Is
life more difficult for a black man? Well, yes, it is. Much of this is
cultural, however, and not racial. It follows from the fact that 40% of violent
crimes are committed by 6% of the population, i.e., black males.
Every Drop of Blood
By Dan Truitt
America’s
sin debt for slavery was paid for long ago.
“Fondly do we hope -- fervently do we pray -- that this
mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it
continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty
years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with
the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three
thousand years ago so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true
and righteous altogether.’”
Abraham
Lincoln, Second Inaugural, March 4, 1865
Delivered
a scant forty-one days before Lincoln gave, as he himself put it in
his address at Gettysburg, the “last full measure of devotion,” our sixteenth
president’s language sings, it soars; it is high poetry. Somebody called
Lincoln “that sad poet of a president,” words which capture pretty completely
what in essence this great man was. The only other American public figure who
has even arguably come close to wielding the English language so profoundly and
effectively is Martin Luther King. And it is no coincidence that both men were
animated by the same cause, in different iterations.
It was
in his Second Inaugural that Lincoln spoke, not just as a skilled political
actor, or a poet, but, in a sense, as a prophet. He seemed to have had a unique
insight into the heart of the tragedy that was the American Civil War.
I’d
been thinking about his ‘wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty
years of unrequited toil’ observation, and wondering how close to the truth
Lincoln had struck. It turns out, in fact, that he had struck very close to the
truth.
The
common accepted death toll for the American Civil war is 618,000. That figure
was recently reliably revised upward to 750,000 . At any
rate, I decided to compare that number with the total number of Africans
imported as slaves to the continental US throughout her colonial and national
history. I was wondering, frankly, whether the life of at least one American
taken during the Civil War, of which its proximate cause was the existence and
spread of slavery, was balanced out for every African brought here.
American
historian Henry Louis Gates says the following:
“Between 1525 and 1866, in the entire history of the slave
trade to the New World, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database,
12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. 10.7 million survived the
dreaded Middle Passage, disembarking in North America, the Caribbean and South
America. And how many of these 10.7l milion
Africans were shipped directly to North America? Only about 388,000. That’s
right: a tiny percentage.”
So,
given the death rate of 14.4% of those who did not survive the Middle Passage,
that raises the number of slaves destined for American ports to 443,000.
Now I
have a rather grim question for you -- is the death of 750,000 Americans, and
the maiming of thousands more, as a direct consequence to the presence of
slavery in this country, an approximately fair price to pay for the forced
importation of 443,000 Africans to America, for two hundred fifty years of
unrequited toil, plus another ninety or so years of Jim Crow laws?
Well,
this is an issue only God can fairly adjudicate. But it puts things in an
entirely new and interesting perspective- for me, at least.
You
may be surprised, given recent events, that the condition of black Americans
has actually been improving over the last decades. Here’s Kyle Smith writing
recently in the New York Post:
"The Economic Policy Institute found that the
difference in high school graduation rates between whites and blacks fell from
27 percent in 1962 to 5 percent in 2004. Last fall, the rate of black and
Hispanic unemployment hit an all-time low. Since 1980, the percentage of black
adults with college degrees has tripled. Life expectancy of white Americans
exceeded that of black Americans by more than seven years as of 1970; that gap
has been cut in half, to three and a half years. The percentage of black
Americans earning more than $75,000 more than doubled (adjusting for inflation)
between 1970 and 2014, according to Harvard professor William Julius Wilson,
who studies upward mobility among black Americans."
So
what’s the problem, one might ask? With all this wonderful progress, why all
this recent brouhaha? The answer can be distilled to a couple major factors:
1) the creation of a permanent black underclass thanks to the unintended
consequences of civil rights legislation passed in the 1960s which have given
economic incentives for fatherless households in the black community, and 2)
the steadily advancing agenda of cultural Marxism, which has led to the tsunami
of political correctness and the instant shaming and expulsion of liberals and
conservatives of principle from positions of power and influence. Throw in the
convulsive collective deliverance from three months of, as it turned out,
mostly unnecessary lockdown, and you have a perfect blueprint for bad behavior.
Not
all of this is bad, of course. Police tactics can always stand scrutiny, since
they’re the only ones in a civilization entrusted with the threat of and the
use of force to apply local laws effectively. Individuals who have an
irrational distaste for people having a different paint job than they do need to
do some serious self-reflection.
Is
life more difficult for a black man? Well, yes, it is. Much of this is
cultural, however, and not racial. It follows from the fact that 40% of violent
crimes are committed by 6% of the population, i.e., black males. If that’s “institutional
racism” in the view of a lot of rather shallow thinkers, then march until your
shoes wear out; it won’t change until crime stats change. And crime stats won’t
change until a revolution takes place in the black underclass.
The
first rumblings of that revolution are happening even as we speak; there is
very slow tectonic shift taking place in the African-American community as
black Americans, by ones and twos, by dozens and hundreds, are slowly waking up
to the fact that they’ve been had by the Democrats. That they’ve always been
had by the Democrats, who were the fiercest opponents to emancipation, the
staunchest supporters of Jim Crow, and the steely backbone of the KKK.
Democrats
are scared stiff that they’ll lose their African-American constituents. They
should be. If they don’t take their party back from the extreme Left and get
their act together vis a vis their historic mistreatment of their most loyal
demographic, they’ll be shunted off to the sidelines as a semi-permanent
minority party. And that’s bad for the republic. One-party rule always is.
“Black
Christians should protest the Democrat party's anti-Christian agenda which has
led to the moral decay of the black community; fatherless households, gangs,
crime, generational poverty, incarceration, and record-high black on black
homicides.” LLOYD MARCUS
Blacks are only 13% of the population. White America
gifted its first black president two terms. And yet, far too many blacks
absurdly believe Democrats' and fake news media’s lie that white America did
not want a black man in the White House. If America is such a hellhole of
racism, how did Oprah Winfrey, a dark-complexioned stout black woman, become
one of the wealthiest and most influential persons on the planet? The myth of
America's racism is evil, destructive, and must end. LLOYD MARCUS
Barack
Obama’s race hustling criminal coddling set the more recent tone where state
and local law-enforcement officers were routinely attacked, accused of serial
hate-inspired killings of suspects; where civilized norms were declared the
illicit fruit of white privilege; where the epidemic of black-on-black
homicides was either ignored or blamed on unresolved racial grievances. GEOFFREY P. HUNT
She never said it
was the police, by the way (she casually refused, in an article about
police killings, to place the blame anywhere), and we know it wasn't, because
the police killed about 19 unarmed
black males in 2017, and black people killed about 2,627 — a difference of over a hundred
times. In fact, in 2018, black people
killed about 2,600 black people, and whites in general — all of us,
despite being 60% of the populace — killed only 234, more than ten times fewer. The
greatest danger to black people in America today is always other black
people. Black lives matter to Black Lives Matter only when it gives
them an excuse to attack white people. JEREMY EGERER
13% of the
population in the USA is black BUT THEY COMMIT 85% of all
violent interracial crimes, 80% of all shootings, 79% of all robberies,
59% of all murders, 52% of all violent juvenile crimes, 45% of all drug
offenses..
49% of all murder victims are black. 42% of all cop killers are black.
99% of all major riots involving property damage, looting and civil disobedience are committed by blacks as opposed to ANY OTHER minority in America.
49% of all murder victims are black. 42% of all cop killers are black.
99% of all major riots involving property damage, looting and civil disobedience are committed by blacks as opposed to ANY OTHER minority in America.
93% of all
black murder victims are murdered by another black.
33% of all crimes in America are committed by 3% of the population; blacks between the ages of 16 and 36
8% of America’s population are black men, yet they account for 40% of America’s total prison population.
40% of
blacks are on welfare
Only 59%
blacks graduate high school (Detroit, only 20%)Over 60% of black
households have no fathers present
72% of black mothers are unwed!
72% of black mothers are unwed!
Blacks
account for 38% of abortions (only 13%
of population
and contraceptives are FREE)
(STATISTICS FROM Dept. of Justice, Dept.
of
Commerce, FBI and USA Census (ALL and
sect.5
Law Enforcement))
The No. 1
cause of preventable death for young white men is
accidents,
like car accidents and drownings. The No. 1
reason for
death, preventable or otherwise for young black
men, is
homicide, almost always at the hands of another
young black
man. In 2018, there were approximately 7,400
black homicide
victims, more than half of the nation's total
number of
homicides, out of a black population of 13%. Of
that number,
the police killed a little over 200 blacks, and
nearly all of
them had a weapon or violently resisted arrest.
The Manhattan Institute's Heather
MacDonald writes: "Regarding threats to blacks from the police: A police
officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed
black male is to be killed by a police officer."
Why Don’t These #BlackLivesMatter?
Black Lives Matter is a political advocacy group, “[f]ounded in
2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer,” according to
the group’s website. Never mind that the George Zimmerman trial was a complete fraud,
as Joel Gilbert brilliantly explained in his recent
book and movie, “The Trayvon Hoax:
Unmasking the Witness Fraud that Divided America.”
BLM is a self-described global network, which explains why
protests and riots sprang up seemingly spontaneously all over the world after
George Floyd’s death. Starting in Minneapolis, protests quickly spread to far
off locales including New
Zealand, South
Korea, and the United
Kingdom.
A white teenager cowers in a corner, his hands bound with orange
cords and his mouth covered with tape. Four African Americans kick and hit him
and slash at his scalp. As a cellphone camera captures their blurry images and
broadcasts the ordeal on Facebook, the attackers hurl racial insults and
denounce President-elect Donald J. Trump.
As reported by the New York Times: “A hashtag linking the assault
to the Black Lives Matter movement exploded on social media.” Were the
four attackers card-carrying members of BLM? Does it matter? After all, every
police officer is a white supremacist and racist based on the actions of four
cops in Minneapolis. Generalizing can work both ways.
BLM claims these noble goals: “We embody and practice
justice, liberation, and peace in our engagements with one another.” They are,
“huided by the fact that all Black lives matter.” Do they walk the walk, or
just talk the talk?
Do the lives of Gregory Lewis, Teyonna Lofton, or Angelo Bronson
matter? These are not and never will be household names like George Floyd. The
Obama Foundation website won’t feature their faces. Michelle Obama won’t show
pictures of any of them on her Instagram
page. The justice brothers, Jesse and Al, won’t be hustling their
deaths. Benjamin Crump won’t be representing any of their families. Dr. Michael
Baden won’t be reviewing their autopsies. Members of Congress won’t take
a knee for any of them. And there
certainly won’t be widespread protests and riots over their deaths.
Why not? All three are black. Don’t their lives matter, too?
These poor souls were victims of another weekend in the killing
fields of Chicago. As the Chicago Sun Times reported: “18 murders in 24 hours: Inside the most violent day in
60 years in Chicago.” This was last weekend while millions were proclaiming
around the world that black lives matter.
“We’ve never seen anything like it, at all,” said Max Kapustin,
the senior research director at the University of Chicago Crime Lab.
Yet I don’t hear Democrats, the DNC media, woke celebrities and
athletes, or any race hustlers showing the least bit of concern. Where are the
Obamas? This carnage occurred in their home city. Will any cable news networks
be live streaming the funerals? Will Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot ban funeral
gatherings of more than ten for these individuals while encouraging gatherings
of thousands of looters on Michigan Avenue?
Why don’t these black lives matter? These aren’t simply statistics
but real
people leaving lives, dreams and families
behind.
A hardworking father killed just before 1 a.m.
A West Side high school student murdered two hours later.
A man killed amid South Side looting at a cellphone store at 12:30
p.m.
A college freshman who hoped to become a correctional officer,
gunned down at 4:25 p.m. after getting into an argument in Englewood.
Chicago was home to 653 murders in 2016, more than the total in New
York City and Los Angeles combined. Who was president in 2016? Who had eight
years to “fundamentally transform America” when he wasn’t busy lowering the sea
levels?
Interestingly CNN
reported, “Chicago's homicide rate decreases for
the third straight year.” Who has been president the past 3 years? Obviously,
CNN won’t notice that association because Orange Man Bad. In their reporting,
President Trump is a racist and white supremacist. The declining murder rate
must be due to Obama, despite it being much higher when he was in office. CNN
made the same
claims crediting Trump’s economy to
Obama.
It’s not just Chicago where black lives don’t seem to matter. Look
at the last hundred homicides in Baltimore. One only has to go back to mid-February of this year to hit the
100 mark. The race of most victims was listed as “unknown” yet 29 of the 100
were blacks.
Antwan Phillips, Jared Hill, and Tyrone Henderson were among the
victims, but no one will be wearing a T-shirt showing their names or faces.
Jesse and Al won’t be at their funerals. Nancy Pelosi won’t take a knee on
their behalf. Why don’t their lives matter?
Last January, 14 were killed by a roadside bomb in Burkina
Faso, including seven children. A week earlier, 35 people,
mostly women were killed in a terrorist attack. Did any of these black lives
matter? Where were the protests? Or kneeling? Where was Michelle Obama’s
#BringBackOurGirls hashtag she used as first lady, long before Donald Trump was a
presidential candidate?
The woke kneeling liberals sing the praises of Planned Parenthood,
founded by eugenicist Margaret Sanger whose goal was “to exterminate the Negro population.” Their abortion
clinics are disproportionately “located in ZIP codes with higher percentages of blacks
and/or Hispanics than the state’s overall percentage.”
In New York City, home to some of the worst rioting, while
blacks make up 25 percent of the NYC population, 46 percent of abortions were
black babies. Shockingly
more black babies were killed by abortion in NYC than were born
alive. By contrast, Whites make up 44 percent of the NYC population but only
account for 12 percent of abortions. Why don’t the lives of aborted black
babies matter?
Will these protests cause a surge in Chinese coronavirus cases?
Where are the protests occurring and who will be most affected? According
to CNN,
Black Americans represent 13.4% of the American population,
according to the US Census Bureau, but counties with higher black populations
account for more than half of all Covid-19 cases and almost 60% of deaths, the
study found.
Social justice warriors are happy to congregate in urban areas,
ignoring the social distancing and mask mandates that the rest of us have been
clubbed with for the past three months, potentially spreading the Wuhan virus
to blacks, many of whom live in the protest zones. It is almost as bad as
protesting in a nursing home. Don’t those black lives matter?
Liberal do-gooders are hijacking George Floyd’s death for their
personal quest for power, money, and furthering their Marxist agenda. From
defunding police departments to saying, “Some white people may have to die”, as
a University of Georgia graduate student recommended.
If black lives truly mattered, there would be calls for more
school choice and fewer abortions, more emphasis on intact nuclear families and
less on reparations for events hundreds of years ago. But those are not part of
the BLM political platform, contradicting their supposed message.
From a true advocate for social justice, Martin
Luther King, Jr, “We must learn to live
together as brothers or perish together as fools.” If black lives truly
mattered, that would be the emphasis of BLM and their liberal sycophants.
Otherwise America will become a balkanized country, populated by fools who let
our once shining city on a hill crumble into the ash heap of ruin.
Brian C. Joondeph, M.D., is a
Denver-based physician and freelance writer whose pieces have appeared in
American Thinker, Daily Caller, Rasmussen Reports, and other publications.
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