The world stopped as everyone
and their mother in Big Media (of both the “liberal” and “conservative”
varieties) pounced upon Roseanne Barr last week for a sophomoric tweet in which
she identified Valerie Jarrett, former senior adviser to Barack Obama, as the
offspring of the Muslim Brotherhood and The Planet of the Apes.
Because
Jarrett is partially black (this was news to some of us), Roseanne’s critics
pulverized her for her “racist” and “hateful” tweet, exiling her from
Respectable Society, while ABC cancelled her show. The usual suspects on
the left seized upon Roseanne’s tweet as proof that the rise of Donald Trump
has “normalized” racism.
As
evidenced by, most recently, its treatment of Roseanne’s tweet, the
Racism-Industrial-Complex (RIC) is tireless in its efforts to fortify the
matrix that it has spent decades constructing. It is a parallel universe
to the one that most of us inhabit, a mirror image, a false reality.
In
RIC’s matrix, every white person, however troubled or disadvantaged, reaps the
immeasurable benefits of what it calls “White Privilege.” At the same time,
every black person, however materially, professionally, and socially
advantaged, suffers daily the bitter stings of “White Racism.”
Blacks are perpetual victims
while whites, even the most well-intentioned, are racist oppressors.
The
racial reality, though, is dramatically otherwise. Because of its sheer
ugliness—it is often horrifying—many prefer to hide their eyes from it. Yet
it is also fear of coming under fire by RIC operators that self-styled
“anti-racists” would prefer to condemn a 60s-something year-old white woman who
everyone else is condemning than address real instances of racial hatred.
And this is because racial violence
in 21st century America is perpetrated overwhelmingly by the
members of the one group that RIC extols above all others: blacks generally,
black males specifically.
Of the roughly 560, 600
violent crimes involving blacks and whites, blacks are victimizers at least 85% of the time. Whites, in
contrast, victimize blacks but 3.6% of the
time.
Of
the 256,000 or so crimes of violence involving blacks and Hispanics, blacks are
perpetrators nearly 83% of the time. Blacks, however, comprise less than 5% of the
victims of Hispanic criminals.
Numbers
aside, countless instances of underreported black-on-non-black violence put the
lie to RIC’s matrix.
For example, few Americans
are familiar with the names of Reagan Tokes and Brian
Golsby. Tokes was a psychology major at Ohio State University who was
just a couple of months shy of receiving her bachelor’s degree when, on the
evening of February 8, 2017, she encountered Golsby. According to Ron O’Brien,
the Prosecutor of Franklin County in Ohio, Tokes was made to endure “a night of
terror.”
Golsby,
a convicted sex-offender, was canvassing the north area of Columbus searching
for prey when he saw Tokes leaving the bar/restaurant at which she
worked. Golsby abducted Tokes and forced her to drive to an ATM machine.
Along
the way, he raped her.
After
he had finished raping and robbing Tokes, Golsby shot her twice in the head.
After
murdering her, the criminal drove around in the victim’s car before he made
attempts to destroy it.
The
national media have not covered this incident at all and local Ohio media fail
to expressly mention one salient fact:
The robber-carjacker-rapist-murderer
with a record for sex offenses is a black man—and his unsuspecting victim was a young white woman.
One
suspects that had the racial roles in this case been reversed everyone in
America and beyond would be intimately familiar with its details.
To add
insult to injury, Golsby initially lied about not having sexually assaulted
Tokes, even going so far as to have possibly invented someone on whom he blamed
the rape. Moreover, he was wearing a GPS ankle monitor the night that he
ended Tokes’ young life because he had just been released from prison a few
months earlier!
Just last month, Jeremy and
Paola Goldberg, 35 year-old restaurant owners from New Jersey, decided to
celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary with a night in New York City.
They just left a Broadway theater when “a crazed man,” as the New York Post put it, spat on Paola immediately
before pummeling her husband, hospitalizing him.
The “crazed man,” 40 year-old
Derrek Boyce, is black. His victims are white.
With
31 prior arrests for crimes ranging from theft, robbery, assault, harassment,
and criminal possession of a controlled substance, Boyce already had an
extensive criminal record. As recently as November of last year, Boyce
was arrested in East Harlem for repeatedly punching a 28 year-old man while
attempting to rob him of his phone and wallet.
In May, a woman and mother
was attacked and beaten by a group of “teens”
while walking in her own neighborhood in Las Vegas. These are the same
“60” or so “teens” who continue “terrorizing” residents despite the efforts on
the part of the latter to reach out to their parents and notify police
officers. Yet the mayhem continues.
The
teens are all black. Those who they victimize are all white. Yet
the little coverage that this situation has received conveniently neglects to
mention its obvious racial dimensions.
Or have you ever heard of
Frederick D. Scott? Scott, a 22 year-old Burger King employee who resides
in Kansas City, Missouri, was arrested last August. Scott, who is black,
is charged with murdering six middle-aged “hikers and dog walkers,” as
the Washington Post describes his
victims.
And to this publication’s
great credit, it also notes another germane detail: The murder victims—five men
and one woman—were white.
According to the Post:
“For a year, the walking and
biking trails snaking through south Kansas City, Mo., were plagued with
bloodshed.
Beginning in August 2016 and
continuing deep into the next year, the bodies of hikers and dog walkers were
found dead along the city’s Indian Creek trail or on nearby roadways. They were
all shot. They were all middle-aged. They were all white.”
Previously,
Scott at one point had threatened to shoot up his high school and “kill all
white people.”
Despite
knowing all of this, police “have not publicly addressed a possible motive for
the killings, racial or otherwise.”
Had
this serial murderer been white and his victims black and had he been on record
for having once expressed a desire to kill all black people, there isn’t an
individual in the country, much less amongst the authorities investigating the
murders, who would hesitate to declare him a “racist” and “supremacist.”
That
things are otherwise in the real world, given that the predator is black and
his victims white, is to be expected given the omnipresence and omnipotence of
the Racism-Industrial-Complex.
Jack
Kerwick [send
him mail] received his doctoral degree in philosophy from Temple
University. His area of specialization is ethics and political philosophy. He
is a professor of philosophy at several colleges and universities in New Jersey
and Pennsylvania. Jack blogs at Beliefnet.com: At the Intersection of Faith
& Culture.
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