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| We're Not Allowed to be Honest About Black Crime‐So We May End Up with A Crazy Black Lady President |
| 2020-05-30 |
| [UNZ] America’s most enduring problem, the problem of the blacks, has been dominating the news this week. The attitude I bring to these news stories is one of weary despair. They are reported and discussed publicly in language that bears very little relation to reality, so that most of what is said and written is worthless. To speak honestly about race is in fact taboo, and genuinely shocking, for most Americans. Here’s an example. Back in 2016 a black man in Charlotte, North Carolina was shot dead by a cop, also black. There were protests, riots, vandalism, and looting. A Republican local congressman, Robert Pittenger, said the following thing: The grievance in their minds—the animus, the anger—they hate white people, because white people are successful and they’re not. Nailed it, Congressman. But of course, Pittenger was denounced by all the Great and the Good, and to save his career, issued a groveling retraction. I’ve been living in America since the second Nixon administration, with some intermissions. For many years I assumed that this clinging to unreality could not be stable; that truth and honesty would eventually prevail; that we’d learn to speak to each other openly and frankly, citizen to citizen. To my dismay and despair, the opposite has happened. As the years pass, we drift further and further from reality and truth, deeper and deeper into fantasy and denial. It’s very depressing; like being in a plane that’s lost all power and is just going down, down, down. I love this country; I have two kids who will live out their lives here. Yet it’s hard to see any hope for America when the landscape of social commentary is smothered in shallow lies and infantile delusions. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #16 Thought we were done with tests and interpretive X-spurts |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-05-30 17:19 |
| #15 IMO, RJ, if you have a country where one group (90% of population) has an average IQ of 100*, and another group (10% of population) has an average IQ of 80 - that country is better be damn clear about the difference between equality of opportunity and equality of outcomes. *Guess who invented IQ tests? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-05-30 16:07 |
| #14 Read somewhere recently that one of the problems in the black community is they spend rather than save so there is nothing to pass along to the next generation which ensures every generations starts at zero. This doesn't happen in more successful cultures that save to help their kids have a better life. Anyway I thought that was interesting. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-05-30 15:12 |
| #13 The last Americans to be slaves were white. Don't let facts get in the way of your 10 minutes of state sponsored hate. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-05-30 15:07 |
| #12 #3 Cornel West traces US unrest to Obama's failures: black faces in high places couldn't deliver Funny, that was the same major conclusion that Stephan Tgernstrim and other historians came to about the 1960s urban riots: the Johnson administration and the mainstream Civil Rights movement raised young urban blacks' expectations beyond reasonable levels. When they didn't see a major change in their personal living situations, they turned to violence and looting. Thernstrim in 1998: [The Kerner Commission] report does not satisfactorily answer the elementary question of why the riots occurred when and where they did. Because the commission took for granted that the riots were the fault of white racism, it would have been awkward to have had to confront the question of why liberal Detroit blew up while Birmingham and other southern cities -- where conditions for blacks were infinitely worse -- did not. Likewise, if the problem was white racism, why didn't the riots occur in the 1930s, when prevailing white racial attitudes were far more barbaric than they were in the 1960s? |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-30 14:44 |
| #11 Cornel West traces US unrest to Obama failures: 'Black faces in high places' couldn't deliver Skidmark I would say "wouldn't Deliver". They were too busy stuffing their pockets with taxpayer money and selling influence. Look at Maxine Waters. Many others. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2020-05-30 14:33 |
| #10 @ #8 - As if no one else but blacks had ever been enslaved throughout history slave from "Slav" And weren't there a few slave Scots and/or Irish in the Caribbean? |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-05-30 14:24 |
| #9 Ron Unz was excommunicated long ago. He's a free man |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-30 14:12 |
| #8 I get so tired hearing about "400 years of oppression" and all that. The ultimate in victim mentality. As if no one else but blacks had ever been enslaved throughout history. As if Louis Farrakhan's co-religionists hadn't enslaved countless Europeans through the centuries. As if Africans themselves hadn't profited enormously from the African slave trade. Unz should be careful, though. The first people to go after him on this will be his "fellow conservatives". |
| Posted by: charger 2020-05-30 13:14 |
| #7 ^ learned that lesson over 40 years ago. Denial + virtue-signaling + politically-correct BS is what this country forces as a kind of restitution payment from current generations of Americans for the sins of a small % of the antebellum US population |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-30 12:49 |
| #6 You can be as honest as you want to be about minority involvement in crime. If you like your job, etc., it's probably a good idea to keep your thoughts to yourself. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-30 12:39 |
| #5 I get so tired hearing about "400 years of oppression" and all that. The ultimate in victim mentality. I bet if you asked ANY of those rioters to provide individual examples of "oppression" or "discrimination", you would probably get the blank-stare look. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-05-30 11:54 |
| #4 1965: Watts Riots - 34 killed 1967: Detroit Riots - 43 killed 1967: Newark Riots - 23 killed 1982: Miami Riots 1991: Crown Heights NY - 1 killed 1991: Washington DC Riots 1992: LA Riots - 63 killed 1999: Seattle Riots 2014: Ferguson MO Riots 2015: Baltimore Riots 2016: Charlotte Riot 2016-17: Riots across US (Portland, Chicago, Sacramento, Oakland, St. Louis...) 2020: Minneapolis Riots and now also Atlanta, Detroit, Denver... Really getting tired of this kak. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-30 11:50 |
| #3 Cornel West traces US unrest to Obama failures: 'Black faces in high places' couldn't deliver |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-05-30 11:28 |
| #2 Trump warns White House protesters would have been met by 'vicious dogs', 'ominous weapons' if they breached fence |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-05-30 11:24 |
#1  I love this country; I have two kids who will live out their lives here. Yet it’s hard to see any hope for America when the landscape of social commentary is smothered in shallow lies and infantile delusions.UNZ Review paranoid racist babble! "Hope & Change" as well as lasting peace are coming. You'll see. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-05-30 08:12 |