Maggie's Farm

I don't think race matters.

Blacks are much more likely to be on one of the many doles. They see no reason to get married or get a job because the government will take care of their needs (and quite a few luxuries).

They have black "leaders" who tell them that regardless of what they do, they are not to blame. For example, a few years ago, a group of black teens rampaged through the stands at a high school football game. Jesse Jackson swooped in to defend those accused of the mayhem as innocent victims of racism. When he saw a video that showed that they actually did do it, he still defended them.

Then there are a large group of bleeding hearts, anarchists, leftists, and other idiots who also refuse to blame them for anything (just as the lawyer tries to do in court with his defense that the defendant grew up without a father).

In addition to that, there are influences that don't go directly to the lawyer's clients but does go to influence the black subculture in general where the society treats blacks (and other minorities) differently from others; see affirmative action and the lawyer's experience with the press.

I contend that any group or race that is treated this way will eventually display behavior the lawyer saw in blacks.

I am certainly not a lawyer and I do not claim to have anything near first hand experience that the author claims, but I am not surprised by his description of his black clients and what they do. Some of this is from the actions of black "leaders". If they claim the things they do, why wouldn't black criminals try it, too? Also it is not a secret that many (not all) black students in high school are not interested in learning and that they view it as a "white" activity so they are dismissive of any effort to show the value of learning.

But an experience my wife had makes the author's claim seem very reasonable. She volunteered to proctor a test at a local high school. It turns out it was a "special needs" class but the actions of some of the black kids could not be answered by a learning disability, and we have experience with special needs kids - I (and she) would say it was part of a plan. A group of the black kids did not have a pencil, would not write their names and date on the test, took frequent breaks to the bathroom and water fountain, and were generally disruptive. Some of the other kids complained (some of them were black), but those disruptive kids continued their disrespectful and disruptive behavior. In the end most of the disruptive kids essentially handed in blank test. This was not limited to special needs classes, though it may have been more common there, but was to some extent throughout the school. It would not surprise me to find out that that by now, some of those same kids would find themselves in legal trouble. Should the school have handled these boys differently? Of course, but they didn't. I suspect they are treated a bit more severely in the school my wife visited than they are treated in inner city schools - but that is the point, isn't it? If you get away with crap all your life, don't you expect to continue getting away with it?

I don't know if the author was actually a real public defender. Maybe he is like one of the leftist authors who won literary awards for writing fiction that they claimed to be fact. Is his characterization reasonable? I think it is. It doesn't mean that every black acts like that or that every black is a criminal-in-waiting, but it seems obvious to me that there is a sizable section of the "black culture" that has little respect for any authority and there is a sizable section of the population (not just blacks) that is in agreement because it's not their fault don't you know, their ancestors were slaves, they never new how to have a family, they didn't have a family, the society is out to get them, the people with "white privilege" don't even know how racist they are, and any number of other excuses. Everybody makes excuses for these people but very few are willing to hold them accountable for their own choices and lives.

We can quibble about typos, what the author should have done - if he was in fact a public defender, and accuse him of racism, but that misses the point. But maybe that's the idea...