black on white— with 14,000 assaults on white women by African Americans in 2007. Not onecase of a white sexual assault on a black female was found in the FBIstudy." Though blacks are outnumbered 5-to-1 in thepopulation by whites, they commit eight times as many crimes against whites asthe reverse. By those 2007 numbers, a black male was 40 times as likely toassault a white person as the reverse. If interracial crime is the ugliestmanifestation of racism, what does this tell us about where racism reallyresides — in America? And if the FBI stats for 2007 represent anaverage year since the Tawana Brawley rape-hoax of 1987, over one-third of amillion white women have been sexually assaulted by black males since 1987 —with no visible protest from the civil rights leadership. Today, 73 percent of all black kids are bornout of wedlock. Growing up, these kids drop out, use drugs, are unemployed,commit crimes and are incarcerated at many times the rate of Asians and whites— or Hispanics, who are taking the jobs that used to go to young blackAmericans. Are white vigilantes or white cops reallyBlack America's problem? Obama seems not to think so. The Rev.Sharpton notwithstanding, he is touting Ray Kelly as a possible chief ofhomeland security. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of "Suicide of a Superpower: WillAmerica Survive to 2025?" To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and readfeatures by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators webpageat www.creators.com.
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