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COMMENTARY
A Discussion On Race, Crime And The
Inconvenient Facts
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John F. Gaski 8/26/2013
The racial violence issue in the U.S. just won't go away. Still in the aftermath of Trayvon Martin
and George Zimmerman, now it erupts in Oklahoma. A troubling corollary also adheres,
though not universally recognized:
The racial victimhood industry demonstrably cares little about the facts, for example, in cases
such as Martin—Zimmerman. The ultimate legal and factual aspects, therefore, become
peripheral to the larger societal issue because the race hustlers have been aggressing
regardless of the still-opaque full truth.
Because of the roiling irrationality, America may bene t from one further word on the subject
from a different perspective.
What of that larger race relations issue? It took zero lag-time after the original Trayvon
Martin incident for race baiters such as Al Sharpton to accuse our country of engendering a
climate of racist danger for black citizens.
This quali es as anti-American slander of the rst magnitude because the facts are to the
contrary — if anyone still cares to know them.
But is there not an established tendency for blacks to be victims of interracial violence in the
United States? Hasn't that been the recent media message? Message, yes; truth, no. Here are
the suppressed and inconvenient facts:
About 90% of interracial violent crime in our nation is committed by blacks against whites.
The black-on-white murder rate in the U.S. exceeds the white-on-black rate by about 2.5-to-
1. The black-on-white assault and battery rate exceeds the corresponding white-on-black
rate in this country by at least 10-to-1.
I would rather not report what is known about U.S. interracial rape statistics because it could
be taken as incendiary, but the previous numbers in terms of black/white proclivity are
dwarfed. (See Department of Justice, Criminal Victimization in the United States, "Victims
and Offenders.")
OK, here's a hint: Because the number of white-on-black rapes is so low nationally in any
given year, the ratio ranges from 100-to-1 to in nity. Liberal, politically correct feminists need
to re ect on that one.
If these interracial crime ratios were randomly based, they would be uniform — that is, 1-to-1
— for the two racial groups. In other words, the population with six times as many potential
victims also has six times the pool of perpetrators, so the effect of that disproportion should
be perfectly offsetting arithmetically.
Yes, the relative crime stats would be moderated if adjusted for socioeconomic status (from
astronomical to merely stratospheric), but by no means inverted.
The baseline conclusion is straightforward, even if surprising to readers who are victims
themselves — victims of racial and racist propaganda. The hysterical public mantra of
epidemic white-on-black violence is thus exposed as fraud.
One must ask why more observers have not noticed all this. Instead, we see Sharpton, Jesse
Jackson, Eric Holder, the Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP, the New Black Panthers
and even Barack Obama rushing to judgment in the Martin—Zimmerman matter and forming
their own rabid mob, almost literally, to impose vigilante vengeance upon Zimmerman.
Ironic? Worse than that: By applying a false racial stereotype to Zimmerman and the nation,
this gallery of demagogues has committed an objective act of racism, revealing themselves to
be the real bigots. Care to guess why they did not react the same way to the O. J. Simpson
acquittal?
Let the record show that for the past 40 years or so, the only legally sanctioned racial
discrimination in the U.S. has been in favor of blacks (and some other minorities), against
whites.
When codi ed as so-called af rmative action, this was the rst time in world history that an
ethnic majority group intentionally disadvantaged itself to bene t another, purely out of a
sense of justice (sometimes derided as “liberal guilt"). Some gratitude, indeed, on the part of
the bene ciaries.
To those who complain that less value is attached to black lives in this country, as the post-
Martin demagogy alleged, please ponder the national outcry over one fatality in that incident
— even though Martin was hardly an innocent bystander.
Compare that fervid reaction with the lack of attention given the multitude of white citizens
murdered by blacks year after year. Get real. How decent of Jesse Jackson, though, to “frown
upon" the interracial hate murder of an Australian college kid in Oklahoma.
Among the pernicious aspects of our unnecessarily racialized atmosphere, one looms
conspicuously: Why have the New Black Panther leaders not been arrested and prosecuted
for their publicly announced bounty on Zimmerman — "dead or alive"?
Such incitement is a federal crime. Curiously, the Black Panthers have been very sanguine
about this potential legal jeopardy. Why? Might they know that they have a patron in the
administration?
Or perhaps they have heard that the Obama Justice Department has an of cial policy of
prosecuting white-on-black offenses but not black-on-white. That its application is limited so
far to voter suppression cases may be a nuance lost on the Panthers.
In fact, it may have been lost, period. Nonprosecution of the Black Panther bounty seems to
reveal that the Obama administration's overtly racist policy does now apply more generally.
Obama could have been a racial healer, but instead chose to be a crude, petty agitator — true
to form. What he has been doing, transparently, is fomenting racial division in order to stoke
his racial base in a way that has already turned violent in some instances.
It is a new low in American politics that a presidential candidate, let alone a sitting president,
even has a racial base.
Attorney General Holder has demanded that Americans have the courage to address the
subject of race. I'm an American and the issue here, regrettably, is race. Is this enough courage
for you, attorney general?
I trust you appreciate my commentary. It embodies the true anti-racist spirit of fundamental
indifference to race — the way it should be a la the M.L. King ideal, which you and your boss
seem to have misplaced. In fact, it grows tedious to even use the words "white," "black" and
"race" so often.
My purpose, if not already obvious: Many in our country are troubled by a propaganda-
induced misperception about white-on-black violence. I hope this revelation of the real record
provides them relief. Perhaps broader awareness of the contrary facts I report will contribute
to national healing.
Yes, isn't it great news that the true condition in the U.S. is epidemic black-on-white racial
violence? Not quite, but recognition of the truth can at least serve as a starting point for
understanding.
Gaski is associate professor at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business.
His primary research eld is the study of social power and con ict. He is a long-time, but
former, registered Democrat.
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