Poverty Is A Poor Excuse For Violence

Asserts the moderate-conservative columnist:

"Before the victories of the civil rights movement, the murders of black people during the most intense redneck reigns throughout the South were committed
by those once called 'poor white trash.'

These were the people who became homicidally enraged at the idea of a black man acting as if he was a free person. What is now so appalling is
that while the street gangs that presently terrorize black communities across the nation do so with astonishing levels of murder and mayhem, they are so often defined by supposedly empathetic liberals as victims of race and class. No such glib hogwash was spewed when the murderers were white and the resultant corpses were black.

No one ever explained that the lower-class rednecks who were presenting themselves under peaked sheets while burning crosses, setting homes afire, bombing homes, offices and churches or murdering and mutilating their black victims, did so because they were feeling inferior to the white upper class of the South. When the killers were white, the issues were justice and injustice, not social status or income.....Lower-class black people may not know statistics, but they do know that the overwhelming majority of black people who are not economically fortunate do not murder, rape and brutalize other people. The monsters among us are always a decided minority, even within a minority, somewhere just above 1%.

That is the hardest and most enduring fact, but the one that those who put all blame at the feet of 'the system' never want to hear. They prefer to think of black people and Hispanics as wind-up toys who can make no decisions of their own. That is part of the burden and the tragedy of our time."