Conundrum

The world is afire with the rejection

of racism -- oh, not generally, no -- a very

particular type of bigotry expressed as

anti-Black, a part of humanity that has

long suffered the bludgeon of prejudice

and injustice whose history is one of misery

and slavery, viewed with suspicion and

dread by others for the modern-day

reputation which many among them 

have earned for civic violence and 

rejection of social norms in an underworld 

of gangs and guns and drugs. Preying on 

their own and on others alike they evoke 

lawful vigilance yet their community decries 

their over-representation in prisons even 

while they are over-represented in crime. 

Poverty, inequality, lack of opportunity 

though such conditions fail to produce 

similar outcomes in other groups who 

suffer the same viral indignities are the 

scaffolding upon which failure is presumed 

to unfold. The elite aristocracy of the Black 

community looks with disdain upon the 

Black flotsam and community leaders see 

scant success in persuading young Black men 

to assume maturity and responsibility and 

women to raise their children wholesomely 

in family units rather than as recruits for the 

next generation of thuggish gangs. While 

anti-Black racism protests now roil the world 

many among them are white, many are ethnic

some whose history is more fraught with

horror than theirs, yet outraged Blacks and 

their presumptive leaders sneer at all whites 

as oppressors as they mount rancid accusations 

of cupidity on the backs of Blacks on the Jewish 

community. Now who are the flaming racists?