Racist crime stats got some coverage when Elon on tweeted approval for the facts on racial and interracial violence that the media very tries hard to ignore.
Some commentators
can you name a single white person who was murdered by a black person in the past five years? It’s kind of insane to consider the fact that Jordan Neely has literally received more media attention than the thousands of black on white murder victims over the past five years COMBINED.
If aliens arrived on Earth and looked at the murder stats in America, the first thing they’d note is how murderous the US is compared with every other developed country (largely, to my mind, because of so many guns). But the second thing they’d notice is surely this: so much murder committed by such a small, discrete population. It overwhelmingly affects those who live in neighborhoods where young black men live, which is why, as a new survey just found, by the age of 40 in the city of Chicago, “about 56% of Black respondents and nearly 55% of Latinos said they had seen someone else get shot, compared with nearly 26% of White respondents.”
This inequity — being subjected to constant, daily violence — is the one inequity the left appears uninterested in. (Just 17 percent of white liberals consider crime “an extremely important” issue, compared to 45 percent of black liberals — and 60 percent of black conservatives.) The violence African-Americans are now terrorized by every day is far higher than it was in 2020 — when the left came out in force to demand, yes, less policing and more lenience for violence. But to actually note the crisis in this sub-population, and to focus on it as the core problem, is deemed racist.
the myth of substantial white-on-black violence is so deeply embedded in the culture that it’s a storyline in network TV shows. I think it’s fair to ask people to take a position on it. If you dislike racists on Twitter focusing too much on black-on-white crime, know that they are closer to the truth than the race obsessives on the other side, and have a lot less power.
One odd thing about these calls for perspective is that when liberals say that intra-racial crime is more common than crime that crosses group boundaries, what they are essentially saying is don’t worry about black crime, because the victims are overwhelmingly black people. But wait! Since when are liberals uninterested in problems that disproportionately affect blacks? These are the people who write serious NYT think pieces about how national parks are too white. They now turn around and say, let’s not talk too much about murder, because blacks are the victims? It’s a very odd thing, and it’s hard for me to even steelman their lack of interest in solving this issue as they obsess over every other black grievance, real or imagined.
Dealing with the crime issue is complicated for reasons that go deep to the heart of the American psyche, which means there’s little hope that things will change any time soon. Until they do, we should continue to at the very least push back on the most malicious lies being told about race in America.
are you going to invest a hundred million dollars in the middle of the south side of Chicago?
Ken Griffin and Citadel picked up their multi-billion dollar hedge fund Empire and moved it to Miami from Chicago
because their employees didn’t feel safe on the streets downtown
who are committing those crimes?
now I think we have to get our heads out of the sand here
race relations will not get better through denial
there’s something profoundly wrong in the social fiber of a community
when that kind of behavior is commonplace
now did it get that way?
because people are bad people? no
am I a racial essentialist thinking that Black Culture
somehow fundamentally flawed? no
how did 7 in 10 kids born to a woman without a husband come to be ?
through complex historical Dynamics much of which had little to do with black people or Black Culture per se
but nevertheless the kid is 15 16 years old
the kid has a pistol
the kid is not parented
and there’s a thousand of them on the street
now that’s failure
that is a failure of the socialization of young people to the Norms of Civility
that are essential to the preservation of our way of life
Meanwhile north of the border, being black gets you special treatment by what used to be their Justice System and is now a Grievance System with more apologists for the criminals than their victims, at least if you’re not white. Examples include getting off with community service for manslaughter or time served instead of nearly a decade for armed robbery.
To Nadia Robinson, the idea that the man who had killed her partner should be given a lesser sentence because of his race felt “surreal”
