DAILY BEAST: BLACK LIVES MATTER MUST DEVELOP A PLAN TO REDUCE BLACK-ON-BLACK CRIME

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Breitbart:

Best-selling author and Columbia University professor John McWhorter has exposed the major flaws in the Black Lives Matter movement, asserting that the group is “living in the past” and pointing out that America won’t actively engage in the group’s demands as long as they continue to ignore the fact “that black people in poor neighborhoods are in vastly more danger of being killed by young black men than by the occasional bad cop.”

 

“The problem is not an America blind to racism, or even an America that thinks racism is solely the n-word, cross-burnings, and housing covenants,” McWhorter wrote in The Daily Beast. “The problem is, I hate to say, a progressive ideology on race that confuses performance with action.”

 

If Black Lives Matter wants to effectuate positive change, McWhorter writes, it will have to “turn its lens to black-on-black homicide rates as well.”

 

The Losing the Race author cites some recent statistics: “in Chicago almost 80 percent of the people killed have been black. In Baltimore the figure is 216 black people versus 11 white, in Philadelphia 200 black people versus 44 white. Most by other black people.”

 

McWhorter also calls out liberal New York Times writer Charles Blow and Slate’s Jamelle Bouie for their willingness to focus primarily on the “Darren Wilsons and Michael Slagers as black America’s supposed biggest problem regardless of actual homicide statistics.”

 

These men are members of what McWhorter calls “a certain intelligentsia” of black liberals who attack anyone who asks, “why do so many more black guys kill each other, numerically and proportionally?”

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