Sixteen Volts

Every year there are about 15,000 black-on-white rapes but fewer than 900 white-on-black rapes. There are more than 3,000 gang rapes of whites by blacks—but white-on-black gang rapes are so rare they do not even show up in the statistics.

First I simply couldn't believe that such an enormous racial disparity in rape could be true, but the statistics at the Department of Justice pretty much confirm this. I have tried to google pages that criticize this report, but found only white power websites and the site of Tim Wise, where the article "The Color of Deception" pretty much admits that the racial disparity does exist, but explains it away with the lower socioeconomic status of blacks so that if you control for the socioeconomic status, the disparity completely disappears. This might even be true. However, the article totally avoids the issues of rape and sex assault so that you can't even find either of these words in it. As a good little leftist, Wise knows perfectly well that he can't use the same socioeconomic explanation and admit that poor people rape more than rich people, since this would totally contradict the official leftist views of virtuous underclass and of reasons why evil men rape wimmyn in the first place.

(Another thing about Wise's rebuttal that I couldn't help but notice was that he is happy to remind the reader that Hispanics are counted as whites in criminal statistics whenever this is beneficial for his case, but he then conveniently ignores this fact whenever he wants to lay blame on white Europeans. But that's a topic for a completely different post for somebody else to write.)

Interracial gang rape is currently a hot topic because of the case of the Duke lacrosse team. Certain people are doing their best to spin the impression that the whole world is basically one giant Law & Order episode so that virtually all interracial rape consists of rich white racists raping poor but honest and dignified black women. However, I noticed that some people have already tried to counter this by posting links to the DoJ statistics, and perhaps I did my small part in inspiring them to do this. But it is not like those statistics are exactly hard to find. In the rest of this post, I shall see if I can affect the discussion in another way.

I have personally very little against black people and know that violent criminals are small minority among them, and I bet that it really sucks to be a decent and law-abiding black man and still suffer for the statistical racism and prejudice caused the actions of criminals who happen to share your ethinicity. But I will still bring out this massive disparity about interracial rape for the simple reason that it pretty much proves in one single stroke that every single leftist axiom about crime, race and poverty is totally wrong. The leftists know this, and therefore cannot possibly allow these statistical facts be discussed in public, ever.

In the few places where I have seen people posting links to the DoJ statistics, the reactions were perfectly predictable. The first rhetorical trick that the left can and will try to pull here is to say that the statistics must be false because they lend support to racist views, which we know to be wrong. I predict that the leftists will mockingly laugh and claim that the silly white guys are so insecure about their manhood that they are scared of animalistic big black men. What are you, some kind of racist who believes that black men are uncontrollable animals who go crazy and wild-eyed at the sight of a white woman?

In the cases that such threats don't work in silencing the heretic, the left will pull out its second rhetorical trick and try to restrict the attention to rape cases where the victim is a white woman, since they can point out that in such cases, the rapist is statistically more likely to be white than black. See, see, white women should fear white men more than black men! White men are evil! But this totally irrelevant for the issue being discussed --- and the leftists know this, and therefore will not allow the next simple explanation to be presented whenever they control the forum:

For reasons of both opportunity and motivation (most serial rapists have a particular "type" that they go for, which is formed during adolescence), rape is an extremely intraracial crime so that white rapists rape white women disproportionately, black rapists rape black women disproportionately, and so on. We could therefore use similar twisted logic to only look at rapes where the victim is a black woman, note the almost complete absense of white rapists and therefore conclude that black men sure are even more disproportionate to rape women than the above statistics would indicate. But the correct comparison is to look at total rates of rape regardless of the skin color of the victim, or if we want to find out what the real motivation of interracial rape is, to look at rape where rapist and victim are of different races. And these figures most certainly won't support the leftist dogma of interracial rape being white oppression. When you have a hundred black-on-white gang rapes for every white-on-black gang rape, it gets pretty difficult to claim that gang rapes are an expression of how the rich white patriarchy uses its entitlement and power, the way feminists are claiming now. For a good example of this attitude, see "The gang rape is the essential scene of the patriarchy". Once the left admits what the real numbers of interracial rape are, they have no choice but to rethink their whole paradigm.

Before that will happen and the hell will freeze over, the leftist will naturally pull out her next weapon: the claim that white racists really rape black women all the time in huge numbers, but the racist police and courts simply cover up all these cases, which is also why the left has the duty to make such a big noise out of the few cases such as the Duke lacrosse incident that it ever finds out. In this light, it was absolutely hilarious how in one comment thread, as soon as somebody had posted the link to the DoJ statistics page about rape statistics based on race, someone else immediately posted an anonymous comment claiming that he is a police detective in a sex crimes unit and "constantly" sees these cases of white rapists swept under the rug. Right, sure you are a detective. More likely the commenter was some womyn's studies major in throes of cognitive dissonance and panic, trying to create evidence and opinion that must be there for her worldview to be true, so she will simply spin it into existence. Fake but accurate, as the famous expression goes.

One has to wonder what decade these people mentally live in. It's almost like they believe that the antebellum South still exists, and white people happily sip mint juleps while the black men toil the cotton fields and the black women provide "entertainment" for their white masters. More seriously, do these people actually claim that white racists pretty much control the police force and courts, to the extent that they can successfully hide something that would have to be like 20,000 white-on-black gang rapes from the annual crime statistics? And these racists somehow manage to do this in a nation in which making even one inapproriate comment on race pretty much guarantees that the person saying it will lose his job?

And by the way, while we are at this, whatever happened to the standard leftist doctrine that the vast majority of people and especially all educated and powerful people are strongly against racism and love minorities so much that they will bend over backwards to ensure that nothing bad happens to them, whereas only dumb and uneducated white people of the lower socioecononic strata are racists? It's funny how immensely powerful this dumb and uneducated white trailer trash can be, since it has such a total control over everything despite its low economic and educational status. Heck, it's ironic: this claim of anti-racists would logically pretty much require that white people really are the superior race.

But this kind of problem is exactly what the massively parallel power of the blogosphere is good for. I therefore propose that someone starts collecting local news reports of gang rapes in America where the perpetrators are black (this shouldn't be hard, since almost ten occur each day), conveniently list them on one page, and then ask feminists to clarify what precisely they believe to be the main motivation behind interracial gang rape.

As we know perfectly well, feminists never question or express any kind of outrage about these annual three thousand black-on-white gang rapes, since they don't want to be racists. This is obviously the same principle that makes them silent and accepting towards Muslims and the Muslim culture with its less-than-enlightened attitudes towards women and homosexuals, while at the same time they are eager to heap scorn and hellfire on any white man who deviates even slightly from the politically correct "tolerant" doctrine. Muslims and black gangsta rappers are allowed to say things about women and gays that would make any white man instantly lose his job and reputation, with nary a peep from the leftists and feminists.

Now that the white feminists finally got their Great White Defendant in form of Duke lacrosse players, they get to scream and vent all their bottled-up frustration, happy in knowing that the evil wealthy white guys will now get it, and if they don't, the feminists get to scream rape and injustice to all eternity. And boy, do they ever scream now. Some feminists even take delight in the idea that if the courts will not convict the whole team for a lifetime of asspounding in black-dominated prisons, the angry black population of that are will violently punish them. Again, note the irony: the gang that claims that we can't condemn all Muslims for the acts of few and that adamantly defends the legal rights of the accused when he is a Muslim terrorist who knows where the ticking nuclear bomb is hidden, is now sputtering outrage about the fact that the Duke lacrosse players get to hide behind their lawyers and will not talk, and want the confessions forced out of them since they all must be guilty of something. Go figure.

As someone who comes from the outside, from a different culture that is ethnically very homogeneous and thus hasn't really had to face such issues (until recently with the influx of Muslim men and Somalis), it might be easier for me to see clearly what is going on here. And it really is pretty clear to me. It is amazing how many separate little tidbits that I have learned during the past decade or so come together here, clicking together like puzzle pieces. Quite simply, the whole black-on-white rape disparity is pretty much the left's own creation. Starting from the sixties, the American left has been creating a culture that fosters the image of a black criminal as a "rebel" whose crimes are just retaliation against the oppression of the white man. The left never seemed to realize in its enthusiasm towards the criminals who "stick it to the Man" that these criminals wouldn't exactly see the white university-educated daddy's girls as their oppressed sisters, but would happily stick it to the Woman too, and in a very literal sense.

As Theodore Dalrymple has often pointed out, the ideas and doctrines that emerge at the academia and the upper levels of society tend to slowly flow down the social hierarchy, and along the way they get forms and interpretations that their originators at the right side of the bell curve never anticipated. The top intellectual crust of society is able to play with ideas such as "nobody ever really knows anything" or "women are just as strong as men" and compartmentalize them as postmodern games of symbol manipulation and thus be able to go home to live normal and sane lives, but the lower classes are not equipped to do the same. At the bottom, even though the sociopaths and criminal underclass have never read a book or show any kind of awareness of anything except the issues that concretely affect their daily lives, they don't need a weatherman to tell which way the wind is blowing and what is socially acceptable and expected of them. If they can sense that people somehow consider them morally superior to some other people or entitled to revenge, even if this perception is erroneous, they will abuse this possibility. And the word goes around quickly. A friendly hint to leftists reading this: when the non-intellectuals encounter anti-white rhetoric, unlike you they don't automatically fully understand that it really means only white men.

One of the dirty little secrets of the American left a few decades ago was that if a black man raped a white woman, that woman was often socially pressured (or if she was really enlightened, she pretty much pressured herself) not to press charges against her black rapist, since in the grand scheme of things, she was the oppressor and he was the victim. Besides, such accusations would hurt the black community and justify the views of the less enlightened non-leftists, so for this reason a right-thinking person would not express them. Just take one for the team, girlfriend, and lie back and think of the coming Socialist Utopia. I can only imagine what this was like during the days of "free love" --- hey, I wasn't even born yet back then, but can easily imagine what happens when the male libido is set free of its traditional restraints. As the feminist movement has become louder and more separated from the leftist mainstream, this has probably changed somewhat by now, especially if the black man accused of rape is wealthy and thus almost white. But some unfortunate racist stigma still remains in such accusations, and everybody knows this even if they don't say it out loud. And if sociopaths and thugs are good at something, it is certainly knowing where the best opportunities for getting away with crimes are.

If I were a black man and felt like raping somebody would be fun, I know that I would most certainly choose some white progressive chick to be my victim, if possible. There is the insulation and opportunity issue: despise all their equality talk, white progressive chicks rarely associate with underclass black men. Perhaps I wouldn't even really be articulate why, but I would understand that with such a woman, my chances of the rape going totally unreported would be much better than they would be with other types of victims. If a white woman is less "enlightened", as the white women who live near black underclass statistically tend to be, there is a better chance of her reporting the crime and her friends and relatives calling for revenge.

After all this, perhaps I shall end this post with a simple question for women that should illuminate where the risks of rape really are concentrated. Suppose that you are a young and beautiful white woman. It is a hot summer day, and you are dressed in a bikini top, shorts and sandals. However, you must now make the choice of walking through one of two possible neighbourhoods. The first is a middle-class suburb full of tacky McMansions, and the second is an urban slum full of graffiti. Which area would you feel safer walking through in our universe? How about in the parallel universe in which the show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit takes place?

Posted by Ilkka Kokkarinen on Monday, April 03, 2006 at 9:17 AM