Trayvon Tragedy Outrage Masks the Real Threat to African-Americans

Liberal leftists fail at everything having to do with governance, except the worst aspects of it. One of the things they excel at, is the denial of obvious evils for the sake of distractions that serve their agenda. Let us consider the tragedy of Trayvon Martin.

Shelby Steele brilliantly captures the mendacity of the left:

The civil rights community and the liberal media live by the poetic truth that America is still a reflexively racist society, and that this remains the great barrier to black equality. But this “truth” has a lot of lie in it. America has greatly evolved since the 1960s. There are no longer any respectable advocates of racial segregation. And blacks today are nine times more likely to be killed by other blacks than by whites.

If Trayvon Martin was a victim of white racism (hard to conceive since the shooter is apparently Hispanic), his murder would be an anomaly, not a commonplace. It would be a bizarre exception to the way so many young black males are murdered today. If there must be a generalization in all this—a call “to turn the moment into a movement”—it would have to be a movement against blacks who kill other blacks. The absurdity of Messrs. Jackson and Sharpton is that they want to make a movement out of an anomaly. Black teenagers today are afraid of other black teenagers, not whites.

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To be exact, the shameful truth is that 93% of African-American murders are committed by other African-Americans. That is breathtakingly awful when you consider how incensed the African-American community is about the Trayvon tragedy, no matter what you believe about Zimmerman’s guilt.

Let’s do the gruesome math, not out of morbidity, but because it manifests the incredible self-centered insanity of people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

8,000-9,000 African-Americans are murdered each year.

93% of them by other African-Americans.

That’s 7,905 (from average)

That’s 21.65 murdered each day by other African-Americans.

And these racebaiting culture-hustling microphone-pimps only get riled up when a “White Hispanic” kills an African-American? It’s absolutely shameful.

***In the 56 days since #Travyon died, 1207 African-Americans have been murdered by OTHER African-Americans: bit.ly/HwWDGd #p2 #tcot

— el SOOPer (@SooperMexican) April 23, 2012

— el SOOPer (@SooperMexican) April 13, 2012

***Obama, you know who else would’ve looked like you? 7905 African-Americans killed by other African-Americans each yr: bit.ly/HwWDGd

— el SOOPer (@SooperMexican) April 13, 2012