And now a black politician has offered a bit of diagnosis as to the cause of the attacks (that aren't really happening).
I find this last part fascinating because she has touched on a subject that no white person could without poisoning the message with a big placeholder for the race card to be firmly implanted.
Amid an array of “knock-out” attacks against a number of Jews in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood, a city councilwoman pointed to the success of the Jewish community as triggering the aggression. Councilwoman-elect Laurie Cumbo emphasized that while she “admire the Jewish community immensely” for its work ethic, black teens may see it differently.
“While I personally regard this level of tenacity, I also recognize that for others, the accomplishments of the Jewish community triggers feelings of resentment, and a sense that Jewish success is not also their success,” Cumbo, who was recently elected, wrote in a letter. Chief among the issues causing resentement against Jews could stem from hostility towards Jewish landlords, she added. Cumbo, who is black, said that she was looking to “offer possible insight as to how young African American/Caribbean teens” think and how it can lead to the attacks.
Cumbo expressed concern over the attacks and supported investigations and legal actions against perpetrators.
Will the exploration of this motivation, and more importantly, how that kind of motive can be fostered within a group, be undertaken in the media? Or will she be vilified for being some kind of sell out? Will she need to back pedal her comments into some kind of garbage that every one offended can then step around and ignore?
Other groups are able to see the success of people outside their own. Why don't they choose to entertain themselves by randomly beating the crap out of them? What is the reason this group accepts this violence as a 'thing to do"? Will that last question be talked about out in the open? Personally I think that last question is the door to open to solve a whole lot of the problems that cause such a disparity in the quality of life for those 'playing the game'.
