Lisa Fritsch: Let's Have that Conversation About Race

Austin talk show host Lisa Fritsch writes about the trifecta of black on black crime.

As young black men go wild, Obama goes golfing, Sharpton finally relies on the system, and Jackson tweets and prays from the recliner. These same men who might have normally stubbed their toe on the way to a camera, lest it pass them by, for a chance to rant and wail on America about racism, decide that these two incidents barely warrant a response? These same men who shook their heads, raised their fists, and roared fire at America over Trayvon Martin are content to watch in silent observation as black men roam the streets like packs of wolves devouring innocent victims who are at the wrong place at the wrong time? They care not about the character and integrity of a community that is in danger of being perceived as a gang of animals.

This is more than about hypocrisy of justice related to white on black crime verses black on white crime. Their silence speaks less to the lack of empathy for the lives of all races and to the false kum-ba-ya of racial harmony that Barack Obama promised. Rather, this silence gives unspoken consent to black men gone wild, and is a sharp and cruel proclamation of their inferior expectations and perceptions of the black community they purport to serve.  There is indeed a system at work here. It is a system of white collar black on black crime where an elite few excel and make their fortunes based on the peril and degradation of their own people. Killing them softly and over and over again with the “soft bigotry of low expectations” and salting their wounds of poverty and low esteem with claims of inferiority in the eyes of whites and the world when they themselves are the ones who hold the very inferiority complex of which they pretend to rebuke.

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