Larry Elder: The pursuit of the Great White Defendant

[Mountainshield]

The pursuit of the Great White Defendant absolves us from discussing the 2012 murder stats, when 6,454 blacks were murdered -- accounting for over half of all homicide victims in this country. Almost all were killed by other blacks. Chicago in 2012 averaged 10 murders a week, mostly blacks killed by other blacks.

No concrete data exists on how often blacks are killed by officers. One left-wing web site put the number at 313 blacks killed in "extrajudicial shootings" by cops, "security guards" and "vigilantes" in 2012, claiming 136 of them were unarmed.

Assuming that number valid, and assuming all the killings were unjustified, and attributing all the killings to cops, this means that about 2 percent of blacks killed in 2012 were unarmed and killed by cops.

While media covered Ferguson as if it were D-Day, there were other incidents of "racial" news that never became national stories:

A rabbi in Miami, walking to the synagogue, was murdered by two young black males. Crime unsolved.

A black homeless man was stabbed to death by six illegal aliens last month. No national debate on porous borders and the crime committed by illegals?

A 72-year-old white man is seen on video knocked down by a young black man ?- apparently part of the so-called Knockout game.

In Philadelphia, a black park ranger was brutally beaten by a black skater when the ranger told him skating was not allowed there. All was captured on video tape.
"In his novel "Bonfire of the Vanities," Tom Wolfe writes about the media pursuit for "The Great White Defendant." This is a man, accused of wrongdoing, whom the media, "activists" and especially those who just love watching The Man squirm and "get what's coming to him," can all agree to hate.

For the third time in as many years, a Chinese graduate student at USC was murdered in South Central Los Angeles last month. Four teens have been arrested, including one illegal alien. Were these Chinese students racially profiled? No national debate on the issue of crime committed by illegal aliens who enter through our porous borders?

By all means, investigate the Ferguson shooting. But where's the perspective?

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is homicide. For whites, it's unintentional injuries, such as car accidents. And if a high percentage of the kids in a neighborhood are without dads, and if those children are 20 times more likely to end up in jail, isn't this a far bigger problem than the rare instance in which an unarmed black person -- unjustifiably or not -- is killed by a cop?

For more visit: http://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2014/08/21/ferguson-not-even-an-oj-jury-would-convict-officer-wilson-n1881249

Always liked the Larry Elder radio show, his point is excellent. This reminds me of the 2 minutes of hate from 1984, the new liberal society is desperate to find someone to hate intensely to divert attention from the economic and cultural decay.

[kit saginaw]

There's a phrase that my friend used to insert into black unrest-discussions quite frequently...  'most-favored minority'.   Our city had endured spates of blacks vs. Middle-Easterners and blacks vs. Asians... street-criminals vs. small-business entrepreneurs.  (black criminals attacking black entrepreneurs because they'd committed to establishing a small-business was already a societal symptom)

The influx of Vietnamese-immigrants in the 70's was probably the pinnacle of minority vs. minority strife.

The criminal-element of the 'most-favored' minority felt threatened by other minorities, especially the hard-working shopkeepers and students.

But that mindset has vanished from the headlines and streets of my city 40-ish years ago.  In other cities, it's probably still in-play.     

[carlb]

There's a phrase that my friend used to insert into black unrest-discussions quite frequently...  'most-favored minority'.   Our city had endured spates of blacks vs. Middle-Easterners and blacks vs. Asians... street-criminals vs. small-business entrepreneurs.  (black criminals attacking black entrepreneurs because they'd committed to establishing a small-business was already a societal symptom)

The influx of Vietnamese-immigrants in the 70's was probably the pinnacle of minority vs. minority strife.

The criminal-element of the 'most-favored' minority felt threatened by other minorities, especially the hard-working shopkeepers and students.

But that mindset has vanished from the headlines and streets of my city 40-ish years ago.  In other cities, it's probably still in-play.     

The comonm enemy is the white man -- specifically, "Euro-Americans."

[walkstall]

The comonm enemy is the white man -- specifically, "Euro-Americans."

For the young libs Anything that look white.

[Ex-Conservative]

Ahab and Moby Dick