The Klan's main goal in life is to deprive black people of the ordinary rights of citizenship, dignity and equality that white people take for granted. At its best -- "best" being viewed from the Klan perspective -- the organization attacks not merely the rights but the lives of African Americans. Jim Crow was a substantial accomplishment, sure, but the crown jewel was lynching! Why merely intimidate blacks when you can murder them?
Even now, when the Klan has been mostly subdued (but cf. Dylann Roof), murder of black men is still a national scandal. The culprit has changed, however. It's not the machinations of the Klan. It's a poisoned culture in our big cities, north and south, that tolerates and breeds drug dealing, thugishness, violence and murder. Young black men are, to a grossly disproportionate extent, its victims.
The Klan must be thrilled. They now have a whole culture, not merely in the South but across the country, that will do their work for them. Liberals hold dithering conferences to talk to each other in Very Earnest Tones about "compassion" while murder of black people skyrockets.
But danger is lurking. Indeed, it comes up in a Senate hearing tomorrow.
Jeff Sessions, the nominee for Attorney General, will have another hearing. The Judiciary Committee may take a vote on whether to sent his nomination to the floor.
The Klan must be having a cow. For his entire career, Sessions, as a leading federal and state prosecutor and a Senator, has been a hard-liner on violent crime. He's not much for the "smart" approaches beloved on the pages on the New York Times. Instead, he's for approaches that work.
What I mean by "work" is simple, as will not surprise readers accustomed to my simple-minded outlook. The Sessions formula is more police, more aggressive policing, longer sentences for more felons, resolute opposition to drugs and drug culture, reining in naive judges, sentencing by law rather than taste, and support for the death penalty.
What happened to the murder rate when these policies were in their heyday, from the early 1990's until the latter stages of the Obama Administration?
We all know the answer. The murder rate fell by slightly more than half. It was the largest reduction over the shortest time in American history. Blacks, being murder victims in disproportionate numbers, were disproportionately the beneficiaries of this startling improvement.
So the last thing the Klan wants is a man like Jeff Sessions as Attorney General. Think of all the thousands of blacks whose lives will be saved, and life prospects improved, if Sessions' proven ideas replace our current march back to the failed policies of the past! Wouldn't it be a lot better, from the Klan perspective, if we just continue our proliferation of academic conferences on "Smart This" and "Compassionate That?" Why act to save black lives when we talk about it instead? And if, during all the chatter, Chicago and Baltimore turn into what amount to Klan Model Cities, well, hey, ya know, stuff happens.
So again, let me make the plea. If you're for the Klan agenda of violence-plagued lives and murder afflicting black people, call your Senator NOW and tell him to oppose Jeff Sessions.
Interestingly, David Duke was as delighted at the selection of Senator Sessions, as the Daily Stormer was by the rollout of the Administrations new refugee policy:...He is an avid proponent of Trump's promised Muslim ban...
[Ed. note] I have deleted the rest of this comment, which begins with a half-hearted attempted to link Sen. Sessions to the recent executive order on immigration. It goes on from there to a full-throated attack on the EO.
That is not remotely the subject of this post. The post is about Sen. Sessions' record of more than 30 years of protecting African American citizens from crime, and murder in particular, and about the policies he supported in order to achieve this success.
Commenters are welcome to discuss this timely subject, seldom more important than for today's Senate confirmation hearing. If potential commenters wish to discuss the EO, there are many places on the Internet to do so. This thread about Sen. Sessions' decades of support for more safety for our citizens, black and white, is not one of them.
Please stay on topic. WGO