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Heather Mac Donald On Jena 6: You Almost Got It Right
Heather Mac Donald is a John M. Olin fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a Contributing Editor to City Journal whose articles run the opinion gamut from complaining about feminists to instructing how to interrogate terror suspects to her complaints about blacks who stand up for their rights in the U.S.
Mac Donald is one of those pundit suma cum idiots who is always citing statistics. They are presented in a manner that carries a tremendous persuasive power, but if you stop to think about it afterward, you realize no one has questioned her sources or the reliability of those sources.
We find this not so clever tactic to be annoying at best. It’s rhetoric that appeals directly to the feelings of her mass audience. It doesn’t even have to be logical to move the majority. It simply has to appear to be so, as long as it arouses the appropriate feeling of the masses who pay close attention to this fake intellectual.
In a recent article Mac Donald writes “Let’s assume the worst about Jena, Louisana and the charges of attempted murder brought against five black youths…that the district attorney’s indictments were motivated by rank racism and that the racial tensions in this town of 3,000 are exclusively the product of white animus against blacks. Does it follow that this latest object of frenzy on the media’s racism beat is emblematic of America’s judicial system or the state of race relations today?”
The answer to your question Ms Mac Donald is a resounding “YES!” The ghosts of de facto segregation, even Jim Crow policies are alive and thriving in 21st Century U.S.
As you so eloquently noted Ms Mac Donald, ” …the incident that seems to have led to the group assault on the white student–three students’ hanging of nooses from a school tree where white teen congregated–was a despicable provocation. If adults in Jena condoned such incendiary behavior, then these grown-up enablers truly are throwbacks to a vicious American past, and all citizens should revile them.”
Yes noose hanging in our opinion is as heinous a crime to blacks as swastika symbols to Jews. Yes the adults, both black and white have been enablers who allowed a tree to symbolize a place where only white could gather. It’s a matter that should have been resolved long before last year when the black male students were taunted, even bullied by a lone white student.
You say “the massive international attention to this tiny town would seem vastly disproportionate to the cause unless Jena stands for a more widespread problem.
In our opinion Ms Mac Donald Jena does indeed stand for a more widespread problem.
You say “But for institutional racisim the black prison population would be much smaller.” You are correct. When one considers the fact blacks are more likely to be arrested, more likely to be arrested with more frequency and charged more severely and receive more punishing sentences than whites the conclusion can only be as you stated if not for institutional racism the black prison population would be much, much smaller.
One major reason why blacks have the highest incarceration rate in the country is self fulfilling. If you are arrested more every statistic related to that action is bound to be higher.
The statistics stated in your opinion piece are likely wrong. “The vast preponderance of prisoners are in the pen for violence and property crime. ” You offer no substantiation for this claim. You offer no credible source for your statement of what is to be believed as statistical fact. Shame on you Ms Mac Donald.
“The real tragedy is the dysfunctional culture that holds back too many blacks.” Ms Mac Donald you need to be educated in the history or perhaps re-educated in the history of black Africans of slave ancestry in this country.
You need to know that since the time of Lincoln’s bold move to emancipate all slaves-that includes the endentured whites, blacks have always at every turn met with opposition to become part of the “melting pot” that is America. It begs the question is the problem of being assimilated the result of a phobia about color or one of slave ancestry? Makes you say, “Hmmmmm!”
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