August 6, 2013
Would They Be Proud?
By Walter E. Williams
One can’t imagine the fear in the hearts of the parents of those nine
black students who walked past shouting placard-carrying mobs as they
entered Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Each day, they were
greeted with angry shouts of “Two, four, six, eight, we don’t want to
integrate.” In some rural and urban areas, during the school
desegregation era, parents escorted their 5- and 6-year-old children past
crowds shouting threats and screaming racial epithets. Often there were
Ku Klux Klan marches and cross burnings. Much of this protest was in the
South, but Northern cities were by no means exempt from the turmoil and
violence of school desegregation.
Most of the parents and civil rights leaders whose sacrifices and courage
made today’s educational opportunities possible are no longer with us. My
question is: If they could know what many of today’s black youngsters
have done with the fruits of their sacrifice, would they be proud? Most
schools identified as “persistently dangerous” are predominantly black
schools. To have a modicum of safety, many schools are equipped with
walk-through metal detectors, security cameras and conveyor belt X-ray
machines that scan book bags and purses. Nationally, the black four-year
high-school graduation rate is 52 percent. In some cities, such as
Detroit and Philadelphia, it’s considerably lower 20 percent and 24
percent, respectively. In Rochester, N.Y., it’s 9 percent.
What black politicians, parents, teachers and students have created is
nothing less than a gross betrayal and squandering of the struggle paid
in blood, sweat and tears by previous generations to make possible the
educational opportunities that were denied to blacks for so
long.
Born in 1936, I’ve lived during some of our racially discriminatory
history. I recall being chased out of Fishtown and Grays Ferry, two
predominantly Irish Philadelphia neighborhoods, with my cousin in the
1940s and not stopping until we reached a predominantly black North
Philly or South Philly neighborhood. Today that might be different. A
black person seeking safety might run from a black neighborhood to a
white neighborhood.
On top of that, today whites are likely to be victims of blacks.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ 2008 National Crime
Victimization Survey, in instances of interracial crimes of violence, 83
percent of the time, a black person was the perpetrator and a white
person was the victim. Most interracial assaults are committed by blacks.
What’s worse is there’re blacks still alive such as older members of
the Congressional Black Caucus, NAACP and National Urban League who
lived through the times of lynching, Jim Crow and open racism and who
remain silent in the face of the current situation.
After the George Zimmerman trial, in cities such as Baltimore, Los
Angeles, Milwaukee, Chicago and New York, there have been a number of
brutal revenge attacks on whites in the name of “justice for Trayvon.”
Over the past few years, there have been many episodes of unprovoked
attacks by black gangs against white people at beaches, in shopping
malls, on public conveyances and in other public places in cities such as
Denver, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Washington and Los Angeles.
There’s no widespread condemnation, plus most of the time, the race of
the attackers was not reported, even though media leftists and their
allies are experts in reporting racial differences in everything
else.
Would those black Americans who fought tooth and nail against Jim Crow,
segregation, lynching and racism be proud of the findings of a recent
Rasmussen poll in which 31 percent of blacks think that most blacks are
racists and 24 percent of blacks think that most whites are racists?
Among whites, in the same Rasmussen poll, 38 percent consider most blacks
racist, and 10 percent consider most whites racist.
Black people don’t need to have a conversation with white people on
matters of race. One first step would be to develop a zero tolerance for
criminal and disruptive school behavior, as well as a zero tolerance for
criminal behavior in neighborhoods. If city authorities cannot or will
not provide protection, then law-abiding black people should find a way
to provide that protection themselves.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/walter-e-williams/unprovoked-black-gang-attacks-against-white-people/
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