November 13, 2014 Is Israel Decisive For Jewish Voting? Luke Ford No sacred cows.

Is Israel Decisive For Jewish Voting?

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Luke Ford

I’m reading an Atlantic article and the following stuck out to me: “For Jews in particular, it’s usually assumed that Israel is a decisive factor in influencing voters’ decisions.”

It is taken for granted by the conventional wisdom that Jews in America vote on what is good for the Jewish state, but most American Jews don’t care much about Israel.

Stephen Steinlight wrote in 2001: “That America has largely tolerated this dual loyalty — we get a free pass, I suspect, largely over Christian guilt about the Holocaust — makes it no less a reality.”

The article concludes: “But it may be that, as a people as much as a voting bloc, Jews are becoming less influenced by their Jewishness.”

True.

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I Wonder Why The New Orleans Police Department Is So Bad?

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Luke Ford

The New York Times reports:

NEW ORLEANS — A scathing examination of this city’s Police Department has concluded that five detectives tasked with investigating sex crimes failed to pursue hundreds of reported cases, finding records of follow-up efforts in only 14 percent of such calls over three years.
The report, released on Wednesday and prepared by the city’s inspector general, Edouard R. Quatrevaux, found that of 1,290 sex crime “calls for service” assigned to five New Orleans police detectives from 2011 to 2013, 840 were designated as “miscellaneous,” and nothing at all was done. Of the 450 calls that led to the creation of an initial investigative report, no further documentation was found for 271 of them.
“It was a persistent, systemic problem,” said Howard Schwartz, the inspector general’s lead investigator. “It was a problem of lack of supervision and management that this could go on for three years and no management or supervision at N.O.P.D. recognized it.”

Steve Sailer wrote in 2005:

It was the Perfect Storm.

No, not Hurricane Katrina. That could have been much worse. Back in the 1990s, my friend Rob Brennan wrote an unpublished novel called Category 5 about a ferocious hurricane that strikes New Orleans at the worst possible angle. Katrina, in contrast, was a Category 4 hurricane and hit New Orleans only a glancing blow.

No, the perfect storm was actually the combination of social and governmental incompetence at local, state, and federal levels—and unmentionable racial reality.

Republican Presidents are supposed to provide adult supervision for crooked Democratic urban machines. But the White House is now occupied by George W. Bush, a politician so irresponsible, so uninterested in proficiency and honesty among his minions that late last year he tried to appoint as Secretary of Homeland Security the egregious Bernie Kerik.

Mr. Bush shows no evidence of holding his appointees accountable, so long as they remain loyal to him personally. Just as he has never vetoed a bill, he almost never fires anyone for poor performance.

VDARE.com readers are familiar with the contempt with which Mr. Bush treats his sworn duties to uphold the laws against illegal immigration. Now the whole country is starting to catch on to his disregard for his duties in his pursuit of image over effectiveness.

His invade-the-world-invite-the-world policies have left America unprepared for predictable domestic troubles, as Paul Craig Roberts recently pointed out here.

The ineptitude displayed by the Louisiana state government is also unsurprising. The state is unique in having a Latin political tradition (it uses the Code Napoleon rather than the English common law, even though Napoleon didn`t release his code until the year after he sold Louisiana to Thomas Jefferson), a culture in which the Argentinean demagogue
Juan Peron would have felt at home.

The unofficial state motto is "Laissez les bons temps rouler" or "Let the good times roll." Compare that to New Hampshire`s official motto of "Live free or die," which display a rather different understanding of freedom. Louisiana`s reigning philosophy is freedom from responsibility.

It`s a general rule that the tastier the indigenous cuisine, the lousier the government. Its culture has provided America with jazz, A Street Car Named Desire, and the great American comic novel of the 20th Century,
A Confederacy of Dunces. New Orleans is a nice place to visit. But you wouldn`t want to raise your kids there.

All this is now common parlance, more or less. What you won`t hear, except from me, is that "Let the good times roll" is anespecially risky message for African-Americans. The plain fact is that they tend to possess poorer native judgment than members of better-educated groups. Thus they need stricter moral guidance from society.

New Orleans itself is two-thirds black. It has had nothing but black mayors since 1978. All four of them are from the light-skinned "creole of color" elite, including the notorious
Marc H. Morial, now head of the National Urban League. The city government is corrupt and lackadaisical. While the police department has perhaps rebounded from the depths it reached a decade ago when an officer was condemned to death for having a mother of three rubbed out by drug gangstas in his employ, nobody should be surprised that last week numerous officers ran away, and some even freelanced as looters.

In a racially diverse democracy like New Orleans, voting for good government takes a backseat to voting for your tribe`s representatives in the eternal ethnic tussle over slices of the pie. As the ultra-competent but not terribly democratic founder of the state of Singapore, Lee Kwan Yew, noted in a recent interview:

"In multiracial societies, you don`t vote in accordance with your economic interests and social interests, you vote in accordance with race and religion."

For instance, after blacks took control of New Orleans, they required new police recruits to live in the city itself as a way to exclude white cops. Dean M. Shapiro writes for Court TV`s "Crime Library":

"The department was being depleted of experienced officers and the numbers within the ranks were decreasing as crime stats were rising at an alarming rate… In order to beef up the rapidly dwindling numbers of NOPD, the department was forced to lower its acceptance standards. Recruits with criminal records, DWIs, unfavorable employment records and dishonorable discharges from the Armed Forces were allowed to enter the Police Academy, whereas they had previously been excluded… Their records were expunged and, on completion of their training, they were issued badges, guns and patrol cars and turned loose on the street… These new officers were expected to suddenly straighten up and begin enforcing the laws they had not-so-long-ago been breaking. They were expected to arrest those suspected of crimes, even if those accused had once been their street buddies. But this was an unrealistic expectation."

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Why Is Israel Silent About ISIS?

Posted on November 12, 2014 by Luke Ford

Essay: “However, it would be far wiser for the United States to follow the example of Israel here — and, in fact, always follow the example of Israel by adhering to national interest (that of the United States, of course, not Israel) — than to follow the advice of those American supporters of Israel who have, because of their influence on American Middle East policy, involved the United States in endless wars creating a regional environment beneficial to Israel from the perspective of the Israeli Right.”

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What Do I Do With H.P. Lovecraft’s Racism?

Posted on November 12, 2014 by Luke Ford

According to Wikipedia: “Racism is the most controversial aspect of Lovecraft’s works which “does not endear Lovecraft to the modern reader,” and it comes across through many disparaging remarks against the various non-Anglo-Saxon races and cultures within his work. As he grew older, the more “jagged” aspects of his original Anglo-Saxon racial worldview softened into a universal classism or elitism regarding any fellow human being of self-ennobled high culture as of metaphorical “superior race.” Lovecraft did not from the start even hold all white people in uniform high regard, but rather he held Anglo-Nordic people, and especially persons of English descent, above all others. While his racist perspective is undeniable, many critics argue this does not detract from his ability to create compelling philosophical worlds which have inspired many artists and readers.[17][40] In his early published essays, private letters and personal utterances, he argued for a strong color line, for the purpose of preserving race and culture. These arguments occurred through direct statements against different races in his journalistic work and personal correspondence, or perhaps allegorically in his work using non-human races. Some have interpreted his racial attitude as being more cultural than brutally biological: Lovecraft showed sympathy to others who pacifically assimilated into Western culture, to the extent of even marrying a Jewish woman whom he viewed as “well assimilated.” While Lovecraft’s racial attitude has been seen as directly influenced by the time, a reflection of the New England society he grew up in, his racism appeared stronger than the popular viewpoints held at that time.[40][43] Some researchers also note that his views failed to change in the face of increased social change of that time.”

On The Jewish Question, Lovecraft said:

To the Jew we must say, ‘live your own life, here or elsewhere; but remember that you live among Aryans, who are not to be disturbed.’ When the interloper seeks a voice in our councils, and subtly endeavours to mould the national feeling in accordance with his own standards — among which latter is a cynical disregard of our sentiments and cherished loyalties, visible in bolshevistic Trotzkys and iconoclastic Ben Hechts — there is only one possible answer from the unemasculated sons of the honest roast-beef Englishmen and rawboned Yankees who made this nation; and that answer is just this — ‘You go to hell.’

I want to change his name to Hatecraft.

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Just when we had the goyim convinced that there was nothing about Jewish Hollywood or Homos for them to worry about….this…

Posted on November 12, 2014 by Luke Ford

I hope this does not awaken them from their deep slumber.

The goyim seem quiet as of late. Are they planning something against us?

Relax. It just means that Hollywood, Television and televised sports are doing what we expect of them.

Ferguson? Those are the shvartzes. I meant the regular goyim, such as we knew in the alte heim.

This story cannot be good for the Jews. “The spotlight again will be trained on the alleged sexual abuse of minors by powerful Hollywood players when Amy Berg’s disturbing new documentary, An Open Secret, debuts at the DOC NYC film festival in New York on Nov. 14.”

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Who Needs Democracy?

Posted on November 12, 2014 by Luke Ford

Sheldon Adelson said recently: “I don’t think the Bible says anything about democracy. [God] didn’t talk about Israel remaining as a democratic state… Israel isn’t going to be a democratic state — so what?”

I agree with this approach for Jews, for Israel, for America, for the West, for everyone.

In certain times in certain places for certain peoples, democracy is great. In other times and places, it is not great for particular group interests.

Intelligence researcher Linda Gottfredson wrote: “Genetic differences in a population create a dilemma for democratic societies. Social inequality is inevitable when a society’s members vary genetically in a trait, such as g, that is highly useful and rewarded by the society. Equal opportunity to use one’s talents will guarantee unequal results. How much socioeconomic inequality there will be depends, in part, on the extent to which individuals are allowed to reap the benefits of their own competence and, conversely, to bear the consequences of lesser competence. Societies differ in the extent to which they allow the extremes of either.”

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Two Time Super Bowl Champ Went To Daf Yomi

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Luke Ford

Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn: “At my shul in Manhattan, I had two-time Super Bowl champ, former 49er John Frank. He was the first one there in my daf yomi shiur. He was there before I got there. He said, ‘Coach Jimmy Johnson always said, if you’re not ten minutes early, you’re late.'”

I used to cover the San Francisco 49ers for KAHI/KHYL radio from 1985 to 1987, attending three of their summer camps at Sierra College and some of their games at Candlestick Park. I remember Frank as very white in his approach to football. He was quiet. He worked hard. He was a good roommate. He wasn’t flashy.

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The Bad Part Of Town

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Luke Ford

On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: “Would you send your daughter anywhere there’s a one in five chance she’ll be raped?”

“What are you chances of being mugged if you walk in a bad part of town?”

Where is the bad part of town in every town in America? It’s the black (and to a lesser extent, the low-class latino) part of town.

I blame white racism.

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The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society Gets A Great Deal!

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Luke Ford

HIAS tweets: “HIAS post-it notes at our #JFNAGA booth. We don’t want to take any back with us–come grab yours!”

@HIASrefugees I could get these printed for you less than what you’re paying now @ a printing press using undocumented labor. #JFNAGA

FROM VDARE 2009:

On Thursday I quoted Stephen Steinlight, the redoubtable but lonely patriot who is trying to persuade his fellow Jews that mass immigration—specifically Muslim immigration—is bad for them, Steinlight said:

“What`s happened here is that the entire conservative side of the cultural divide has been demonized as potential extremist terrorists…I`m thinking that one day a group of FBI agents will come to CIS [Center for Immigration Studies, where Steinlight is a senior policy analyst] and want to go through our files.”

These comments were part of two very long and rather discursive interviews on LukeFord.Net.

This website is run by an Australian immigrant of Seventh Day Adventist heritage (and with an unusual career history) who has converted to Orthodox Judaism. Part One is here and Part Two here.

Steinlight was still seething with rage over the HIAS [Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society] attempt to repress him through a secret letter-writing campaign. He had some memorably caustic moments.

There is a very strong case to be made that the attitude of the Jewish community is the single most important element in determining US immigration policy. So a selection of the remarks of this dedicated immigration patriot is prime VDARE.com material. (Hat tip The Kvetcher. For the sake of clarity, paragraphs are reordered slightly and some links added.)

Steinlight says:

“I spend a lot of time in shuls because I speak about immigration to Jews. I spend a lot of Shabboses in shuls. It ended up being part of the job…I find myself amused when I go speak at synagogues, particularly Reform synagogues, when my worst antagonist is invariably the rabbi who will often interrupt what I`m saying and will jump on me and who has only three things to say — we were immigrants, he will tear Leviticus 19:33 totally out of context, and then say that anyone who disagrees with him is a nativist. And then he`s finished because he has nothing else to say.
“Leviticus 19:33: `You shall love the stranger.`… What`s really being said here? What`s the translation? What else does the Torah say? That wasn`t a charter of independence for people dwelling among them. One law for everybody. You better conform to our laws. If you put up idols, we will stone you. If you want to become one of us, you have to undergo circumcision. It`s saying that if you dwell among us, you have to obey our laws….”

(This is a great contribution by Steinlight. As The Kvetcher has noted, this cliché seems to be central in the Jewish thinking—or more properly emoting—about immigration. Like the Statue of Liberty doggerel for Americans generally.)

Steinlight continues:

“I would love to speak to Orthodox congregations. I`ve never had an invitation to one. We`ve had ads in Jewish newspapers…
“African-Americans have fallen off [leftist Jews`] moral radar screen. They don`t exist anymore. The new fashion is Hispanics. Jews and blacks didn`t work out very well. So Jews ran on. Jews are always dying to dialogue and to be loved by everyone. Now they`ve gone running off to the next multicultural context….”
“I was …AJC`s [American Jewish Committee] representative at the National Immigration Forum, the chief body in this country pushing for open borders and amnesty. It`s a really bad group of people. I rarely use the word unAmerican. I was brought up in a home where that was associated with Joseph McCarthy, but I will use `unAmerican` to describe these people.
“The constituents of this body are mostly ethnic identity groups that are all separatists. They don`t believe there is any such thing as America or Americans or American cultures. It`s merely a bunch of aggrieved diaspora communities and sometimes they fall out with each other because they argue about who is more aggrieved. The only white people who were members of this were Jews…
“…These are the kind of Jews who want to be citizens of the world. They want to be cosmopolitan, and we know how cosmopolitanism ended up for Jews under Stalin. I wish these Jews would understand that even if you want to be that, they`re not going to buy it. They`re not going to take you. They`re not interested in you anymore. They hate your guts.”
“They don`t understand that this country is pretty much the only place we`ve got apart from Israel where we are not tolerated guests in somebody else`s house. Where we are home and we are equal.
“Showing love to this country is appropriate and not doing it is blind ingratitude and incredibly stupid and endangering Jewish interests.”
“My views on immigration evolved. I didn`t start out believing in lower levels of immigration or change in criteria for immigration. Jews are pathetically ignorant of their own immigration history. Jews for the most part were refugees, not immigrants.
“I started out thinking that immigration is the great American story. It was all very emotional. Then going to those meetings at the National Immigration Forum and seeing who those people were pushing for open borders… I would become sickened going to those meetings and I would leave trembling with rage. That`s rare for me.”

In Part Two, Steinlight goes on:

“The general coverage of this subject is appalling. I wrote a long essay analyzing coverage of immigration as a literary genre… The mainstream media is on the other side… There`s a monolithic mindset. Of all the aspects of the politically correct mindset, this seems to be the holy of holies…”

At this point, Luke Ford commented: “It seems to me that the primary reason for the near unanimity opinion on this issue is that elites are so conditioned that anything that has the slightest smack of racism is to be fled from and abjured.” (This, of course, is what Peter Brimelow has called “Hitler`s Revenge”.)

Steinlight`s response:

“Yes. Also, they`re post-Americans. That is the great dividing line between people who take my side, we believe in the rule of law…but a lot of folks in the elite…they tend to think of themselves as multilateralists, universalists. They regard the nation-state as old-fashioned and done with. I don`t think they see themselves as American. One`s fundamental sense of civic identity, how one sees oneself in relation to the polity, is the driving force in this debate.
“I am an American. My first identity is as an American. My primary identity is as an American. My first concern is the well being of my fellow citizens.
“Immigration is a zero-sum game. You have to pick sides. For me, it is simple. I pick first my countrymen. I think that those on the other side don`t care…there is an animus against this country. Their over-sympathizing with Mexicans or Central Americans is an expression of their disdain for America even though that disdain is impacting the least among us.
“God spare us all from tikkun olam Jews. The rural white poor in this country, they despise. They no longer particularly like blacks because their self-loathing love was not requited. Right now they think they can patronize hispanics.
“Jews are disproportionately involved in every kind of insanity.”

Luke Ford asked: “What, if anything, has surprised you in this attempt to silence you?”

Steinlight:

“A lot of things have surprised me and been extraordinarily painful and disappointing. It reveals something deplorable in the heart of the Jewish establishment. That someone could come out and conduct a surreptitious poison-pen campaign based on lies supplied by the Southern Poverty Law Center [VDARE.com: $PLC to us!], a whole tapestry woven together of quarter-truths and happenstance, to describe me as a white supremacist. Where was David Harris of the American Jewish Committee where I worked for eight years? Why didn`t he stand up and say, `That`s outrageous! I`ve known this man. This guy has stood against bias and bigotry and racism all of his life.` Where were the voices of outrage in the Jewish community? They`ve run along like sheep.”
“Gideon Aronoff [HIAS President] can`t debate an idea because he can`t write a sentence and he can`t speak a sentence. He`s hopeless. He`s an idiot. I`ve made mincemeat of him before congressional committees on one occasion and I`ve made mincemeat of him on other occasions. He`s a horse`s ass. I`m sure he dislikes me intensely.
“HIAS — the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society — is Jewish in name only. Basically it is involved in immigration and supporting illegal immigrants. It has no particular Jewish focus.
“We were testifying to a Congressional panel bringing faith perspectives. It was one of those typically unbalanced (nine witnesses on their side and only two on ours, Jim Edwards and me)…under John Conyers, who`s basically senile, and Zoe Lofgren, who`s got an IQ of 60, and Luis Gutierrez, who`s absolutely monstrous. One of the worst things you can ever do is testify before Congress… Aronoff ended up quoting Leviticus 19:33: `You shall love the stranger.`… There was a really disgusting moment at the end when we watched a Cardinal and a member of the National Council of La Raza and someone from a meat packing company go out the door together for lunch.”

Luke Ford:

“What are the chances Gideon Aronoff wins this battle with you?”

Steinlight:

“No. He`s picked the wrong person. I am not going to go away. I`ve gotten speaking invitations as a result of this….
“I like going to places that are hostile and I end up converting people. That`s why Aronoff wants to shut me up.
“If comprehensive immigration reform were ever to pass, Heaven help us, it would have the most enduring and palpable impact on this country of any piece of legislation since the Emancipation proclamation.
“The heart of that legislation is not amnesty. That`s a weapon of mass distraction. The heart of that is doubling legal immigration. Given the way the system works, the engine of extended family reunification, chain immigration, it will mean 60 million to 100 million more Mexicans here in 20 years.
“You don`t want to be thinking about your bubbe and zede`s immigration. You want to be thinking about how immigration is going to affect your grandchildren.”

Generally, we at VDARE.com regard CIS as another herbivorous ruminant on the immigration restraint slope. Our liking for the helpful wonkery it produces is qualified because of its unsporting habit of triangulation against us.

Steven Steinlight however, is a different matter. He has definitely put himself at the sharp end of this war.

Congratulate him: and thank Luke Ford for giving him a platform.

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How Can We Stop Sexual Violence?

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Luke Ford

ESPN reports: “At minimum, college grantees must create a coordinated community response to sexual violence, a mandatory sexual violence prevention education program for all incoming students, and a training program for all campus law enforcement and disciplinary board members on how to respond to sexual violence.”

The other alternative is to demand high level academic achievement before allowing somebody into college. That way thugs don’t get brought in to play football and basketball.

REPORT:

Studies from the late 1950s showed that the vast majority of rapes were same-race offenses. Research in Philadelphia carried out in 1958 and 1960 indicated that of all rapes, only 3.2 percent were black-on-white assaults and 3.6 percent were white-on-black. Since that time, the proportion of black-on-white rapes has soared. In a 1974 study in Denver, 40 percent of all rapes were of whites by blacks, and not one case of white-on-black rape was found. In general, through the 1970s, black-on-white rape was at least ten times more common that white-on-black rape. [319]
Because interracial rape is now overwhelmingly black on white, it has become difficult to do research on it or to find relevant statistics. The FBI keeps very detailed national records on crime, but the way it presents rape data obscures the racial element rather than clarifies it. Dr. William Wilbanks, a criminologist at Florida International University, had to sift carefully through the data to find that in 1988 there were 9,406 cases of black-on-white rape and fewer than ten cases of white-on-black rape. [320] Another researcher concludes that in 1989, blacks were three or four times more likely to commit rape than whites, and that black men raped white women thirty times as often as white men raped black women. [321]
Interracial crime figures are even worse than they sound. Since there are more than six times as many whites as blacks in America, it means that any given black person is vastly more likely to commit a crime against a white than vice versa.

Patrick Buchanan writes in 2013:

When Holder delivered his 2009 “nation-of-cowards” speech blaming racism for racial separation, Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald suggested that our attorney general study his crime statistics.
In New York from January to June 2008, 83 percent of all gun assailants were black, according to witnesses and victims, though blacks were only 24 percent of the population. Blacks and Hispanics together accounted for 98 percent of all gun assailants. Forty-nine of every 50 muggings and murders in the Big Apple were the work of black or Hispanic criminals.
New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly confirms Mac Donald’s facts. Blacks and Hispanics commit 96 percent of all crimes in the city, he says, but only 85 percent of the stop-and-frisks are of blacks and Hispanics.
And these may involve the kind of pat-downs all of us have had at the airport.
Is stop-and-frisk the work of racist cops in New York, where the crime rate has been driven down to levels unseen in decades?
According to Kelly, a majority of his police force, which he has been able to cut from 41,000 officers to 35,000, is now made up of minorities.
But blacks are also, per capita, the principal victims of crime. Would black fathers prefer their sons to grow up in Chicago, rather than low-crime New York City, with its stop-and-frisk policy?
Fernando Mateo, head of the New York taxicab union, urges his drivers to profile blacks and Hispanics for their own safety: “The God’s honest truth is that 99 percent of the people that are robbing, stealing, killing these drivers are blacks and Hispanics.”
Mateo is what The New York Times would describe as “a black Hispanic” Yet he may be closer to the ‘hood than Holder, who says he was stopped by police when running to a movie — in Georgetown.
Which raises a relevant question. Georgetown is an elitist enclave of a national capital that has been ruled by black mayors for half a century. It’s never had a white mayor.
Is Holder saying we’ve got racist cops in the district where Obama carried 86 percent of the white vote and 97 percent of the black vote? And his son should fear the white cops in Washington, D.C.?
What about interracial crime, white-on-black attacks and the reverse?
After researching the FBI numbers for “Suicide of a Superpower,” this writer concluded: “An analysis of ‘single offender victimization figures’ from the FBI for 2007 finds blacks committed 433,934 crimes against whites, eight times the 55,685 whites committed against blacks. Interracial rape is almost exclusively black on white — with 14,000 assaults on white women by African Americans in 2007. Not one case of a white sexual assault on a black female was found in the FBI study.”
Though blacks are outnumbered 5-to-1 in the population by whites, they commit eight times as many crimes against whites as the reverse. By those 2007 numbers, a black male was 40 times as likely to assault a white person as the reverse.
If interracial crime is the ugliest manifestation of racism, what does this tell us about where racism really resides — in America?
And if the FBI stats for 2007 represent an average year since the Tawana Brawley rape-hoax of 1987, over one-third of a million white women have been sexually assaulted by black males since 1987 — with no visible protest from the civil rights leadership.
Today, 73 percent of all black kids are born out of wedlock. Growing up, these kids drop out, use drugs, are unemployed, commit crimes and are incarcerated at many times the rate of Asians and whites — or Hispanics, who are taking the jobs that used to go to young black Americans.
Are white vigilantes or white cops really Black America’s problem?

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