But the desperation to prove white turpitude is so great that instead of celebrating this as a triumph of civil rights reform in the law, the race baiters merely shift their focus to the victims of capital crimes. 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 whites commit against blacks, the disparity that offends the Amnesty Report has a basis in facts that may not imply a racial bias on the part of prosecutors and juries. The Report does not even acknowledge this as a problem.
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 can be 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.