In the aftermath of the acquittal of George Zimmerman, Eric Holder, Al Sharpton and Ben Jealous of the NAACP are calling on the black community to rise up in national protest.

Yet they know — and Barack Obama, whose silence speaks volumes, knows — nothing is going to happen.

"Stand-Your-Ground" laws in Florida and other states are not going to be repealed. George Zimmerman is not going to be prosecuted for a federal "hate crime" in the death of Trayvon Martin.

The result of all this ginned-up rage that has produced vandalism and violence is simply going to be an ever-deepening racial divide.

Consider the matter of crime and fear of crime.

From listening to cable channels and hearing Holder, Sharpton, Jealous and others, one would think the great threat to black children today emanates from white vigilantes and white cops.

Hence, every black father must have a "conversation" with his son, warning him not to resist or run if pulled over or hassled by a cop.

Make the wrong move, son, and you may be dead is the implication.

But is this the reality in Black America?

When Holder delivered his 2009 "nation-of-cowards" speech blaming racism for racial separation, Manhattan Institute's Heather Mac Donald suggested that our attorney general study his crime statistics.

In New York from January to June 2008, 83 percent of all gun assailants were black, according to witnesses and victims, though blacks were only 24 percent of the population. Blacks and Hispanics together accounted for 98 percent of all gun assailants. Forty-nine of every 50 muggings and murders in the Big Apple were the work of black or Hispanic criminals.

New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly confirms Mac Donald's facts. Blacks and Hispanics commit 96 percent of all crimes in the city, he says, but only 85 percent of the stop-and-frisks are of blacks and Hispanics.

And these may involve the kind of pat-downs all of us have had at the airport.

Is stop-and-frisk the work of racist cops in New York, where the crime rate has been driven down to levels unseen in decades?

According to Kelly, a majority of his police force, which he has been able to cut from 41,000 officers to 35,000, is now made up of minorities.

But blacks are also, per capita, the principal victims of crime. Would black fathers prefer their sons to grow up in Chicago, rather than low-crime New York City, with its stop-and-frisk policy?

Fernando Mateo, head of the New York taxicab union, urges his drivers to profile blacks and Hispanics for their own safety: "The God's honest truth is that 99 percent of the people that are robbing, stealing, killing these drivers are blacks and Hispanics."

Mateo is what The New York Times would describe as "a black Hispanic" Yet he may be closer to the 'hood than Holder, who says he was stopped by police when running to a movie — in Georgetown.

Which raises a relevant question. Georgetown is an elitist enclave of a national capital that has been ruled by black mayors for half a century. It's never had a white mayor.

Is Holder saying we've got racist cops in the district where Obama carried 86 percent of the white vote and 97 percent of the black vote? And his son should fear the white cops in Washington, D.C.?

What about interracial crime, white-on-black attacks and the reverse?

After researching the FBI numbers for "Suicide of a Superpower," this writer concluded: "An analysis of 'single offender victimization figures' from the FBI for 2007 finds blacks committed 433,934 crimes against whites, eight times the 55,685 whites committed against blacks. Interracial rape is almost exclusively black on white — with 14,000 assaults on white women by African Americans in 2007. Not one case of a white sexual assault on a black female was found in the FBI study."

Though blacks are outnumbered 5-to-1 in the population by whites, they commit eight times as many crimes against whites as the reverse. By those 2007 numbers, a black male was 40 times as likely to assault a white person as the reverse.

If interracial crime is the ugliest manifestation of racism, what does this tell us about where racism really resides — in America?

And if the FBI stats for 2007 represent an average year since the Tawana Brawley rape-hoax of 1987, over one-third of a million white women have been sexually assaulted by black males since 1987 — with no visible protest from the civil rights leadership.

Today, 73 percent of all black kids are born out of wedlock. Growing up, these kids drop out, use drugs, are unemployed, commit crimes and are incarcerated at many times the rate of Asians and whites — or Hispanics, who are taking the jobs that used to go to young black Americans.

Are white vigilantes or white cops really Black America's problem?

Obama seems not to think so. The Rev. Sharpton notwithstanding, he is touting Ray Kelly as a possible chief of homeland security.

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?" To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators webpage at www.creators.com.

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Nice writeup, it's sad but it's the truth, most acts of violence being perpetrated in the states are being done by black people, take chicago for instance, the increase in gang violence there is quite disturbing, and these gangs are made up of 80% blacks, and 20% mixed, the black people in the US commit more homicide. So let's just face the truth, zimmerman made a wrong decision, but he can't be blamed solely for making that decision, the black americans should feel a sense of responsibility for failing in their duties as guardians.

Sup mann, it's been way too long, where have u been? Hope u're cool though?

We as Blacks are the biggest victims of Black criminals, yet we have no marches or rallies against this. When Bawomolo, a Nairalander, was senselessly killed, it wasn't in the hands of a white vigilante or cop but Black gangsters.

It's easier to deflect from the criminality causing such huge loss of young Black lives by railing against Whites.

Sad but True.

It's amazing we can be victims of white CRIMINALITY for over 400 years yet a few of us become of the inclination black on black crime of the last 35 years as the be all end all to black american woes in this country. It's more than amazing to me! Black on black crime is crime molded by DESIGN, remember blacks only control 1/2 of 1% percent of the wealth in this country, by DEFAULT we don't have the ability to even be held responsible for the state of conduct that's rampant throughout our streets that's been designed to keep us in the condition of a permanent underclass.

Whitey likes to play that game of double dealing, he knows that if given a fair shot blacks in america will always excel (Black Wallstreet) he knows that black america hasn't received what was due to them, he knows the values under which blacks in america have been subjugated to over 300 years, WHITEY knows all this and what he knows best is that if "he throws a Few BONES (obama) every now and then to us" he can kill 2 birds with 1 stone and leave plenty of black FOLK with a serious case of stockholm's syndrome along the way.

Imagine that, whitey bamboozling his way into redemption and salvation before even paying out a damn penny. It's amazing and I'd be on the floor rolling around laughing right now if the situation wasn't so dire! We can accept the fact that we have a cancer in black on black crime in america, but more importantly we should come to accept the fact we didn't develop a stage 4 cancer overnight!

red jasper: It's amazing we can be victims of white CRIMINALITY for over 400 years yet a few of us become of the inclination black on black crime of the last 35 years as the be all end all to black american woes in this country. It's more than amazing to me! Black on black crime is crime molded by DESIGN, remember blacks only control 1/2 of 1% percent of the wealth in this country, by DEFAULT we don't have the ability to even be held responsible for the state of conduct that's rampant throughout our streets that's been designed to keep us in the condition of a permanent underclass.

Whitey likes to play that game of double dealing, he knows that if given a fair shot blacks in america will always excel (Black Wallstreet) he knows that black america hasn't received what was due to them, he knows the values under which blacks in america have been subjugated to over 300 years, WHITEY knows all this and what he knows best is that if "he throws a Few BONES (obama) every now and then to us" he can kill 2 birds with 1 stone and leave plenty of black FOLK with a serious case of stockholm's syndrome along the way.

Imagine that, whitey bamboozling his way into redemption and salvation before even paying out a damn penny. It's amazing and I'd be on the floor rolling around laughing right now if the situation wasn't so dire! We can accept the fact that we have a cancer in black on black crime in america, but more importantly we should come to accept the fact we didn't develop a stage 4 cancer overnight!

So whites are responsible for all the black on black crime in the USA and for the fact that blacks are dis-proportionally involved in the criminal justice system as perpetrators of violence?. . .

bolaino: Nice writeup, it's sad but it's the truth, most acts of violence being perpetrated in the states are being done by black people, take chicago for instance, the increase in gang violence there is quite disturbing, and these gangs are made up of 80% blacks, and 20% mixed, the black people in the US commit more homicide. So let's just face the truth, zimmerman made a wrong decision, but he can't be blamed solely for making that decision, the black americans should feel a sense of responsibility for failing in their duties as guardians.

Sup mann, it's been way too long, where have u been? Hope u're cool though?

So true, am good man. . .I have been around. . .Hope you are good as well. .Best wishes. . .

mazaje:

So whites are responsible for all the black on black crime in the USA and for the fact that blacks are dis-proportionally involved in the criminal justice system as perpetrators of violence?. . .

Who manufactures the guns? The drugs? Who controls government? The media? Who controls the record labels that market out poison to black youth? I assume black americans? The relationship between black and white in this country is not and will NEVER be of a mutually beneficial nature. It was not designed for that purpose hence you can have black americans being disproportionately profiled and convicted into the american "justice" system in comparison with their white counterparts.

When the slave master put a whip into the hand of a slave and directed him to beat another slave, who created the condition for that to transpire? Mr. Sambo or Mr. Wille Lynch? Considering that's a form of black on black crime I assume all the fault would lie with Mr. Sambo? Again, we can accept WE have a problem with black on black crime however we would be doing ourselves a disservice to believe it occurred out the sky overnight! The chicken surely didn't come before the egg here. If we can't grasp that simple concept I'm not sure we're totally understanding the prerequisite to this phenomenon of "black on black crime" in america.

Whitey doesn't jump through a million hoops to profile and stereotype the typical black, so I'm sure not gonna try and see them through rose colored glasses when history has proven they're a detriment to my well being. Certainly can't give whitey the benefit of the doubt considering their awesome track record!

Of course the white man is free to shoot blacks just for being black.

Blood sacrifice: The wages of white supremacy
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'So far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.'
The prosecution in the trial of George Zimmerman said repeatedly that the trial was not about race. Zimmerman's defence disagreed: It was about race, they argued repeatedly, and Trayvon Martin was guilty...of being black. He caused his own death, didn't he? That's what Zimmerman's lawyer Mark O'Mara urged his own mother to admit on the stand. And it wasn't just a bizarre aberration. It was the heart of Zimmerman's defence to put Trayvon Martin on trial instead - and to do it, essentially, for the same reason that Zimmerman targeted him in the first place: because he was black.

Of course, murder defences often try to put the victim on trial, regardless of who they are. But when they are black in America, their race inevitably plays a role - it just requires a bit more subtlety than it used to...but not a whole lot. And so we got a neighbor called to testify that a black man burgled her house. Why was that relevant? What was she doing there, testifying in a totally unrelated trial?

A tweet from The Nation magazine explained it perfectly: "White supremacy: the idea that some black men must be killed with impunity to keep society at large safe."

The logic of white supremacy perfectly explained why that neighbor was allowed to testify. The logic of white supremacy perfectly explained why Trayvon Martin had to die. And the logic of white supremacy perfectly explained why Zimmerman had to get away with it. 

Many things have changed in America over the past 50 years. The most popular woman in America is the black First Lady, for gosh sakes! But, as the Zimmerman verdict showed, the logic of white supremacy remains perfectly intact - and keeping that logic in mind can be enormously helpful in not getting distracted by extraneous details.

White supremacy remains relevant

Americans talk a good deal about race and racism, but not so much about white supremacy.. One reason is that getting rid of the worst forms of old-fashioned white racism has made it easy for most white people to think racism has nothing to do with them. "I'm not a racist," they'll say, without even thinking about it. "I treat everyone the same." However, research into implicit bias shows that most people have unconscious biases they know nothing about: bias doesn't have to mean either animus, or intent.

What's more, field surveys have repeatedly shown that blacks are rejected far more than equally-qualified whites, whether for job interviews or apartment rentals. In one study, whites were offered jobs at about twice the rate of blacks, and whites with a prison record were treated as well as blacks with a clean record.

Beyond that level of discrimination, we encounter more dire impacts. Black and white drug use is virtually identical, for example, but the war on drugs is disproportionately a war on blacks, with more blacks stopped for random searches, more arrested for possession, more arrestees sent to trial, and more of those tried sent to prison.

At every single step of the way, blacks are treated more harshly than whites. And in many states, they lose the right to vote as well - long after they've paid the price of years in prison and on parole.

What's happening in America is not just some random mish-mash of racial and post-racial attitudes. There are massive historical and structural forces at work. Individual attitudes matter, of course, but they are only one facet of a much more complicated story - a story whose scope and essence is much more readily grasped through the lens of white supremacy, a system of racial group dominance, rather than racism, which most folks conceive of primarily or entirely in terms of conscious individual attitudes.

During the GOP primary, I wrote a column discussing the fundamental tenets of colourblind racism, in which "the central component of any dominant racial ideology is its frames or set paths for interpreting information".

http://m.aljazeera.com/se/201371511515880981

Most of you don't understand what racism entails hence why you make obnoxious comments. Racism isn't just by throwing bananas at you because you're black nor it's about calling you the "N" word. Racism is deeper than that.

Racism defined:

- Racism is when blacks are just 13% of the population and about 60% of the prison population.
- Racism is war on drugs, where the drug-users and the biggest suppliers are out there walking freely, yet the street-hustler who's trying to make a dollar out of 50 cents is locked up.
- Racism is when white privilege makes your life automatically better than other races of people.
- Racism is when black neighbourhoods are polluted with drugs and guns purposely for violence, yet drugs are controlled when it comes to white neighbourhoods.
- Racism is when I can't get certain jobs in the corporate world despite being qualified because of the colour of my skin.
- Racism is when at work, despite my qualifications and expertise, I'm still being looked down on by white colleagues. --- Racism is the systematic destruction of black kids, black family, black neighbourhoods, black institutions and black businesses.

And a racist is someone who has the power to exhibit racism.

shymexx: Most of you don't understand what racism entails hence why you make obnoxious comments. Racism isn't just by throwing bananas at you because you're black nor it's about calling you the "N" word. Racism is deeper than that.

Racism defined:

- Racism is when blacks are just 13% of the population and about 60% of the prison population.
- Racism is war on drugs, where the drug-users and the biggest suppliers are out there walking freely, yet the street-hustler who's trying to make a dollar out of 50 cents is locked up.
- Racism is when white privilege makes your life automatically better than other races of people.
- Racism is when black neighbourhoods are polluted with drugs and guns purposely for violence, yet drugs are controlled when it comes to white neighbourhoods.
- Racism is when I can't get certain jobs in the corporate world despite being qualified because of the colour of my skin.
- Racism is when at work, despite my qualifications and expertise, I'm still being looked down on by white colleagues. --- Racism is the systematic destruction of black kids, black family, black neighbourhoods, black institutions and black businesses.

And a racist is someone who has the power to exhibit racism.

I agree but look at the way we treat each other. We disrespect each other as well. Let's tal about what we do to each other. We are more likely to buy from white businesses than our own. Look at Nigeria how everything is imported.

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mazaje: In the aftermath of the acquittal of George Zimmerman, Eric Holder, Al Sharpton and Ben Jealous of the NAACP are calling on the black community to rise up in national protest.

Yet they know — and Barack Obama, whose silence speaks volumes, knows — nothing is going to happen.

"Stand-Your-Ground" laws in Florida and other states are not going to be repealed. George Zimmerman is not going to be prosecuted for a federal "hate crime" in the death of Trayvon Martin.

The result of all this ginned-up rage that has produced vandalism and violence is simply going to be an ever-deepening racial divide.

Consider the matter of crime and fear of crime.

From listening to cable channels and hearing Holder, Sharpton, Jealous and others, one would think the great threat to black children today emanates from white vigilantes and white cops.

Hence, every black father must have a "conversation" with his son, warning him not to resist or run if pulled over or hassled by a cop.

Make the wrong move, son, and you may be dead is the implication.

But is this the reality in Black America?

When Holder delivered his 2009 "nation-of-cowards" speech blaming racism for racial separation, Manhattan Institute's Heather Mac Donald suggested that our attorney general study his crime statistics.

In New York from January to June 2008, 83 percent of all gun assailants were black, according to witnesses and victims, though blacks were only 24 percent of the population. Blacks and Hispanics together accounted for 98 percent of all gun assailants. Forty-nine of every 50 muggings and murders in the Big Apple were the work of black or Hispanic criminals.

New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly confirms Mac Donald's facts. Blacks and Hispanics commit 96 percent of all crimes in the city, he says, but only 85 percent of the stop-and-frisks are of blacks and Hispanics.

And these may involve the kind of pat-downs all of us have had at the airport.

Is stop-and-frisk the work of racist cops in New York, where the crime rate has been driven down to levels unseen in decades?

According to Kelly, a majority of his police force, which he has been able to cut from 41,000 officers to 35,000, is now made up of minorities.

But blacks are also, per capita, the principal victims of crime. Would black fathers prefer their sons to grow up in Chicago, rather than low-crime New York City, with its stop-and-frisk policy?

Fernando Mateo, head of the New York taxicab union, urges his drivers to profile blacks and Hispanics for their own safety: "The God's honest truth is that 99 percent of the people that are robbing, stealing, killing these drivers are blacks and Hispanics."

Mateo is what The New York Times would describe as "a black Hispanic" Yet he may be closer to the 'hood than Holder, who says he was stopped by police when running to a movie — in Georgetown.

Which raises a relevant question. Georgetown is an elitist enclave of a national capital that has been ruled by black mayors for half a century. It's never had a white mayor.

Is Holder saying we've got racist cops in the district where Obama carried 86 percent of the white vote and 97 percent of the black vote? And his son should fear the white cops in Washington, D.C.?

What about interracial crime, white-on-black attacks and the reverse?

After researching the FBI numbers for "Suicide of a Superpower," this writer concluded: "An analysis of 'single offender victimization figures' from the FBI for 2007 finds blacks committed 433,934 crimes against whites, eight times the 55,685 whites committed against blacks. Interracial rape is almost exclusively black on white — with 14,000 assaults on white women by African Americans in 2007. Not one case of a white sexual assault on a black female was found in the FBI study."

Though blacks are outnumbered 5-to-1 in the population by whites, they commit eight times as many crimes against whites as the reverse. By those 2007 numbers, a black male was 40 times as likely to assault a white person as the reverse.

If interracial crime is the ugliest manifestation of racism, what does this tell us about where racism really resides — in America?

And if the FBI stats for 2007 represent an average year since the Tawana Brawley rape-hoax of 1987, over one-third of a million white women have been sexually assaulted by black males since 1987 — with no visible protest from the civil rights leadership.

Today, 73 percent of all black kids are born out of wedlock. Growing up, these kids drop out, use drugs, are unemployed, commit crimes and are incarcerated at many times the rate of Asians and whites — or Hispanics, who are taking the jobs that used to go to young black Americans.

Are white vigilantes or white cops really Black America's problem?

Obama seems not to think so. The Rev. Sharpton notwithstanding, he is touting Ray Kelly as a possible chief of homeland security.

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?" To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators webpage at www.creators.com.

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