Normal People & Human Subgroups
If you walk the streets of Calcutta, you will find beggars who walk on their hands, dragging or carting their useless limbs beneath them. They stop before you, hands and eyes cast upward and open. They cry, Bapu… Baaapu…
Throughout West Bengal, many untouchables deliberately maim their offspring, for crippled children make more sympathetic (e.g., successful) beggars than their walking competitors. Their guardians (abhi bahavak) live better when they cripple their own. They see it not as abuse, but their ticket to survival.
Tourists who visit the suffering toss rupees not to ease it, but to alleviate their guilt. If not for the abhi bahavak, the children would be attacked and robbed within seconds. The children feel safe to have someone nearby watching over them. They deliver their booty and return to shake down other tourists. Their survival depends on it.
The arrangement works well for everyone: The guardian cripples the children and administers discipline, the children beg to survive, and the tourists pay a small fee to watch.
It’s a business arrangement. Nothing personal.
Between 1975 and 1982, LA cops responded to millions of calls for service. Of those calls, officers came into contact with millions of Angelenos and confronted hundreds of thousands of suspects. Of the thousands of violent criminals subdued by police during that 2500-day period, fifteen died. Almost all were black.
Each death was eventually attributed to positional asphyxia — a condition that sometimes occurs when heavy, intoxicated, or physically ill suspects are restrained and placed on their chests. They stopped breathing and died.
Since 1975, thousands of LAPD recruits were similarly restrained as part of their training. None were injured. The tiny faction of criminal suspects who died were found to have suffered from drug abuse and cardiovascular disease – diseases that afflict blacks in greater numbers than whites. But instead of taking the time to explain these factors, former LAPD Chief Daryl Gates recklessly opined that blacks might be more likely to die from chokeholds because their arteries do not open as fast as they do on normal people. Although the medical community and police experts now generally agree with Gates’ crude analysis, his improper use of the word normal made front page news throughout the world and still haunts the LAPD as a sign of “entrenched racism.”
Nearly a quarter century later, Americans are wiser — or you would think so.
Last week, when State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell characterized failing black and Latino students as human subgroups, the press hardly noticed. To be fair, the Daily News criticized California’s public schools for the soft bigotry of low expectations that has consigned millions of dark-skinned graduates to perpetual mediocrity. But the racial locusts that swarm the lights and cameras when white policemen use force against black felons are nowhere to be seen when their Democrat guardians admit to the deliberate crippling of their offspring.
Like Calcutta’s abhi bahavak who twist and snap the soft bones of their newborn children, Democrats have intentionally and deliberately twisted and crushed the promising young minds of their own so they will grow to become successful beggars. The Democrat abhi bahavak cannot survive without their crippled subgroups. And like tourists, Democrat elites will relieve their guilt with a few rupees so they can sleep at night - while those who would break the cycle are characterized as mean-spirited.
So don’t expect the media’s racial locusts to do much swarming.
It’s a business arrangement. Nothing personal.
Clark Baker is a senior contributor* to CaliforniaConservative.org. He is an author, a filmaker, a father and a retired LAPD officer. And he’s currently running for a seat on the California Assembly.
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