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From the article....

In an article for New York magazine, writer Stanley Crouch, who has been condemned for advocating snitching, nicely summed up the lunacy of the code of silence: "The greatest threat to black life and limb is not the police; it's criminals in our community."

He is right. Black criminals victimize their own people. And we help them. If we do not call the police, we deserve the mayhem and dysfunction we suffer. When we conceal the identity of a murderer, we endanger everyone. When we turn our backs on drug deals near our homes, we cheapen the rule of law and destroy social values. In addition to its self-destructiveness, the snitching ethos alienates us from others, putting us at odds with normal behavior.

And what I don't get is the howls of protest from liberals at the large numbers of blacks behind bars. They claim it's racist??? OK, fine. Let them all out. Then don't be surprised when they return to the ghetto and begin killing other blacks like they have done for generations. It's called black on black crime.

This entire article is very, very good.

Including the conclusion.....

Would a decent person walk away and refuse to assist a mortally wounded fellow human being — a police officer? Would a decent person condemn someone for helping a police officer?

Blacks have only themselves to blame for giving other people good reasons to hold them in contempt. The code of silence is corrosive in every way.

” ... Then don't be surprised when they return to the ghetto and begin killing other blacks like they have done for generations. It's called black on black crime. ...”

This is precisely what Eldridge Cleaver described in his book “Soul On Ice” back in the 60s, but he was trying to justify it. He was a paid charlatan. IMHO

This is true in most poor neighborhoods, particularly those that are ghettos...and I mean that in the ethnic sense of the word. I grew up in New York City, and knew the same code existed in the polish, irish and italian lower income neighborhoods. Once people move out to middle class suburbs...there is no code of silence....

From the article: By trying to help the officers, Keen, Roundtree and Dodson showed, in the eyes of many, that they are not "authentically black." They are traitors to their race.

Let's look at this more closely, shall we? This attitude indicates that those who feel this way consider themselves AT WAR with the police. Why would they consider the police the enemy? Because they consider that the police protect white America against black crime.

The media don't want people to go and examine this attitude too deeply.