motherjones | If you believe that the criminal justice system is racially biased, you need to know Heather Mac Donald.
She'll mess with your mind and make you either up your
politico-cultural game or admit you were wrong. What worries me is that
so few on 'our' side can, or bother to, go toe to toe with her. Just
about every one of her pieces is a statistical and analytical
tour-de-force, while we liberals tend too often to mouth liberal pieties
like inside jokes. Just yesterday, I was listening to Angela Davis
address the Commonwealth Club
(sorry. speech not posted) on my car radio. I agreed with nearly
everything she said, but they were dissatisfying lefty bromides, one and
all. Racist criminal justice system. Slavery was bad. War in Iraq. The
crowd whooped and hollered, but where was the beef, the analysis, the
facts? Forgive me Angela, patron saint of the streets, but Mac Donald
would have had you for lunch.
According
to her byline, Mac Donald "is a contributing editor of City Journal and
the John M. Olin Fellow at the Manhattan Institute". She's also among
America's harshest critic of blacks. Harshest and most devastating;
unlike most of the right-wing blovio-sphere, home girl does her
homework. And for her, 2 and 2 always equal black deficiency, whether in
morals, culture or crime. Trouble is, she comes loaded for bear.
I read her religiously—even have a Google alert set up in her
honor—much the same way one looks for dismembered limbs and blood stains
at an accident scene while knowing one shouldn't. One will only get
upset if successful and MacDonald upsets me every time because with
every piece, she sets out to prove that the only problems blacks face
are of their own making.
She doesn't mess around. Her City Journal latest is a devastating
response to the liberal shibboleth that the criminal justice system is
racist and designed to criminalize and incarcerate blacks en masse. No,
says Mac Donald. Black incarceration rates are a simple function of
rampant black crime.
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