
Last week, the Justice Department released new figures on America's murder rate. The data are startling: 49 percent of all murder victims are blacks...though African-Americans comprise only 13 percent of the population. And even though the overall murder rate is dropping, among black men -- it's rising. The majority of victims are young, between 17 and 29 years old. Most of them are poor, they live in the cities, and are the target of black-on-black crime.
The horrific murders of three black college-bound students in Newark, New Jersey has received much more coverage than the Justice Department data. They were "good kids," by all accounts, forced to kneel and shot execution-style in a schoolyard near their homes.
One of the three suspects in custody is an illegal immigrant from Peru, who was indicted twice within the past year: 31 counts of sexual assault on a child, nine counts from a bar fight -- and he was released on $5,000 dollars bail. Federal immigration officials were never contacted after the arrest; New Jersey doesn't require law enforcement to even check immigration status. Last year, Republican efforts to legislate turning illegal immigrants over to the feds failed.
For decades, liberals in blue states have cast themselves as the heroes, pandering to black voters at election time; ignoring the harsh realities their very policies have created in neighborhoods like Newark. One day -- and I don't know when -- these voters, tired of seeing their children and culture die right before their very eyes, will finally have had enough. And the sooner, the better.
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