Update III (2/5): New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin got his wish. Chocolate City has returned. From NYT: “Most of the violence involves black men killing other black men. Out of the 161 homicide victims last year, 131 were black men. Most of the suspects were also black men.”
You’ll have to read between the lines in this story about crime in Minneapolis. Once again, they blame rising crime rates on “poverty” instead the actual cause. Law-abiding poor people everywhere ought to be highly offended by the characterization.
Young, black, fatherless boys living directionless and meandering lives make life very unpleasant for others. But they’re “poor” and America is “racist.” They can’t control themselves…
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Here’s an excerpt of my Washington Examiner column:
“The man who laid the foundation for Black History Month was an educator and historian named Carter G. Woodson. Noticing the absence of a history of black Americans in textbooks, Woodson created Negro History Week in 1926. He believed the omission was intentional and set out to highlight the achievements of blacks in America.
“Woodson chose the second week in February to acknowledge the birthdays of former slave Frederick Douglass and emancipator Abraham Lincoln. Negro History Week gained mass appeal in the 1960s, and was expanded into Black History Month in 1976.
“Woodson accomplished great things despite living in an era of government-mandated racial discrimination and oppression. What would he think of black America today, given the eradication of Jim Crow and the ever-widening landscape of opportunities available to blacks with the courage to seize them? Let’s speculate. ”
Want to know what I think Woodson would think of black America today? Read the column.
Side note — Every once in awhile, every writer has to deal with this: A typo was introduced into my column by the editor. I sent clean copy – “received an M.A. from…” – and it turned into – “received an master’s from…”
The editor forgot to change an to a after changing M.A. to master’s. Happened to me once before with an op-ed published in the Philadelphia Inquirer. You spend time proofreading until your eyes glaze over before you send out your work, but there’s nothing you can do about an inserted typo. Very frustrating, but there you go. 
Hope you enjoy the column anyway! 
Update: More black-on-black crime news.
Blacks are 4.5 percent of the population in Minnesota, but the state ranks #8 in the black homicide victim rate. Based on what we know about the nature of homicides, it’s likely that mosly all of the victims were killed by other blacks.
This is what I’d like to see: People who criticize me for reporting the news asking murderous thugs why they murder and offer suggestions and unsolicited advice on what they ought to do about their murderous ways.
In vain I’ll wait to see or hear about that. It’s easier, not to mention safer, to sit at a computer complaining about a blogger. 
Update II: Findings from a new study (emphasis added) – “The report from the University of Chicago covering a wide range of social issues from sex to entertainment also found young blacks think rap music and videos are riddled with too much sex and mistreatment of women, even though they are the biggest consumers of that entertainment“.
Too much sex and misogyny, yet they consume it anyway. It’s sort of like this blog, I guess. People who hate me and/or my views consume those views on a daily or weekly basis nonetheless. I’ll let the shrinks deal with that one…
