{"id":677,"date":"2012-12-21T19:32:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T00:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/?p=677"},"modified":"2012-12-21T19:32:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T00:32:07","slug":"my-prediction-come-true-reaction-to-sandy-hook-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/2012\/12\/my-prediction-come-true-reaction-to-sandy-hook-racist.html","title":{"rendered":"My Prediction Come True: Reaction to Sandy Hook “Racist”"},"content":{"rendered":"

One week ago, on the heels of the Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Connecticut that left 20 children and six adults dead, I made a prediction on my Facebook wall.\u00a0 Sooner than any of us would like, I predicted, the national mourning that this event has beckoned forth will be regarded by some as the function of racism. <\/em><\/p>\n

The victims of the mass murder at Sandy Hook were white.\u00a0 <\/em>Moreover, they were, as the left would have referred to them had they not been slaughtered, \u201cthe children of privilege.\u201d\u00a0 The Sandy Hook School is a prestigious institution in an affluent, and predominantly white, area.\u00a0 Indeed, most of Sandy Hook\u2019s students are doubtless the offspring of just those people\u2014Americans making over $250,000 annually\u2014who our President has spent the better part of his term castigating for failing to pay their \u201cfair share\u201d of taxes.<\/p>\n

But now, along with the rest of the nation, he sheds tears over these dead white bodies.\u00a0 Furthermore, he leaves the White House to travel to\u2014of all places!\u2014a prayer service <\/em>inConnecticut from which he makes a televised address to the country.<\/p>\n

Now, none of this would be objectionable if the daily killing of black \u201cchildren\u201d in \u201cinner city\u201d neighborhoods throughout the land elicited a similar outpouring of concern and attention.\u00a0 However, no such luck.\u00a0 You see, when black kids are routinely murdered, no one cares. <\/em><\/p>\n

This is the line I saw coming.\u00a0 And this is the line that I first heard yesterday on Sean Hannity\u2019s radio program, and today heard repeated on a local radio station in the Philadelphia,Pennsylvania area. (Incidentally, I also predicted that Sean Hannity would be among the first to give it coverage).<\/p>\n

Granted, to my knowledge, no public figure\u2014no politician, celebrity, or professional racial activist\u2014has yet to exploit Sandy Hook in quite this way.\u00a0 Yet on the December 20th<\/sup> broadcast of Hannity\u2019s show, a regular black caller named \u201cLevi\u201d said that while he does indeed feel for the deceased and their loved ones in Connecticut, he is frustrated that no one appears to care about the suffering that black children daily have to endure.<\/p>\n

The black listener that contributed to the discussion on \u201cPower 99\u201d this morning, however, wasn\u2019t nearly as diplomatic. He said that since \u201cno one cares\u201d about the killing of black children, he didn\u2019t care a lick about the deaths of the 20 white children for whom the nation now grieves.\u00a0 The black hosts of the morning show, as well as at least one other black caller, took him to task for his absence of empathy.\u00a0 But they agreed with him that there is a racial double standard, and, thus, they claimed to \u201cunderstand\u201d his position.<\/p>\n

There are two things of which we can all be certain.\u00a0<\/p>\n

First, there are plenty of Americans, blacks, certainly, but white leftists as well, who think this way.\u00a0 Second, very soon now, a professional race shyster with a microphone and a camera will be screaming from the rooftops the very same thing that these obscure black callers uttered on a couple of radio shows.<\/p>\n

In a sense, but only in a sense, there is some truth to this sentiment. It is obviously, painfully, disgracefully true that black \u201cinner city\u201d communities throughout the country are virtual combat zones.\u00a0 It is also true that, just as it is the residents of any and every other community the world over that are ultimately responsible for the condition of those communities, so too does the responsibility for the desolate condition of black communities fall squarely upon the shoulders of their<\/em> residents.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This, though, we can\u2019t say.\u00a0 When blacks say it, they are derided as \u201csell outs,\u201d \u201crace traitors,\u201d and \u201cUncle Toms.\u201d\u00a0 When whites say it, they are charged with\u2014what else?\u2014\u201cracism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most people, and especially whites, either remain silent on the issue of black pathology, like criminality, or contrive transparently\u00a0preposterous explanations for it: \u201cracism,\u201d \u201cpoverty,\u201d Democratic politicians, \u201ca legacy of slavery and Jim Crow,\u201d and a host of other fashionable\u2014and groundless\u2014\u201croot causes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Land of\u00a0 Make Believe is often preferable to the real world, and it is always <\/em>safer.\u00a0 But as we fortify the former, the latter only deteriorates further.<\/p>\n

There is another point that needs to be addressed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most of the black \u201cchildren\u201d to whose deaths Americans are allegedly indifferent are themselves murderous thugs.\u00a0 They are not children between the ages of five and ten years of age.\u00a0 They are gun-toting, gang-banging teenagers.\u00a0 To be sure, this doesn\u2019t warrant indifference.\u00a0 It is nothing less than an unadulterated scandal that this state of affairs ever could have been permitted to emerge in the United States of America.\u00a0 As such, it deserves that we deal with it\u2014truthfully. <\/em><\/p>\n

Still, it is just dishonest to compare this with what occurred in Connecticut.\u00a0 In fact, that there is anyone who would think to draw this comparison proves just how far off from dealing with the routine killing of \u201cblack children\u201d we remain.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

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