Who cares what you are tired of. The world of color is tired of white supremacy (i.e. you). Your figures you used to support your indefensible ignoramus mindset are derived by illogical analysis. Urban decay is symptom of corporate geographical moves. Detroit decayed due to persistent deindustrialization–the movement of companies to the third world to exploit cheap labor. The Automotive industry, a large employer, found its way in other areas like Mexico. This move by GM was supported by Tariff removing legislation such as NAFTA. If it’s anyone who is responsible for the Decay, is the industrial multinationals. But white supremacists like you are not interested in facts and historical context.

This brings me to your regurgitated statistically illiterate analysis of so-called crime figures. The figures you cut and pasted come from a white separatist book called the Color of Crime. A book heavily funded by the white supremacist “pioneer fund” that has repeatedly sponsored white supremacist research on Eugenics, so-called IQ testing, the bell curve, and other pseudo science aimed at justifying white devilish behavior and practices. The cut and pasted figures aren’t proof of anything, nor do they validate anger and fear currently held by white supremacist like you. Real social scientist has concluded based on overall crime statistics that race is not a determinant for criminality.
• When looking at so-called criminality amongst races with similar socioeconomic backgrounds there is no difference in the degree of criminality.
• Sociologist Robert O’Brian has noted (using Census data), the odds of a given white person (or white criminal for that matter) encountering a black person are only about three percent. On the other hand, the odds of a given black person (or black criminal) encountering a white person are nineteen times greater, or fifty-seven percent (6), meaning the actual interracial victimization gap between black-on-white and white-on-black crime is smaller than one would expect.
• Whereas less than l0 percent of poor Whites typically live in extreme poverty areas, almost half of poor Blacks live in such areas. These patterns can be attributed to macro structural factors both historic and contemporary, including but not limited to racial segregation, economic transformation, Black male joblessness, class-linked outmigration from the inner city, and housing discrimination, segregation and concentrated poverty represent structural constraints embodied in public policy and historical patterns of racial subjugation
• In fact, the NCVS data show that 73 percent of white violent crime victims were attacked by whites, and 80 percent of black victims were targeted by blacks. This pattern is even clearer in the category of murder.
• According to a 1997 government report, 94 percent of black murder victims, as well as 85 percent of white murder victims, were slain by members of their own race. Thus, the larger reality, that danger comes mainly from one’s own race, is utterly ignored by Taylor (Author of the Color of Crime), who for reasons of his own is interested only in interracial crime.
Until you can recreate the conditions blacks are living in and put whites in similar conditions, you cannot even begin to make a scientific comparison. People of color are sick of the lies, the white supremacy, the oppression, the genocide and the idiotic low brow commentary coming from people like yourself. If you are so bent on living in a homogenous community take your dumbass back to Europe. But h**l, even you probably know Europe (Western Civilization) made the bulk of its advancement using resources that originate outside of Europe. How about you and your people return to your continents and relinquish the resources stolen from people of color—and then we can perform this little exercise in comparing the capabilities of the so-called races.

I believe all these comments are a current reflection of the state of humanity and compassion or lack of it. All viewpoints are important to listen to. Whether there is any truth to anything anyone has said in their comments is really not important. What is important is that people are upset at the lack of understanding between the ‘races’ and the lack of understanding between cultures, including the painful results of oppression.

We all need to be listening to each other more, even if we don’t initially agree or it is hard to hear, particularly when black people say they live in a white priviledged world. It is difficult for white people to hear that, relate to it, or understand it, just as it was difficult for the white man to hear from the white woman that equality does not exist between the genders. When someone is in a position of assumed power, it is not in their interest to hear otherwise, or risk losing this power.

As the Jews speak about and remind us of the atrocities of the concentration camps, so must black people, speak of the atrocities inflicted upon their culture. As white people, we must open up our eyes, ears and hearts. Once we do, we will see many examples of inequality around us. This will be profoundly sad, but then after acceptance we can heal a nation of all cultures together.

I witnessed the murder of a black man 16 years ago and then saw how the police, media and political system distorted the facts. The victims mother and sister just wanted to address the issue of racism but the courts would not allow it, stating that racism did not exist in this case.

Visit peopleschoicemovement.com to read about this case as well as others involving police brutality. You may want to look at the archives and read about my radio interview with Sankofa Juba on The Roots of Racism: My Colonial Roots. This blog is similar to the writings of Tim Wise.

It is not surprising that so many black men are incarcerated. One has only to look at the judicial system in Canada. There is not even one black judge in the Supreme Court of Canada. For justice to prevail in the judicial system, we must have more black men as lawyers and judges.

Read Munyonzwe Hamalengwa’s book, The Politics of Judicial Diversity and Transformation for more information on inequality in the justice system in Canada. This book can be bought at ‘A Different Booklist’ on Bathurst St. in Toronto, or contact me through my blog and I can get a copy to you.

Darlene Marett