In 1990, blacks were nearly three times as likely as whites to be arrested for white-collar crimes such as forgery, counterfeiting, and embezzlement. And, finally and conclusively, blacks themselves are responsible for 73 per cent of all justified, self-defense killings. The vast majority of the people they kill are other blacks. But this doublethink is no mere harmless self-delusion. As in 1984, it requires the constant support of an extraordinary censorship and self-censorship.
Media bias is a subject that easily becomes boring to sophisticates.
But the inversions of truth here documented by Taylor are so extreme as to be pathological. This powerful combination of internal and external compulsion is literally able to turn black into white. But in fact it was a complete chimera. Taylor reports that black men appear three to four times more likely to commit rape than whites, and more than sixty times more likely to rape a white than a white is likely to rape a black. Taylor's storm of statistics puts in perspective the view that blacks themselves are the chief victims of black crime.