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Will Holder discuss these five racial issues?
Here are five racial matters Americans must talk about but liberals avoid like leprosy:* The 1965 Moynihan Report: Also known as The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, the report noted the increase in the absence of fathers in the nations black households and then predicted, with chilling accuracy, what the consequences would be if the situation got worse. It did: some 25 percent of black children were born out of wedlock; today that figure is close to 70 percent. Black leaders in 1965 dismissed Moynihan and his report. So much for honest, gutsy dialogue. * Affirmative action: In the late 1980s James Farmer, the now deceased former head of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), gave a speech at a Baltimore private school. On the matter of affirmative action, Farmer didnt give the kneejerk, liberal response, in essence saying that affirmative action is something holy and those opposing it are the second coming of Eugene Bull Connor, the notorious Birmingham, Ala. public safety commissioner who in 1963 set police dogs on civil rights demonstrators. Fighting segregation was easy, Farmer told the gathering. That was clearly a case of right vs. wrong. With affirmative action and racial preferences, its a case of right vs. right. What other black leader has had the guts to say that publicly? None. And dont look for Holder or even President Barack Obama to say it. Youd have better luck getting a dead dog to roll over. * The racial disparity in felony murders: According to the FBIs supplementary homicide reports, from 1976 through 2005 whites were 54.7 percent of felony murder victims. Blacks were 59.3 percent of felony murder offenders. Those figures might explain why those on death row are more likely there for killing whites rather than blacks, but so far only the death-row racial disparity has been discussed. * The racial disparity in interracial homicides: Though the overwhelming majority of homicides are intraracial mainly whites murdering whites and blacks murdering blacks when the killing gets interracial, the black-on-white slayings are nearly three times the white-on-black ones. That trend stayed pretty much constant for the years 1976-2005. * The Morelock-Woycio murders: If youve never heard of them, then thats precisely the point. In April of 2006, Jennifer Morelock and Jason Woycio, a white couple from Carroll County in Maryland, were fatally shot in Baltimore. A 17-year-old black youth was caught with a cell phone that had the sent text message I killed 2 white people around my way 2day & 1 of them was a woman. What seemed like a slam-dunk, open-and-shut murder case went south when the Baltimore states attorneys office cut the teen loose because the arresting officer had only a consent search to look at the cell phones contents, not a warrant. The alleged murderer walked. I think we all know what would have ensued if the races of the suspect and the victims were transposed. When it comes to cowardice about racial issues, Baltimores elected officials have it in abundance. Not one has uttered a syllable, much less a word or a complete sentence, about the Morelock-Woycio murders since they happened. That too, would not have been the case if the races of the suspect and victims were reversed. There you have them, Mr. Holder. Start talking. Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2009-02-25 |
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