The Hoax of Black Victimization at the Oscars

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Front Page Magazine:

If John Legend and Prince and all the celebrities at the Oscars and Grammys are right, then so is this: A whole lot of black people are in prison For No Reason Whatsoever. Or tens of thousand of white people are getting away with murder. Or both.

 

Legend, of course, is the singer/songwriter who won the Oscar for his music from the movie Selma. He used his acceptance speech to reveal a bit of truth that maybe some folks wish he had not: Selma is not really about the past but the present. And how black people are still relentless victims of relentless white racism that happens all the time, everywhere and explains everything.

 

 

Legend finished his speech by reminding us there are more black people in prison today than there were slaves in 1850. No on one is disputing that either: The incarceration rates for black people are anywhere from 6 to 10 times higher than for whites. And ten times more than that for Asians.