Black Skin Privilege and Ferguson

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The nation awaits the verdict in Ferguson and prepares for the vindictive retribution of the lynch mob that has been tearing the city up for months, and thirsting for the blood of officer Darren Wilson not because he is guilty but because he is white. The chief encourager of the lynch mob is now the president of the United States, preceded by his former attorney general and his chief adviser on race relations who is also the nation’s leading racist, Al Sharpton.

That is the disturbing reality we face as a nation, and have been facing now for decades ever since the civil rights movement was itself transformed into a lynch mob under the leadership of Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. That is the stark truth around which there is a national silence because the racists and their mobs are largely black.

To focus attention on this national misery, we are reprinting part of a pamphlet we published about this travesty called “Black Skin Privilege and the American Dream,” by David Horowitz and John Perazzo.-DH

When a Neighborhood Watch guard shot Trayvon Martin in February 2012, a chorus of civil rights activists concluded that he had been killed because of his race. Michael Skolnick, the political director for hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, spoke for the consensus in an article he titled, “White People You Will Never Look Suspicious.”

I will never look suspicious to you. Even if I have a black hoodie, a pair of jeans and white sneakers on … I will never watch a taxicab pass me by to pick someone else up. I will never witness someone clutch their purse tightly against their body as they walk by me. I won’t have to worry about a police car following me for two miles, so they can ‘run my plates. I will never have to pay before I eat. And I certainly will never get ‘stopped and frisked.’ I will never look suspicious to you, because of one thing and one thing only. The color of my skin. I am white….[1]

Skolnick spoke for those who rushed to condemn the Watch Guard, George Zimmerman, calling him a racist and killer in advance of the evidence, and demanding his arrest. It was the pervasive theme of the outrage even though Zimmerman was of Peruvian descent and not “white.” To make the racial case, Zimmerman’s accusers labeled him a “white Hispanic,” and disregarded the fact that he was Latino with a great-grandfather who was black. Speaking for the many, Congressional Black Caucus member Hank Johnson claimed that Martin was “executed for WWB in a GC—Walking While Black in a Gated Community.”[2] It was the unmistakable implication of President Obama’s own statement on the case: “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.”[3] For the already convinced, Trayvon Martin was killed not because of anything he had done, but because he was a black man in a racist culture, and therefore racial prey.

As it happens, the term “white skin privilege” was first popularized in the 1970s by the SDS radicals of “Weatherman,” who were carrying on a terrorist war against “Amerikkka,” a spelling designed to stigmatize the United States as a nation of Klansmen.[4] Led by presidential friends, Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn, the Weather terrorists called on other whites to renounce their privilege and join a global race war already in progress.

Although their methods and style kept the Weather radicals on the political fringe, their views on race reflected those held by the broad ranks of the political left. In the following years, the concept of “white

Skin privilege” continued to spread until it became an article of faith among all progressives, a concept that acc-ounted for everything that was racially wrong in America beginning with its constitutional founding. As Pax Christi USA, a Catholic organization, explained: “Law in the U.S. protects white skin privilege because white male landowners created the laws to protect their rights, their culture and their wealth.”[5] This was the theme of A People’s History of the United States, the most popular book ever written on the subject, now part of university curricula across the nation.

Eventually, the concept of white skin privilege was embraced even by liberals who had initially resisted it as slander against a nation that had just concluded a historically unprecedented civil rights revolution. This was because the concept of white skin privilege provided an explanation for the fact that the recent Civil Rights Acts had not led to an equality of results, and that racial disparities persisted even as overt racists and institutional barriers were vanishing from public life.

The inconvenient triumph of American tolerance presented an existential problem for civil rights activists, whom it threatened to put out of work. “White skin privilege” offered a solution. As the Southern Poverty Law Center explained: “white skin privilege is not something that white people necessarily do, create or enjoy on purpose,” but is rather an unavoidable consequence of the “transparent preference for whiteness that saturates our society.”[6] In other words, even if white Americans were no longer racists, they were.

A parallel concept favored by progressives was “institutional racism.” This was the idea that even in the absence of actual racists, the values and standards of American institutions by their very nature discriminated against non-whites. These two sophistries made possible new battles and continued the life of campaigns that annually lured millions of dollars into the deep pockets of “anti-racist” organizations and movements, even as racists were no longer detectable in the institutions themselves.

Lynching Whites

What reality is there to the claim that white skin is privileged and black is not? Is it really the case that non-whites are the exclusive targets of racial vendettas, while whites enjoy protection from racial prejudice and collective suspicion? No sober individual could possibly think so.

In fact, for decades, at the hands of progressives white males have been the prime villains in the nation’s classrooms, and the principal targets of disapprobation and presumptive guilt in the general political culture as well. Not that long ago, the nation witnessed a public scandal as racially charged as the Trayvon Martin case in the public lynching of three white male students at Duke University. Like other institutions of higher learning, Duke prides itself on its racial tolerance. There are no more sacred principles on campuses generally than racial tolerance, diversity and inclusion. As everyone knows, however, but few will take the risk to observe, these principles extend to every race but whites.

When an anonymous individual drew a noose on the office door of an African American faculty member at Columbia University the entire university community concluded that it was an act of racism, and the institution was virtually shut down to express collective horror that such an event might occur. This all took place before there was any indication that its message was racial or that its perpetrator was not the faculty member herself – which has been a not infrequent occurrence on campuses before.

When three white members of the Duke lacrosse team were accused of rape by a black prostitute, on no evidence whatsoever, the campus not only did not defend the presumption of their innocence, but rushed with intemperate haste to punish them as though they had already been tried and convicted. The university expelled them, the lacrosse coach was fired, the lacrosse season terminated, their names were published and 88 members of the Duke faculty signed an open letter condemning their racist deed.[7]

The cloud of suspicion and presumption of guilt that engulfed the students ruined their reputations and put their lives and careers on halt. It lasted for more than a year with no challenge from university officials or public authorities or the mainstream media. Yet it was entirely based on the false and malicious accusations of a local prostitute and drug addict, whose record of criminal behavior and absence of credibility were eagerly overlooked because she was black. While the faces of the innocent accused were plastered across the national media where they were portrayed as racists and rapists, the accuser herself was protected, and her name withheld throughout the case—even after her criminal libels were exposed.

The nameless accuser was a professional stripper who had been hired to entertain a fraternity party. A fellow stripper, who was also black and present at the event, denied the rape had ever taken place. One of the accused rapists proved that he was not even present when the attack was alleged to have taken place. Yet he was judged guilty all the same by the civil rights crusaders. Guilty because he was white. White skin was enough evidence to get all three students indicted by the local district attorney who was seeking votes in an election year among a constituency that was largely black and now racially inflamed (although the national press averted its eyes from this aspect of the case as well).

Leading the calls for punishment before trial were racial agitators Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Jackson was first out, attempting to secure a conviction by decrying the long “history of white men and black women and rape and assault,”[8] as though the criminal actions of a minority implicated every person of the same gender and color. Jackson also proposed to have his organization pay all tuition costs for the faceless criminal accuser should she want to attend college.[9] The clear implication was that unlike her rapists whose parents (being white) could afford a Duke education, the benighted woman was denied such an opportunity by a racist society. Not to be out mau-maued, Sharpton claimed, “this case parallels Abner Louima, who was raped and sodomized in a bathroom [by a New York City police officer] like this girl has alleged she was.”[10] The fantasizer of this ludicrous connection was a man practiced in the art of racial libels, including the infamous (and almost identical) accusations made by his infamous client Tawana Brawley who ruined the lives of six innocent white males by making false accusations of rape against them. After six years of inflicting hell on his victims, Sharpton eventually lost a libel suit brought by one of his victims. But even being a convicted liar failed to disqualify Sharpton as a civil rights “leader” since his victims were only white.

A professor of English named Houston Baker emerged as Duke’s homegrown racial arsonist, leading a posse of Duke faculty members in a public condemnation of the accused students in an ad that appeared in the Duke Chronicle. Baker charged that “white male privilege” had permitted the alleged perpetrators of “this horrific, racist incident” to remain “safe under the cover of silent whiteness.”[11] Whiteness had given them “license to rape, maraud, deploy hate speech and feel proud of themselves in the bargain.”[12]

A year later, the three lacrosse players were exonerated, and the district attorney was sacked as conclusive evidence showed that there had been no rape and they were innocent of any crime. But the mob leaders Jackson, Sharpton and Baker, never had to face consequences for their maliciously, racially motivated deeds, never were made to apologize for their racism, or concede that that’s what it was. Call that immunity black skin privilege.

The Duke travesty has left the front pages and faded in memory, along with the many other episodes of racial injustice to whites, that were never openly acknowledged as such. Not only have we have reached a national moment when innocent whites are presumed guilty on the basis of their skin color, but blacks are often presumed innocent when the evidence points to their guilt. This is true whether the crime they commit is false witness, as at Duke, or a double homicide, as in O.J. Simpson’s murder of his wife and a stranger. Simpson was defended by a “dream team” of the nation’s best lawyers and the televised trial was closely watched by the entire nation. When a mostly black jury acquitted the murderer, the overwhelming majority of Americans who had watched the trial viewed the verdict with horror. But not black America, which cheered and celebrated this miscarriage of justice as a racial “payback.” No one called that racism. That’s another black skin privilege.

In America today, blacks generally can conduct racist assaults on whites and count on “civil rights” activists and the media not to notice. In the two months following Trayvon Martin’s death, black assailants carried out at least 14 fourteen known attacks against white victims with the idea of “avenging” the fallen youth.[13] In East Toledo, six juveniles beat a 78-year-old white man, shouting: “This is for Trayvon … Trayvon lives, white [man]. Kill that white [man]!”[14] In Gainesville, five blacks shouting “Trayvon!” beat a 27-year-old white man, leaving his face permanently disfigured. In another Gainesville incident, a black crowd shouting “Trayvon!” assaulted and stomped on a white man who was trying to recover his female companion’s purse from the hands of a black thief.[15] In Chicago, two black teenagers beat and robbed a 19-year-old white man because, as one of the attackers explained, they were angry about Trayvon Martin.[16] In Baltimore, a group of blacks beat and robbed a white man, stripping him naked, then posted a video of the assault online with the caption: “me an my boys helped get justice fore trayvon.”[17] In Mobile, a white man named Matthew Owens was brutalized by twenty African Americans armed with brass knuckles, bricks, chairs, bats and steel pipes after he asked them to stop playing basketball in the street directly in front of his home.[18] As the assailants left the scene, one of them looked back at the victim, who was bleeding profusely, and shouted,: “Now that’s justice for Trayvon!”[19] It is unlikely that many Americans have heard of these racial attacks, because the perpetrators are protected by a media that does not want to notice that the racists are black, and their victims are white.

Within weeks of the Trayvon Martin shooting, a parallel killing occurred with the skin colors reversed at a Taco Bell restaurant in Phoenix, Arizona. A 22-year-old black motorist got into an altercation with Daniel Adkins, a 29-year-old, mentally disabled “white Hispanic” who was walking by. When the argument grew heated, the motorist drew a gun and killed Adkins. When police arrived at the scene, the black shooter claimed that Adkins had swung a bat or metal pipe at him, although no such items were found at the scene. Arizona, like Florida, has a “Stand Your Ground” law that allows a person to use deadly force to protect himself when faced with a life-or-death confrontation.[20] A protective media withheld the shooter’s name, and there was no racial mob calling for his head. Unlike George Zimmerman, the gunman was not arrested nor charged with a crime. Call that black skin privilege.

If you’re black and possibly guilty but a white person is involved, the media will actively volunteer to be your advocate. This was true in the Duke case, where the New York Times and other papers convicted the accused in advance of any legal proceeding. In the Trayvon Martin case, the media withheld details of the crime that were damaging to Trayvon in order to protect him and indict Zimmerman — that the mainly white community he had entered at night had been the target of a rash of recent break-ins and burglaries by young African-American men;[21] that the hoodie Trayvon wore was a uniform for burglars; and that Trayvon had been suspended from school after burglary tools were discovered on his person along with unaccounted-for jewelry.[22] At the same time, the press flooded the airwaves and front pages with sentimental photos of Trayvon as an innocent adolescent, while withholding others of the six-foot-two, 17-year-old who beat the smaller Zimmerman to the ground, smashing his head on the concrete and causing him to scream repeatedly for his life before he fired his gun in self-defense.

Looking at the Martin case, black skin privilege means you can form a lynch mob if the target is a “white” man and the press will overlook it; you can demand a judgment in advance of the facts, and can conclude his guilt in advance of a trial. You can even take “justice” into your own hands by threatening his life as the Black Panthers did, or twittering his home address like vigilante filmmaker Spike Lee and comedienne Roseanne Barr did in the hope that someone might go after him.[23] If this isn’t a rebirth of the cracker mentality of the segregated South, it is hard to know what would be.

But it is events under the national radar that take the biggest toll. Black skin privilege means the national media will fail to report an epidemic of black race riots that have targeted whites for beatings, shootings, stabbings and rapes in major American cities recently. A determined reporter, Colin Flaherty, broke ranks to document these rampages in a book titled, White Girl Bleed A Lot, after a statement made by one of the rioters.[24] As reported in Flaherty’s book, there have been hundreds of black race riots in more than fifty American cities in the last few years,[25] including more than a dozen each in Chicago, Miami, Philadelphia, New York, Las Vegas, Milwaukee, Kansas City and Denver. In July 2011, to cite an illustrative example, a mob of African Americans created what the local NBC affiliate called an “astonishing” amount of violence at downtown Philadelphia restaurants, hotels and bars.[26] Afterwards, the politically correct police chief said he feared for the safety of the rioters.[27] But after surveying the mayhem, the city’s black mayor made an unprecedented public statement. “You have damaged your own race,” he said to the culprits, and in a pointed reference to the Martin case, he added, “Take those God darn hoodies down.”[28]

Crime Statistics

In the liberal culture, black skin privilege has created an optical illusion, persuading progressives that white-on-black attacks are commonplace events, rather than the other way around. In fact, there are five times as many black attacks on whites as the reverse. According to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which relies on crime victims to identify their assailants, 320,082 whites were victims of black violence in 2010, the latest year for which statistics are available, while 62,593 blacks were victims of white violence.[29] But these raw statistics understate the pattern. In 2010, the white and black populations in the United States were 197 million and 38 million, respectively.[30] In other words, blacks committed acts of interracial violence at a rate 25 times higher than whites (849 per 100,000 versus 32 per 100,000).[31]

This pattern has been among the most consistent findings of criminal-justice research for many years and for a wide variety of crimes. Nationwide there were an estimated 67,755 black-on-white aggravated assaults in 2010, as compared to with just 1,748 white-on-black crimes of the same description. In other words, blacks committed acts of interracial aggravated assault at a rate 200 times higher than whites (181 per 100,000 population versus 0.9 per 100,000).[32]

The physical threat to African Americans from whites is actually minimal compared to the epidemic of black violence against whites. The National Crime Victimization Survey reported approximately 13,000 black-on-white rapes in the United States in 2010, and 39,000 black-on-white robberies, both violent crimes against persons. By contrast, the numbers of white-on-black rapes and robberies reported in the same surveys were so infinitesimal that whites were estimated to have accounted for 0% of all rapes and robberies committed against black victims in the United States.[33]

To stoke the fires of racial grievance in the face of these contrary facts, civil rights advocates pretend that the statistics lie or that merely mentioning them is an act of racism. They tell us that black criminals aren’t actually criminals; the true culprit is the white “unjust justice system” that “profiles” blacks and creates this racist illusion. “Unjust justice system” is the term favored by Los Angeles congresswoman Maxine Waters, who explains, “the color of your skin dictates whether you will be arrested or not, prosecuted harshly or less harshly, receive a stiff sentence or gain probation or entry into treatment.”[34] Bill Quigley, legal director of the left-wing Center for Constitutional Rights, agrees with her conclusion: “The U.S. criminal-justice system is … a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people.”[35]

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also agree. At a debate during the Democratic Party primaries in 2008, Obama ignored the facts and charged that blacks and whites “are arrested at very different rates, are convicted at very different rates, [and] receive very different sentences” for “the same crime.”[36] Not to be outdone, Clinton denounced the “disgrace of a criminal-justice system that incarcerates so many more African Americans proportionately than whites.”[37] No member of the press disturbed their duet by pointing out that African Americans commit many more crimes proportionally than whites. This is black skin privilege at work, and illustrates how prevalent anti-white racist attitudes have become in the political culture.

Through sheer repetition and lack of corrective information, the myths of white skin privilege have made a deep imprint on the culture generally and the culture of black Americans in particular. According to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, 84% of black Americans feel that the justice system treats them unfairly.[38] But while it is true that blacks are arrested in numbers greater than their representation in the population, it is it is also true that they commit crimes in far greater numbers than their representation would warrant. African Americans are 12.6% of the U.S. population,[39] but they account for 38.9% of all violent crime arrests—including 32.5% of all rapes, 55.5% of all robberies, and 33.9% of all aggravated assaults.[40] Is this because they are arrested for crimes they didn’t commit? Are they only “guilty of being black”?In fact, the statistics are compiled by interviewing the victims of these violent crimes, which in the case of crimes committed by blacks are mostly black themselves. In 2010, black perpetrators were responsible for 80% of all violence against blacks (including 94% of homicides), while white perpetrators accounted for just 9% of all violence against blacks.[41]

Another inconvenient fact for the promoters of the racial “injustice system” myth is that numerous high-crime cities with majority-black populations and high black arrest rates are run by African American mayors and African American police chiefs. Among them are Detroit, Jackson, Birmingham, Memphis, Flint, Savannah, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. Cognizant of the methods that police use to fight crime and the disproportionate contribution of blacks to crime rates, the former black police chief of Los Angeles, Bernard Parks said: “It’s not the fault of the police when they stop minority males or put them in jail. It’s the fault of the minority males for committing the crime. In my mind, it is not a great revelation that if officers are looking for criminal activity, they’re going to look at the kind of people who are listed on crime reports.”[42] But this sensible attitude has not penetrated the leadership of the Democratic Party nor the nation’s morally degraded civil rights movement.

Affirming Racism

Crime is only one of the areas where black skin privilege fogs the nation’s brain on racial matters. Under the banner of “leveling the playing field,” the rules of the game have been systematically rigged—against whites and in favor of blacks. Speaking for the dominant culture in our universities, and for the U.S. Supreme Court’s majority, Columbia University law professor Patricia Williams, who is black, explains: “If the modern white man, innocently or not, is the inheritor of another’s due, then it must be returned.”[43] (Innocent or not!) Attorney General Eric Holder is of a similar mind. In February 2012, he expressed amazement over the fact that anyone could seriously think that racial preferences might be bad social policy: “The question is not when does [affirmative action] end, but when does it begin … When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled?”[44] Or, as the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall put it more candidly to his fellow justice William O. Douglas: “You [white] guys have been practicing discrimination for years. Now it’s our turn.”[45] The current Supreme Court majority is sympathetic to this view.

This collectivist view of guilt and debts that erases individuals and their accountability is now entrenched in America’s institutional framework. In the 1970s, affirmative action was successfully redefined to mean racial preferences for non-whites, and a new standard was set for admissions policies at universities across the United States. Though black students’ median SAT scores in any given year were at least 200 points lower than the median for white students,’ blacks were admitted to virtually all academically competitive schools at much higher rates.[46] The pattern of racial privilege for blacks persists to this day, not only in undergraduate colleges and universities, but also in professional training schools for aspiring doctors and lawyers. At the University of Michigan Medical School, for instance, the odds favoring the admission of black over white applicants with the same background and academic credentials have ranged between 21-to-1 and 38-to-1.[47]At the University of Nebraska College of Law in recent years, the black-over-white admission ratio was 442-to-1;[48] and at Arizona State University Law School, 1,115-to-1.[49]

Inevitably, the racial bias does not stop with the admissions process. Once a university accepts black students, under-qualified for that school though they may be, it is imperative that they remain in school and eventually graduate, poor performance notwithstanding. This is because high minority dropout rates jeopardize not only a university’s reputation among advocates of racial preferences but also its formal accreditation. To reduce minority attrition and “level the playing field,” many professors evaluate the work of black students using a lower standard than they use for their white and Asian peers, a practice which the late sociologist David Riesman labeled “affirmative grading.”[50] A blunter characterization was made by a professor at one of California’s state universities, who observed: “We are just lying to these black students when we give them degrees.”[51] By lowering the standards for black students—without admitting that they are doing so—universities are also lying to their graduates’ future patients and clients, many of whom are likely to include large numbers of blacks themselves.

Because maintaining racially “diverse” student bodies is now a legal obligation, some schools have taken to providing monetary incentives to black students who meet normal standards, a privilege not offered to their white and Asian peers. At Penn State, beginning in the early 1990s, blacks were paid $580 if they were able to maintain a C average, while those with a B average or better were given twice that amount.[52] In 2011, Yale University announced that it would provide free tuition to black public high school graduates with a GPA of at least 3.0 and a good attendance record.[53] No white student with a 3.0 GPA need even apply to Yale. Monetary incentives have been implemented with younger students as well. In 2008, Harvard professor Roland Fryer spearheaded an initiative to pay underachieving black fourth-graders in New York up to $250 for improving their grades, and as much as $500 for seventh-graders.[54] The ugly racial condescension that goes with these reward systems (not to mention the incentives such advantages provide to students to be content with
underperforming) attracts little or no notice. There are also thousands of college scholarships and fellowships earmarked exclusively for nonwhite students.[55] These are made available by private organizations, individual schools, publicly and privately held corporations, the federal government, and state governments.

These scholarships, grants and rewards are not made to students who first demonstrate that they are actually disadvantaged by race or any other factor. Many of the recipients come from quite privileged backgrounds. The benefits are granted to these students because of their race. No one would think of providing such scholarships to white students while excluding others. That would be racist. No one pays much attention to the gross injustices done to white students from all economic backgrounds, who are denied places because they “inherited” unspecified and undocumented advantages by virtue of their skin color.

Nor are racial privileges for blacks limited to educational institutions. Since the 1970s, most major corporations (and a host of smaller ones) have implemented wide-ranging race-specific strategies for recruiting minorities, sponsored scholarships for minority recipients, funded internship programs earmarked exclusively for nonwhite high school and college students, paid current and former employees a “reward” merely for identifying the names of potential “diversity candidates,” and given financial bonuses to managers for successfully recruiting and/or promoting a significant number of black employees.[56] In an effort to maintain their diversity profiles and to keep their coveted black workers from seeking greener career pastures, many companies have established minority employee organizations that sponsor mentorship and self-help programs, produce newsletters, organize fundraising activities, and provide forums in which nonwhites in the labor force can air their grievances.[57] And of course, all of these measures also serve to separate their workers on the basis of race.

Needless to say, since government is the real source of these segregated arrangements, racial privileges are ubiquitous in government hiring practices. Police and fire departments nationwide go to great lengths to recruit black applicants. Where those applicants have failed the qualifying examinations in disproportionately high numbers, departments have simply thrown out the results, lowered the standards, or created new definitions of what constitutes a passing grade. One of the most blatant manifestations of the obsession with diversity involved the Boston Fire Department. A pair of white identical twins, Philip and Paul Malone, both failed the department’s qualification test and consequently were dropped from the applicant pool. Two years later they took the test again, at a time when the department was under pressure from a court-ordered affirmative action plan to hire more minorities. In an attempt to exploit the judicial mandate, the Malones re-classified themselves as black, claiming to have recently discovered that their long-deceased great-grandmother was of African ancestry. Their exam scores this time around were 57% and 69%, respectively—far below the 82% cutoff point for white applicants, but more than sufficient for black applicants. The Boston Fire Department hired the “black” Malone twins.[58]

Black Racism

Like the racial injustice against blacks that preceded it, the racial injustice enforced on behalf of blacks has damaged them as well as whites. It has empowered incompetence and sown resentment, and ensured that racial tensions persist nearly half a century after the Civil Rights Acts outlawed racial barriers. A 2009 Quinnipiac University poll asked respondents, “Do you think affirmative action programs that give preferences to blacks and other minorities in hiring, promotions and college admissions should be continued or … abolished?” Discriminated-against whites favored “abolished” by a margin of 64% to 27%, while the black beneficiaries, not surprisingly, favored “continued” by 78% to 14%.[59]

Racial bias is now such an integral part of America’s political culture that in 2008 black skin privilege elected a president of the United States. Absent this privilege, is the career of our 44th president conceivable? What political novice, lacking notable legislative or professional achievements, having spent his entire career on the radical fringes of American politics, and having encumbered himself with an unrepentant terrorist and a racial bigot as his close political collaborators, could even think about winning a major party presidential nomination, let alone being elected? Absent black skin privilege, what candidate with such a checkered past could go virtually un-vetted by the national press, or receive a pass from his political opponent on matters that would sink the fortunes of a candidate of any other race?

Black skin privilege guarantees not only exemptions from intellectual and political standards that others are required to meet, but from moral standards as well. What white celebrity, having shot his brother as a juvenile, dealt cocaine as an adult, and stabbed a rival business executive with a five-inch blade could count an American president among his friends and be invited to host his political fund-raisers? But rapper Jay‑Z did exactly that during Obama’s 2012 re-election run, and both he and the president could remain confident that no one would suggest it was a problem.[60]

Black skin privilege is a license not only to commit no-fault crimes, but to be openly racist without adverse consequences. White celebrity bigots, like Mel Gibson, are routinely condemned and shunned as pariahs, as they should be. It would be hard to imagine a white counterpart boasting that he had voted on the basis of skin color, characterizing non-whites as racists, and repeatedly using the word “nigger” to salt his wisdom. When this outrage was committed by black actor Samuel L. Jackson, however, nobody gave his racism a second thought. In February 2012, Jackson told Ebony magazine, “I voted for Barack because he was black. ’Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people—because they look like them…. That’s American politics, pure and simple. [Obama’s] message didn’t mean [bleep] to me. When it comes down to it, [whites] wouldn’t have elected a nigger. Because, what’s a nigger? A nigger is scary. Obama ain’t scary at all…. I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, ’cuz he ain’t gotta worry about getting re-elected.”[61] This ignorant and repellent outburst (whites do vote for blacks) resulted in no consequences for Jackson; he didn’t even lose his job as spokesman for Apple’s popular iPhone.[62]

Racist behavior isn’t even a disqualifier for civil rights leaders if they are black. Leader of a “civil rights movement” is how the media characterized Louis Farrakhan during his Million Man March, and Wikipedia still does today. What white racist could hold a march to protest black supremacy and air the grievances of white males, and expect to receive respectable press coverage let alone attract nearly a million whites to follow him? But Louis Farrakhan did just that with blacks.[63] A white racist of Farrakhan’s ilk couldn’t get 5,000 sympathizers to march on Washington, let alone 500,000. That’s a black skin privilege.

What white spiritual leader could support the torture-murders of South African blacks, compare Israel to Nazi Germany, and still be regarded as a moral icon? A black cleric like Bishop Desmond Tutu can.[64] What racial arsonist and convicted liar, whose incitements led directly to the incineration of seven individuals, could be regarded by the national media as a civil rights spokesman, and then hired as a TV anchor by NBC?[65] Only a blackdemagogue like Al Sharpton. Only a black racist like Sharpton could find himself lauded by an American president (as it happens, Barack Obama) as “a voice for the voiceless and … dispossessed.”[66]

Nor have bigoted advocacies and anti-Semitic slurs cut short the career of America’s other celebrated race hustler. On the contrary, Jesse Jackson’s inflammatory rhetoric and racially motivated campaigns have endeared him to Democratic presidents and made him a millionaire many times over. Despite his success as a black man in America, he lectures Americans on how white racism is “the rot of our national character.”[67] That defamatory charge is the source of his impressive income. By threatening major corporations with racial boycotts that he alone can prevent, Jackson has been able to extort lucrative ransoms not only for the organizations he runs but for himself and his immediate family. In one celebrated case, he called off his threatened boycott of Anheuser-Busch after the company agreed to sell his sons one of its beer distributorships at a specially reduced price, making them millionaires in the bargain. [68]

Despite the baggage he carries, Jackson has been able to make two high-profile runs for the presidency and remain a national civil rights figure. During his first presidential outing, he referred to Jews as “Hymies” and New York as “Hymietown,”[69] indiscretions that would have ruined other politicians but only caused a hiccup in his campaign. He received 3.5 million votes during the primaries—enough to earn him a keynote speech at the 1984 Democratic convention.[70] His anti-Semitism resurfaced in October 2008, when he predicted that an Obama presidency would provide a welcome counterbalance to the “Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades.” [71]

Black skin privilege has enabled Jackson to enjoy a career that would be denied to any non-black politician, while accumulating high-level honors along the way. He has been awarded more than forty honorary doctorates by American universities.[72] He was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Clinton, the highest award a civilian can receive,[73] while the U.S. Post Office put his likeness on a pictorial postal cancellation, making him only the second living person to receive such recognition.[74] He has used this undeserved respect, in conjunction with other black demagogues, to transform a civil rights movement that once stood for race-neutrality in the law, into a vigilante posse seeking one law for “people of color” and another for the rest of America.

Destroying the Diverse Union

Those who attempt to rationalize racial bigotry when it is bigotry on behalf of blacks usually claim that this injustice is designed to redress a historic one, correcting the results of previous discrimination. There is certainly a truth here. Even as black skin privilege has meant widespread injustice to others, it has also brought benefits to a historically discriminated-against group, although individual blacks today would be hard put to claim that racism has been an impediment to their own achievements and successes. Many beneficiaries of racial preferences may also have put the unfair advantages they received through racial preferences to good use. But perpetuating unfairness and inflicting injustice on others because of their skin color is a dangerous proposition, whatever the benefits that may accrue to some.

Racial privilege does more than merely damage the unlucky individuals who are its victims. When enforced by government and backed by law, it tears at the very fabric of the social order, regardless of whom it benefits. The wounds that the principle of separate-and-unequal inflicts on the community are incomparably greater than the damages incurred by individuals or the benefits that accrue to them. Building racial bias into the framework of the nation compromises the neutrality of the law that governs us all. It corrupts the standards that make a diverse community possible, and creates a racial spoils system that is the antithesis of the American dream, which was Martin Luther King’s dream as well. By corrupting the principle of neutrality, racial privilege breaks the common bond between America’s diverse communities and undermines the trust that makes the nation whole.

“All men are created equal” is the creed that makes a diverse nation possible. But a flaw was built into the original construction, which is open to multiple interpretations, including destructive ones. The most destructive of these is the idea that government can and should “level the playing field.” It is this idea that has given birth to the new racism. Obviously, all people are not created equal but are born with disparate abilities and characteristics. People are clearly unequal in beauty, intelligence, character, upbringing, and other vital aspects of personhood that lead directly to inequalities of celebrity, power, wealth and social standing. Because these inequalities are rooted in human nature, there can never be a level playing field. Moreover, the efforts to produce one must lead (and historically have led) to the loss of individual freedom. This is because the field can only be made equal—and then only superficially—by governmental force as an all-powerful state takes the earned fruits of one person’s labor, intelligence and talent and distributes it to those it prefers, and does so in the name of “social justice.”

The American Founders understood that there is an irreconcilable conflict between freedom and equality, between individual liberty and equal results. They understood that “social justice” in practice is just a rationale for the taking of one person’s achievements, and giving them to others who are favored by the party in power. What is justice to some is necessarily theft to others. It is an “injustice justice system.” In order to block such levelers, the founders created a Constitution that guaranteed property rights and instituted a system of checks and balances to frustrate their designs. The purpose of these constitutional checks, as their chief author James Madison wrote, was to thwart the “rage … for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project.”[75] History has proven the wisdom of the Founders’ concern.

In a free society composed of unequal individuals, the drive to level the playing field is a totalitarian desire and a threat to freedom because it empowers government to confiscate the talents and earnings of some for the benefits of those it favors. The expansion of governmental power into every individual sphere whatever its justification entails a loss of freedom for all. Since the targets of the levelers are the creators of society’s wealth, an inevitable result of social justice is generalized poverty and economic decline.

In a free society, composed of individuals who are unequal by nature, the highest government good is neutrality in the treatment of its citizens before the law. One standard and one justice for all. This is the only equality that is not at odds with individual freedom. It is the only equality that can make a diverse community one. A nation that respects individual rights and protects individual freedom cannot be sustained if there is one standard for black and another for white; one for rich and another for poor. It can only be sustained by a single standard — one law and one justice for all.

Notes:

[1] http://globalgrind.com/news/michael-skolnik-trayvon-martin-george-zimmerman-race-sanford-florida-photos-pictures

[2] http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/032812-605931-left-bypasses-law-on-trayvon-martin-incident.htm

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAPtUfOs7Gs

[4] http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808

[5] http://paxchristiusa.org/programs/brothers-and-sisters-all/anti-racism-training-for-white-activists/

[6] http://www.tolerance.org/activity/racism-and-white-privilege

[7] http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,265386,00.html

[8] http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/04/is_the_duke_rape_story_unravel.html

[9]http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1091599/

[10] http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,192277,00.html

[11] http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2007/09/018598.php

[12] http://today.duke.edu/showcase/mmedia/features/lacrosse_incident/lange_baker.html; http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/nyregion/15towns.html?_r=2&

[13] http://pjmedia.com/blog/justice-for-trayvon-15-whites-beaten-by-gangs-of-black-thugs-so-far/?singlepage=true

[14] http://www.toledoblade.com/Police-Fire/2012/04/03/Man-78-recounts-assault-by-6-youths-in-E-Toledo.html.

[15] http://www.gainesville.com/article/20120412/ARTICLES/120419865/1002/news?Title=-8216-Trayvon-shouted-as-group-attacks-Good-Samaritan

[16] http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/wave-of-black-mobs-brutalizing-whites/; http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/26/suspect-attacked-white-teen-because-am-angry-about-trayvon/

[17] http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/wave-of-black-mobs-brutalizing-whites/; http://www.ironicsurrealism.com/2012/04/14/baltimore-aaron-parsons-charged-in-connection-to-videotaped-assault-of-tourist-held-on-at-1-million-bond/

[18] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Oy5zEVJes; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134340/Thats-justice-Trayvon-Angry-mob-beats-man-telling-stop-playing-basketball—sister-claims-racist-revenge-attack-gunned-teen.html; http://www.theblaze.com/stories/justice-for-trayvon-alabama-man-in-critical-condition-after-mob-beating/; http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/04/mobile-man-clings-to-life-after-brutal-beating-by-black-mob-video/

[19] http://www.examiner.com/article/mob-beats-man-on-his-own-front-porch-for-trayvon-press-ignores

[20] http://www.chicagonewsreport.com/2012/04/daniel-adkins-killer-claims-self.html; http://nation.foxnews.com/daniel-adkins/2012/04/09/black-male-shoots-unarmed-hispanic-remains-free-media-mum

[21] http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/25/us-usa-florida-shooting-zimmerman-idUSBRE83O18H20120425

[22] http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/03/26/10872124-trayvon-martin-was-suspended-three-times-from-school?lite

[23] http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/03/30/celebs-speak-out-on-trayvon-martin-case-use-twitter-to-post-private-information-of-george-zimmerman-and-family/

[24] http://www.creators.com/opinion/thomas-sowell/are-race-riots-news.html

[25] http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/?page_id=28

[26] http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Flash_Mob_Strikes_in_Philadelphia_Philadelphia-126468293.html; http://www.wnd.com/2011/10/355449/

[27] http://www.wnd.com/2011/10/355449/

[28] http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2011/0815/Philadelphia-flash-mobs-black-mayor-takes-aim-at-black-community; http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/8/mayor-talks-tough-to-black-teens-after-flash-mobs/?page=all

[29] Table 42: Personal Crimes of Violence (2010), by The Bureau of Justice Statistics

[30] http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-02.pdf

[31] Table 42: Personal Crimes of Violence (2010), by The Bureau of Justice Statistics

[32] Table 42: Personal Crimes of Violence (2010), by The Bureau of Justice Statistics

[33] Table 42: Personal Crimes of Violence (2010), by The Bureau of Justice Statistics

[34] lYC&q=maxine+waters#v=snippet&q=maxine%20waters&f=false; “Race and Crime,” Investor’s Business Daily (February 21, 1996).

[35] http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/26-2

[36] http://www.ontheissues.org/domestic/Barack_Obama_Crime.htm

[37] http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_2_criminal_justice_system.html

[38] http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/racial-divisions-define-opinions-on-the-trayvon-martin-shooting/

[39] http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-02.pdf

[40] http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0325.pdf

[41] Table 42: Personal Crimes of Violence (2010), by The Bureau of Justice Statistics; http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2012/05/23/should_black_people_tolerate_this/page/full/

[42] http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2012/03/28/profiling/page/full/

[43] http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/critical_race_theory_a_cult_of_anti-white_resentment.html

[44] http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2012/02/24/holder-talks-financial-crime-affirmative-action-low

[45]45 http://books.google.com/books?id=QNV3XwST4WIC&q=our+turn#v=snippet&q=our%20turn&f=false

[46] http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_commentary-racial_prefs.htm

[47] http://www.ceousa.org/attachments/article/543/UMichMed_final.pdf

[48] http://www.ceousa.org/attachments/article/544/NE_LAW.pdf

[49] http://www.academia.org/arizona-law-schools-discriminate/

[50] http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2002/09/04/friends_of_blacks/page/full/

[51] http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2002/09/04/friends_of_blacks/page/full/

[52] Thomas DeLoughry, “At Penn State, Polarization of Campus Persists Amid Struggle to Ease Tensions,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (April 26, 1989).

[53] http://thegrio.com/2011/09/03/b-average-black-students-can-be-admitted-to-yale-for-free/

[54] http://www.bvblackspin.com/2008/12/11/should-we-pay-kids-to-learn/; http://www.bvblackspin.com/2009/06/09/paying-poor-kids-for-good-grades-appears-to-be-working/

[55] http://www.ehow.com/info_7817859_uncf-scholarships-grants.html; http://www.scholarships.com/financial-aid/college-scholarships/scholarships-by-type/minority-scholarships/african-american-scholarships/; http://www.amazon.com/Black-Students-Scholarships-Revised-Edition/dp/1568330790/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1336761925&sr=8-2

[56] http://www.nasrecruitment.com/docs/white_papers/Diversity-Recruitment.pdf

[57] http://www.diversitycouncil.org/retaining_diverse_staff.shtml

[58] Color Them Black,” Time (October 31, 1988), p. 19. Frederick Lynch, Invisible Victims (New York: Praeger Books, 1991), p. 28.

[59] http://books.google.com/books/about/No_Matter_What_They_ll_Call_This_Book_Ra.html?id=oA7WhM38e9kC

[60] http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/jay_the_gunslinger_1k7qCAFh7JiwwLVKWyCuuN; http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/beyonce_jay_host_ny_bam_ba_5wud17kNBMEiV8wim9YYJK

[61] http://www.tmz.com/2012/02/11/barack-obama-samuel-l-jackson/?adid=hero2#.TzgdXiNqNWM

[62] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/17/samuel-l-jackson-iphone-commercial-video_n_1430054.html

[63] http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1325

[64] http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2416

[65] http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/PAGE-ONE-8-Killed-In-Harlem-Arson-Gunman-3018812.php

[66] http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/obamas-leftism/

[67] Jesse Jackson et al., “The Continuing American Dilemma,” New Perspectives Quarterly (Summer 1991), p. 10.

[68] Judicial Watch, “Jesse Jackson Exposed” (2006); http://solargeneral.com/jeffs-archive/black-civil-wrongs/jesse-shakedown-jackson-gets-beer-distributorship-for-son/; http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=93897&page=1#.UKaQkWByFWM

[69] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/jackson.htm

[70] http://articles.cnn.com/keyword/jesse-jackson

[71]http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/item_6OMiQxyZEhxOR6i0Hdag9O;jsessionid=A0CC62E7ECDA9F32AA4387697315F036

[72] http://rainbowpush.org/pages/jackson_bio

[73] http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/jackson_j.htm

[74] http://www.wkan.com/programs/keep-hope-alive-with-jesse-jackson.html

[75] http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa10.htm

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  • uleaveuswithnoalternative

    The problem with forced “equality” is that rampant inequality is perpetuated, talents are wasted, futures are squandered, and mediocrity, stupidity and criminality is rewarded. In the end, no one, not even the favored ones, benefit.
    You can’t make up for past inequalities by perpetuating new ones.
    That is called revenge.

    • Ashley Moran

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      • tagalog

        What are black people averaging?

    • tagalog

      Our nation was founded to insure LIBERTY, that’s for starters. Equality was interpreted as equality BEFORE THE LAW, not equality of result.

      Now we have daily invasions of our liberties in the name of equality of result, and it’s called constitutional. What a bitter irony and a perversion of what was intended.

      • JacksonPearson

        Ferguson is now beyond equality, or Michael Brown…it’s more like the police are at war with anarchists.

        • kcsummer

          If I were a policeman there, now, I would read the handwriting on the wall and PROTECT MYSELF by finding another job. Clearly no one “has their back” as evidenced not the least of which by Obama and Holder and the black police officer who marched with the protestors (he was really out of line) and don’t forget “governor” Nixon – no way would I go back to work and put myelf at risk because now the stage is set between a mob who feels enabled and officers who have to factor in whether they are willing to be hurt or killed or whether to take a chance defending themselves and risk going thru what this officer has gone thru. If all those officers stand down they will call in the national guard if things get out of hand – but my feeling would be “fine” let them experience life without police to keep the peace.

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          • truthmatters
          • DontMessWithAmerica

            They would never hire you as a cop.

          • truthmatters

            They already know in secret the verdict Michael Brown was the criminal and attack the Policemen.The police officer did his job .That’s why they have all this law enforcement protection . I live here and the madness of what Obama has
            caused by His dividing the nation.Liberalism always causes disorder ……….
            .Hope Michael knew this
            http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1103/1103_01.asp

        • tagalog

          If I were looking at the situation in Ferguson from a Marxist class perspective, I’d say the police were up against the lumpenproletariat, those who are at the very bottom of the social pyramid and who are incapable of revolutionary action, who at most are social parasites, contributing nothing and draining public resources.

          • iluvisrael

            true – the reason they all have the time to join their fellow goons at various protests is because these unemployed leeches have plenty of free time – unlike working taxpayers.

          • ontheright

            Beyond the “free time” aspect, they are being paid by us – legal, taxpaying citizens – to riot against us; make no mistake, riots against law and order (in this case) are riots against the American taxpayer.

          • Sheik Yerbouti

            Exactly, they are government wards protesting the government. It’s absurd. The premise is also absurd. But you simply cannot reach even the most educated black Americans on this issue. They ALL side with the guy who assaulted an officer. That alone should show the world how screwed up their priorities have become.

            But ultimately, this is a race issue. And black Americans are trying their best to demonstrate as much racism as they can so the rest of us will FINALLY realize that yes, blacks CAN be racists and many of them already are.

        • truthmatters

          They already know in secret the verdict Michael Brown was the criminal
          and attack the Policemen.The police officer did his job .That’s why they have all this law
          enforcement protection . I live here and the madness of what Obama has caused by His dividing the nation.Liberalism always causes disorder .Hope Michael knew this http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1103/1103_01.asp

      • truthmatters

        They already know in secret the verdict Michael Brown was the criminal
        and the police officer did his job .That’s why they have all this law
        enforcement protection . I live here and the madness of what Obama has caused by His dividing the nation.Liberalism always causes disorder .Hope Michael knew this http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1103/1103_01.asp ..

      • Edward E

        “DIVERSITY” is a code for White genocide.

    • kcsummer

      Exactly – a relationship I had for years ended because both of us got stuck keeping score who had been used and who used the other person (or was perceived as same) last. It destroyed everything in between uneasy detentes. Anyway, anyone who’s raised children (or even been a child) knows if you reward and/or tolerate bad behavior its guaranteed to not only continue but escalate. And that’s what’s happening now – this bad behavior isn’t being called what it is and now “they” feel entitled to rant and raid and loot (and worse). Maybe that’s why Brown did what he did and got himself killed, because he was never held accountable and he felt entitled.

      • tagalog

        In Colorado Springs this week, we have had an incident, captured on video, of a police officer trying to break up a fight between two girl high school students (one of them is 15) in which the 15-year old responds to being separated by the cop by punching the cop in the face. The cop defends himself from her attack, strikes back and punches her in the face. It’s all on video. On the TV interview with the girl, she asserts that it was wrong for the cop to hit her. I wonder if anybody has suggested to her that it might have been wrong for her to punch the cop in the first place. It seems as if her assumptions are a bit askew. Of course she’s 15, so that is kind of a given I guess.

        • Sheik Yerbouti

          No, fighting a cop gave her the grand prize for street cred. Only getting shot or going to prison rank higher in Opposite Land (Black America). But showing disrespect for cops is a badge of “honor” in black America. And yes, they like being their own nation and have no interest in ours. Except for the “stuff”.

    • Edward E

      Nobody says “let’s import MILLIONS of non-Blacks into EVERY & ONLY
      Black countries until Blacks become a minority, FORCE assimilate them
      into EVERY black community to create a “blended humanity”, give them
      Affirmative Action & free health care and push miscegenation 24/7
      via movies/t.v shows & media(only in black countries)”

      THEN, when the Blacks object we call them RACIST!

      Of course not.

      They only call WHITES “racist” for objecting to their own geNOcide.

      Anti-racist is a >code< for anti-White

  • blackelkspeaks

    The whites themselves are responsible for the lawlessness that we suffer under, from the White House to the “hood”, because of their willingness to elevate and enable the perpetrators of Marxist tyranny and its victimhood mythology election after election, time and time again, for generations. Whites built this country; now they have destroyed it.

    • Hewlett Harris

      TRIPLE BINGO…1000% correct,

    • kcsummer

      Qualify that please, SOME Whites – the liberal and the PC – count me out as I am and have been fully aware of what’s at stake for some time. i can demand better but clearly I ain’t going to get it as long as the equivalent of childish (but dangerous) temper tantrums are allowed.

    • truthmatters

      Wake up to the truth http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1034/1034_01.asp
      The very heart problem you have and we all have .

  • Algiers50

    I”ll also note that while the falsely-accused Duke students begged for the FBI to investigate their case (which included Nifong holding private meetings with the head of the New Black Panthers; witness intimidation; death threats made even inside a courtroom; violent threats made to family members; and the like), no FBI agents were ever dispatched. The federal government played dumb and appeared unable to find Durham on a map.

    By contrast, forty agents were immediately dispatched to Ferguson, even though no one there has been formally charged; and even though it would be hard to find anything for as many as forty agents to do. In addition, the DOJ rushed in community relations staff (likewise absent from Durham).

    On a last note, a federal judge gutted the civil rights lawsuits initiated by the Duke students, literally on the grounds that they were white; and that federal laws, which permit lawsuits against state officers who violate the civil rights of “any person” or “any citizen”, were really only intended to apply to citizens of African descent. “Equal protection of the laws” obviously now means “unequal protection of the laws”, by ethnicity and color.

    That’s what’s called Progress…

    • cxt

      And yet nobody reports it.

      That may be real driver here—if the media didn’t have its thumb on the scales things might change for the better.

      Maybe.

    • truthmatters

      Folks They already know in secret the verdict Michael Brown was the criminal
      and attack the Policemen.The police officer did his job .That’s why they
      have all this law
      enforcement protection . I live here and the madness of what Obama has
      caused by His dividing the nation.Liberalism always causes disorder
      .Hope Michael knew this
      http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1103/1103_01.asp

  • http://johnnyangeladvocacygroup.net JohnnyAngel Advocacy Group

    Now with the legalization of 5 million new brown people, the fights can begin. Blacks & browns do not get along. Whites are arming themselves while liberal Republicans fiddle. As Dylan sang “and the times they are a changin’ ” just not for the better with a dumbdowned PC society of over-educated and under-intelligent fools with no practical,useful wisdom or ideas at all. And….the race doesn’t matter……A FOOL IS A FOOL !!!

    • DontMessWithAmerica

      Well said!

    • truthmatters

      It’s not a skin color thing that the problem you doing exactly the same thing too many blacks are doing .I will agree the Black are very upset with Obama for immigration .But for the same reason I am .They taking our jobs .They already know in secret the verdict Michael Brown was the criminal
      and attack the Policemen.The police officer did his job .That’s why they
      have all this law
      enforcement protection . I live here and the madness of what Obama has
      caused by His dividing the nation.Liberalism always causes disorder
      .Hope Michael knew this
      http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1103/1103_01.asp

      • Sheik Yerbouti

        Hispanics don’t just casually steal jobs when they come to the US. They dominate sectors of trade. Landscaping opens the door for construction jobs etc. These jobs used to be dominated by black Americans. In a little over a decade black jobs have evaporated while Hispanic workers pour in to do the work. I wonder how black Americans feel about them doing the work that black Americans won’t do? That is exactly what they have been saying.

        I keep wondering why blacks don’t address this. Are they ashamed? Maybe for getting caught with their pants down (literally) while Hispanic people stole their America from them. While they were studying newer ways to hate white people, the border was wide open.

  • cjkcjk

    It turned from God and so he has left it to itself.

  • Michael Garfinkel

    I love the preposterous sanctimony of the Skolnick quote.

    Skolnick ought to be reminded of a few things:

    A. Jews are not considered “white” by many in this society.

    B. The group most riddled with hatred of Jews are Blacks.

    • MarilynA

      But the Jews financed the Civil rights movement.

      • Michael Garfinkel

        How’d that work out for them?

      • mikeh420

        Jews, having always been the Underdog, supports the Underdog. Unfortunately, we supported the wrong one this time. Blacks just bite the hand that feeds them.

  • http://www.clarespark.com/ Clare Spark

    We are faced with a depoliticized, nihilistic electorate, interested primarily in sports and entertainment. You could blame democracy itself as a failure, or you could blame the New Left and other nihilists. I contrasted the earlier progressives with such as Bill Ayers and his tribe here: http://clarespark.com/2012/05/15/progressive-uplift-vs-new-left-nihilism/. “Progressive uplift vs. New Left nihilism.”

  • cree

    It is not in whitey’s control to get blacks out of their victimhood status. Blacks have to hate being the victim, of the welfare trap, the drug culture, the hood, the indifference to being head of his family, helping his children to escape the victim lifestyle. That is what it has become a perpetual lifestyle of misery.

    A change of attitude to assimilate into society rather than being a victim of it by an attitude’s choosing. A change of attitude about education, realize what it is for: success. Their victimhood has become their culture driven by peer pressure to not be like whitey. They’ve made their own trap. Without an attitude change to escape it, victimhood has to be justified against whitey when whitey has mostly nothing to do with it, not anymore from the vast majority of whites.

    Another self induced trap is whitey being the target of black’s hate, stereotyping all whites as the enemy. By an attitude that whitey is the enemy, whitey remains the enemy; this makes blacks the victims of whites by their own choosing.

    How do whites feel and act when they are hated, without justification: guarded, defensive, offended? This in turn makes blacks feel the same way. Age old animosities trapped by attitudes.

    By making whitey guilty of the past makes whitey the enemy when he no longer is. If attitude makes you victims of an enemy, victims you will be. Blacks envy the society most whites live in but do nothing for themselves to assimilate into it. Whites can’t control blacks attitudes from bad ones to good ones. Victimhood justification must make them feel better in their misery. To harsh, or the truth? Blacks have their freedom; they can’t claim it if they remain victims.

    • MarilynA

      Moral: You can’t make a silk purse out of a sows ear. Look at Africa. the continent is rich with natural resources and it’s inhabitants still live in the stone age. And it ain’t the white man’s fault for developing what they have always possessed and were either unwilling or unable (due to lack of intelligence) to develop on their own.

    • truthmatters

      What it all about .. http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1034/1034_01.asp
      The heart problem we all have .

  • cxt

    Tragic but powerful article.

  • Colt

    Come on over to my house you cowardly lowlifes. I speak with my AR-15.

    • MarilynA

      Take care. Remember to shoot, shovel and shut up. And trust no one.

  • UCSPanther

    It is, but the more accurate term is “dystopia”…

    • the great kazoo

      You got that right!

      • MarilynA

        I love the picture. It says it all. Bravo!

      • truthmatters
      • tagalog

        Great photo! And you can go from left to right OR right to left!

      • iluvisrael

        if your lens were wider the photo would capture the abortion clinic, pawn shop and marijuana dispensary.

        • the great kazoo

          Yeah.
          The cat house is around back, upstairs from the crack house.

  • MarilynA

    Welcome to the 60th decade of the Second Reconstruction since the Civil War, which started when industry started deserting the rust belt north and moving South to the right to work states shortly after WWII. If you have any doubts, read the history of what took place in the South during the First Reconstruction. White males were disenfranchised and unqualified former slaves were put in charge of governments and everything else. Government advisors, affectionately called Carpetbaggers, were sent down to advise the these uneducated and unqualified illiterates. Today we have the less than most qualified in charge of government agencies and industry. Today’s equivalent of the Carpetbaggers are lobbyists and community activists. When the first Reconstruction was lifted, after about 15 years, the Southern states found themselves in debt of billions of dollars in bonded debt for projects that were never built and the money had never been accounted for. (To put this debt in perspective: In 1870 census the average family farm was valued at $100 to $200. Anyone who owned $20,000 worth of property was considered filthy rich.) It took the south over 100 years to pay off those debts. The only difference between the first and this second Reconstruction is that powerful Southern politicians made it apply nationwide, and now our country finds itself in debt for trillions, not just billions, and it is doubtful it will ever be paid off. It’s time that the American people wake up and put a stop to this madness. If these people have not risen to the same level as the hated whites it is because they are either unable or unwilling to do so. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sows ear regardless of how much you spend trying. These black mau mau mobs need to be infiltrated and take out just as the federal government did the KKK.

    • MarilynA

      This civil rights crusade began shortly after WWII, Just as the Yankee industrialists did after the slave trade was ended in 1820 (GA refused to ratify the constitution as long as the slave trade continued, so it was abolished in 1820.) when the Rich Yankees stopped making money off the slave trade, they began to natter about the south having slaves and started raising the prices of manufactured goods sold in the South. When their prices got so high that the South could buy imported goods from Europe cheaper, a 25% tariff was levied on imports in 1832. The Yankees continued to raise their prices to “get their share of that slave generated wealth” that they thought all Southerners had. The truth was that most of the big plantations run by overseers were owned by Yankee industrialists, mostly textile factory owners. By 1855 Yankee made products were not longer competitive with European goods and Abe Lincoln, the Yankee industrialists backed candidate, promised to double the tariff to 50% if elected. However, the Yankee industrialists used the “Plight of the black man” to stir up animosity against the south to get their 50% tariff passed, just as they used the Plight of the black man” to stir up animosity against the south when they industries started moving
      south.
      Anyone who thinks that war was about slavery, is not savvy to human nature. When Lincoln was elected, every man and boy in the south grabbed his gun and went to war. It is not within human nature for people who did not own slaves to risk their lives so the rich man down the road could keep his slaves. The vast majority of Southerners did not own slaves. Check the 1840 and 1850 census records and you will see that I am right.

    • truthmatters

      Folks Wake up to the truth http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1034/1034_01.asp The issue is deep within us ..

  • Maynard

    Thanks for this great summary. Anyone can see that there is a much greater percentage of black racists than white as there are 5 times more whites than blacks but a black man was made president. If all whites were racists then Mitt Romney would be in the White House. Also, I believe that those “leaders” such as Sharpton, Holder, etc are pretty sure that the killing in Furerson was justified otherwise they wouldn’t be waiting to riot.

  • William James Ward

    The lack of demanding people to be responsible for themselves
    devolves into them being not responsible for anything, not
    even criminal activity. Basically many blacks believe they can
    do anything at all and damn any white person or black person who
    tells them it is a crime and wrong. The more sophisticated the
    black criminal the more in your face they are to cover their
    criminal conduct, it is a wall they hide behind but most people
    are fed up with it and as long as people like Obama and Holder
    are in power they know they get a pass and there is no such
    thing as crime regardless of how many victims suffer.
    William

    • kcsummer

      Rosa Parks struggle and defiance was noble and righteous. But now her descendants don’t just want a seat on the bus – they want to be able to kick whitey out of the seat and use whatever means necessary to get it. Negotiations, common sense, fair play and courtesy are so yesterday.

  • DontMessWithAmerica

    Let us hope that when the anti-white, anti-law, racist rabble egged on by Obama and Holder starts its war, law enforcement will truly enforce the law with live ammo. And if Obama sends in his private army, mow them down as Reagan would have mowed down Soviet invaders. He wants war. Give it to him.

  • truthmatters

    They already know in secret the verdict Michael Brown was the criminal and the police officer did his job .That’s why they have all this law enforcement protection . I live here and the madness of what Obama has caused by His dividing the nation.Liberalism always causes disorder .Hope Michael knew this http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1103/1103_01.asp

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  • truthmatters

    Wake up to the truth http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1034/1034_01.asp The reason the world is going down this road .

  • krinks

    “White skin privilege” is what happens when a people are kind, respectful to each other, law abiding, and hard working.
    “Black skin privilege” is what happens when they aren’t.

  • Schlump

    The Lord is not mocked. I doubt very much that the 40+% official HIV rate of the black population is an accident. And that is only the people who get tested. It may well be as much as 64%. It takes time for symptoms to start.

    Most American black people turned their back on Jesus Christ and chose a lifestyle of evil. Because of that, they are literally reaping what they have sown.

    I wish it were otherwise, not the least of which is part of my family is black.

    When a person chooses to hate, God treats it as murder. Consider what that means to black America. It should be no surprise that they account for 8,000 of 11,000 murders per year in this country— the desire to murder is already in the heart and it shouldn’t be a surprise when that murder desire bears ugly fruit.

    1John 3:15 “Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.”

    By that standard, most of black America are murderers. God takes murder very seriously.

    It filters into other areas. If you have committed the most heinous act a person can do, then what are other crimes like theft to you? It’s the same for women who have aborted a baby. When you have commissioned a murder, there is no place to go: you’ve done the worst crime possible. Thus you can rationalize lying, theft, promiscuity, and other crimes.

    Women who have committed abortion and criminals who commission “hits” are guilty of murder. King David, when he murdered Uriah, was held accountable by God: “Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’” 2 Samuel 12:19-20

  • Schlump

    OJ Simpson was not a good example to use because serial killer Glen Edward Rogers confessed to the killings before he died.

    Ed Newicky, the head of the National Association of Chiefs of Police in the mid 1990s talked about the entire matter being incompetent. From not testing a bloody fingerprint until it had broiled in the sun for 3 days to the courtroom nonsense.

    It was disturbing when other leads were not followed up on. For example, Nicole Simpson was a drug addict and her dealer was Goldman. Most of the 8,000 of 11,000 annual homicides are done by blacks and most of those are drug gang members. While it would have led nowhere, the idea of not following up on such an obvious lead as the drug angle was just plain stupid.

  • gman213

    Notice that the riots like the ones in Ferguson never make it to the predominately white neighborhoods. The black rioters know their boundaries, they know they would cross over into territory for which there would be no escape. Don’t fear those who protest in the streets who are loud and pronounced. Those that are silent are the ones to fear, they will arise with a fury and be unstoppable once they are stirred. Surely that is known by the mob.

  • leviguy1947

    BO has stuck his racist nose into tree incidents and been wrong on each occasion. There wwas the police officer who asked the black professor for ID since they were told someone might be breaking into a home. The proessor of course figured it was racial profiling and screamed bloody murder. BO commented that the police needed training or something similar. He had to backtrack when the dreaded FACTS came out. Then the Trayvon Martin travesty, and now the Michael Brown killing about which BO said MB made the mistake of “walking while black”. Our President has injected (and infected) all three situations so that all three white men involved were immediately labeled racists, guaranteeing violent protests and making life dangerous for them. Granted George Zimmerman appears to be a pretty despicable human being as evidenced by his run-ins with the law after his acquittal. But, his life has been made that much more impossible since nobody wants to hire him and he is only slightly less hated than Casy Anthony, and neither can risk being out in public.

    But, I keep forgetting that BO received the Nobel Peace Prize. He did didn’t he? I didn’t hallucinate the whole episode? He is, in my opinion, personally responsible for much of the increased racial tumult by his own racist public comments. And this does not even include his God-awful policies and atrocious appointments. (Susan Rice, etc.)

    The country has shown great restraint as signified by the absence of an attempt on BO’s life. For the amount of increased hatred and racial divisiveness generated SOMEONE could have reached out to ‘touch’ him. Imagine the consequences………………….

  • ron44

    i didn’t have to read much to know that this does exist and has since the great society programs of the sixties. Having worked around blacks in the beginning middle seventies i became aware of the black muslim movement after encountering a vary racist and dangerous news paper called mohammed speaks. the paper was left at work one day by a fellow workmate who forgot to take it with him. It was disgusting and hate filled, It went into great detail on how other races were to be treated and even murdered. the saying white girl bleed is no joke and was printed within, this copy.

  • Watermelonbeast

    In an effort to fact check some of the above references I was unable to find citation number 29, Table 42: Personal Crimes of Violence (2010), by The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). It appears as though the BJS website only has data tables through 2008 posted but continues other National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) reports through 2013. Typically there is a two year lag in posting these statistics but it seems that the BJS may have scrubbed the detail tables from 2009 and 2010 from their website. This is curious as only the detail tables show race of the victim and perceived race of the offender statistics.