Month: December 2012

  Hating White folks is quite popular in our ranks. Our Klan behavior is mostly self-inflicted, so we’ve yet to see American Whites running for their lives from Black lynch mobs. White nationalists argue Black-on-White violence rates describe a more operational hatred than what I”m alluding to. Feel free to visit their sites and judge for yourselves. There is, however, an attitude among American Blacks that it’s often acceptable to privately denounce Whites as ‘devils”; ‘crackers” and other epithets. Liberal sisters and brothers hasten adding this happens among White folks too. Point noted. The N-word; ‘coon”; ‘monkey,” etc isn’t foreign in some White households but that’s not my subject. Mimicking their wrong doesn’t magically make ours right. My overriding concern is the erosion of moral high ground in my segment of America. Payback politics is the order of the day, eclipsing Kingian ( as in Dr Martin Luther King ) emphasis on character over skin color. I can’t address internal negatives afflicting the Black community by using my past in the 80s as the only frame of reference. While the past provides context for present conditions, it can’t be used in a one-size-fits-all manner Slavery can’t explain today’s Black homicide rate. Jim Crow doesn’t answer why our two-parent family unit has ceased to exist. Blaming Republicans is a fun exercise but it isn’t Republicans busy tearing the inner city...