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Human
Events
Unsung
Black People
By Ann Coulter
7/24/2013
It
must be hard for young black
males to always be viewed as criminals by people who notice crime
statistics.
We’ve jawboned that sad story for 40 years. Last week, President Obama
ran it
around the block again in another speech about himself in reaction to
the
George Zimmerman verdict.
Let’s
give that beloved chestnut a
rest for a day and consider another way blacks have it harder than
whites. Only
black people are expected to never speak against their community. Might
we
spend five minutes admiring the courage of blacks who step forward and
tell the
truth to cops, juries and reporters in the middle of our periodic
racial
Armageddons? This one is never discussed at all.
In
December 1984, Bernie Goetz shot
four black men who were trying to mug him on the New York City subway.
(About a
year later, one youth admitted that, yes, in fact, they “were goin’ to
rob
him.” They thought he looked like “easy bait.”)
A
few days after the shooting, The
New York Times got the racism ball rolling with its “beneath the
surface”
reporting technique: “Just beneath the surface of last week’s debate
was the
question of whether the shooting may have been racially motivated.
“Hoping
for support for its
below-the-surface thesis, the Times visited the mother of Darrell
Cabey, the
young man paralyzed from the shooting. As the Times summarized the
feeling at
the Claremont housing project where Cabey lived, “many people said the
four
teen-agers were troublemakers and probably got what they deserved.
“Cabey’s
mother had received one
letter that said: “[Y]ou get no sympathy from us peace-loving,
law-abiding
blacks. We will even contribute to support the guy who taught you a
lesson,
every way we can … P.S. I hope your wheelchair has a flat tire.”
The
Washington Post also
interviewed Cabey’s neighbors. Eighteen-year-old Yvette Green said: “If
I’d had
a gun, I would have shot him.” Darryl Singleton, 24 years old, called
Cabey, “a
sweet person,” but added, “if I had a gun, I would have shot the guy.”
As
white liberals (and Al Sharpton)
screamed “racism!” how’d you like to be the black woman called by the
defense
at Goetz’s trial? Andrea Reid, who was on the subway car during the
shooting,
testified: Those “punks were bothering the white man … those punks got
what
they deserved.
“Reid
had met the mother and
brother of one of Goetz’s muggers at a party. But she took the stand
and told
the truth.
Juror
Robert Leach, a black bus
driver from Harlem, was one of Goetz’s most vehement defenders in the
jury
room, even persuading the others not to convict Goetz for unlawful
possession
of any guns, other than the one he used in the shooting. In the end,
three
blacks and one Hispanic on the jury voted to acquit Goetz of all 13
charges
except for the minor one of carrying an illegal firearm.
More
brave blacks stepped forward
in the Edmund Perry case a year later…
Read
the rest of the article at
Human Events
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