Steve Sailer writes: The New York Times continues its campaign to grease the skids under urban blacks so that there is nothing to dissuade inner city blacks from moving out to various nowheresvilles, such as Inkster, MI…
Black cops with clean records and good test scores are a hot commodity. They have a lot of choices in where to work: a high-paying big city? A low crime exurb? Black majority suburbs don’t have much money and have moderate crime rates, so they get stuck with white cops, who, due to White Privilege, are, all else being equal, cheaper.
You’ll notice that there is no shortage of attention paid by, say, the New York Times to Inkster, Michigan when it comes to racial inequalities that could be said to be disadvantageous to blacks.
On the other other hand, the national increase in the death rate among middle-aged whites in 1999-2005 slipped the notice of practically everybody for a further decade, because what kind of disgusting maniac worries about white people?
COMMENTS:
* It’s amazing how casually they talk about displacing white people (especially white men) from jobs, so that people of other races – in this case blacks – can hold them.
* Police and fire departments face a gap that opens up between white and black candidates in terms of test scores. They try to make up for this with diversity points. But another class of candidates also gets extra points: military veterans.
Over the last 15 years, we have created a huge group of young white men who expect to get their points in civil service hiring. In fact, a few years ago many high paying cities could probably fill all their police and fire openings with combat veterans.
I wonder how this tension between “supporting the troops” and “diversity” is playing out. Since this tension may tend to separate the center-left of the Democratic party from their constituencies, I am not surprised that the MSM isn’t interested.
* Nothing would be better than to have blacks policed by black cops, preferably a 100 per cent black force. It would settle the question of whether the killing of blacks by white police officers would have worked out any differently if the officers were black. If Darren Wilson were black, maybe some feeling of racial solidarity would have induced him to let Michael Brown go ahead and take his gun, thus preventing the fatal shooting – or preventing the shooting of Michael Brown, at any rate.
