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"Twenty-five percent of young black men are in jail, on parole, or on probation. A black man is ten times more likely to rape a white woman than a white man is to rape a black woman. Blacks account for 50 percent of the nation's prisoners. Gang-bangers are almost inevitably black or Latino. Don't think the young white woman in that elevator is oblivious. Don't think that a white woman living in the city hasn't seen, experienced, or had friends who experienced crime at the hands of black thugs. If Jesse Jackson himself says he's relieved when the late-night footsteps on the street behind him belong to white rather than black feet, all bets are off."

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Or this one, by Alan Keyes:

 

"Christ would not vote for Barack Obama, because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved."

 

Or this one, by Hamblin from his book "Plain Talk and Common Sense":

 

African-Americans "with victim mentalities...insist on conjuring up images of white racists blocking their every opportunity to get ahead."

 

Then there are these pearls of wisdom offered up by Malkin, a temerarious Filipino-American who, like Hamblin, cozies up to  white supremacists:

 

"... If there's an insult to be milked – Macaca! Nappy-headed ho! – the professional victims will rush in ... issue their 21-point demands, and then recede until their next race-hustling opportunity comes along..."

 

"...the popular narrative of innocent young black men being victimized by the bigoted white Southern establishment is as slippery as Al Sharpton's hairdo."

 

Reverse-race hustlers skew out these types of distortions to mostly white audiences as if to say, "That's how they (other minorities) are.  I'm not like the rest of them."  

 

For better or worse, they probably don't realize how right they are.

 

Epilogue

 

I can remember being informed, as a young man by a white friend, that I was not "like the rest of them," meaning, of course, other blacks.   At the time, in my ignorance, his comment left me feeling a bit full of myself.  However, that was many years ago.  Knowing what I know now, I would not consider that declaration to be a compliment.  But I wouldn't change the generally favorable attitude I hold for this colleague whom I still consider a friend whose statement came with all good intentions. 

 

But beyond the fact that, prior to me, my colleague probably hadn't hung around very many blacks, another more subtle message eventually emerged.  If you want to stay in the good graces of whites, don't be like the rest of "them" (i.e., don't be too "black").

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Anthony Barnes, of Boston, Massachusetts, is a left-handed leftist. "When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the (more...)
 

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