On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: “Are black males disproportionately involved [in crime]?
“All we’re told is how many black men are in prison. Are they in prison because they are black or because they committed a crime?”
“If there was a moral renaissance in the inner cities, would there be that many arrests? If the majority of men were studying the Bible and becoming pastors?”
“If the USA Today published statistics on male-female like it did black-white. If it were males 99% arrested, females 1%. Males shot 99%, females 1%. Would you conclude that the police in Ferguson were anti-male? Why not? According to the logic of the liberal world, that should be the case. Since the disproportionate number of blacks arrested and shot exists and shows that the police are anti-black, then the disproportionate number of males shows the police are anti-male.”
Have you ever noticed how in election years, some local police blotter item that can be spun as supposedly proving a vast national crisis of white racist violence against innocent blacks seem to become the most important new event of the century for awhile? For example, in 2006 there was the Duke Lacrosse Case, in 2012 12-year old Trayvon Martin was wantonly gunned down by a white man from across the street, and in 2014 there’s Ferguson, MO, a place I have to admit to never having heard of before this month.
It’s almost as if the national media and the Democratic Party naturally work together to try to boost black turnout in November by stoking racial hatred against whites.
What’s particularly striking is what a low batting average America’s liberal elites have in choosing an incident to go to war over. America is a huge country and bad things happen all the time, so you might think that just by random luck, the national press would manage to light upon a case that doesn’t unravel upon them. But they seldom seem to learn from all their previous travesties. In fact, conspicuously not learning anything is proof of moral and class superiority.
One telltale sign that it’s an election year is that data redolent of Blacks Behaving Badly gets brought up over and over in the press as simple-minded proof of White Racism, because having a more sophisticated understanding of the implications of the numbers is just evidence that you are a White Racist.
