Racist Conspiracy Theorists

A survey commissioned by the black newspaper, The Voice, has revealed that four times as many black people are worried about crime as about "racism". As well they might be, given such cases as this, this, this, and these, all of which feature the murders of blacks, by blacks.

The fact that far more blacks are concerned about what people within their own community are doing to one another than about the wicked white people is clearly cause for concern for the players of racial politics. After all, the whole basis of their influence, and of their belief system, is the principle that every problem afflicting black people can be attributed to the evil machinations of the white devils. If the number of black people sharing that belief were to decline, then their influence would decline proportionately.

And so, obviously horrified by the tendency of their fellow blacks to be more concerned with actual black crime than with fictional white "racism", the players of racial politics have responded by asserting that, really, black crime and white racism are the same thing. If a black thug stabs someone, the whites made him do it. As Raymond Stephenson, a professional whinger and head of a group called Urban Concepts, put it:

The upsurge in crime is linked to racism and a lack of opportunity for young people, especially in ghetto areas where there may not be any youth clubs and where they are not spending money on us.

"They" are of course the wicked white oppressors.

It's interesting, isn't it, that Stephenson's solution to the problems of black criminality is for white people to give more of their money to blacks. The idea of the black community taking responsibility for its own self-inflicted problems does not occur to him. But, of course, in the minds of the players of racial politics, blacks can never be responsible for anything they do wrong: it's always the white people's fault.

Another professional "anti-racist" who addresses the issue is Herald "Ruggie" Johnson. Johnson is something of an expert on racism, being himself the proud possessor of a conviction for racially-aggravated harassment. Slipping into prose so overwrought as to be almost parodic, he says:

The government and the police need to understand that just like alcoholics you first need to admit your problem before you can change it. You cannot say you will tackle the problem of crime within the black community without recognising the root cause and the way in which the community has been mentally and physically brutalised cumulating in today's Diaspora of people trying to find a place in this post colonial age. The government needs to admit their role in all of this and face up to the real reasons for what is now presented in today's society and not to refer to youth crime as "an isolated problem."

I agree: black criminality is not "an isolated problem". It's caused by a mix of factors, including the "gangsta" culture dominant in black communities, and the collapse in moral standards and traditional values in those communities. And it's perpetuated by people like Ruggie Johnson, who, rather than taking their own advice and acknowledging that, like an alcoholic, they have a problem, persist in propagating their mantra that, whatever happens, the white devils are to blame. People like Johnson, and Raymond Stephenson, are no more than racist conspiracy theorists (imagine a white person attributing to "the Jews" all that Johnson and Co attribute to "the whites"), and I for one am heartily sick of seeing such people given a platform (and a platform commonly described as "anti-racist", forsooth) from which to vilify white people, and blame us for the harm their people are doing to one another.