Black Crime
(Re: David Horowitz, “Racial Profiling: The Death of the Civil Rights Movement,” 9/5/00)
Although blacks are 12% of the population in reality it is just 2% of the blacks that commit 50% of the murders and a greater percentage of other crimes. Consider: black females - 6%. Blacks from zero yrs. to 12yrs. and black males from 50-100 years commit an infinitesimal percentage of the crimes. Therefore we are left with two percent. If we eliminate crimes committed by this two percent from the U.S. statistics our country compares very favorably with all Western countries. Fact -- blacks kill 7 times more than whites kill. Fact -- blacks kill whites 20 times more than whites kill blacks. Fact -- blacks mug or commit group crime against whites 50 times more than whites commit against blacks. Fact -- blacks rape white women 2000 (yes 2000) times more than whites rape black women. In New York City, about 300 white women are raped by blacks every year BUT there has not been a black woman raped by a white male in anybody’s memory (going back over 20 yrs.) Consider: Al Sharpton had to go upstate New York to find a hoax and that was over 10 years. ago.

Hnbdztim
9/6/00

“La Raza” No Raza
(Re: David Horowitz, “Racial Profiling: The Death of the Civil Rights Movement,” 9/5/00)
Dear Mr. Horowitz,
As an American of Hispanic/Latin descent, something I would really appreciate is for the media to stop perpetuating the myth that Hispanics and Latins are a separate "racial" group. They are not. These are ethnicities, just as, for example, Scandinavian or Slavic refer to ethnicities. Hispanics and Latins are made up of EVERY racial group. Therefore, your comment about the Florida police including Cubans and Hispanics as "whites" in their statistics, with the attendant implication that this is incorrect, is simply wrong. Other than that, great article!

Teresa Favilla
9/7/00

Horowitz responds: I'm well aware of that and have fought against the very terms Hispanic (Brazilians?) and Latinos (Argentines? Uruguayans? the various indigenous "Indians"?). In politically correct speak, "white" appears to mean you don't need your test scores rigged and you're doing all right economically (e.g., Cubans).--DH

Unparalleled Perceptiveness
(Re: David Horowitz, “Racial Profiling: The Death of the Civil Rights Movement,” 9/5/00)
Dear David,
One of my great pleasures is reading the Horowitz column. Yet, rarely do I feel compelled to comment on such things. However, after reading this week's Horowitz column, I must point out that you both deserve the credit and thanks of a largely indifferent nation.

David, you have an unparalleled perceptiveness and biting analytical skills. The fact that you are not providing commentary in a more widely seen media outlet only confirms the leftist stranglehold on the media and the elevation of pandering mediocrity above true intellectual substance. Rest assured that I will do everything in my meager power to bring your thoughts to my benighted peers.

Kristian Spencer Roggendorf
Past Pres., Federalist Society; Pres., Second Amendment Society
Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College
9/7/00

Eloquent and Well-Documented
(Re: David Horowitz, “Racial Profiling: The Death of the Civil Rights Movement,” 9/5/00)
Dear Sir,
I just completed reading your article on the death of the civil rights movement. I was struck by your eloquent and well-documented argument against the myths of excessive racial prejudice in our legal system. It is certainly a complicated question. But your warning to the demagogues of the left is well presented. I wish we had more national leaders who would stand up to them and place some of the blame for the current tragic situation at their feet. Bravo for you.

Yours truly,
Charles Williams

Why not Rogan, YWCA?
Why is the Glendale, CA YWCA co-sponsoring a women's health event with Adam Shiff, Jim Rogan's opponent, in an election year? Worse, when I called the number "for more information" on the flyer, I reached Schiff's campaign HQ.

Amy Lyons
9/7/00

Right About One Thing
(Re: David Horowitz, “Racial Profiling: The Death of the Civil Rights Movement,” 9/5/00)
You're correct about this -- and I say that as a lifelong activist in "left" causes. This is one reason I deliberately read across the spectrum. If one reads only on one side, then inevitably, distortions and omissions occur. We have got to come to grips with the fact that racism is not going to be extinguished by trying to make reality fit a statistical ideal of any kind. People aren't statistics. A week ago, a group of youths beat to death a man in Tacoma (close to here, my home town) because they were "bored". The first report I read said that all the youths were colored -- the victim was white -- and that all but one of their victims (there had been a number of them, over time) were white. Later, it emerged that two of the kids (most were not even teenagers) were white. In the 9/7 New York Times, there is a story of a group of kids (again, preteens) who lured a poor Chinese man to deliver Chinese food to them, and then beat him to death. They planned to do this because they didn't want to pay. The article carefully avoided mentioning anything about race. It makes one wonder. The truth is neither left nor right. It is greater than either.

Dan Raphae
Seattle
9/7/00

PS--Vote for Ralph Nader for President!

One of My Favorites
(Re: David Horowitz, “Racial Profiling: The Death of the Civil Rights Movement,” 9/5/00)
Dear Mr. Horowitz:
Thank you for the straight talk on racial profiling. I look forward to reading your commentary. I link through the Drudge Report.

Tell us more about John Conyers and Al Sharpton and reparations for slavery. Walter Williams did a piece on this several weeks ago. I would enjoy a commentary from you along with all the details that you put into your writing.

You are one of my favorite editorial writers.

Thanks,
Marshall Tackett
Buchanan, Virginia
9/7/00

Thoroughly Debunking the Left
(Re: David Horowitz, “Racial Profiling: The Death of the Civil Rights Movement,” 9/5/00)
Nicely said, Mr. Horowitz. I look forward to your articles because they so thoroughly debunk the political left. Thanks.

Charlie Kinney
9/7/00

A Speck of Optimism
Mr. Horowitz, thanks again for your tremendous wisdom. The discussion of race in this country is so convoluted that it nearly brings me to tears. However, your column brings at least a speck of optimism regarding shining truth on the so-called Civil Rights movement. It pains me to think how much the Sharptons and Jacksons get away with, even to the detriment of the very people they claim to represent.

Again, thanks
Randy Lormand
9/7/00

Who Really Killed Betty Van Patter?
(Re: David Horowitz, Letter to the Past, 12/13/99)
Mr. Horowitz,
I recently read, with interest, your 13 December '99 Salon article entitled "Who Killed Betty Van Patter?" and your subsequent response to the letters (by Art Goldberg and Stew Albert) printed in the 20 Dec. '99 issue.

About one point which you made (quite incidental to your main argument), I am curious as to how you came by your knowledge. Regarding Clinton and Lee, you wrote:

"...However, in those revolutionary times-when law students Hillary Clinton and (present Deputy Attorney General) Bill Lann Lee were busy organizing Panther demonstrations to shut down the trial, a jury found Huggins and Seale innocent of the charges."

This was new to me, though I was too young at the time to have noted the larger drama, let alone such minor details. Still, I am curious as to the specifics and, if you recall, any printed sources you could recommend for further information. I'll add that I am no great fan of either of the Clintons.

Lastly, I'm curious as to your thoughts on the trial for the kidnapping and murder of Alex Rackley. The government, if I have understood correctly, put only two individuals (of nine or 14 Panthers arrested and charged -- I've read differing accounts) on trial: Huggins and Seale. Do you think this was a smart move? Do you believe that Seale was criminally involved? (Clearly, Ericka Huggins seems to have been.) And if not, do you think that Seale was otherwise as much of a thug as you've indicated that Newton was?

Thanks for the articles, and for your time.

Regards,
Paul Johnsen
9/6/00

Horowitz responds: Hillary and Bill Lann Lee were on the organizing committee for the demos -- that's apparently where they met. I got this information from Nicolas Lemann's The Big Test. I'm pretty sure he interviewed Lee.

Seale was not a gangster in the sense that Huey was, but he was fully aware of the criminal activities of the Panthers and may have had his wife's lover, Fred Bennett, killed.--DH

A Fun Game for Long Trips
(Re: David Horowitz, “Racial Profiling: The Death of the Civil Rights Movement,” 9/5/00)
You enjoy writing, and your article about profiling was accurate. I do my own profiling while driving. I try to guess the color of the driver as they pass by at 80 miles per hour. I am wrong 90 percent of the time. Have you seen highway policemen standing beside their patrol car clocking speeders? They cannot see the color of the person, but if they stop a person of color cries of racism will be heard. In Columbus, a few years ago, a white girl was stabbed and killed by black teenagers. (She was a friend) I wrote a letter to the editor asking where the black leaders were hiding. I knew if the situation were reversed, they would have been down at city hall raising all kinds of hell.

Cbeale9
9/6/00

Impressive Research, Impressive Scholarship
(Re: David Horowitz, “Racial Profiling: The Death of the Civil Rights Movement,” 9/5/00)
I was enormously impressed by the research and scholarship evident in this article on racial profiling by David Horowitz. I learned so much more about the depth of bias in the liberal press and the muting of criticism by American citizens who have been cowed into silence by the manipulations of the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

Charles Lyons
9/6/00

Kissing Up to Sharpton?
(Re: David Horowitz, “Racial Profiling: The Death of the Civil Rights Movement,” 9/5/00)
I watched C-Span and CNN the day of the "Redeem the Dream" march and was amazed at the publicity and the amount of time they spent on this event. When I saw live shots of the "march," there didn't seem to be very many people there. Would you say this was kissing up to Al Sharpton?

Pat

Horowitz responds: To black political leaders--DH

So Brave, So Correct
(Re: David Horowitz, “Racial Profiling: The Death of the Civil Rights Movement,” 9/5/00)
Mr. Horowitz,
You are so very correct and so very brave in saying what everyone knows - but doesn't dare say. You are a hero to me...

Kay Yeaman
Salt Lake City, UT
9/6/00

What Gives?
(Re: David Horowitz, “Racial Profiling: The Death of the Civil Rights Movement,” 9/5/00)
As I read David Horowitz' article I began to wonder how the ACLU, identifying so strongly with reverse discrimination, gets its funding. Who is contributing to the ACLU? I never see any requests for donations.

Forrest Gehrke
9/6/00

Horowitz responds: That ad was a solicitation ad.--DH

Injecting Fact and Reason
(Re: David Horowitz, “Racial Profiling: The Death of the Civil Rights Movement,” 9/5/00)
Unfortunately, fact and reason are never injected into anything dealing with race. I'm so sick of good people being accused of bigotry by black racists when they question the status quo in race baiting these days. Thanks for agreeing with my assessments of the race problem situation.

Tom Kirkpatrick
9/6/00

PC Crime Strikes Home
(Re: David Horowitz, “Racial Profiling: The End of the Civil Rights Movement,” 9/5/00)
Mr. Horowitz,
After reading your book, Radical Son, and many of your columns, I felt I owed it to you to commend your work. The truth is a powerful weapon, and you use it to such great effect. I knew of the Kevin Shifflett story since I live in Northern Virginia, and the silence regarding that "hate crime" from the political left is as damning as it is deafening. Please hold to your standard of passionate truth-telling. Eventually, the message will be heeded.

I had an acquaintance, a brilliant young 20-year-old who attended the University of Pittsburgh. His name was Emil Sanielevici. His dad is a research physicist at U.P. and his grandfather worked with Marie Curie. They fled the oppression of the Romanian despot Ceaucescu in the early 80s. Last spring young Emil was in the drive-thru lane at a local McDonald's waiting to place his order when a black man walked up to the driver's side of the car. When Emil looked out at him from the driver's side window, the black man placed a hand gun to Emil's forehead and blew his life away. He was one of 5 white people shot by that racist that day, 3 of whom died, as I recall. I have often thought of what the press coverage of that incident would have been like if the races of the perpetrator and his victims had been reversed.

If it weren't for you and the few like you, I would be in utter despair of the American press.

Sincerely,
TomBurke
9/6/00

Horowitz responds: Thank you for this support. Thank you for telling me Emil's story. I wrote about this atrocity (“Deafening Silence”) and included my article in our latest pamphlet "Hillary Clinton and the Racial Left".-DH

Cogent and Persuasive
(Re: David Horowitz, “Racial Profiling: The End of the Civil Rights Movement,” 9/5/00)
Cogent and persuasively argued.

John Chilcott

9/6/00

Well-Conceived, Well-Researched
(Re: David Horowitz, “Racial Profiling: The End of the Civil Rights Movement,” 9/5/00)
Thank you once again for such a well-conceived and well-researched article on this vexing issue. And you were right, I had never heard mention the story of the little eight-year-old Kevin until you discussed it in your article.

Stephen Bender
9/6/00

Old Fashioned Straight-Talk
(Re: David Horowitz, “Jim Sleepers Problem and Ours,” 9/4/00)
I appreciated Mr. Horowitz's calm, collected, and insightful response to Jim Sleeper. It's a shame that popular culture seems to side so decidedly with such an immature, whiny approach versus good old-fashioned straight-talk. Even when it comes from the editor of a "conservative hit-sheet" :)

I'm very pleased that Mr. Horowitz didn't let him get away with that cheap shot. Not that I would have expected him to.

Thanks,
Cale Bowling
9/5/00

Just Ignore Him!
(Re: David Horowitz, “Racial Profiling: The End of the Civil Rights Movement,” 9/5/00)
Please stop writing about Al Sharpton and his gang of morons and bigots. The more press you give him, the more he gains. Everyone should just ignore him, then he will go away.

A. Davis
LA
9/5/00

Partners in Crime
(Re: David Horowitz, “Racial Profiling: The End of the Civil Rights Movement,” 9/5/00)
Your latest column on racial profiling, pandering and perfidy is excellent. Thank you for expressing my exact conclusions about the exploitation of the black community by black leaders in partnership with the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, otherwise known as the Democrat Party.

James Sofko
East Stroudsburg, PA
9/6/00

Hitting The Race Problem on the Head
(Re: David Horowitz, “Racial Profiling: The End of the Civil Rights Movement,” 9/5/00)
Dear Mr. Horowitz,
Like you, I came from a liberal or left-wing background. Like you, I now realize the error of my former beliefs. You have hit the "race problem" on the head. May God help us all..

Jim Richter
9/6/00

P.S. Ronald Reagan was a great president.

Damn, You’ve Got Courage!
Damn, you've got courage! As a person who reverently believes that all men are truly created equal and that the true dream is that one day all men shall be judged on the content of their character rather than the pigmentation of their skin, all I can say to your article is "Amen". Somehow, the members of this racist jihad have taken control of the debate and made it impossible to rationally discuss the facts of race in America without sounding like a Klan rally. You manage to cut through the bull and just say things plainly. We need "voices in the wilderness" like you. They are far too rare. Thank you for your courage and honesty.

Ryan Singer
9/6/00

In the Desert-And Thirsting for Horowitz
Mr. Horowitz, An incredible article! I see little, if any, of your writing here in Arizona; I believe I stumbled upon your work in browsing the Drudge Report. While I have worshipped many writers, such as Tom Sowell, Walter Williams, William Safire, Jeff Jacoby, etc.,you come closer than anyone to saying EXACTLY what is in my mind. It is my daily routine to browse Drudge and then read your articles and previously those of Jacoby. Thank you for what you do.

Alan Wood
9/6/00

Horowitz responds: Thank you. I have been on KFYI (I think that's it) many times. My books should be in the Arizona bookstores. If they're not, do me a favor and call the stores and ask why not.--DH