The Killing of Eve Carson
Now, don't get me wrong, folks, because I happen to think Barry Saunders, the N&O columnist, is a righteous dude with his head screwed on properly. But, in his recent column entitled "Don't let the evil divide us" he writes that the two black suspects in the Eve Carson case "represent all black people about as much as Timothy McVeigh or those Columbine killers represent all white people — which is to say not at all." That, on all accounts, just ain't right.
The statistics are that blacks are 7 times more likely to commit murder and 8 times more likely to commit robbery than whites. In Durham, where equal numbers of black and whites live, the odds are 0.875 that the murder was committed by black and 88.9% that the robbery was committed by a black. If the crimes are interracial, the odds are 0.85 that the perpetrator was black. And, murder being a violent crime, increases the odds of the perpetrator being black in an interracial crime to 0.975.
Should the two black suspects be convicted of the killing of Eve Carson it would be, by any account, very representative of black society. If that be racial profiling, then so be it. You dramatically increase your chances of being robbed or murdered by traveling the 8 miles, or so, to Durham from Chapel Hill. Both are the centers for great universities with the major difference being the makeup of the populations of the towns outside the universities. It is what it is.
Saunders goes on to state "Evil is not race specific." And, on that account he is 100% correct. The only difference is that whites blowing up a Federal building, shooting their fellow students, or even robbing and murdering blacks is much farther removed from the mainstream of everyday life. It just doesn't happen nearly as often. It's an aberration.
To his credit (as he usually does), Saunders does ultimately shoulder the burden primarily on black society. And, in my view, so long as black society continues its refusal to be assimilated into the greater society, the problem will persist. You can be an American or an African-American, but you cannot be both.
The choice is yours, Barry.
The statistics are that blacks are 7 times more likely to commit murder and 8 times more likely to commit robbery than whites. In Durham, where equal numbers of black and whites live, the odds are 0.875 that the murder was committed by black and 88.9% that the robbery was committed by a black. If the crimes are interracial, the odds are 0.85 that the perpetrator was black. And, murder being a violent crime, increases the odds of the perpetrator being black in an interracial crime to 0.975.
Should the two black suspects be convicted of the killing of Eve Carson it would be, by any account, very representative of black society. If that be racial profiling, then so be it. You dramatically increase your chances of being robbed or murdered by traveling the 8 miles, or so, to Durham from Chapel Hill. Both are the centers for great universities with the major difference being the makeup of the populations of the towns outside the universities. It is what it is.
Saunders goes on to state "Evil is not race specific." And, on that account he is 100% correct. The only difference is that whites blowing up a Federal building, shooting their fellow students, or even robbing and murdering blacks is much farther removed from the mainstream of everyday life. It just doesn't happen nearly as often. It's an aberration.
To his credit (as he usually does), Saunders does ultimately shoulder the burden primarily on black society. And, in my view, so long as black society continues its refusal to be assimilated into the greater society, the problem will persist. You can be an American or an African-American, but you cannot be both.
The choice is yours, Barry.
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