"That doesn’t mean blackness equals criminality, and it doesn’t excuse crude stereotypes. But it does expose the flaw in the narrative that poverty or inequality alone explains crime. Something deeper, something cultural, institutional, and uncomfortable, is at play. Until we admit this, we’ll keep watching the same cycle of violence repeat."
"A woman named Holly from Cincinnati was recently knocked unconscious by a sucker punch at a jazz festival. The attack was caught on video. I had the misfortune of watching it. Perhaps you did too. The video went viral
"And for once, maybe the first time in decades, a white victim of black violence spoke honestly about what happened to her. She called it racially motivated. She didn’t apologize for existing. She didn’t beg people not to notice patterns. This represents a seismic shift in American discourse. For 60 years, we’ve been trapped in a suffocating ritual where white victims must immediately genuflect before the altar of racial sensitivity, even as they’re being wheeled into ambulances. They apologize for their attackers. They beg the media not to mention race. They perform elaborate acts of contrition for crimes committed against them.
"The script is always identical: “I don’t want this to become about race.” “They were probably just having a bad day.” “This could have happened to anyone.” What look like organic responses from trauma victims are often coached performances designed to protect a narrative that’s destroying lives.
"It’s time to face a simple truth: discussing black-on-white crime isn’t racism. It’s reality, and reality doesn’t bend to our feelings or our carefully crafted fairytales. Black-on-white crime exists. In fact, according to National Crime Victimization Survey, blacks commit 85 percent of all non-lethal interracial violence between blacks and whites.
"Let me be absolutely clear. This isn’t about defending one race or condemning another. It’s about the lives of Americans — black, white, and every shade between — who are left to live with the consequences. Crime that cuts across every racial line exists. If we treat the problem as taboo, we stay silent while the damage spreads.
"The numbers tell a story that makes many people deeply uncomfortable. Violent crime is not evenly distributed across America. Certain communities commit violent offenses at rates dramatically higher than others. The standard deflections don’t hold water anymore. “It’s about poverty,” we’re told. But poverty alone can’t explain why some of the poorest regions in the United States aren’t the most violent. Appalachia, for instance, is home to some of the most economically deprived white communities in the country. Yet violent crime rates there remain far lower than in cities like St. Louis, Baltimore, or Detroit. Poor whites, poor Asians, and poor Hispanics live with the same lack of money. They live with the same struggles with addiction, the same crumbling schools. But they don’t commit violent crimes at anywhere near the same rates.
" 'It’s about inequality,” we’re told. Yet America is filled with ethnic groups who arrived with nothing and endured discrimination without turning to thuggery. One needn’t discount blacks’ unique history of subjugation in the U.S. to recognize that immigrants from East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe all faced bigotry and barriers. Many began in low-wage jobs, struggling with broken English, packed into unsafe neighborhoods where survival itself was a daily battle. But these communities didn’t become epicenters of violent crime. They endured, they built. They climbed, without turning their streets into warzones." . . .More...
