Vincent J. Curtis
4 July 23
RE: Who speaks up for Black communities? Op-ed by Kojo Damptey, who is currently a sessional instructor at McMaster University. The Hamilton Spectator 4 July 23.
Why, its none other than Kojo Damptey who speaks up for Black communities, that’s who! Race hustling brings in employment! Damptey complains that Hamilton Police deal with Blacks at “grossly overrepresented” rates in use-of-force incidents as well as in arrests in general. In addition, teachers, bastions of progressivism, in the HWDSB suspended Black students at higher rates than white students. When police and teachers are punishing Blacks at highly disproportion rates, what does Damptey conclude? Racism!
It would never occur to Damptey to look in the mirror and wonder if the problem doesn’t lie within the Black community itself. Oh, no - it’s everyone else. But you know which groups are underrepresented in the categories of arrests and suspensions - below that of whites? Asians. Asians don’t have an attitude problem with white society; they know how to get ahead in it, and take full advantage of their opportunities.
This whole subject matter of the
disproportionate treatment of Blacks and other races was analyzed extensively
by Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Thomas Sowell (who is Black, BTW) in his
books: Discrimination and Disparities,
Visions of the Anointed, and The Search for Cosmic Justice. But it
would be too much to expect university sessional instructor Damptey to read
them; it would be bad for business.
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