Whites walking down Main Street with an AK-47 are defenders of American values; a black man doing the same thing is Public Enemy No. 1.These are the words of Charles Gallagher, professor at La Salle University in Pennsylvania and "a sociologist who studies race", according to a CNN article on guns-race relationship.
The assumption is that Americans are biased against black people.
The reality is very different. The picture above, taken in August of this year, shows some of the over 30 members of the all-black Huey P. Newton Gun Club "gathered to march through South Dallas with rifles, shotguns, and AR-15s. The group eventually entered a restaurant with their weapons while Dallas police officers were inside eating lunch."
But the police hardly looked at them.
Sociologist Gallagher doesn't accuse white Americans buying a gun of being racist en masse, only of "being human, of unconsciously absorbing stereotypical attitudes about black men and violence that are as old as America itself."
But here as well what he says is far from the truth. You don't find those stereotypical attitudes in US white culture, dominated by political correctness and guilt feelings about American past.
Quite the opposite. Hollywood portrays much more frequently whites than blacks as criminals. The mainstream media are so sensitive to this issue that The Associated Press Stylebook, containing the United States' (and internationally) most authoritative guidelines for reporting, prescribes:
Racial identification should not be included in any story unless such reference is clearly relevant to the story or when part of a detailed description of a fugitive.Gun Watch comments:
The downplay of black predominance in crime is so great, that most people in urban areas now assume that if the race of the perpetrator is not mentioned, they are black. It is an open joke. The AP attempt to prevent a stereotype, has become emblematic of the social engineering by the old media. It has had some effect, but reality overrides it.The reality is represented by the official statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice:
[For homicide] The offending rate for blacks (34.4 per 100,000) was almost 8 times higher than the rate for whites (4.5 per 100,000).American blacks perpetrate almost 8 times more murders per capita than whites.
And this is not the only relevant figure. You'll find more of them here: US Racist and Capital Crimes Have a Black Hue .
The homicide statistic is excellent. Many of these black/white stats, one could wonder if it was police bias/poor lawyers...something like that. But the murder statistic seems relatively immune from those sorts of bias.
ReplyDeleteI wondered about selection bias, bias of courts, etc, until I read this article. The research is well done. For example, they look at vicimology studies to determine if victims identify numbers of different races than are arrested or convicted.
ReplyDeleteAnswer - no, they do not. If anything, slightly fewer black people are arrested and convicted compared to the number of crimes committed.
www.colorofcrime.com/colorofcrime2005.html
Criminologists know these numbers. They are simply afraid to say the truth because of political correctness.
And, it's blacks exclusively who play the "knockout" game, of striking either Jews or whites on the back of the head with fists, and then running away. I've not seen any reports of whites committing that assault on anyone, black or white.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, Enza, you might be interested in this book review by me of a biography of Mohammad:
http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/2014/10/portrait-of-psychopath.html
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