In the reading assignments below you’ll find a story about some fine urban thugs getting in a staring contest at an Atlanta-area convenience store.  Whey they drove away in two separate cars there was gunfire.  One dead.  One arrested. 

Controversial statement follows:  You knew even before you looked at the pictures of those involved that the shooter would be black.  Is that a racist statement?  No .. it’s a culturalist statement.  Absolutely no argument can be made that this staring contest that ended in death was due to skin pigmentation.  It was culture .. the urban … the Clayton County, Georgia culture of predatory violence and criminality.

Look, folks … we’re going to have to get over this asinine squeamishness we have about daring to say anything about the incredibly high level of crime and violence that exists in urban – and to an increasing extent suburban – black populations.  Blacks commit crimes way, way out of proportion to their percentage of our population. 

You want statistics?  They are certainly easy enough to come by.  In 2008, for instance, blacks represented about 13% of the nation’s population but accounted for almost one-half of all murder victims.  The killers were almost always black males.  When you consider the fact that black males made up about 7% of the population at that time the figures get worse.

Even the minimal amount of logical thinking skills you might – if you’re lucky – glean from a government education will afford you the ability to understand that this is not about race.  There cannot possibly be something in the one or two genes in our genomic structure that determine skin color that will also cause you to be a murderer or a carjacker, or that will cause you to kill if someone looks at you too long. It’s culture.  And nobody will resist acknowledging this fact more than blacks.  That’s easy to understand.  Once the problem is recognized as one of culture rather than one of skin color, you lose the ability to scream “racism” every time someone cites the horrifying level of black violence in our nation.  You see … you can do something about your cultural influences, but you can’t do anything about your skin color.  So if culture, rather than race, becomes the issue you find yourself in a position where you can, should and will be expected to do something about it … to take some sort of corrective action.  Who wants that responsibility?  Why work to change when you can just scream “racism” and make demands?

So now you know why I keep Tweeting these stories of urban violence with the simple caption “Culture of Violence.”  Maybe, bit-by-bit, people will catch on to the real problem here. 

In the meantime …. Keep your eyes to yourself, know whut ahm sayin, dawg? 

READING ASSIGNMENTS          

0bama is still working to promote anti-sequester hysteria.  It beats actually leading, I guess.  Here the Cato Institute debunks mush of this 0bamaNonsense.

Have you ever wondered why so many great American success stories happen to foreigners who come here and then make their fortune?  You’ll enjoy this column from Thomas Sowell about economic mobility.

My friend Matt Towrey takes a look at his state of Georgia.  You ought to peer over his shoulder.  There’s a reason why one survey listed Georgia as one of the five saddest states in the nation. 

The U.S. Postal Service is busted.  Saturday delivery on the way out.  Why?  Email!  People aren’t sending letters any more?  Solution?  TAX EMAIL! 

An all-too-typical story about the culture of urban predatory violence.  Yo, Dawg!  Whut yu lookin’ at?  From Clayton County.  No surprise there.

This pretty much does it.  I’m over John McCain and Lindsey Graham.  Time for them to step aside for some younger and more dynamic leaders like Senator Rand Paul.  Thanks for your service, Senator McCain.  Now leave. 

If you’re concerned or even mildly curious about where California is going … you really should read this from Victor Davis Hanson.  Beautiful Medieval California.  May still be a good place to retire .. but God knows you wouldn’t want to have to earn your living there. 

Here are 15 really horrible ways to wake up. 

The Georgia House gets it right.  Georgia’s thugs won’t be all that happy though. 

No surprise here, but report says 80% of New York City high school grads can’t read.  That’s OK though.  There’s always government jobs out there. 

Dear Ruler is making noises about closing down our national parks if the Republcians don’t go along with another tax increase on the reach.  But don’t worry.  His plans for a vacation on Martha’s Vineyard won’t be affected.  Whew!  What a relief! 

Why does California Democrat Senator Diane Feinstein think we need closer regulation of drones?  Why …we need to protect Hollywood luminaries, of course!

How about a re-write of the 23^rd Pslam? 

Peggy Noonan calls 0bama “Dr. Doom in the White House.”  Actually, he’s much worse that than.  He IS doom.   But this is worth a read.