{"id":7735,"date":"2014-08-29T05:12:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T05:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/29\/walter-e-williams-blacks-must-face-reality\/"},"modified":"2014-08-29T05:12:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T05:12:02","slug":"walter-e-williams-blacks-must-face-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/29\/walter-e-williams-blacks-must-face-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter E. Williams: Blacks Must Face Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Census Bureau pegs the poverty rate among blacks at 28.1 percent. A statistic that one never hears about is that the poverty rate among intact married black families has been in the single digits for more than two decades, currently at 8.4 percent. Weak family structures not only spell poverty and dependency but also contribute to the social pathology seen in many black communities — for example, violence and predatory sex. Each year, roughly 7,000 blacks are murdered. Ninety-four percent of the time, the murderer is another black person. Though blacks are 13 percent of the nation's population, they account for more than 50 percent of homicide victims. Nationally, the black homicide victimization rate is six times that of whites, and in some cities, it's 22 times that of whites. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, between 1976 and 2011, there were 279,384 black murder victims. Coupled with being most of the nation's homicide victims, blacks are also major victims of violent personal crimes, such as assault, rape and robbery.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I will leave it to the reader to decide whether it is 'racism' and 'white privilege' and 'a war on blacks' that explain the deep problems of the black 'community,' or rather the sorts of facts that Professor Williams adduces.  Before you dismiss him as an 'Uncle Tom' or an oreo<\/a>, black on the outside, white on the inside, please think through<\/em> what he has to say.<\/span><\/p>\n

(If Williams is an oreo, what is Obama?  A mulatto oreo?  White on the inside — as witness his obsession with golf and other ways in which he 'acts white' — but black and white on the outside?)<\/span><\/p>\n

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