What the report's raw statistic fails to take into account is that the death penalty is only imposed in aggravated circumstances, which can include the violence of the crime, whether it is committed in the course of another crime or whether the perpetrator has a prior criminal record of violent crimes. All these factors are ignored in the Amnesty report. Since juries generally don't demand the death penalty for crimes of passion, where the victim is known to the killer, and since blacks are far more likely to commit violent crimes against whites than are whites against blacks, the disparity that offends Amnesty may not imply a racial bias on the part of prosecutors and juries at all. The report does not even acknowledge this as a problem. The defense of criminals as a civil rights cause is only an extreme manifestation of what has apparently become the very essence of the civil rights movement.
White oppression explains their failure.
Black failure can only be the result of some lingering residue of the white perfidy involved in slavery and segregation. In reality, the failure of African-American children to make the educational grade cannot be explained by any of the above factors. While the oppression theme dominates public discourse, no attention is paid to the real problems that hold African-American children back. The myth of racial oppression, invoked to explain every social deficit of blacks, is an exercise in psychological denial. Crying racism deflects attention from the actual causes of the problems that afflict African-American communities.