Who is the victim of racism here?

Strained racial relations continue to smolder in the United States, but in the 21st century is it all the fault of the power exerted by one race over the other? It is in the interest of certain leaders to continue flogging this concept to keep themselves in power.

From: Black Racism and "The Jena Six"

There is a larger issue at play, however, apart from whatever penalties the juvenile justice system metes out. That is the issue of black racism, a disturbingly widespread phenomenon in contemporary America. This phenomenon explains why tens of thousands of protesters willingly traveled long distances to stage a show of support for a pack of thugs who had indisputably perpetrated a brutally violent attack against a white person. It explains why they focused exclusively on defending the “rights” of those attackers, rather than on condemning the wrong they had done. And it explains why they chose to portray a group of raging predators as the innocent, misunderstood victims of modern America’s allegedly boundless bigotry.





Black racism also accounts for the fact that the vast majority of interracial violent crimes are of the black-on-white variety, and that statistically the “average” black is many times more likely to attack a white, than vice versa. While not all interracial crimes are motivated by racial animosities, many of them -- like this recently videotaped gang assault in Viriginia -- certainly are.





But why should black racism be prevalent in America at this comparatively late stage in our nation’s evolution -- long after the rise of equal-opportunity mandates, affirmative action policies, civil rights advances, and the stigmatization of racism to the point where “racist” is by far the epithet most feared by whites, be they political figures, business leaders, clergy, academics, or social commentators?





It’s actually quite simple. Black racism remains a dynamic phenomenon because African Americans have been told, ad nauseum, by “civil rights leaders” and by leftist whites in influential organizations like the ACLU, to look outside of themselves for the roots of every ill that plagues their community; to reflexively blame white society for their problems rather than to take responsibility for their own lives; and to view themselves as the oppressed and powerless victims of a white “power structure,” a status they are led to believe renders them somehow incapable of being genuine racists themselves -- no matter how much they may detest the white people they perceive to be their tormenters. Moreover, they have been taught to angrily reject astute observations like those of Bill Cosby, who has publicly lamented how illegitimacy, parental neglect, lack of educational effort, and bad behavior have decimated black life.





Only the victim mentality fostered by the “civil rights” champions of our day could have prompted tens of thousands of people to think that rallying on behalf of the Jena Six was a worthwhile use of their time. Having listened for so long to the “civil rights” establishment’s incessant depictions of the United States as a land of racial inequity, many black Americans have become angry, embittered racists themselves. They are among the legions who, in the words of black columnist Michael Meyers, zealously “transform themselves into the apostles of their own delusions.”

From: Banished-In the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century

There’s movie out about evictions and expulsions of black Southerners in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It’s reviewed in the New York Times:

Banished - Movie - Review - New York Times
Movie Review
Banished (2006)
September 26, 2007
When Jim Crow Came to Town, With Eviction Notices
By MANOHLA DARGIS

There are ghosts haunting Marco Williams’s quietly sorrowful documentary “Banished,” about the forced expulsion of black Southerners from their homes in the troubled and violent decades after the Civil War.

The blogger Rhymes With Right thinks that the NYT might bring itself to mention that the white men doing the evicting were Democrats, of the kind that Strom Thurmond once was, and Robert Byrd, in a sense, still is:

But what I find interesting in this review, even with the commentary on the Wilmington incident (which I wrote about last year), is the fact that a single word appears nowhere in the entire piece. This despite the fact that it is crucial to the story being told, and the evil being perpetrated. It points to the thing that linked the overwhelming majority of the perpetrators of these great evils, and the overwhelming beneficiary of them.

The missing word?

Democrat.Rhymes With Right - A Fascinating Movie, A Missing Word

My first thought was that if there’s any ethnic cleansing of blacks happening today, it’s being done by Hispanic gangsters–who probably are Democrats, of course, but certainly not Dixiecrats.

My second thought was that there were people driven out of their homes by violence within living memory–it was called “white flight.”

Here’s Steve Sailer’s description of the process:

My late father-in-law was a classical musician, a union organizer and strike leader, and a Democrat. He owned a house in an all-white neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago that was so crime-free that his first grade daughter walked to her school a mile away. Then, blacks began moving in. Committed to integration, my father-in-law joined a liberal Catholic neighborhood group organized to prevent white flight. In 1968, however, his young children were physically attacked three times on the street and, following Martin Luther King’s assassination, rioters looted all the shops in the neighborhood.

So he sold his house for a crushing $18,000 loss. Being a big man who never did anything in a small way, he moved his family to an abandoned farm 63 miles outside Chicago, where they lived without indoor plumbing for their first two years.

And he started voting Republican.

It's convenient to bring up the brutality of slavery when black on white crime or black on white racism is mentioned. Michael Medved reminds us of six facts that should clarify our thinking on slavery:

1. Slavery was an ancient and universal institution, not a distinctively American innovation.
2. Slavery existed only briefly, and in limited locales, in the history of the republic - involving only a tiny percentage of the ancestors of today's [white] Americans.
3. Though brutal, slavery wasn't genocidal: live slaves were valuable but dead slaves brought no profit.
4. It's not true that the U.S. became a wealthy nation through the abuse of slave labor: the most prosperous states in the country were those that first freed their slaves.
5. While America deserves no unique blame for the existence of slavery, the United States merits special credit for its rapid abolition.
6. There is no reason to believe that today's African-Americans would be better off if their ancestors had remained behind in Africa.

Slavery and racism prospers today in all corners of the world including America, but not the victims are what they want us to believe.