Let's have a "piece" bowl

After this past weekend's "Peace Bowl", where a person was shot to death during a pee wee football game for peace, Stanley Crouch has a great piece about the lack of attention given to murders in the inner city.

Money quote

Addressing a dilemma tantamount to terrorism, a few months ago Ben Stein wrote in the conservative American Spectator that, "In the five and a half years since Sept. 11, 2001, there have been roughly 40,000 killings by gangs and gang members in this United States of America, mostly in the African-American and Hispanic sections of large cities." In his book, "The Devil and Dave Chappelle," William Jelani Cobb writes: "Between 1976 and 2004, African-Americans, who are 13% of the population, constituted nearly 47% of the homicide cases in the United States."

Crouch wonders why there are no politicians addressing it and why no media outlets are challenging the pols on it.

Here's a possible reason.

If you are a politician at a city level and you campaign on jailing murderers and cleaning up your city you are white.... almost by definition.

However, if you campaign on nothing except that you are not white, you're elected. One need to look no further than New Orleans and DC. By all accounts, Ray Nagin and Marion Barry are buffoons. Their cities are the worst run institutions in the US. After the hurricane and after Barry's cocaine convictions, both were reelected convincingly.

Why?

Because they represent every thing that white suburban America would never have in their communities. It's almost a reflex.

You'd never vote for a coke head, he's our man.

You'd indict an NFL quarterback for dog fighting, I'm buying his jersey.

You'd indict a guy with $90,000 in his freezer, I'd give him a "you the man".

You hate Barry Bonds because you're a law and order white guy, then I love melon head.

You want to see OJ go to jail, hell we'll treat him as a god even though he's had nothing to do with inner city black America in decades.

After a certain point in time, white America does what they can do.... leave. You want ray Nagin to run your city, we're out and no coming back. Whitey don't need a politician to address it because Whitey don't care and when we do, you'll do just the opposite anyway, so forget about it.

It's everybody's elephant in the room and when Whitey says something about it, he's a racist. If a black pol says something, he's an uncle Tom.

We're starting to see some fissures in the wall, with guys like Bill Cosby, Jason Whitlock, Thomas Sowell, even Stanley Crouch.

But until guys like Jesse and Al, the poverty pimps, start trumpeting that these problems are not whitey's fault anymore; nothing's going to happen. Except that it will happen all over again.