Racism On Cruise Control

One issue in the propaganda against black people that I have been paying a great deal of attention to lately is the belief that black people are responsible for most of the crime in America. Some visitors to my blog quote statistics from impartial sources such as right winger David Horowitz, the epitome of racist thought Pat Buchanan, and Tom Metzger who was a leader in the White Aryan Resistance. Good white gentlemen such as these would never say anything to perpetuate an impression that black people are less civilized than white people. I can understand why some white people would buy into their rhetoric without even batting an eye to verify their racist claims. But what I find truly amazing and sad is the fact that there are a number of black people who have embraced such racist views on the black community without any evidence of accuracy or honesty other than these white people said so.

Lately, I’ve spent a good percentage of my time researching numbers from the Bureau of Justice Statistics to find the numbers to counter a lot of claims I’ve heard on the news and from visitors to my blog. People are quick to rattle off some statistics about how black crime percentages are several times higher than their white crime counterparts in certain areas. But I have yet to have anyone supply real numbers from the bureau or any other source that can at least front that they’re impartial. Usually someone will say something like the rate of black males from age X to age Y commit crime at a rate of thirty five percent while white males in the same age group only have a rate of five percent. Because the differences in rates are so high people automatically translate this into numbers. But no one would say the guy with money in the bank at a rate of ten percent automatically has more money than the guy with money at a rate of two percent. Everyone would ask the next logical question, how much money does each person have?

After so many years of propaganda that says blacks are criminals, blacks are mentally inferior, blacks are lazy, blacks are dishonest, and other blacks are negative nonsense, we have gotten to a point where the negative black propaganda no longer needs to be nurtured or sold to the community at large. In fact, the negative propaganda has become so ingrained into our conscious and subconscious that black people are now saddled with the burden of proving that we are not the stereotypical image of black people widely accepted by the public at large.

The black job applicant in an interview has only a few minutes to prove why they are the best candidate for the job and to prove that he or she isn’t the typical black person that we all know black people to be, but the so called exceptional black person who embraces the same values as white people. The more the black job applicant does to downgrade the non-white ethnicity and promote the desire to be assimilated into the white dominated corporate system then the easier time the applicant will have convincing the employer to allay their skepticism. Chances are that the job applicant could never overcome the mistrust an employer has developed for the black community in total. All the applicant can hope for is to convince the employer that they are different and are better.

When a person has the audacity to say that black people are no different than any other group of people there is an immediate backlash from the public. It is only natural for some white people to find such a claim a threat to their sense of superiority over black people. But some black people who have successfully convinced themselves on the idea that they are superior to the average black person would be threatened by anything that would cause them to reassess their opinion of the black community and force them to realize the simple fact that they aren’t so special after all. Either group would work to undermine any evidence that black people are not the criminal misfits certain agencies, entities, and individuals that centuries of misinformation say we are.

No one is saying that there are no criminals in the black community. No one is saying that crime in the black community should not be a concern. But it is unfair to say that black people have a proclivity to commit crime at rates that are far higher than the white community without giving the public the complete information and some indication as to what the actual numbers are. People hear one thing and immediately assume another. Based on nothing more than rates people are ready to believe that black people are responsible for the vast majority of crime in America. Black on black crime is this outrageous phenomenon but white on white crime is virtually nonexistent. But the numbers say something else. The numbers are far more different than most people are willing to accept.

Interestingly, when some people are faced with the truth they still adhere to the lies. Maybe the lie is simply more comforting because it is what we’ve been conditioned to believe for so long. But the longer people allow themselves to be manipulated by the lies and the misdirection the longer people continue to make the choice to have the truth buried under a mass of assimilation and obedience and adherence to group controlled thinking. Try to explain the concept of real numbers to people and they’ll close their eyes tightly shut, turn their head away, and plug their fingers in their ears to keep their mind immersed in the fraud. To most people, the fraud has become the truth simply because that is what society has come to want to support. The truth is now the fraud because our community no longer believes in concepts such as honesty and reality but in what can be sold to a jury of our peers.

The community of our American peers has rendered its verdict and the verdict is that black people are more prone to be anything and everything evil and white people are law abiding and everything good despite what reality may say. And there are way too many intelligent folks who claim to be looking for the truth, but the reality is that they are looking for anything that confirms what the vast majority of the public already believes. The propaganda no longer needs active nurturing for it is soundly embedded into the American psyche.