The Memphis Race Factor: Another Case of Black-on-Black Violence, Says Jason Whitlock

By Selwyn Duke

There was a race factor in the death of Tyre Nichols, but it wasn’t “white-supremacist systemic racism.” Rather, when the 29-year-old was killed by five Memphis cops on January 10, he became part of an all-too-common pattern — the phenomenon whereby 92 percent of black homicide victims are killed by other blacks.

What’s more, averred commentator Jason Whitlock (who is black, by the way), the Memphis tragedy and the violence committed by young black males generally mirror each other in another way: They both reflect the culture of fatherlessness/single motherhood that, in particular, plagues the black community. (Seventy-three percent of black children are born out of wedlock.)

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http://www.selwynduke.com” target=”_blank”Selwyn Duke is a writer, columnist and public speaker whose work has been published widely online and in print, on both the local and national levels. He has been featured on the Rush Limbaugh Show and has been a featured guest more than 50 times on the award-winning Michael Savage Show. His work has appeared in Pat Buchanan’s magazine The American Conservative, at WorldNetDaily.com and he writes regularly for The New American