Syracuse University Prof. – Where’s the outrage over black-on-black crime?
An excellent question, professor.
By the way… prepare to be attacked by countless liberals in politics, media and academia who don’t like having their narrative challenged.
The College Fix reports.
Professor: Where’s The Outrage Over Black-on-Black Killing?
Laurence Thomas, a professor in the philosophy and political science departments of the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, asks: where’s the outrage over black-on-black crime?
“With no other ethnic group in the United States, do we have its members committing so much violence against one another on a daily basis,” Thomas wrote in a column.
Whether one agrees with the George Zimmerman verdict or not, what cries out for an explanation is the fact that the nation–blacks in particular–would seem to be more distraught over Zimmerman killing a black teenage youth than the crimes that black people commit against black people on a daily basis.
… Yet, there is no sustained outcry on the part of blacks with regard to black-on-black killings. With both Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, we have a deafening silence when it comes seeing the wrongs that black people commit against one another. Yet, both seem to have the eyes of an eagle in the matter of seeing the wrongs that a white person commits against a black person.
There is an irony here that seems to be lost on everyone. If the only time that the killing of a black person really troubles the black community-at-large is when a white person, rather than a black person, has done the killing, then in effect what is being said is that a black life has more moral value when that life is ended by a white person instead of a black person. And unless I am missing something, that is precisely the point of view that the KKK would hold.
By the way, Thomas is black. And he is right.
Professor: Where’s The Outrage Over Black-on-Black Killing? (The College Fix)
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There’s no one to shake down in black-on-black crime.
Or, to paraphrase an old-time radio comedian: “There are the shakers and the shakees.”
Since the shakers are pretty much the usual suspects of Sharpton, Jackson, the CBC and whatever passes locally for “black activists”, they can’t very well attack their own or one another. So, that would leave…. uhmmmmm… the rest of us.
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Professor Thomas is a great man. I was privileged to have him teach one of my Philosophy classes when I attended Syracuse University. He is fantastically smart, very funny, eloquent and analytical.
He used to have a policy that after the third lecture, if he did not know you – by name and visage – and call on you directly BY name during the lecture, he would give you an A on the final exam. His philosophy course had a capacity of 500 students, and there was ALWAYS a waiting list. To this day, I have not heard of him ONCE having to make good on it.
His memory is so good that I spoke to him six years after I had his class when I bumped into him at the Syracuse Airport and he remembered me and greeted me by name without prompting.
Would it be possible to shame these people into reality? The poverty pimps all tend to define “caring” as more money for useless programs that line their own pockets even as urban America falls apart. What would the reaction be to a series of Tea Party rallies against urban violence in all the cities that held Justice for Travon rallies? They could feature a reading of the names of all the murder victims for the last five years in that city, signs with enlarged photos of the victims, an interfaith prayer service, pledges to stand behind witnesses who come forward.
Also how about some private assistance programs to help qualified poor people of all races to learn how to shot and obtain the necessary gun permits? That can be an expensive process, especially if the gun ranges are mostly out in the suburbs. That probably tends to depress gun ownership among law abiding lower class urban residents.