Thursday, April 5, 2012

Shelby Steele: The Exploitation of Trayvon Martin [Outstanding Analysis by Black Thinker!]

WALL STREET JOURNAL ^ | 4/5/12 | Shelby Steele
The absurdity of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton is that they want to make a movement out of an anomaly. Black teenagers today are afraid of other black teenagers, not whites.
 
...The civil rights community and the liberal media live by the poetic truth that America is still a reflexively racist society, and that this remains the great barrier to black equality. But this "truth" has a lot of lie in it. America has greatly evolved since the 1960s. There are no longer any respectable advocates of racial segregation. And blacks today are nine times more likely to be killed by other blacks than by whites.

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