It’s of course ludicrous to suggest that black people who are affected by violence don’t care, or to suggest there are not many genuinely civic minded blacks working to decrease crime and violence. I have never said this, as far as I can recall, and if I’ve said anything that could be construed that way, I apologize. It’s not something I’ve ever believed, because it is ridiculous.
No, the point I’ve tried to make is that the WHITE people who arrogate to themselves the right to speak on behalf of black people (think Dr. Phil saying Kanye is “empowering racists”, or some such nonsense) don’t care about the plight of black people living in black neighborhoods. To them this is all a game which doesn’t affect them in any way. They live far from the places where you can’t find a bank and the fast food places have bullet proof glass.
They like to talk about how bad “racism” is because that abstraction is more real to them–more present to them in their imagination, and certainly in their moral posturing–than the real suffering of children growing up with one overwhelmed parent, poor, on crime infested streets, and condemned to go to horrible schools they will be lucky to graduate from able to read. There are the REAL problems facing most inner city blacks. They face hopelessness which is amplified by those who tell them on continual loop that the game is stacked against them, and that they are helpless without the aid of people they will never meet, and who have no interest in meeting them for more than the shortest, most stage-managed blips of time in election season.
Think about the effects of telling people: the world is against you. The world was against everyone who came before you. Unless the world makes major changes, you have no hope. Unless the world makes major changes, your life is outside of your control.
Who REALLY benefits from all this? Seriously: is this complicated?