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We Have a Moral Divide, Not a Racial One
Posted on 11/25/14 at 12:15 pm
Posted on 11/25/14 at 12:15 pm
Excellent article by Dennis Prager, published yesterday before the grand jury's announcement, on the real divide in America.
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As we await protests and riots scheduled for Ferguson, Missouri, and elsewhere if a grand jury in Missouri does not indict the white officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, a black teenager, a little moral clarity is called for.
For decades now, we have been told that there is a black-white divide in America. The problem with this belief that is that it renders moral judgment — of white police, of black crime and black incarceration rates, of white judges and jurors, and of black riots and protests – impossible.
It is, we are told over and over, all about “perceptions” — a “black-white divide” in the way each race perceives racial matters. This is how it works:
Many blacks see racism almost everywhere — especially in arrest, conviction and incarceration rates, and in white police interactions with blacks. On the other hand, whites (specifically, whites who are not on the left) think that white racism has largely been conquered, and therefore blacks’ disproportionately high arrest and conviction rates are the result of black behavior, particularly the high out-of-wedlock birth rate that has deprived the great majority of black children of fathers, not white racism.
According to the “black-white divide” way of thinking, these are simply two conflicting perceptions.
It is difficult to overstate how damaging this is.
It denies the very existence of the two pillars of civilization — objective truth and moral truth.
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Posted on 11/25/14 at 12:19 pm to L.A.
White people don't get arrested when they commit crimes? Shocking!
Posted on 11/25/14 at 12:50 pm to L.A.
anyone who doesn't think there is a racial divide is either delusional or is incredibly insulated from the real world
Posted on 11/25/14 at 1:14 pm to L.A.
It's more than just a moral divide.
It's also an ignorance divide, young people are to busy with their own “personal BS” to invest time in a search for deep truths.
We also have people in our country who are sellouts, they go along to get along.
But I agree with Prager for the most part, nice article.
It's also an ignorance divide, young people are to busy with their own “personal BS” to invest time in a search for deep truths.
We also have people in our country who are sellouts, they go along to get along.
But I agree with Prager for the most part, nice article.
Posted on 11/25/14 at 1:56 pm to L.A.
It's a culture issue.
My son is in high school. His best friend is black. Nicest kid you'd ever meet. His parents are both teachers and while they aren't rich, they do all they can for their kids. He gets shite DAILY from other black kids at school for having white friends, the way he talks, etc, etc. Fortunately, his parents keep his head straight.
Lots of black folks, including Mike Brown, either get shot or can't get ahead in our society because they are too concerned with "keeping it real". The black community needs to work on destigmatizing this.
My son is in high school. His best friend is black. Nicest kid you'd ever meet. His parents are both teachers and while they aren't rich, they do all they can for their kids. He gets shite DAILY from other black kids at school for having white friends, the way he talks, etc, etc. Fortunately, his parents keep his head straight.
Lots of black folks, including Mike Brown, either get shot or can't get ahead in our society because they are too concerned with "keeping it real". The black community needs to work on destigmatizing this.
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