Yes, the life of an African-American must be a non-stop run from lynch mobs, Nazis, Klansmen, and other rabid racist terrorists. I can only imagine the courage it must take simply to rise from bed and face the ever-present threat of death. Perhaps it’s the same courage required to post wacky smack on a blog using a silly fake name. Keep it real.

Of course, American blacks face yet another terrorist threat in their daily existence: the threat of crime committed by other American blacks. According to the 1999 Index of Cultural Indicators, blacks, representing 13% of the population, commit 42% of violent crimes and over 50% of all murders. Many of these crimes are black-on-black. When we restrict ourselves to inter-racial crimes, we find that white criminals choose black victims in about 3% of the total inter-racial crimes, while black criminals choose white victims in about 50% of the total inter-racial crimes. So we can clearly see…er, wait…who is it again who’s facing the terrorist threat?

Well, no matter. It isn’t about facts, anyway. It’s about feeling good, and few things can make us feel as good as seeing ourselves facing a battle of survival in our easy chairs.

Nappy-Headed Rick responds:
“You people” say we have to fight the terrorists over there so we don’t have to fight the terrorists over here.

But as the other Rick makes very clear, if you are a black person, you have to fight the terrorists over here as well as over there. I appreciate the reminder…

[To NHR: if you are going to post to this blog—and you are most welcome—at least do your research. What is with people? Why so lazy? If I were to write to a popular writer, I’d make sure I knew his/her positions, before attacking them! Read this proprietor’s War Foreign Policy archive. This site is anti-war—most of its contributors are. I have argued against the invasion of Iraq since September 2002, well before most anyone else.—ILANA MERCER]

When people complain about it, I’ll just tell them to stop being victims. And when that BS doesn’t work, I’ll just tell them I’m only doing what I hear on the radio and see on TV.

It was horrifying how quickly this morphed from some hurt feeling to a political litmus test. Which Democratic candidate would remain quiet. Did anyone else feel uncomfortable that our leaders and public figures were forced to ask for personal destruction of a human being at the pain of their own careers? [This is not the place to express pity for the most corrupt bunch of them all; the Demopublicans. They ain’t MY leaders.] Was anyone else horrified at the power everyone handed over to Sharpton, to hold judgement? Why didn’t anyone question how a Reverend, somehow could not find it in his heart to forgive a man who spent a couple of hours with him on his radio show to apologize. Was what Imus said something that could not be forgiven? The team forgave him today, naturally, because they only had personal feelings at stake. Sharpton has a career in this sort of thing and he apparently is looking to ride this to new heights of power and influence. Sharpton says he is not finished. That he will be looking to clean up the airwaves, and everyone cheers. Apparently, in this day and age, we don’t need 9/11 to give up our freedoms; I am too young to remember McCarthy or Hitler, I nevertheless felt the cold wind of the demogogue-led mob over the last few days and it scared the hell out of me

They must never get jobs, get married, have children – and certainly not start blogs if that’s what it takes to “scar them for life”.