TWENTY-FOUR people, all of them black, were shot and killed during the weekend of May 30-31 in Chicago while hundreds of Chicagoans were looting and rioting over the alleged murder of George Floyd. An additional 61 people were injured in shootings. The Chicago Sun-Times did a yeoman’s job of highlighting these shootings, committed by other blacks, but everyone knows the truth about the victims: they don’t matter, nor do the detectives and other policemen who will investigate.

No billionaires, no foundations will be giving millions to publicize and oppose these crimes. Not a single one of these victims will ever become a household name, you can be assured of that, and if their killers ever come to trial, no reporters or television cameras will be there and the police will get no credit, none at all, for pursuing justice.

The grisly drive-by shootings and other apparent revenge shootings included 18 fatalities in a 24-hour period, the highest in 60 years. This suggests a surge of generalized criminality has been unleashed by the rioting — and national and local leaders who pandered to the looters and did not intervene are heavily to blame for that. This increased criminality will hurt many blacks, probably for years to come.

Life is cheap in black neighborhoods. Disgustingly cheap.  And that’s not because of guns. It’s because of revenge, hatred, greed, and jealousy, none of which can be controlled in places dominated by gangs, political agitators and soulless bureaucracies.

Blacks have plenty of reason to be mad at whites.

But it’s not because of white “racism.” It’s not because of brutal cops. It’s because whites have left them to this God-forsaken hell.

— Comments —

P.B. writes:

I respectfully disagree. We (Blacks) have no reason to be mad at Whites. Before Africa was colonized, all we managed to accomplish were mud huts and constant tribal warfare.

Now, after the colonists left, mud huts and constant tribal warfare. I thank the Lord I was born in the US and not in Africa. I would likely already be dead.

Every city in America run by Blacks is mismanaged, to be kind. Those cities are degenerating to mud huts and constant tribal warfare.

I don’t know the original source of “When Blacks riot, cities burn. When Whites riot, continents burn.” But with the current events as reported, my fear is Whites will decide enough is enough. Then, my skin is my uniform, like it or not. I will be sent away by bullet or transport, regardless of the content of my character.

Laura writes:

Whites bear moral and intellectual responsibility for bad ideas.

One of those ideas is that Christianity consists of reading the Bible and deciding for yourself what it means or of listening to charismatic preachers. Another idea is that people can be civilized in secular schools with an ethic of self-esteem. Another is that some races are exempt from original sin. Another is that hell doesn’t exist.

Blacks are farther along on the de-civilizing process of the “Enlightenment” project. Yes, they were not civilized when they came to America and they may have been better off here. But in the last 60 years they’ve been encouraged to embrace degeneracy; the whole media and academic complex is supported by whites. I think slavery was better than the lies blacks face today. Blacks are becoming raving narcissists. You might be dead if you lived in Africa, but you might be less likely to lose your soul.

P.B. writes:

“Whites bear moral and intellectual responsibility for bad ideas…”

I agree. But Blacks also bear moral and intellectual responsibility for our bad behavior. I don’t think it matters that the bad behavior has been/is encouraged by other bad actors. We Blacks still have agency, such as it is.

My original comment was in the nature of cursing after stubbing one’s toe. Nothing to be done about the stubbing, but the cursing brings a little comfort.

Thank you for indulging me.

Laura writes:

Not indulgence at all.

Let’s speak of Europeans and Africans instead of whites and blacks, okay?

Being the inheritors of a higher civilization, Europeans bear more responsibility for certain bad ideas. We can say this without denying the moral agency of Africans.

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