Black History
Month in Delaware began with all the usual suspects presenting all the usual
indictments of racism. If there was any mention of black mob violence or black
on white crime, it was only in passing. Or only to represent the perpetrators
as the real victims. Teenagers, for
example, who were kicked out of high school for violence and truancy, were said
to be victims of uncaring counselors who threw them into a life of crime by
suggesting they go to night school. There was a lot of that: More than 60
percent of black students in Wilmington, Delaware drop out of high school. As for the real victims, black and white, of
the school violence and behavior that disrupted their learning, there was not a
word. Nor did anyone mention how two of the panel members voted for a local
city council resolution a few weeks before that declared Wilmington’s black
criminals were the real victims: They were suffering from Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder caused by slavery.
Nor did anyone
talk about how, just a few days before, a member of the Nation of Islam bearing
a message from Louis Farrakhan, told a roomful of the top elected and political
officials in the area, that anyone who talked about crime in Wilmington was
doing the work of “the enemy.” And they were trying to discredit the
re-election efforts of the city’s black mayor......To Read More.....
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