THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

IF A BLACK MAN KILLS A WHITE MAN, THAT MAKES THE WHITE MAN A RACIST | 2000-06-09

A little while back, a liberal group reported that blacks got longer sentences than whites for the same crimes. Turns out that they said it wrong. Actually, six times as many blacks, as they later admitted, commit serious crimes as whites, and get sentenced for it. They made no apology.

The media, which had unanimously reported that six times as many blacks got longer sentences for the same crime, did not make any retractions.

We are told that the death sentence is racist. The reason that it is racist is because so many more black people kill white people than vice-versa, so a lot more black people get executed. Obviously, the black murderer is not the criminal here. So who is?

Well, there are two people involved, the black killer and the white victim. So the victim must be the racist, sending the poor black man, a victim of racism, to his death. That is the kind of logic our society operates on today.