Posted by Tina
Attorney General Eric Holder last week chided Americans calling us cowards because we avoid discussing issues of race. Gregory Kane, writing in the DC Examiner has taken up the challenge to begin having more “courageous” discussions with his article, Will Holder discuss these five racial issues?
I hope you’ll read the entire article. The following excerpt offers three of the five challenging topics:
** Holder called on Americans to have the gutsto be honest with each other. OK, Mr. Attorney General, here goes. But remember, you asked for it. Here are five racial matters Americans must talk about but liberals avoid like leprosy: The 1965 Moynihan Report: Also known as The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, the report noted the increase in the absence of fathers in the nations black households and then predicted, with chilling accuracy, what the consequences would be if the situation got worse. *** It did: some 25 percent of black children were born out of wedlock; today that figure is close to 70 percent. Black leaders in 1965 dismissed Moynihan and his report. So much for honest, gutsy dialogue. *** Affirmative action: In the late 1980s James Farmer, the now deceased former head of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), gave a speech at a Baltimore private school. *** The racial disparity in felony murders: According to the FBIs supplementary homicide reports, from 1976 through 2005 whites were 54.7 percent of felony murder victims. Blacks were 59.3 percent of felony murder offenders. Those figures might explain why those on death row are more likely there for killing whites rather than blacks, but so far only the death-row racial disparity has been discussed. *** The racial disparity in interracial homicides: Though the overwhelming majority of homicides are intraracial mainly whites murdering whites and blacks murdering blacks when the killing gets interracial, the black-on-white slayings are nearly three times the white-on-black ones. That trend stayed pretty much constant for the years 1976-2005. **