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Jewish World Review
June 20, 2011 / 18 Sivan, 5771
One Man's Conversation About Race
By
Arnold Ahlert
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When one weaves together two seemingly unrelated stories in the news last week, one outcome is almost inevitable. First, the stories: in Jersey City, six children, all under the age of 14, were running naked through the streets, until they were rescued by two teenage girls. The second story involves a Fox News report that "flash mob" robberies are on the rise. No doubt some of you can guess where this is leading, but let's go through the exercise regardless.
Last Tuesday, in Jersey City, Nilaja Wyatt, 17, and her friend, Aaliyah Glover, 16, brought the rescued children to Glover's apartment, which is underneath the one where the children live. Wyatt decided to get involved when she observed one of the children nearly getting hit by oncoming cars several times, and was told by Glover that one of those cars had been driven by Glover's mother. "They were running up and down the road — no clothes on," Wyatt told MyFoxNY.
Afterward the two teenage girls broke into the children's apartment upstairs where they found yet another child, a 2-year-old, who had been left alone. "He was crying," said Wyatt. "He had a snotty nose, everything, crying standing by the door." The teens decided to bathe and feed the kids while they waited for their mother to come home. At that point they noticed there was no food in the house. "They were hungry," Glover said. "We asked them did they eat, he said (sic) he didn't eat in two days." She told The Jersey Journal something else as well. "They didn't know how to eat with forks," she added.
When the mother, Francine Davis, 40, didn't come home, the teens eventually called the police. Witnesses told WABC that Davis, out with a boyfriend, eventually returned to the apartment Wednesday at 4 a.m. Later in the day she turned herself into the police. Davis, who reportedly had nothing to say about the incident, remains in jail on a $50,000 bond and faces child endangerment charges. The kids are in foster care. Police Chief Tom Comey reported that the children had been left in the care of the oldest sibling, who was 14 —yet that child is autisic and unable to care for her siblings. "You left your children in the care of somebody who wasn't emotionally or mentally capable," said Comey. "What can you say? There's nothing you can say that can ease that."
Sure there is —unless one wants to remain Chief of Police in the age of political correctness. Political correctness is the concept which illuminates the flash mob story as well, as tying it to the one above. Why? Because there is one common thread in the flash mob story, that is the same common thread which was also omitted in every report of mob violence that occurred over Memorial Day weekend in Charlotte, Rochester, Nashville, Miami, Myrtle Beach and Boston, as well as previous flash mob stories regarding attacks against people in Chicago on the streets and on public buses.
All of these mobs were black youths, as were the children and mother, as well as the heroic teenage girls in the above story —and most of the media refused to mention it.
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Is race relevant? An editorial by the Chicago Tribune following the attacks in that city reveals where the straitjacket of PC leads when it contended that race is irrelevant "unless it is a fact that is central to telling the story," even as the same editorial conceded that the "discussion that followed the attacks…did involve race." Yet perhaps far more important is a way of life that is cultivated in story A, which inexorably leads to story B —and the reality that this way of life remains a compelling force in the inner city, where black Americans are a majority —and where the out-of-wedlock birthrate is now 72 percent.
Assuming Francine Davis and her six fatherless children remained under the radar, it doesn't take much of an imagination to conclude that, as some of them grow up, joining a pack of Facebook-organized teens intent on doing as they please, absent any moral constraints, is hardly a bridge too far. Something will inevitably fill the vacuum left by their mother, which if the two teenage rescuers are accurate, has left these kids with a void so large, that even the use of utensils —or any kind of regular eating habits —cannot be assumed.
Yet it is precisely this void which seems to elude so many people, including the so-called "experts" for whom poverty per se remains the disease, as opposed to a symptom of something much more profound: an entirely different way of thinking in which, for example, leaving an autistic child in charge of five siblings in a house with no food, somehow seems reasonable.
Why? Because for anyone on either side of the color line to brand such behavior as unreasonable is to ask for the kind of trouble most people wish to avoid. To point out that the kind of thuggery which precipitates the behavior that took place over Memorial Day weekend, as well as that which engenders flash mobs is not only tolerated, but glorified in the inner-city black community, is apex of political incorrectness. To note that a bone-headed, reflexive macho-ism, coupled with penchant for using guns to settle even the most minor disputes, has become almost routine, is to be immediately dismissed as "racist" by those for whom the wholesale destruction of the black American nuclear family is seen as little more than an "alternative family lifestyle." To note that story A is an incubator for story B is "blaming the victim."
That's exactly what Daniel Patrick Moynihan was accused of when he predicted that America would pay profound consequences for "defining deviancy down," specifically citing the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program as the prime culprit —in 1966. Before the advent of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, AFDC had been reserved for widows, as a means of funding once-married women who had lost the primary male supporter of the family. In the 1960s, president Johnson and Congress changed the qualifications: any household where there was no male family head present became eligible for taxpayer subsidies.
Moynihan knew exactly where such "compassion" would lead: "From the wild Irish slums of the 19th-century Eastern seaboard, to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles," he wrote, "there is one unmistakable lesson in American history: a community that allows large numbers of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future —that community asks for and gets chaos. Crime, violence, unrest, disorder…are not only to be expected, they are very near to inevitable. And they are richly deserved."
And now such chaos is not only tolerated, it has its enablers. It is enabled by the entertainment industry which promotes gangsterism, a Democratic party for whom black "victims" equals reliable voters, and far too many black Americans themselves, who ostracize their own brethren for straying off the progressive, big-government plantation. It is enabled by politicians like Mayor Mike Bloomberg, in the typically clueless fashion that has become his trademark, when he blamed the availability of guns for a shooting in Brighton Beach last week where a 16 girl was killed by someone "aiming" a gun —at a crowd. Someone whose reasons for pulling the trigger will not make sense to outsiders, but will be very much in tune with the inner-city worldview where "respect," aka street-cred, is earned for being able to "out-thug" everyone else. It is enabled by guilty white progressives who believe personal responsibility is too much to expect from the "benighted classes," along with black racial hucksters who egg the guilty on for personal aggrandizement and financial gain.
The result? The perfect storm of social dystopia continues unabated.
Americans on both sides of the color line genuinely interested in a color-blind society, the people who believe in Martin Luther King's idea that "content of character" trumps "color of skin," have been cowed into silence for far too long. This column is written with the intent of cutting through much of the political correctness that invariably accompanies any so-called national conversation regarding race, one that automatically brands anyone a racist for stating out loud what too many people prefer to whisper about.
But it is not racist to point out the glaringly obvious. And it is glaringly obvious that until the self-perpetuated destruction of the black family, with all of its attendant pathologies is confronted, it cannot be changed. It is glaringly obvious that a progressive ideology which has institutionalized inequality in the form of racial quotas and lower standards for "people of color" as a means of proving how much it "cares," is an insidious perpetration of soft-core bigotry. It is glaringly obvious that people on both sides of the color line have been burdened with such unnecessary baggage long enough.
All Americans should be proud of what Nilaja Wyatt and Aaliyah Glover did, even as they ought to be equally distressed with the behavior of Francine Davis. Yet the unanswered question remains: in inner-city black America, who is the exception and who is the rule?
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Previously:
06/07/11: NAACP Betrays Black American Schoolchildren
06/02/11: For the First Time in My Adult Life . . .
05/31/11: If I Were President
05/25/11: California Dreamin'
05/23/11: On Wisconsin!
05/20/11: Obama's Farewell to Israel Speech
05/16/11: ‘Krauthammering’ Amnesty
05/11/11: Bounce, My Backside
05/09/11: The Epicenter of Progressive Contempt for the Rule of Law
05/03/11: SEALing Osama's Fate
05/02/11: The Education plantation
04/24/11: The Bell May Toll for Jersey Toll Collectors
04/19/11: From Medical Dependency to Dependency on the Welfare State
04/14/11: Trumping the Debate
04/06/11: It Takes a Bigot to Expose a Death Cult
04/04/11: Charlie and Snookie --- and Barack
03/30/11: ‘Disabling’ America, One Lawsuit at a Time
03/28/11: The MSM Kills the ‘Kill Team’ Story
03/23/11: Another Military Scandal
03/21/11: Barry, Joe, Helen and Wisconsin Teachers
03/16/11: The Inevitable Viability of Conservatism
03/14/11: Progressives in Their Own Words
03/09/11: $61 Billion in Cuts --- Vs. $223 Billion in One Month of Spending
03/07/11: Bean Bag B.S.
03/02/11: A ‘Green’ Catastrophe in the Making
02/28/11: Ain't Noting Like the Real Thing
02/23/11: Progressive Rot vs. the ROTC
02/21/11: Wisconsin: Progressivism in All its Ugly Glory
02/18/11: News reporters --- or Narrative Shapers?
02/16/11: The Presidents Budget Proposal: An Obamination of Progressive Profligacy
02/14/11: Only Another 9/11 Will Alter the Illegal Immigration Status Quo
02/10/11: Is O'Reilly losing his touch or is he just irresponsible?
02/07/11: Tossing Britain Under the Bus
02/03/11: Starving the World In Order to Save It
01/31/11: Walking the Middle East Tightrope
01/27/11: Small-scale Terrorist Attacks: Big Strategy?
01/24/11: Jeffery Immelt: A Crony Capitalist In Charge of Job Creation
01/20/11: An ‘Intimate’ Prime-time Interview
01/17/11: Progressives: Always Angry, Newly Desperate
01/12/11: Twain vs. the Totalitarians
01/10/11: Politically Correct Passports?
01/05/11: Showdown at the Fiscal Corral
01/03/11: Reading the Constitution Aloud is a Good Start
12/30/10: Getting Our Moral Mojo Back
12/27/10: PC Airport Safety is an Oxymoron
12/23/10: Getting America Back On Track
12/20/10: A Collectivist Coalition of Convenience
12/15/10: The President Who Wasn't There
12/13/10: Tech-No!
12/08/10: A Lethal Military, Inclusive or Not
12/06/10: The ‘Unexpected’ Consequences of Progressivism
12/01/10: Leakers and Losers
11/29/10: ‘We Won’, Part One
11/22/10: Keep Your Hands Off My Constitution
11/17/10: Grope and Change
11/14/10: Taking Back Our Country, One School At a Time
11/11/10: Checks (and Balances), Please
11/08/10: Curtain Up, Progressives Down
11/04/10: Last Chance, Republicans
11/01/10: By Their Own Words Shall Ye Know Them
10/28/10: Progressive Determination to Undermine American Elections
10/25/10: Shock, but more importantly, action: De-Unionize Public Schools now
10/20/10: Multiculturalism? Check, Please
10/18/10: Healthcare: ‘Alice in Wonderland’ vs. The Constitution
10/11/10: Vote for Restoring the Rule of Law in November
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10/07/10: Hypersensitive Hogwash
10/04/10: ‘Comprehensive’ Con Artists
09/29/10: Why Dems Are Going Down in November
09/27/10: The Unholiest of Unholy Alliances
09/22/10: Two Words for Republicans to Remember: ‘I Won’
09/20/10: Purging ‘Me First’ Politicians
09/17/10: No More ‘Lesser of Two Evils’
09/15/10: ‘Recovery’ Arms Race
09/13/10: ‘Bigots’ in the Majority --- Again?
09/09/10: Giving Voters Something to Vote For
09/07/10: Irresponsible Dems, Incomprehensible Bills
09/02/10: War Weary Americans vs. Implacable Islamists
08/31/10: A ‘Dream’ Debased
08/25/10: American ‘Bigots’ Versus Media Propagandists
08/23/10: Recovery Bummer
08/19/10: An Unholy Alliance of Radicals
08/16/10: You've Lost America, Mr. President
08/13/10: The Twin Towers of Progressive Disconnect
08/11/10: A Far Better ‘National Discussion’
08/09/10: It's ‘Only’ One Dead Nun
08/06/10: Incremental Tyranny
08/04/10: Ground Zero Mosque: Context Counts
08/02/10: The Arizona Ruling: a Gift for November
07/29/10: The United Cities of America
07/26/10: JournoList: ‘Coordinated’ Ideological Bankruptcy
07/20/10: Go For Broke Or Get Out of the Way
07/14/10: You're a Liberal/Progressive if You Believe…
07/12/10: $33-an-hour--For Sleeping On the Job
07/08/10: Extortionist Government
07/06/10: ‘Commerce Clause’ Totalitarians
07/01/10: Another Public School Travesty in MA
06/30/10: Calling YOUR Bluff, Mr. President
06/28/10: A Trifecta of Progressive Corruption
06/23/10: Plug the Darn Hole --- In Our Border
06/21/10: Our Empty-Suit-in-Chief
06/16/10: Betraying Our Children
06/14/10: Who Gets the Benefit of the Doubt?
06/07/10: Politically Correct Warfare
06/01/10: Bill Maher's ‘Black’ President
05/25/10: A Mosque At Ground Zero
05/23/10: Libs Stand Tall --- For Mexico
05/19/10: The 'Unintended Consequences' of Liberalism
05/17/10: 'Los' Suns: Stuck on Stupido
05/12/10: Union Audacity: Yes We Will!
05/10/10: Greeks, Leaks and and Double-Speak
05/05/10: Twelve Million Illegals --- or Thirty?
05/02/10: Republicans: Playing Not to Lose Doesn't Cut It
04/28/10: Arizona: Progressivism's Waterloo?
04/26/10: Son of Amnesty
04/22/10: Mortgages and Moral Meltdowns
04/20/10: Bashing Christians — Or Gays?
04/15/10: Personal Integri-‘tea’
04/12/10: Fools, Tools and Ghouls
04/08/10: (Tea) Party On
04/05/10: The Triumph of Mediocrity
04/02/10: Two For the Road
03/29/10: The Innate Immorality of Liberalism
03/24/10: The Art of War
03/22/10: I Want My Country Back
03/18/10: A Perpetual Process
03/17/10: American Exhibitionists
03/15/10: A Light Bulb Moment of Clarity
03/10/10: Little Things Mean A Lot
02/03/10: Budgetary Fork in the Road
02/01/10: Liberal Economic Illiteracy
01/27/10: ‘Roe-ing and Wade-ing’ Back to Reason
01/25/10: Arrogance When Up, Denial When Down
01/20/10: Connecting the Educational Dots
01/19/10: The Next Tea Party?
01/15/10: The Myth That Keeps on Giving
01/13/10: Airport Security Begins Away From the Airport
01/11/10: Secrets and Lies
01/08/10: Embracing Bigotry — or Rejecting Bullying?
01/06/10: Hanging by an Ideological Thread
01/04/10: Our ‘Wonderama’ Bureaucracy
12/30/09: A Day Off
12/28/09: Dangerous Myths
12/25/09: I, Me, Mine
12/23/09: A Very Harry Christmas
12/21/09: My Opinon
12/18/09: The Party of Repeal
12/15/09: Privileged Exemption
11/30/09: ‘Settled’ Science and Unsettled Children
11/30/09: American Sharia Law
11/23/09:The Trial (Travesty) of the Century
11/04/09: American Vampires and Their Political Enablers
11/01/09: ‘Opting Out’ of Insanity?
10/28/09: Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer. Brain Required
10/26/09: Communism: Nazism With Better PR
10/21/09: Just Asking
10/16/09: Cost Projections vs. Actual Costs, or Hope and Change vs. Reality
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10/07/09: Incremental Insidiousness
10/05/09: MIA: Common Sense and Common Decency
09/30/09: Iran: Bad Options and Unpreparedness
09/21/09: Crying Racism: the Last Refuge of Scoundrels
09/11/09: 9/11 Cannot Be Sanitized
09/08/09: ‘Truthers’ and Consequences
09/01/09: A ‘Paper Trail’ Challenge for the Mainstream Media
08/31/09: Drowning in Amorality
08/26/09: The Republican Recovery Program
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