Culture Not Genetics

Watching what happened in Cincinnati and looking at their government officials apologizing for the perpetrators and condemning the victims it's easy to blame race.

People of color beat two white people very severely.

But it's not their color that caused them to be violent.

It's a culture that's been built around them that allows for and encourages violence.

There was racism on display, and it wasn't the victims.

Update: Fox News reports that someone uttered the dread CENSORED at some point.  Not clear if it was the victims or not.

I would not be shocked to find that it was a person of color uttering CENSORED.  I mean, they're allowed to say CENSORED because double standards. 

There is racism in the concept that the people of color cannot be held to the same standard as white people and therefore should have a culture lowered to their ability.

The people encouraging that notion are rarely people of color.

They've been selling this idea since before the Civil War.

They've been proven wrong more than once, but keep managing to reclaim the debate and get their ideas about race put forward as policy.

Now, any attempt to hold these people of color accountable for their actions in the same manner as any other American is claimed to be racist.

But it's not.

To give them a pass based on race is.

If they really want to take this to its fullest, they're going to find themselves confined to their ghettos (ghetto being used in its original meaning here) and no longer allowed to interact with the surrounding culture at all.

It's interesting that every single case of someone who originated in such a ghetto, adopted western society's norms and moved out thrived.

American Indians, Blacks, Catholics, Chinese, Irish, Italians, Japanese, and even Jews have all had their moment in the box and everyone who abandoned their native norms for American norms became just another American.

Never forget; the melting pot is a crucible, not a stew pot.