WHAT IS RACISM?

In recent times the word “racism” has been thrown around a lot. It has seemed to be the normal response when there is a disagreement about any individual when that individual is of a different race.

Hillary and her campaign used it to describe anyone who opposed her run for the Presidency. Obama stooges used the term to define anyone who opposed Obama on any issue. Pro illegal immigration forces use the word a lot to identify anyone who doesn’t agree with them. If you oppose the illegal entry into this country by anyone at any time, you must be a racist.

Well today I am going to cite you some facts to see if maybe you too are a racist. Let’s start with crime. More specifically violent crime. Using the government’s own statistics, young black men are responsible for eighty percent of the violent crimes committed in this country. Now let me remind you, the entire black population represents about twelve to thirteen percent of the population. So then eighty percent of violent crime is committed by young black men under twenty- five years of age out of a population of thirteen percent of the entire population. Do you see a pattern here? Did you also know that over seventy percent of black babies are born out of wedlock? They are then raised by single mothers with little or no father influence and many, if not most, are on government assistance.

Does pointing out these facts make me a racist? Or is any reporting of the facts which identifies one race or another mean the reporter is racist? Is the government being racist by reporting this data? I recall recently there was an individual who was accosting women in a major mall parking lot and trying to rob them. When the alert went out over the television network, they refused to identify whether the individual was white, black, Asian, Hispanic, male or female or anything in between. Apparently to have reported any of those details would have been prejudicial.

Reality can sometimes be difficult. It seems that “political correctness” forbids identifying anyone by their race or their gender. I don’t know about you, but for me if there’s a killer/rapist running loose in the neighborhood and police are looking for that offender, the better description available makes that offender easier to find. If the killer/rapist is offended being described by his ethnicity or gender, that’s just too bad.

And to those among you who continue to offer excuses for the runaway crime committed by these young black men, how do you explain all this?

If you are a law-abiding tax-paying member of the black community, how do you feel when so many young black men commit crime? Do you look the other way? Or do you understand that the statistics which I used earlier in this piece reflect on your entire community. When I turn on the local evening news I am bombarded with the latest shootings and killings. Granted, not all of the shootings are done by black youngsters, but far too many are.

I also hear people cry and moan about police shootings especially of young black men. There is a simple way to greatly cut down on such shootings. Quit committing crimes. Quit dressing and acting like a thug. Respect police officers when they contact you. Don’t resist arrest. When a cop says stop, stop. When he says go, you go. Like it or not, the police officers are the law and they have the authority to retain you and inconvenience you. Deal with it as an adult and you will likely go home unscathed. Put up a fight and you’ll likely suffer the consequences.

If you read this and come away thinking I am a racist for reporting facts, I am sorry you feel that way. The only way to fix a problem is to first recognize the problem. It isn’t going to fix itself.

Ron Scarbro