If I believe NBC News, and for this argument ONLY, I will SAY
I believe NBC News, then the “Lynching” museum, recently opened in Alabama,
commemorates the lynching of 4400 blacks in America over the seventy three
years between 1877 and 1950. That time
frame seems a bit arbitrary as I feel certain that some blacks were lynched
before 1877 and after 1950. But that aside; 4400 black people over 73
years. About 60 per year, primarily in
the south. I know that this paragraph
seems rather anti-sceptic, but that happens when you reduce something to
numbers.
Let me say up front that I will PROBABLY go see the museum;
it is history, I am a closet historian, it is in the south, I am a southerner
and at the moment I consider it as important as any of the Holocaust sites I
visited in Europe. I will probably go
see it unless the left dicks it up politically, then I won’t be able to put
enough distance between it and me.
The era in question needs to be seen through a historical,
factual filter. My generation and
certainly my sons’ generation cannot fathom a “lynching” (unless of course it
was my own…..I think we could get an audience together for that with no
problem). In my view, the era of lynching
in this nation is history, like the holocaust is history, slavery is history
(in this nation at least), the civil war is history; all inform but do not and
should not define who we are. As a
nation we have more than compensated, unless of course we march 4400 whites who
had nothing to do with lynching and find the mere idea abhorrent, off to the
gallows……and then I doubt many would find solace with that.
Now, you know that divisive elements in this nation are
going to ruin this, you KNOW they are. I
actually find the concept noble, but there are too many that consider this an
opportunity to stick a knife through the eye of America, especially white
America; for some there will be no revenge ever draconian enough, no payback
will be enough. And you know the media
and the left will promote that theme, the vengeance, white men are bad. You know as well as you know Hillary will
have a new book blaming the world for her Hillary-ness, that this will be ruined
by the left.
That said…..and yes, it was inevitable that my mind would
take us here; WHEN will we build a
monument to the WELL over 60 black Americans killed per year, BY black
Americans? Hell, we could break ground on
THAT edifice in Chicago TODAY.
In 2010-2011 4,906 black people in America were murdered
by…..black people. In TWO YEARS more
blacks were killed by other blacks than blacks were lynched in the entire 73
years commemorated by the new museum.
THIS statistic comes from the Tuskegee Institute. Guess what?
No museum commemorating the murder of blacks by blacks….and there never
will be.
In 2012, white males were only 38% of the US population
(and thanks to some very misguided progressive policies, that number is
trending downward). That 38% accounted
for 4,582 murders….not an insignificant number by any means. However, black males were only 6.6% of the
population and THEY accounted for 5,531 murders. If you are a math idiot, as am I, you might
not recognize that THAT statistic means that black men murdered at roughly FIVE
TIMES the rate of white men and by and large their victims were other blacks.
In total, the black population is 13% (give or take a
point, and not taking into account the whites that think they are black) of the
US population (you would not know that in our progressive cities). In the past 30 years, that 13% has accounted
for more murders in this nation than any other race, committed against any part
of the population EVERY SINGLE YEAR. No
museum commemorating the victims of that ongoing shooting rampage….and there never will be. Those statistics are from
the DOJ, which for 16 of those 30 years was ruled by democrat appointees.
At the current rate at which cops kill black, alleged
perpetrators, justified or not, it would take all police forces in the United
States FORTY YEARS to kill as many black men as died at the hands of other
black men in 2012 alone. This statistic
is from a study conducted at the University of Toledo.
I mentioned Chicago earlier. Believe it or not, Chicago is not THE worst
city for black on black murders, or murders in general, among our major US
cities, especially when adjusted for population; Saint Louis is. Chicago though does have the distinction of
having a murder clearance rate of less than 25% while simultaneously cutting
the detective force by 1/3. Between 2001
and November of 2016, the Chicago death toll from murders was a staggering 7,401…..the
vast number committed by blacks against blacks.
During that same time, the death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan combined
was 8,321. Yes, Chicago is a war zone
and people are literally getting away with murder.
And no museum, not even a monument.
Yes, lynching was horrible.
No due process, tacit government and law enforcement approval……no doubt
more than a few victims not guilty of any crime at all. It was horrible, it was dealt with, it is
history and it should be treated like that.
I think a museum to that is appropriate.
But, with ALL of that truth on the record books, isn’t it time that we
started accepting, dealing with, fighting against another, real ongoing
truth? The threat to black lives today
is not whites, is not cops and certainly isn’t white cops; it isn’t even combat
in a foreign land, it is black men killing other blacks. If we spent a FRACTION of the energy we spend
on keeping alive the racism of the lynching era in the media and dividing out
people…..if we spent just a fraction of energy in stopping the racial homicidal nightmare of
black on black murders, then the Legacy Museum would be just that, a museum….
…..and we could finally prove that black lives DO matter…..to
blacks also.
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