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Black Skin Privilege: To Be Above the Law
The high cost of treating blacks better than non-blacks in the criminal justice system.
FrontPage Mag
Matthew Vadum
8/3/2015
Excerpt:
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It is true that black Americans are not treated equally by the nation's police forces -- far too often they are treated better than members of other races because police are quite properly terrified of being accused of race-based discrimination.
This preferential race-based treatment of African-Americans fuels violence and social media-driven reigns of terror. It encourages today's race-baiting lynch mobs that troll the Internet to satisfy their unquenchable desire to be offended and outraged. When the cranks and low-rent bigots of the so-called Black Lives Matter movement target an enemy, they get plenty of support from the media, and in many cases, from politicians. Black liberation theology and critical race theory no doubt helped the nation get to this unfortunate place.
America is now at the point where those with dark complexions enjoy what David Horowitz has dubbed "black skin privilege." As Horowitz explained to me recently:
Nowadays police coddle blacks, refusing to hold them to the same standard of behavior expected of everyone else. This cosseting of a large segment of the population encourages misbehavior because would-be perpetrators know they can get away with a lot. For example, this policy of deliberately going easy on black suspects helps to explain the rise of the so-called knockout game in which young black men viciously prey on unsuspecting white bystanders, violently knocking them to the ground for fun. It also helps to explain why police and their civilian commanders are extremely reluctant to shut down rioting black mobs.
Thumb-twiddling police officers forced to stand down in a crisis lose their own sense of self-respect as they are made to justify their inaction in their own minds. Their superiors claim to be worried that cracking down on black crime might infringe on the rioters' right to express themselves politically. They routinely give blacks the benefit of the doubt and then some as bleeding-heart judges slap African-American criminals on the wrist after listening to the obligatory sob stories that may as well have come out of dusty sociology textbooks.
No matter how adamantly left-wingers may deny it or try to rationalize it away, black youth, in particular, are incredibly violent, according to studies.
“[Y]oung black men do commit about 50% of the murders in the U.S.,” African-American John McWhorter, a self-described liberal Democrat who is also a professor at Columbia University noted in 2013.
He continued:
And as Colin Flaherty, author of White Girl Bleed A Lot, has documented, black-on-white violence has become increasingly commonplace in recent years, despite the best efforts of the media, politicians, and left-wing activists to ignore it or deny its existence. America's major urban centers, cities like Chicago and Philadelphia, have been plagued by black race riots in recent years. Few people know about these often deadly melees because they rarely get reported, and if they do make the news, the race of the perpetrators is almost never stated.
Black skin privilege emboldens and empowers blacks to commit crimes without having to fear prosecution. It is what allowed the dangerously incompetent gangster-loving mayor of Baltimore, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D), to get away earlier this year with giving "space" to the largely black mobs of violent protesters whom she admitted "wished to destroy."
It is what allowed former Attorney General Eric Holder and Thomas Perez, the former Assistant U.S. Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division and current Labor Secretary, to refuse to prosecute "hate crimes" committed against white Americans. (Note: Although the motive of a criminal might in some situations be relevant in the sentencing process, it is this writer's opinion that hate crimes laws are "thought crime" laws. They are pernicious and smack of totalitarianism. They should not exist. It is enough to punish wrongdoers for committing the actual crimes themselves. Punishing them specifically for their thoughts and beliefs, which are presumably protected by the First Amendment, ought to be considered abhorrent in a free society.)
Perez was reportedly instrumental in the Justice Department’s dismissal of a case involving two members of the New Black Panther Party who intimidated white voters in Philadelphia on Election Day 2008. The two men openly brandished nightsticks at a polling station in order to intimidate white voters.
Perez played a major role in enacting the Church Arson Prevention Act, which was based on the false premise that black churches were being targeted with disproportionate frequency by arsonists. He targeted Maricopa County, Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio, for legal harassment because he didn't approve of Arpaio’s tough-on-crime approach.
A desire to more deeply institutionalize black skin privilege in the legal system was manifest in President Obama's ultimately unsuccessful nomination of race-obsessed radical lawyer Debo Adegbile to succeed Perez as the nation's top civil rights enforcer. Adegbile, former head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, is a staunch affirmative action supporter who doesn't seem to believe that white Americans are entitled to civil rights protection.
While Adegbile was at the helm of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the organization became increasingly radical, opposing criminal-background checks by employers and pushing extreme racial-hiring quotas. Adegbile lost a case before the U.S. Supreme Court (Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder) in which he argued that large swaths of America are racist hellholes that maliciously prevent minorities from voting. President Obama calls NAACP LDF "simply the best civil rights law firm in American history."
Under Adegbile the fund acted in several legal proceedings for unrepentant cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, the black leftist folk hero who has parlayed his 1981 murder of white Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner into a career behind bars. Born Wesley Cook, the former Black Panther often referred to affectionately in radical circles as simply "Mumia," was sentenced to death but years later the punishment was commuted to life imprisonment. He enjoys celebrity status on the Left and through the wonder of modern technology is a frequent guest speaker at college commencement ceremonies.
As Officer Faulkner tried to arrest the perpetrator's brother during a traffic stop, Abu-Jamal shot the policeman once in the back and then stood over him and shot him four more times at close range, once directly in the face. Multiple eyewitnesses were present during the crime. So naturally Adegbile did everything in his power to permanently free the beloved Mumia, whom the Left views as a sincere political activist whose murder of a police officer was a legitimate expression of political beliefs.
Many states collect data on the race of drivers pulled over by police. In today's hyper-sensitive racial climate, this chills law enforcement. If "too many" blacks are being pulled over, it is treated as prima facie evidence of race-based discrimination regardless of the circumstances under which the individual drivers were stopped.
Simply put, these data collection programs function as a shield or an informal right to break the law. If police constantly have to worry their actions will be interpreted as racist, they are understandably going to be more reluctant to do their jobs. A cop transformed into a bureaucrat isn't going to be effective as a cop.
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View the complete article at:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2596...-matthew-vadum
The high cost of treating blacks better than non-blacks in the criminal justice system.
FrontPage Mag
Matthew Vadum
8/3/2015
Excerpt:
..................................
It is true that black Americans are not treated equally by the nation's police forces -- far too often they are treated better than members of other races because police are quite properly terrified of being accused of race-based discrimination.
This preferential race-based treatment of African-Americans fuels violence and social media-driven reigns of terror. It encourages today's race-baiting lynch mobs that troll the Internet to satisfy their unquenchable desire to be offended and outraged. When the cranks and low-rent bigots of the so-called Black Lives Matter movement target an enemy, they get plenty of support from the media, and in many cases, from politicians. Black liberation theology and critical race theory no doubt helped the nation get to this unfortunate place.
America is now at the point where those with dark complexions enjoy what David Horowitz has dubbed "black skin privilege." As Horowitz explained to me recently:
I coined this term because it encapsulated the facts that are indispensable to understanding our national crisis over race and also politically incorrect to so much as mention: racism -- race privileges and race preferences -- are now the “civil rights” cause of the progressive left. As soon as the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s outlawed racial categories in governmental regulations and laws, the civil rights left began to reverse this historic victory by reintroducing racial categories and privileges into every aspect of public life from job applications to college admissions, to presumptions of innocence and conclusions of guilt. The term “black skin privilege” -- which is an indubitable fact of our social life -- hoists the racial hypocrites on their own petard. You want to talk about racism? Let’s talk about the racist attitudes and policies of progressives and lynch mobs of color that they inspire.
Nowadays police coddle blacks, refusing to hold them to the same standard of behavior expected of everyone else. This cosseting of a large segment of the population encourages misbehavior because would-be perpetrators know they can get away with a lot. For example, this policy of deliberately going easy on black suspects helps to explain the rise of the so-called knockout game in which young black men viciously prey on unsuspecting white bystanders, violently knocking them to the ground for fun. It also helps to explain why police and their civilian commanders are extremely reluctant to shut down rioting black mobs.
Thumb-twiddling police officers forced to stand down in a crisis lose their own sense of self-respect as they are made to justify their inaction in their own minds. Their superiors claim to be worried that cracking down on black crime might infringe on the rioters' right to express themselves politically. They routinely give blacks the benefit of the doubt and then some as bleeding-heart judges slap African-American criminals on the wrist after listening to the obligatory sob stories that may as well have come out of dusty sociology textbooks.
No matter how adamantly left-wingers may deny it or try to rationalize it away, black youth, in particular, are incredibly violent, according to studies.
“[Y]oung black men do commit about 50% of the murders in the U.S.,” African-American John McWhorter, a self-described liberal Democrat who is also a professor at Columbia University noted in 2013.
He continued:
Hardly uncommon are cases such as the two black guys who doused a white 13-year-old with gasoline and lit him on fire, saying “You get what you deserve, white boy’ (Kansas City, Mo.) or 20 black kids who beat up white Matthew Owens on his porch ‘for Trayvon’ (Mobile, Ala.).
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. 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 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. 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.
And as Colin Flaherty, author of White Girl Bleed A Lot, has documented, black-on-white violence has become increasingly commonplace in recent years, despite the best efforts of the media, politicians, and left-wing activists to ignore it or deny its existence. America's major urban centers, cities like Chicago and Philadelphia, have been plagued by black race riots in recent years. Few people know about these often deadly melees because they rarely get reported, and if they do make the news, the race of the perpetrators is almost never stated.
Black skin privilege emboldens and empowers blacks to commit crimes without having to fear prosecution. It is what allowed the dangerously incompetent gangster-loving mayor of Baltimore, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D), to get away earlier this year with giving "space" to the largely black mobs of violent protesters whom she admitted "wished to destroy."
It is what allowed former Attorney General Eric Holder and Thomas Perez, the former Assistant U.S. Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division and current Labor Secretary, to refuse to prosecute "hate crimes" committed against white Americans. (Note: Although the motive of a criminal might in some situations be relevant in the sentencing process, it is this writer's opinion that hate crimes laws are "thought crime" laws. They are pernicious and smack of totalitarianism. They should not exist. It is enough to punish wrongdoers for committing the actual crimes themselves. Punishing them specifically for their thoughts and beliefs, which are presumably protected by the First Amendment, ought to be considered abhorrent in a free society.)
Perez was reportedly instrumental in the Justice Department’s dismissal of a case involving two members of the New Black Panther Party who intimidated white voters in Philadelphia on Election Day 2008. The two men openly brandished nightsticks at a polling station in order to intimidate white voters.
Perez played a major role in enacting the Church Arson Prevention Act, which was based on the false premise that black churches were being targeted with disproportionate frequency by arsonists. He targeted Maricopa County, Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio, for legal harassment because he didn't approve of Arpaio’s tough-on-crime approach.
A desire to more deeply institutionalize black skin privilege in the legal system was manifest in President Obama's ultimately unsuccessful nomination of race-obsessed radical lawyer Debo Adegbile to succeed Perez as the nation's top civil rights enforcer. Adegbile, former head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, is a staunch affirmative action supporter who doesn't seem to believe that white Americans are entitled to civil rights protection.
While Adegbile was at the helm of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the organization became increasingly radical, opposing criminal-background checks by employers and pushing extreme racial-hiring quotas. Adegbile lost a case before the U.S. Supreme Court (Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder) in which he argued that large swaths of America are racist hellholes that maliciously prevent minorities from voting. President Obama calls NAACP LDF "simply the best civil rights law firm in American history."
Under Adegbile the fund acted in several legal proceedings for unrepentant cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, the black leftist folk hero who has parlayed his 1981 murder of white Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner into a career behind bars. Born Wesley Cook, the former Black Panther often referred to affectionately in radical circles as simply "Mumia," was sentenced to death but years later the punishment was commuted to life imprisonment. He enjoys celebrity status on the Left and through the wonder of modern technology is a frequent guest speaker at college commencement ceremonies.
As Officer Faulkner tried to arrest the perpetrator's brother during a traffic stop, Abu-Jamal shot the policeman once in the back and then stood over him and shot him four more times at close range, once directly in the face. Multiple eyewitnesses were present during the crime. So naturally Adegbile did everything in his power to permanently free the beloved Mumia, whom the Left views as a sincere political activist whose murder of a police officer was a legitimate expression of political beliefs.
Many states collect data on the race of drivers pulled over by police. In today's hyper-sensitive racial climate, this chills law enforcement. If "too many" blacks are being pulled over, it is treated as prima facie evidence of race-based discrimination regardless of the circumstances under which the individual drivers were stopped.
Simply put, these data collection programs function as a shield or an informal right to break the law. If police constantly have to worry their actions will be interpreted as racist, they are understandably going to be more reluctant to do their jobs. A cop transformed into a bureaucrat isn't going to be effective as a cop.
.................................................. .
View the complete article at:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2596...-matthew-vadum