So much crime, from so few

Concerning the "Jena 6," I heard someone say that "blacks are criminals." A very harsh thing to say. And untrue.

I'm not one of those who believes that anyone is inherently criminal. But I do believe that the civil rights movement and blacks' unrelenting connection to it has painted them into a corner. And it's all about exploitation.

From the 1960s, an industry was built based on so-called "civil rights." The right to vote, the right to an education, the right to pursue your own life, yes, all of those things are well and good and entitled by God, and affirmed through the U.S. Constitution. But what emerged from the 1960s were people who found that they could make one hell of a good living riding the back of prejudice. Enter the NAACP, the ACLU, and others.

PROFESSIONALS
I'll save everyone a recap of the last 40 years. In the now of 2007, we see an attempt to return to the glory days of civil rights, this time with an exploitation of people and situations. A look at the Jena 6 flap is revealing.

The usual suspects of the civil righteous - Sharpton, Jackson, the NAACP, et.al. - have come out of the woodwork to flex their skin tone and get Mychal Bell released - regardless of what he has done. They're even applying pressure on the Louisiana governor to do so. In hearing their rhetoric, Bell has never done anything wrong, despite evidence that long before the Jena 6, Bell had been in trouble with the justice system (Bell was adjudicated in at least 3 violent crimes prior to the troubles at his high school, leading to his receiving harsher treatment than the rest).

I, for one, don't think for a moment that the aforementioned care a whit about Bell. They see him as a platform to further their "cause," which, by the way, is also their profession. Remember that.

With so much to gain personally, the questions to start asking concern the civil righteous' motives and intent.

INTENT VS RESULT
We can't know what's in someone's head as to intent. But what we can know are the results of actions: assuming Bell gets off from all charges (and considering the politics of the case, there's a good chance he will), he'll still be guilty of crimes, yet free from prosecution, free to commit more crimes.

Because blacks tend to self-segregate, Bell will in all likelihood return to this culture and be committing his crimes in that "'hood," against other blacks. Multiply this times any number of other people you care to, and we start to see why there's so much crime in black communities.

WORLDVIEW
Whites view another white's criminal actions as a very bad thing, and want to see that individual judged on his individual behavior, and punished accordingly. This is in concert with the overall message of the Bill of Rights - everything based on the individual. However, blacks seem to view another black's prosecution symbolically; that all blacks, including themselves, are being prosecuted for the actions of a single one. Of course, it's not the case, but this would explain why black juries tend to dismiss horrendous actions of other blacks in the face of walls of evidence. O.J. Simpson and blacks' hysterically joyous reactions to his freeing is a case in point.

SELF-INJURY
So there we have it: blacks want other blacks freed from the perceived racial injustice of the "white" justice system. However, they victimize themselves when these people return - unpunished, unreformed and unrepentant - to their lives in the black community, to the very places where these jurors live.

Blacks need a better distinction between "prosecution" and "persecution," lest they be taken advantage of by the prostitution of the likes of Sharpton, Jackson, and the NAACP.