Posted on 10/27/2002 10:06:08 AM PST by toenail
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For example, on the matter of violence inscribed in black genes, the inconvenient parallel is to South Africa where 31 million blacks live, the same count living in the United States. Compare numbers of blacks who died by violence in South Africa in civil war conditions during 1989, 1990, and 1991 with our own peacetime mortality statistics and you find that far from exceeding the violent death toll in the United States or even matching it, South Africa had proportionately less than one-quarter the violent death rate of American blacks. If more contemporary comparisons are sought, we need only compare the current black literacy rate in the United States (56 percent) with the rate in Jamaica (98.5 percent)—a figure considerably higher than the American white literacy rate (83 percent).
If not heredity, what then? Well, one change is indisputable, well-documented and easy to track. During WWII, American public schools massively converted to non-phonetic ways of teaching reading. On the matter of violence alone this would seem to have impact: according to the Justice Department, 80 percent of the incarcerated violent criminal population is illiterate or nearly so (and 67 percent of all criminals locked up). There seems to be a direct connection between the humiliation poor readers experience and the life of angry criminals.2
[Footnote] A particularly clear example of the dynamics hypothesized to cause the correlation can be found in Michael S. Brunner’s monograph, "Reduced Recidivism and Increased Employment Opportunity Through Research-Based Reading Instruction," United States Department of Justice (June 1992). Brunner’s recent book Retarding America, written as a Visiting Fellow for the U.S. Department of Justice, is recommended. A growing body of documentation ties illiteracy causally to violent crime. A study by Dennis Hogenson titled "Reading Failure and Juvenile Delinquency" (Reading Reform Foundation) attempted to correlate teenage aggression with age, family size, number of parents present in home, rural versus urban environment, socio-economic status, minority group membership, and religious preference. None of these factors produced a significant correlation. But one did. As the author reports, "Only reading failure was found to correlate with aggression in both populations of delinquent boys." An organization of ex-prisoners testified before the Sub-Committee on Education of the U.S. Congress that in its opinion illiteracy was an important causative factor in crime "for the illiterate have very few honest ways to make a living." In 1994 the U.S. Department of Education acknowledged that two-thirds of all incarcerated criminals have poor literacy.
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HORSEFEATHERS!!!! muslims in Sudan and Mauritania still make slaves of black Africans, and many African slaves are exported to the Gulf states!!!! The slave trade in East Africa was in existence long before Europeans engaged in the African slave trade, and many African-Americans are descended from captured Africans who were sold to European slave traders by muslim chiefs.
If African-Americans want a REAL black religion, they should become Ethiopian Orthodox Christians!!!! Neither slavery nor terrorism is part of the Ethiopian Orthodox ethos or culture.
....John Walker Lindh, the [white native-born American] Marin County "black nationalist"-turned-Taliban....
Some people consider me--a native-born American with no Serbian ancestry that I know of--a "Serbian nationalist". But I never picked up a gun or a bomb to kill anyone, and have no plans whatsoever to do so. Go figure!
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As far as poor Latinos are concerned, I didn't notice many Muslims when I worked with a youth education program in Chicago that was 80% Mexican-American. They probably have more success with Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, many of whom are indistinguishible from blacks.
No offense intended. In my experience (and I'll admit it's light at best) there, many of the folks are not the type who would engage in heavy-duty debate & discourse.
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