Blacks Talk About Race - Whites Cower In Fear

[Endangered]

Social Degeneration

by Thomas Sowell



Someone at long last has had the courage to tell the plain, honest truth about race.

After mobs of young blacks rampaged through Philadelphia committing violence -- as similar mobs have rampaged through Chicago, Denver, Milwaukee and other places -- Philadelphia's black mayor, Michael A. Nutter, ordered a police crackdown and lashed out at the whole lifestyle of those who did such things.

Philadelphia mayor talks tough to black teenagers after 'flash mobs' - Washington Times

"Pull up your pants and buy a belt 'cause no one wants to see your underwear or the crack of your butt," he said. "If you walk into somebody's office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won't hire you? They don't hire you 'cause you look like you're crazy," the mayor said. He added: "You have damaged your own race."

While this might seem like it is just plain common sense, what Mayor Nutter said undermines a whole vision of the world that has brought fame, fortune and power to race hustlers in politics, the media and academia. Any racial disparities in hiring can only be due to racism and discrimination, according to the prevailing vision, which reaches from street corner demagogues to the august chambers of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Just to identify the rioters and looters as black is a radical departure, when mayors, police chiefs and the media in other cities report on these outbreaks of violence without mentioning the race of those who are doing these things. The Chicago Tribune even made excuses for failing to mention race when reporting on violent attacks by blacks on whites in Chicago.

When race is mentioned in the Chicago Tribune - chicagotribune.com

Race and the 'flash mob' attacks - chicagotribune.com

Such excuses might make sense if the same politicians and media talking heads were not constantly mentioning race when denouncing the fact that a disproportionate number of young black men are being sent to prison.

The prevailing social dogma is that disparities in outcomes between races can only be due to disparities in how these races are treated. In other words, there cannot possibly be any differences in behavior.

But if black and white Americans had exactly the same behavior patterns, they would be the only two groups on this planet that are the same.

The Chinese minority in Malaysia has long been more successful and more prosperous than the Malay majority, just as the Indians in Fiji have long been more successful and more prosperous than the indigenous Fijians. At various places and times throughout history, the same could be said of the Armenians in Turkey, the Lebanese in Sierra Leone, the Parsees in India, the Japanese in Brazil, and numerous others.

There are similar disparities within particular racial or ethnic groups. Even this late in history, I have had northern Italians explain to me why they are not like southern Italians. In Australia, Jewish leaders in both Sydney and Melbourne went to great lengths to tell me why and how the Jews are different in these two cities.

In the United States, despite the higher poverty level among blacks than among whites, the poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits since 1994. The disparities within the black community are huge, both in behavior and in outcomes.

Nevertheless, the dogma persists that differences between groups can only be due to the way others treat them or to differences in the way others perceive them in "stereotypes."

All around the country, people in politics and the media have been tip-toeing around the fact that violent attacks by blacks on whites in public places are racially motivated, even when the attackers themselves use anti-white invective and mock the victims they leave lying on the streets bleeding.

This is not something to ignore or excuse. It is something to be stopped. Mayor Michael Nutter of Philadelphia seems to be the first to openly recognize this.

This needs to be done for the sake of both black and white Americans -- and even for the sake of the hoodlums. They have set out on a path that leads only downward for themselves.

[LogicAndFairness]

He would have been in a lot of trouble had he been a White man saying these things.

[the recidivist]

Where's the green bogey when we need him or even Slymouth Billy Barg's butler?

[LilyThePink]

You forget to mention me you simpletons. Here's the simple analysis:

People of all races hold different views and opinions, get used to it.


Seeing that Endangered has got me on ignore, can somebody please tell him he's an asshole for even bothering to post this nothing article.

[LilyThePink]

Apologies if my above post was insulting, I was annoyed.

I read plenty of intelligent stuff on WN sites from around the world, it just seems that the Brits can't or won't raise their game even slightly.
Maybe it's this site, even Henry, who is pretty good on MR, turned into a repetitive twit on here.

[LogicAndFairness]

You forget to mention me you simpletons. Here's the simple analysis:

People of all races hold different views and opinions, get used to it.


Seeing that Endangered has got me on ignore, can somebody please tell him he's an asshole for even bothering to post this nothing article.

Are you saying it is a "nothing article" because it only says things that you regard as self-evident to everyone on this forum?
But doesn't it make statements that you typically strongly disagree with, such as the assertion that it is regarded as a taboo to say that there are racial differences that are biologically defined rather than products of the environment?

[Dee-Dee]

You forget to mention me you simpletons. Here's the simple analysis:

People of all races hold different views and opinions, get used to it.


Seeing that Endangered has got me on ignore, can somebody please tell him he's an asshole for even bothering to post this nothing article.

I'd love to tell him for you, but he has me on ignore too.

[LilyThePink]

Are you saying it is a "nothing article" because it only says things that you regard as self-evident to everyone on this forum?
But doesn't it make statements that you typically strongly disagree with, such as the assertion that it is regarded as a taboo to say that there are racial differences that are biologically defined rather than products of the environment?

I should expand. It's not a nothing article in the sense that it's one person's views. It's a nothing article in that it has any bearing on wider racial theories (except to Endangered's very limited perspective. Like I said:

People of all races hold different views and opinions, get used to it.

(although maybe you could class this as a racial theory)

[LogicAndFairness]

I should expand. It's not a nothing article in the sense that it's one person's views. It's a nothing article in that it has any bearing on wider racial theories (except to Endangered's very limited perspective. Like I said:



(although maybe you could class this as a racial theory)

It is one person's rather popular view. Clearly, Endangered felt it was great that someone was saying things that we are normally castigated for talking about. And the fact that the man doing so was a Black mayor meant that his view has to be given the oxygen of publicity, breaking through a wall of PC censorship. Your own reaction is "move along, move along, nothing to see here", in an attempt to brush it all under the carpet.

[LilyThePink]

It is one person's rather popular view. Clearly, Endangered felt it was great that someone was saying things that we are normally castigated for talking about. And the fact that the man doing so was a Black mayor meant that his view has to be given the oxygen of publicity, breaking through a wall of PC censorship. Your own reaction is "move along, move along, nothing to see here", in an attempt to brush it all under the carpet.

As far as I can see, Mayor Nutter didn't really say much about race, and the only quote of his in the article is:

"Pull up your pants and buy a belt 'cause no one wants to see your underwear or the crack of your butt," he said. "If you walk into somebody's office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won't hire you? They don't hire you 'cause you look like you're crazy," the mayor said. He added: "You have damaged your own race."

Maybe you're confusing the article here with what he wrote in his own article, Your bit about it escaping the censor net is speculation.