As I pointed out this week, last weekend, I sent an e-mail to the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations asking for a breakdown on their most recent hate crimes stats as to who the perps and victims were.
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2011/08/hate-crimes-in-philadelphia.html
To date, I have received no response. Keep in mind, this agency has an annual budget of over 2 million dollars. One would think they could get me the requested information, couldn't one?
Couldn't one?
Maybe as a local agency they give rather low priority to the idle curiosity of bloggers three thousand miles away who don't pay taxes in Philadelphia, nor live there.
ReplyDeleteCould it possibly be-just maybe-that the stats would reveal that most of the victims in Philly are white or Asian while most of the perps are black?
ReplyDeleteIf so, let's be honest about it. Then we can work together to fix it. Hiding it won't bring us together or fix the problem.
What if they were?
ReplyDeleteLast winter, I was tutoring a couple of Karen students, and the older one, male, told me about fights at school where black kids beat up on the Karen. At first I thought it was some black kids picking out new kids who looked different to beat up on.
Later, a teacher who has put a tremendous amount of time in working with the small but present Karen community told me, those fights started because someone didn't pay for their drugs. (It's not part of Karen culture, but they came by way of refugee camps in Thailand, and ever since those big US air bases were in Thailand during the Vietnam War, prostiution and drug dealing have remained sky high...)
You are trying to make a case for "reverse racism," and the cases are simply not comparable. American cities have always had low-level rivalries between respective "others" in adjacent neighborhoods: Poles and Germans, Poles and Irish, Irish and Italians, Catholics and Jews, Catholics and Protestants, whites and Asians...
The way to deal with it is about the same no matter who it is.
Further, none of it is being done as the massive response of an entire racial group against another, nor is it being done with the connivance of the police. So, as we conservatives like to say, deal with each individual.