Many of us worship the same God. This is, at present, a tough, uphill road to walk. But nothing worthwhile is ever easy. The results, though, would make the walk worthwhile, for such a conversation would quickly turn the attention of both blacks and whites onto the institution with the lion's share of the blame for the present predicament, as well as the fact that our conversation is so difficult. That institution is the Federal Government of the United States, once created as a strictly limited entity confined to certain very specific functions but now seen as a repository of sociological magic capable of solving all our problems by political means.
Black men are generally violent and aggressive law breakers.
After all, one just has to look at the statistics. Some have noted that more black men are in prison in America than are in college. According to the National Drug Strategy Network, although African Americans make up less than one-third of the population in Georgia, the black arrest rate for drugs is five times greater than the white arrest rate. A CNN article in 1996 sited U.S. government figures that show more than 90 percent of all federal prosecutions for crack cocaine in 1995 were of African American defendants. I know some people might think that African Americans are arrested so often for drug offenses because police officers target drug dealers and most blacks fit that profile.