In case you
are unfamiliar with Juan Williams, he used to be on
NPR, the liberal radio network and they fired him
over a comment he made.
He is now on
Fox News Network as the balanced side of liberal
opinions.
There is a
great deal of truth in this email. Mr. Williams
deserves credit for even mentioning it.
(Wall St.
Journ, Mar 27, 2013)
Among the
statistics he cites are that 54% of all murders
involve black victims, virtually all of whom were
killed by black murderers, and yet blacks comprise
only 13% of the population.
These
are familiar numbers, but, as Williams points out,
although more than half the “gun problem” can be
laid at the feet of blacks, the gun debate never
seems to mention this.
If it were
mentioned, the obvious thought that might occur is
maybe it’s blacks that need to be regulated and not
guns.
“The single most important
factor that has caused the political left to demand
an end to private firearms ownership is that the
underclass has, over the last fifty years, expanded
exponentially, bringing with it an exponential
increase in crime. Many of these criminals come from
the single-parent families encouraged by the welfare
system, a dysfunctional government give-away favored
by the far left. The absence of fathers has led
large numbers of children to seek gangs as a
substitute for parenting not available at home. Not
content with having created an entire class of
welfare-bred criminals, the political left now seeks
to protect this underclass by rendering ordinary
citizens defenseless against crime perpetrated by
these criminals.”
In sum, both
blacks and whites are part of this criminal
underclass, but, as Juan Williams points out,
blacks, a 13% minority, are doing 54% of the killing
and dying. That needs to be said.
Why
is this happening? According to Juan Williams, the
out of wedlock birth rate for blacks is now 72%.
This
leads to more than 70% of black mothers being on
welfare raising more than 70% of black children
without fathers.
That’s part of
the problem. Another part, Williams says,
is:
“a
dysfunctional gangster-rap culture that glorifies
promiscuity, drug dealers and the power of the
gun.”
So
now we have black culture of violence financed by
the welfare system producing what are – by any
measure – distorted values. One might think this
needs to be addressed.
Not
so. The President of the United States recently
invited the gangster rapper Jay-Z to his
inauguration. Jay-Z is the black poster boy for the
value system that Juan Williams says is destroying
the black community. Inviting him to the
presidential inauguration is, by implication, an
endorsement of the mindlessness characteristic of
Jay-Z and his supporters.
But
Obama is not a moralist.
He
is a politician who panders himself to the black
vote and avoids criticizing the criminal culture
that has enslaved his people.
Obama made no
move toward gun control until a white madman killed
young children at Sandy Hook .
In Obama’s mind,
that single act instantly transformed the “gun
problem” into a white (not black)
problem.
It
is about white misconduct, not about blacks, black
culture or black behavior.
Guess what.
It’s still about blacks. They are victims and
killers in disproportionate numbers.
An occasional
white maniac does not erase that.
People who
want to reduce homicide by gun need to focus on
curbing a black culture that has caused the problem
in the first place.
Banning guns
to cure black murderousness, crime and cultural
deficiencies is like
banning
popsicles to deal with an outbreak of the Ebola
virus.
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