Monday, December 4, 2006

Unarmed WHITE man shot dead by police - where'a Al?

Oh look! An unarmed WHITE male shot dead by cops who mistook the Playstation controller he was holding for a gun, presumably. This seems far less justified than the Sean Bell shooting - the kid hadn't threatened to shoot anybody and he didn't attempt to mow down a cop with his car - and yet where's the media circus? Where's all the indignation over more "police brutality"? Where's the crowds of white people screaming "death to pigs" and "shoot back", like these blacks?




Where's the white community leaders threatening to spill blood a la Charles Barron?

See the difference?

You won't hear a peep from Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson or any other of the black "leaders" who purport to be "civil rights activists". The leftist rags won't be printing any scathing editorials. Why? Because these people care about non-whites and non-whites only, that's why. They perceive injustice as something that only happens to black people, or something only worth caring about when it happens to black people. The shooting of an unarmed white kid means nothing to them. All we hear is "the cops don't shoot white people dead, only blacks". This, however, is an outright lie as this article shows. Ignoring all the usual specious left-wing reasoning within, some interesting points are raised regarding police shootings in Cincinnati, namely
  1. From 1976 to 1988, 56% of those killed by police were white and 42% were black.
  2. Blacks were killed disproportionately.

So it's simply not true - there are plenty of white people killed by cops, in fact, maybe there are even more whites than blacks killed, I can't find any national statistics. The fact that blacks are killed disproportionately is in all likelyhood because blacks get into violent and deadly situations so much more often. Blacks are seven times as likely as whites to commit murder, and while blacks and leftists invariably dismiss this statistic as being a factor of "racist arrest rates", what is also interesting is that blacks are six times as likely as whites to be murdered. Murder victimization rates aren't based on racist arrest rates, they're based on death rates. Unless you seriously want to believe that the way the government counts dead bodies is racist, the logical conclusion is simply that blacks are involved in violence more than whites and that explains why blacks are killed by police disproportionately. Unfortunately, the religion of political correctness forbids the consideration of any explanations except those which absolve blacks of all blame and point the finger at "racism" instead.

It's interesting to read this excellent article about Amadou Diallo and the way racial rabble rousers - especially the New York Times - behaved disgracefully and did nothing but create through their own actions the very atmosphere of paranoia they claimed to "just reporting". It looks like we're headed the same way with Sean Bell.

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