Black Population, Please Don’t Go
Down the Path of the Palestinians.
| By Bill Haley Last month’s 10-7-2023 attack on the Jewish people in Israel revealed many views that opened eyes. All analogies fall apart at some point, and there are thousands of issues, so let me state my points and limitations. The Palestinians and the black population both claim oppression and justify their destructive behaviors as a response to that oppression. Their oppression claims, both the black populations and Palestinians, are often full of lies, out of context, exaggerated, significantly in the past, cluttered with unfair stereotypes, accept claims uncritically, dismiss evidence counter to their narrative, use never and always too often, attribute racism unwarrantedly, and make unsupported inflammatory statements. |  |
 | The phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ means that most white people, the government, and the police don’t think black lives matter. The strong negative response to the ‘all lives matter’ slogan is to keep alive the false narrative that everyone is racist and does not think black people’s lives matter. A high percentage of the black population votes for politicians that keep that oppression narrative going. The politicians that the black population overwhelmingly voted for are hiring the police chief, setting laws, providing benefits, executing and overseeing governance. Those politicians do their job poorly, resulting in higher crime, lower average income, low academic achievement, economic suppression, broken families, and other depressing outcomes. |
| Even though many black-majority populations have their chosen politicians win for decades and wield considerable authority, resulting in depressing outcomes, they continue to vote for the same or similar politicians. Palestinians also must keep the false narrative alive that they are oppressed. Palestinians also vote for government leadership that yields abysmal results. Although the elected leaders have full governing authority, they still keep the false narrative alive that they are oppressed. The Palestinians’ most considerable oppression is their culture of hatred of the Jews. |  |
 | It does not make much sense, but some narratives become so strong that a group of people will continue to vote for the people who oppress them. There is a sizable population of Muslims/Palestinians living in Israel, and on average, they have a significantly higher standard of living and liberty compared to Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip. No Jewish people live in the Gaza Strip because they would either be killed or live under real and massive oppression. |
| The same applies in part to the black population in America. The black people living in 90% plus white areas have significantly higher income, better academic achievement, and lower crime rates. Those areas are usually ruled by government officials that the black population does not typically vote for. If white people really oppressed black people, you would see worse results in 90% white-10% black neighborhoods. That is not the case. In the summer of 2020, numerous massive violent protests claiming black oppression resulted in majority-black neighborhoods damaged, Impoverished, and with a much greater crime rate. The police and white people on the Right did not do the damage and are a tiny percentage of the perpetrators of crime. |  |
 | A society must set consequences for destructive behaviors. If someone is inhibiting someone’s liberties by theft, vandalism, assault, battery, or murder, the perpetrator’s liberties must be restricted as a punishment and deterrent. Often, a black perpetrator’s proper arrest, prosecution, and incarceration are cited as oppression of the black population. In reality, it is the protection of the black population when over 90% of the perpetrators of crimes against black people are also black. |
| While there is injustice everywhere, the rate really matters. Sure, injustice must be addressed, but it must be addressed with due process, within context, and essentially, in truth. It is always harmful to claim an injustice while violating the rights of others. Show by example. The American experiment of looking at rights, liberties, and justice of individuals versus groups has been a significant success, and the black population concentrates on groups. To be clear, the most significant factor of good results in education, economics, low crime, and general thriving is a high percentage of the population in healthy husband and wife relationships. |  |
