The New Jim Crow is a great chaser if we use drinking terminology.
But, breh, I'm actually re-reading Condemnation of Blackness now... THAT BOOK... literally DESTROYS the "Black on Black" crime argument.
I've long contended that Black Criminology is a fukking SYMPTOM and not a counter argument.
Furthermore, Black Criminality, as mentioned by Sheriff David Clarke and others who salivate over "Chicago" homicide rates and prison stats, is NOT a new innovative talking point.
Literally right after emancipation, racially biased sociologists and statisticians, were waiting with baited breath for the 20 year anniversary of the banning of Slavery.
Why?
They were going to use the first mass population of newly born Black children who weren't slaves as a litmus test for the future complexion of Society's view on Blacks. What I mean is, 1890, which would mark the 20 year anniversary for Emancipation, would also be the 1st U.S Census that had prison rates, crime stats, mortality rates of, at that point, the 20 year old Black Freeman who "never knew slavery."
And at that point, even though we were only 13% of the population... guess what? We were 30% of the Prison population in the Country. We also had a mortality rate at double that of whites.
Those points of contention was used ad nauseam as "irrefutable evidence as to the inferiority and savagery of the Black Race."
Frederick Hoffman, popular statistician of the time, compiled all of the 1890 data and wrote a n incredibly influential and successful book entitled Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro.
Get this... he became so popular that he was hired by Prudential Insurance to justify raising insurance rates on Blacks because of their inherent danger and inferiority.
^This is just the tip of the iceberg that the author of Condemnation brilliantly highlights how today's views on Black criminality and inherent propensity for crime and violence have been centuries in the making.
