Blacks Kill Blacks! - Part 1

By Patrick Hall

Black Americans kill black Americans. Despite the talking points repeated Infinitum by groups like Black Lives Matter, the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus, and the Democratic Party, that is the naked truth. Even the recent despicable murders perpetrated by an 18-year-old white racist psychopath in Buffalo, New York don’t alter the truth as I pen this article.  Young and not-so-young blacks are the clear and present danger to the everyday health and well-being of men, women, and children in many of our nation’s urban areas. Politicians who are educated enough to know better like Jim Clyburn (D-SC), Cory Booker (D-NJ), President Biden, and former President Barrack Obama continue to service the “lie” that racism, white supremacist, poverty, and bigoted law enforcement pose the greatest threats. They are not.  
 
However, this myth or self-inflicted trauma on the part of those who supposedly have the best interest of Blacks in mind is a deadly sham. Back in the 1990s when I authored an article for Commonweal Magazine entitled Black and Blue, black leaders such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Charles Rangel (D-NY) and the peer-reviewed quackery conspicuously spit out by Black or African American Studies Departments skirted the obvious.  Civil society in many urban communities had broken down. It wasn’t poverty or racist police that put blacks in premature graves.  The urban monsters had been festering and duplicating for years, caused mostly by the breakdown of the black family in Post-Civil Right America. Today less than 25% of black families are headed by a mom or dad, or some reasonable facsimile of two adults.  This stands in contrast to the bad old days when blacks faced real racism. In other words, the black family began to come apart in Post-Civil Rights America. The late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who studied the dislocation from the late sixties onward, opined that Blacks had survived the horrors of slavery. After slavery, many blacks had to live through and put up with outright racial segregation and Jim Crow.  What a large segment of the black community didn’t survive or overcome, was the welfare state ushered in during President Johnson’s Great Society Programs. The black community was skillfully manipulated by its political class. What they and the Democratic Party nurtured was a ward of the state mentality. Democrats, both black and white, neutered the work ethic and truncated ambition in a large portion of the black community.   This slowly undermined the nuclear family structure in too many black communities.  What the heck, you didn’t need a father in the household, just give them a welfare check. A plethora of initiative killing and soul-draining anti-poverty program schemes were enacted.    A large percentage of Black American households got tramped or became the casualties in this costly experiment with Socialism, which was the Great Society Programs of the late 1960s.

Except for scholars like Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell, William Julius Wilson, Shelby Steele, and the late Walter Williams no one wanted to point the obvious out. Fear of being labeled a racist or being accused of blaming the victim muted any helpful dialogue among policymakers.  It was and never has been an issue of blaming the victim, but one of civic and basic personal responsibility. The criminality and monstrous behavior, that a segment of the black community has spawned, are solely responsible for the murder of their fellow brethren. The deflection away from an “endemic dysfunctionality” in many black urban communities goes unabated.

[Patrick is a retired University Library Director. He is a graduate of Canisius College and the University of Washington where he earned Master's Degrees in Religious Studies Education, Urban Anthropology, and Library and Information Science.  Mr. Hall has also completed additional course work at the University of Buffalo, Seattle University, and St. John Fishers College of Rochester New York. He has published in several national publications such as Commonweal, America, Conservative Review, Headway, National Catholic Reporter, Freedom's Journal Magazine, and American Libraries. He has published in the peer-reviewed publications, Journal of Academic Librarianship and the Internet Reference Services Quarterly. From 1997 until his retirement in January 2014 he served on the Advisory Board of Urban Library Journal, a CUNY Publication.]