Oppression Damage or Cultural Dysfunction

Walter Williams has written an editorial titled "Blacks Must Stop Being Liberal Pawns."  But Williams does not tell the whole story.  He should tell the rest of the story in another article called "Whites Must Stop Being Oppressors of Blacks."  White oppression causes black dysfunction.  Nine out off ten whites will agree with Williams because he lets them off the hook.  If it is the blacks' fault, then whites need not repent.

If you leave the 400 years of white political, economic and criminal justice systems of oppression out of the analysis, then Williams wins the argument.  If you have only read Williams, but not Michelle Alexander (The NewJim Crow) or Joy Leary (Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome), then Williams wins the argument that blacks are highly criminal.  If you have not deeply pondered Exodus, chapter one, Exodus 6:1-9; James 5:1-6 and James, chapter two, then Williams wins the argument.

400 years of unending oppression have caused deep damage; in modern terminology, PTSD or PTSS in individuals, families and communities.  To ignore white oppression in a discussion of black criminality, is dishonest, unethical and hypocritical.

In the last generation, we have learned that soldiers who suffer from PTSD are not weak, crazy or flawed human beings.  An external force, an external trauma---war---has caused their deep dysfunction.  It would be a terrible thing to falsely blame them---the victim of trauma---for their dysfunction. Those who sent them into an unjust war are to blame.

Yet we constantly blame blacks for their dysfunction.  Not only have blacks been traumatized by 4000 years of oppression, but also, today, two systems of oppression are continuing the trauma---unjust mass incarceration and the vast racial wealth gap.

For some whites, 'criminalblackman' has replaced the 'n' word in their vocabulary.

Do we blame blacks because whites want to maintain their superior position in society and their white economic privilege?  Are we too self-righteous to repent, restitute and repair?  I can understand why white secular Americans would want to preserve their white superiority and white privilege at any cost.  But white American Christians doing the same seems to contradict the Bible.