{"id":39883,"date":"2012-01-17T16:11:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T00:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=39883"},"modified":"2012-01-17T16:11:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T00:11:41","slug":"is-america-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=39883","title":{"rendered":"Is America Racist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dennis Prager writes<\/a>: In the Republican presidential candidates\u2019 debate on January 7, Rep. Ron Paul said: \u201cI\u2019m the only one up here . . . that understands [that the] true racism in this country is in the judicial system.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said this racism has to do with \u201cenforcing the drug laws,\u201d and then added: \u201cThey [blacks] get the death penalty way disproportionately.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two groups immediately defended Paul \u2014 his supporters, and commentators on the left. The former support anything Paul says; and the Left supports anything that Paul says that portrays America as ugly (see, for example, the defense of Paul by the left-wing USA Today columnist DeWayne Wickham, whose columns are regularly devoted to how much blacks suffer from American racism).<\/p>\n

Just last month, Paul was asked by a representative of an organization (We Are Change) that holds the U.S. government responsible for 9\/11, \u201cWhy won\u2019t you come out about the truth about 9\/11?\u201d
\nPaul\u2019s response: \u201cBecause I can\u2019t handle the controversy: I have the IMF, the Federal Reserve to deal with, the IRS to deal with. Because I just have more \u2014 too many things on my plate. Because I just have too much to do.\u201d It is readily available on YouTube.<\/p>\n

Whatever the implications of his cryptic response, when Paul is confronted by the mainstream media he denies that he believes the American government was involved in the 9\/11 attacks. But what is undeniable is that Paul, like much of the Left, holds America largely responsible for 9\/11 because of its foreign policy: its \u201coccupying\u201d countries all over the world; the sanctions on Saddam Hussein\u2019s Iraq, which Paul and the Left claim killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis; the injustices against Palestinians that America has supported (through its support of Israel); etc.<\/p>\n

He mocks the idea that the primary reason for 9\/11 was that people of great evil attacked a very good country \u2014 because this is the kind of thing the evil do, just as they did on Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese regime attacked Pearl Harbor.<\/p>\n

It does seem that the Texas congressman\u2019s description of the American justice system as racist is part of his generally dark view of America.<\/p>\n

The claim that America disproportionately executes blacks is a falsehood, disseminated on virtually every left-wing website, from the ACLU\u2019s to all the anti-death-penalty sites. The only way it can be regarded as true is if the disproportion is in relation to the entire population of the country: Blacks make up about 12 percent of the population, and since 1976 about 35 percent of those executed for murder have been black. But this is a statistic that tells no truth because it is meaningless in terms of determining alleged racial bias.<\/p>\n

This is very easy to prove. Males make up about 50 percent of the American population but about 99 percent of those executed. Is the American justice system wildly anti-male?<\/p>\n

Of course not. The statistic that matters in assessing bias in executions is the proportion of murderers of a given group that is executed, not the group\u2019s proportion of the entire population.<\/p>\n

And, here, it is clear that blacks are actually underrepresented in executions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dennis Prager writes: In the Republican presidential candidates\u2019 debate on January 7, Rep. Ron Paul said: \u201cI\u2019m the only one up here . . . that understands [that the] true racism in this country is in the judicial system.\u201d He … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28740,28742,28741,29761,28738,28739],"class_list":["post-39883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","tag-american-racism","tag-cryptic-response","tag-dec-7-1941","tag-dennis-prager","tag-dewayne-wickham","tag-republican-presidential-candidates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}