Let’s change the scenario a tad.
George Zimmerman pockets his pistol in the early evening and
heads out on his nightly rounds to protect the citizens of his
neighborhood. Patrolling just a short
while he encounters a stranger. Given that his area has been the target of
recent burglaries and has one of the highest crime rates in the nation, he is
super diligent. He approaches the stranger. The stranger is a blond haired,
blue eyed, Nordic youth named Thor who is whistling show tunes. (Fill in what
you think would happen next….)
But he didn’t, he came across a black youth in a hoodie
named Trayvon who was not much interested in carrying on a conversation with a
“crazy ass cracker.” We all know what happened after that.
Yes, George Zimmerman profiled, by race, Trayvon Martin. SO WHAT? We all do it.
If you were leaving a movie theater late at night and to get
to your car you had a choice of going down an alley with 5 black kids, pants at
half mast, playing heavy rap music and speaking in a language you believe just may
be English.
OR
An alley with 5 kids that just came out of a meeting of the
sons of Norway ,
wearing cardigan sweaters and whistling show tunes. Which way do you choose?
Either way you are racial profiling.
I would go the Norway
route, and so would most people I know, both black and white. I don’t know the
black kids, but I racially profiled them.
I know by reading the newspaper and listening to news broadcasts that
more people are robbed; raped and murdered by black kids, pants at half mast
playing heavy rap music and speaking in a language I believe just may be English than kids that
just came out of a meeting of the sons of Norway, wearing cardigan sweaters and
whistling show tunes.
Why did Zimmerman think Martin posed a greater potential threat
than our Norwegian friend? Because statistically
Martin did pose a greater threat.
Do people generally think of the Irish as smart,
industrious? Do they generalize Asian as
lazy and not too smart? The generalization of people and their good and bad
characteristics comes from something.
There were 49 people shot (11 killed) on the south side of Chicago
last St ’ Patrick’s day. There
were no shooting/murders in Barrington Hills , Il Chicago ’s
South side.) There were also no shooting
in Bridgeport , the old Irish
section of the city.
Today, if I had to pick a group of kids to start a
basketball team I would pick as many blacks as I could find. If I were asked to
start a street gang I would also pick as may blacks as I could find.
We stereotype people based on their previous actions. If blacks want to change the profile they
must change the actions.
Anytime anybody writes anything
about race they can get themselves in deep trouble, but this ignoring the
elephant in the room has gone on long enough; somebody has to address the
issue. Blacks are profiled because black crime rate is seven times
higher than the white crime rate, so that’s the way
to bet. When the police look for people involved in criminal activity, they are
going to look for the kind of people listed in their previous crime reports.
The question that nobody is asking is “WHY?” Why are blacks the “go to” race when looking
for the bad guy. How did they get this “profile? What has happened to the
African-American, and ever increasingly, the Hispanics, in America
today? I have my theory. The Liberal philosophy of making the poor all wards of
the state is obviously a major contributor to the decline of the minority
family, but I also believe there is something more sinister at work. I place
the blame squarely on the shoulders of the black leaders. The Jesse Jacksons,
Al Sharptons, Charlie Rangels, NAACP, et. al.
The black leaders over the last few decades have made their living
by making victims of those of color. The leaders spew the venom that blacks can
never expect to make anything of themselves when they were brought over here to
a strange land by white slavers (Fact: most slavers were black). Black leaders make
it sound as if the black race arrived on America ’s
shore last Tuesday at five PM . They pound the point that, “the man has kept
you down ever since, and since he has the upper hand, you don’t stand a chance
to succeed.” The truth is if the leaders would give hope to their people by helping
them realize that 600,000 black people were brought over and that grew to 40 million
people who are experiencing a greater level of freedom and prosperity then they
could have ever experienced without the long boat ride.
As Tammy Bruce, a radio talk show host said, “When your
victimhood is your empowerment, recovery is the enemy”:
Restoring black pride is essential if the once proud people
ever want to get to the Norwegian level of racial profiling. That pride can
only be restored if the leaders do not excuse every antisocial act as, “what
can you expect from a poor uneducated person”.
The color of the skin is not the problem. It’s the way of
life being adopted by all too many black families and being accepted and
promoted by black leaders and financed by liberal politicians (both Democrats
and Republicans). The politicians have done more damage to the black race than slavers
whips could have ever done.
Let’s start at the beginning and get the family back to a
two parent family. In the African-American community 72% of children are born
to unmarried women (in 1964 it was 24%.) This statistic is important because 85
% of the prison population comes from fatherless homes. In the African American
community only 31 % of couples are married (in 1960 it was 61%) The blacks must
stop listening to their self-intentioned leaders and stop blaming everything
outside of themselves for their troubles. They must take back their streets and
not accept the limits their leaders put on them.
As you can see, back in the ’60s, when we were going through
our major civil rights struggles here in the US ,
the black family was better off than they are now, and they were not profiled in
the way they are today. In the ‘60s blacks were afraid of whites, today whites
are afraid of blacks. Is that progress? Blacks who are angry at being profiled might
do best to target that anger at those people and those conditions creating those
profiles and stop the almost insane practice of tearing up their own neighborhood
because somebody reacted to the profile created by those very rioters.
Every race has earned the profile they are living under.. It’s
not up to society to view a race differently, it’s up to that race to act
differently.
(NOTE: While this
discussion was about profiling and blacks, here in New
Mexico I see the Hispanics falling down the same
rabbit hole for the same reasons. It’s a shame
