Colin A. Ferguson's rampage, killing five New York commuter passengers and wounding 20 others, proves whites don't have a monopoly on racism. If civil rights organizations, black politicians and ministers are to keep whatever remaining modicum of rapidly diminishing credibility they still have, they must roundly condemn both Ferguson's racist behavior and his apologists. So far, I have not heard civil rights organizations calling a press conference to do that. You can bet the rent money, had a white person committed similar mayhem in Harlem, it would be show time for the likes of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Benjamin Chavis.
The liberal news media couldn't hide this act of racism as they've hidden other acts of barbaric black racism, such as: In July 1988, Danny Gilmore was driving his pickup truck through a black neighborhood in Cleveland. He had a minor accident with a moped rider and was set upon and beaten by a group of roughly 40 blacks. When he collapsed on the street, one of them drove Gilmore's truck over him, fatally crushing his skull, to the cheers of the mob. In January 1991, Robert Herbert and three other blacks agreed that they would kill the first white person they saw. Mark Belmore, a white student at Northwestern University, had the bad luck. He was stabbed to death. In February 1991, Christopher Peterson was arrested for murdering seven white people with a shotgun. He explained his actions by saying "he had a deep-rooted hatred for white people."According to Department of Justice statistics, when whites commit violent crimes, blacks are their victims 2.4 percent of the time; however, blacks choose white victims over 50 percent of the time. Blacks murder whites twice as often as whites murder blacks. Black-on-white gang robberies are 52 times greater than white-on-black. Black men rape white women 30 times more than white men rape black women.
Blacks are the primary victims of violent crime. Pick up a newspaper in cities like New York, Philadelphia, Detroit and Los Angeles. You won't see a day pass without one black being murdered - and that's on a good day. But the interracial aspect of crime is especially socially devastating. It not only destroys racial good will, but it contributes to a rising pile of racial kindling awaiting a racial arsonist to set it ablaze.
There's a world of evidence that multi-ethnic societies are inherently unstable. We need only to witness the recent history of Bosnia, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Lebanon and others to see that. We risk similar conflict unless we quickly summon the courage to speak openly and honestly about our racial problems. We must condemn a president, and other politicians, who see the Ferguson carnage as a gun-control problem. When the Ku Klux Klan was murdering blacks, I don't recall our treating it as a gun-and-rope problem. We rightly saw it as racism. Those grossly ignorant academics, media people and politicians who announce that blacks cannot be racists because they have no power must be condemned. All racial double standards must be eliminated immediately.
The primary burden for racial openness and honesty lies with blacks. But whites bear a major burden as well. As Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J., said in a 1991 letter to President George Bush, "We will never come to grips with the problems of our cities . . . until a white person can talk about the epidemic of minority illegitimacy, drug addiction and homicide without being called a racist."