Back when I was in Catholic school and I acted up, I could
expect a stiff whack from the hand of authority. Typically, the news of my comeuppance would
travel home with me. When my Dad got
home, he would ask, “Why did you make Sister have to hit you?” Upon hearing my story, he would administer a
second dose of Sister’s medicine.
The goal of Catholic education was to turn out saints. Apparently today’s kids are already saints and
do not require the same correction that I needed to be set on the straight and
narrow path. At least according to
Attorney General Eric Holder
Holder
spoke this weekend at the Morgan State commencement ceremonies where he
rehashed his latest shtick. The AG asserts that the disproportionate discipline
rates in public schools and incarceration rates of Black Males is proof positive
that racism lives. Let’s consider these
one at a time and then in tandem.
In a recent article entitled “Politics
Versus Education”, Thomas Sowell takes Holder on directly. He writes:
“Among the
biggest obstacles to educating children in many ghetto schools are disruptive
students whose antics, threats and violence can make education virtually
impossible. If only 10 percent of the students are this way, that sacrifices
the education of the other 90 percent.
The
idea that Eric Holder, or anybody else, can sit in Washington and determine how
many disciplinary actions against individual students are warranted or
unwarranted in schools across the length and breadth of this country would be
laughable if it were not so tragic.
Relying
on racial statistics tells you nothing, unless you believe that black male
students cannot possibly be more disruptive than Asian female students, or that
students in crime-ridden neighborhoods cannot possibly require disciplinary
actions more often than children in the most staid, middle-class neighborhoods.
Attorney
General Holder is not fool enough to believe either of those things. Why then
is he pursuing this numbers game?
The
most obvious answer is politics. Anything that promotes a sense of grievance
from charges of racial discrimination offers hope of energizing the black vote
to turn out to vote for Democrats, which is especially needed when support from
other voters is weakening in the wake of Obama administration scandals and fiascoes.”
Moving on to the second issue, let me begin by
acknowledging that incarceration rates are disproportionally high among African
American men. However, it would not be
too far off base to suggest that this in not so much a function of racism as
the lack of legal opportunities due to a failing economy coupled with the
unlimited upside of the drug market.
No risk, no reward. No hope, why not? The trap is set for young Black
men but not out of racism. They are
shackled by the stupidity of America’s heavy handed economic policies combined
with the senseless War on Drugs.
Obamacare and minimum wage increases will not set put these men on the
road to lawful prosperity.
But for arguments’ sake, let’s go along with
the premise racial bias is afoot here.
Who then would be the perpetrators?
To a great extent, Black male students attend
urban inner city schools. Inner city
schools are controlled predominantly by Democrats and by teachers unions who
are also Democrat.
How about the big city and Federal criminal
justice systems that are busing and jailing young Black men? They are also controlled by Democrats. Therefore it seems that Eric Holder is
calling racism on his own team. You go,
sir! Tell it like it is!
To get their base worked up, the Dems are
busting on their own people and then blaming it on the great racist in the sky
It seems that Harry
Browne was spot on in observing that,” “The
government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand
you a crutch and say, 'See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be
able to walk.”
What we have here
with Mister Holder is government creating a problem that it will pretend to
solve.
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