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Dr. Eowyn posted: " This week's Time magazine has an extraordinary op-ed
-- extraordinary for the Main Stream Media -- which actually admits that
race is a factor in the recent murder of white Australian baseball player
Christopher Lane by two black teens in Duncan, " Respond to this post by
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by
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Prof. John McWhorter
This week's *Time* magazine has an extraordinary op-ed
<http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/22/viewpoint-dont-ignore-race-in-christopher-lanes-murder/>--
extraordinary for the Main Stream Media -- which actually admits that race
is a factor in the recent murder
<http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/chilling-911-call-details-final-moments-of-melbourne-baseballer-chris-lane8217s-life/story-fni0fiyv-1226700172461>of
white Australian baseball player *Christopher Lane* by two black teens in
Duncan, Oklahoma.
Even more extraordinary is the fact that the author of the op-ed is black
-- John McWhorter <http://ideas.time.com/contributor/john-mcwhorter/>, an
associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia
University.
Of course, we conservative bloggers have been sounding the alarm on
black-on-white homicides and other crimes, while the media labor to omit
the racial identity of the perpetrators. We can only hope that the fact
that *Time* saw fit to publish McWhorter's op-ed may be a harbinger that
Americans will no longer be intimidated by the Left's perennial accusations
of "RACISM!" and give hypocritical U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder the
"honest national conversation on race" which he scolded Americans of
avoiding.
Below is Professor McWhorter's op-ed in its entirety.
H/t FOTM's Steve.
*~Eowyn*
<http://ideas.time.com/contributor/john-mcwhorter/>[image: Christopher
Lane and his
killers]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/christopher-lane.jpg>
*l to r: victim Christopher Lane; murder suspects James Edwards & Chancey
Luna. A third suspect, Michael Jones (who is white), is charged with being
an accessory to the killing.*
Don’t Ignore Race in Christopher Lane’s
Murder<http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/22/viewpoint-dont-ignore-race-in-christopher-lanes-murder/>
The association of young black men with violence doesn't come out of thin
air
By John McWhorter <http://ideas.time.com/contributor/john-mcwhorter/> Aug.
22, 2013
Australian Christopher Lane was killed on Monday in Oklahoma by three
teens, one of whom has said they were just
“bored.”<http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57599336-504083/christopher-lane-australian-baseball-player-killed-by-bored-okla-teens-police-say/>The
right is
complaining<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/21/christopher-lane-race_n_3792300.html>that
the media is making nothing of the fact that two of the teens were
black whereas Lane was white, as opposed to the massive alarm sounded in
cases such as white (or white-ish) George Zimmerman killing black Trayvon
Martin. And again the cry was heard that there is more “black-on-black” or
“black-on-white” crime than “white-on-black,” and that young black men are
in fact more of a problem than people like Zimmerman.
The numbers don’t lie: *young black men do commit about 50% of the murders
in the U.S. <http://sdrostra.com/?p=26096>* We don’t yet know whether the
attack on Lane was racially motivated, nor can we know whether the three
black boys who attacked a white boy on a Florida school bus recently would
not have done the same to a black kid. (Critics
took<http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/08/jackson-sharpton-stay-silent-on-school-bus-beating/>
Al
Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to task for not condemning the violence.) But
hardly uncommon are cases such as the two black guys who doused a white
13-year-old with gasoline and lit him on
fire<http://www.redstate.com/christopher770/2012/03/30/you-get-what-you-deserve-white-boy-boy-13-doused-in-gasoline-and-set-alight-in-racially-motivated-attack/>,
saying “You get what you deserve, white boy” (Kansas City, Mo.) or 20 black
kids who beat up white Matthew Owens on his
porch<http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=248077.0>“for
Trayvon” (Mobile, Ala.).
*So, it’s just fake to pretend that the association of young black men with
violence comes out of thin air. *Young black men murder 14 times more than
young white
men<http://topconservativenews.com/2013/08/young-blacks-committed-homicide-at-nearly-14-times-the-rate-young-whites-did-in-2010/>.
If the kinds of things I just mentioned were regularly done by whites, it’d
be trumpeted as justification for being scared to death of them.
It’s not that black communities are in complete denial about these
statistics — Stop the Violence events are a staple of high-crime areas. *But
let’s face it: black America isn’t nearly as indignant about black boys
killing one another or whites as about the occasional white cop killing one
black boy, even though the former wreaks much more havoc in black
communities. There is no coordinated nationwide movement equivalent to the
one Martin galvanized.* There are no thoughtful films “exploring”
black-on-black crime the way Fruitvale Station treats the death of Oscar
Grant, a young black man who was killed by transit police in Oakland, Calif.
And recent example illustrates how many blacks feel about who is murdering
whom. Two weeks ago, an NYPD cop
killed<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/05/shaaliver-douse-shooting_n_3705623.html>14-year-old
Shaaliver Douse. Douse was in the process of shooting other
people, and had been charged with shooting someone else in May — and yet
his aunt compared <http://newsone.com/2659733/shaaliver-douse-bronx/> him
to Martin. In her mind, the main sin was the white cop’s.
Granted, it seems a lot easier to do something about the Zimmermans than
the black thugs. Protest profiling and police departments institute new
programs. But black thugs aren’t moved by protests, so it can seem like
we’re just stuck with them.
*But who’s to say what would happen if black America exerted even half of
the emotional fervor and brainpower it does over cases like Martin’s to
thinking about how to keep black boys from going wrong? *Annette John-Hall
had some wise
words<http://articles.philly.com/2012-04-17/news/31355914_1_black-on-black-crime-big-city-mayors-african-american-mayor>on
this last year. What kind of self-image do we have to assume we can
only
change others, but not ourselves?
For the time being, though, *it’s time for the media to stop proudly
emblazoning the race of white cops who kill black boys *while cagily
describing black teens as, say, “from the grittier part of town,” as has
been the case regarding Lane’s killers. *The media needs to be as honest
with black people as we need to be with ourselves. No group gets ahead by
turning away from its real problems.*
*Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/>* |
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