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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 18 1999

An ugly conspiracy of silence


© 1999 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

If there's to be racial goodwill and harmony, at the minimum we must be
willing to confront sometimes ugly truths. One of those truths has to do with
interracial crime.

We all readily condemn highly publicized racial violence, and rightly so, such
as last year's brutal murder of James Byrd by white supremacists in Jasper,
Texas. However, there's little notice and condemnation of interracial crimes
when whites are the victims.

Last June, Jared Taylor, president of New Century Foundation, in Oakton, Va.,
held a press conference at Washington's National Press Club to report on the
foundation's recently released study, "The Color of Crime." Some of the
study's findings about interracial crime were surprising, so much so that I
did an independent verification of the numbers.

Since 1972, the U.S. Department of Justice has conducted a National Crime
Victimization Survey (NCVS) to determine the frequency of certain crimes. One
category is interracial crimes. Its most recent publication (1997), "Criminal
Victimization in the U.S.," reports on data collected in 1994. In that year,
there were about 1,700,000 interracial crimes, of which 1,276,030 involved
whites and blacks. In 90 percent of the cases, a white was the victim and a
black was the perpetrator, while in 10 percent of the cases it was the
reverse.

Another finding of the NCVS report is that of the 2,025,464 violent crimes
committed by blacks in 1994, 1,140,670 were against whites -- that's slightly
over 56 percent. Whites committed 5,114,692 violent crimes; 135,360, or 2.6
percent were against blacks.

In 1997, there were 2,336 whites charged with anti-black crimes and 718 blacks
charged with anti-white crimes, so-called hate crimes. Although the absolute
number of white offenders was larger, the black rate per 100,000 of the
population was greater, making blacks twice as likely to commit hate crimes.

Regardless of race, criminal violence is despicable and deserving of
condemnation. But far more destructive are the official and unofficial
attempts to mislead and conceal. Roughly 400 members of the major print and
electronic media were invited to the press conference on "The Color of Crime."
According to Taylor, several asked for advanced copies before they'd consider
sending anyone. Only 14 people stayed for the briefing and only a couple
reported on the study, most notably The Washington Times and C-Span. One
reporter said that he'd like to write a story but he doubted he could get it
by his editor.

If the facts were the other way around, everybody from The New York Times and
President Clinton to the NAACP, Jesse Jackson and the Congressional Black
Caucus would be shouting about it and demanding that something be done. Some
might want to keep silent about the facts for fear that publicizing the true
nature and magnitude of interracial crime might give, as I've been told, "aid
and comfort to America's white racists."

To the contrary, silence is perhaps one of the most effective recruitment
tools for racists. They can use our silence for proselytizing disaffected
whites with demagoguery about how hate crimes are not important unless a black
is the victim and how no one cares about blacks raping white women and
assaulting white men.

Interracial crime has other devastating effects on racial relations. Whites
are apprehensive of blacks, and blacks are offended at being the subjects of
that apprehension. Whites are less willing to live in black neighborhoods. For
the unthinking among us, these and other responses to racial disparities in
crime translate into simple racism.

Multi-ethnic societies are inherently unstable, and how we handle matters of
interracial crime is just one of the ways that we're contributing to that
instability.


WorldNetDaily contributor Walter E. Williams is the
John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at
George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.


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