Still
liberal after all these years. I am a
public defender in a large southern metropolitan area. Fewer than ten percent
of the people in the area I serve are black but over 90 per cent of my clients
are black. The remaining ten percent are mainly Hispanics but there are a few
whites.
I
have no explanation for why this is, but crime has racial patterns. Hispanics
usually commit two kinds of crime: sexual assault on children and driving under
the influence. Blacks commit many violent crimes but very few sex crimes. The
handful of whites I see commit all kinds of crimes. In my many years as a
public defender I have represented only three Asians, and one was half black.
As
a young lawyer, I believed the official story that blacks are law abiding,
intelligent, family-oriented people, but are so poor they must turn to crime to
survive. Actual black behavior was a shock to me.
The
media invariably sugarcoat black behavior. Even the news reports of the very
crimes I dealt with in court were slanted. Television news intentionally leaves
out unflattering facts about the accused, and sometimes omits names that are
obviously black. All this rocked my liberal, tolerant beliefs, but it took me
years to set aside my illusions and accept the reality of what I see every day……What
follow are my observations.....To Read More....
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