Eli,

It is an indisputable fact that in the U.S. racism exists at multiple levels. However one of the many aspects of racism writers like yourself refuse to even acknowledge is Black racism towards other groups, Whites, Latinos, etc. And even racism towards other Blacks! Not only does it exist it plays a great deal into the actions and diatribes of minority group leaders and authors. How many times have we all heard that Obama is not black enough? That someone is an Oreo or Uncle Tom? That a Black who is well spoken, has an advanced level degree, or is wealthy, is not authentically Black?

In your above response you acknowledge that there are significant numbers of Black cops, judges and lawmakers, but claim their numbers are not enough. So the questions become what is enough and what number will satisfy you?

Blacks make up 13% of the U.S population and a significant percentage of that is from recent immigrants. So how many Black top cops, policy makers, judges and officials is enough? What percent of those positions MUST be held by Blacks to satisfy your demands? How many of the Fortune 1000 CEOs must be Blacks? How many Wall Street execs and Bankers? How many dot com Billionaires? Of the collective 60 million blacks in our total 350 million person population must be given those jobs? And why don’t they have to earn them instead of being given them to satisfy your imaginary racial quota?

Truly and honestly ask yourself, Does the 13% get to control, demand, insult and abuse the 70%? Because authors like you are doing all those things and more. You all hide behind a trite cliche “ if you are white and don’t think you are racist that proves you are racist” which has the same lack of validity and spurious import of asking someone “WHEN did you stop beating your wife?”.

Both of those cliches assumes something that is not a fact but if you dare deny it that constitutes spurious proof of its validity. Basically they are smug verbal traps that protect the claimant and condemn anyone who disagrees.

The next question to be addressed is that of what monolithic claim do you have to say what Black community values are? And further exactly what are those values and why are they different than White community values?

Authors and speakers who make these value allegations NEVER expound on those values or their authority to declare them absolute in the entire Black community. So please enlighten us to what those vales are that whites don’t share with blacks?

The next question is just one of numbers. The only known databases of actual shootings as reported by media, run by the Washington post and a John Jay College of Law professor, show that more white people are shot by cops than black people are. Yet all of you authors and speakers ignore that reality that numerically cops kill more whites than blacks. Why do you refuse to even acknowledge those numbers?

The next facts come from DoJ and the FBI. In general whites kill whites more than blacks kill whites. Approximately 67% are white on white killings. Blacks kill Blacks by about the same percentage. Why do you refuse to deal with that reality? Why is that not part of your narrative? The answer is because the facts are inconvenient to your claims. If Blacks are held responsible for black on black crime then your claims of racism become weaker. The same holds true for all the ignorant whites that claim MOST violent crimes are done by blacks.

Reality is a bitch and having to face it when it contradicts our own narrative hurts most of all. That applies to all humans.

There have been inroads made in trying to combat racism, but the fight is not one-sided and the heavy lifting cannot be left to whites alone. There is truth in the phrase poverty begets crime. There is truth in the numbers that show a large percentage of blacks live in poverty. There is truth that Blacks, as well as other minorities congregate into specific neighborhoods, area, communities, etc.

By doing so they under-represent themselves in the broader U.S society and amplify the natural human wariness of strangers and those that seem different than ourselves. The reality is if a strange white man walks around a black neighborhood he is met with as much suspicion as when a strange black man walks around a white neighborhood.

There is also a greater truth in the term Personal Responsibility.

I cannot fix the past, no one can. I will also refuse to apologize or atone for the bad behaviors of others in the past. I am not responsible or accountable for those things.

In terms of race and slavery I will always point out that when this country was founded, slavery was a globally accepted norm. Whites, Blacks, Asians, Hispanics/Latinos around the globe enslaved their own and others. Blacks on the African Continent captured and SOLD other Blacks like they were pottery. Whites did buy those slaves, as did other Black tribesmen. That is an inconvenient reality, but it is reality none the less.

The bottom line is that if people of any color want to eliminate racism the solution is grounded in education and assimilation. People have to view others as being like themselves. That only happens with exposure, by which I mean intermingling on a day to day basis. It means finding commonality of interests, actions, and daily living. It means a stop to every conversation about race beginning with accusations and insults.

Not every, or even most, black individuals are bad, neither is every white person a racist whose afraid that blacks are taking over. Those claims have to stop or we will only get more divided!

Eli, I get it that many Blacks grow up in segregated neighborhoods filled with crime and poverty. But I cannot force them to move to different parts of the country, no one can make anyone move. I can’t make the whites move either.

With that in mind how do you expect those in the lily white communities to ever intermingle with black people? How can you reasonably expect those white folks to ever respect you if they don’t know you? If all they see is violence, drug use, crime, and high rates of babies having babies, how do expect them to embrace that? It certainly won’t come from you and others claiming it is all white peoples fault.

I hope you and anyone else that reads this gets my point, that we have to stop blaming and start interacting if racism is to be squashed.