Derrick Z. Jackson, The Boston Globe

March 23, 2008

Derrick Z. Jackson

The Boston Globe

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Boston, MA 02125-3130

RE: Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics - A somewhat sad look about graduation rates of Black college basketball players being more proof why God should damn America.

Mr. Jackson,

“As is my custom, my annual look at the graduation rates focuses

on black players because they are the canary in the coal mine, making

up 57% of Division 1 scholarship men’s basketball players, more than

4 times their share of the U.S. population.”

The Dallas Morning News

March 22, 2008

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You

Senator B. Hussein Obama, in a fit of disingenuousness worthy of the Flat Earth Society, said that he never knew any of the really crazy things that Pastor Wright said. In an Ivy League “What me Worry” mode he said he never heard anything untoward in the 20 years he was a member of his church.

That the White man started Global Warming as another way to punish the Black man was something he didn’t have to say. Everybody knew that. What he did say was that Whitey started AIDS, that he imprisoned Mandela, and that he encourages Black men to eat foods high in fats, starch, and cholesterol so as to induce hypertension to make them die young.

Whitey cunningly permitted a system that rewards narcissistic impregnation of Black females and the subsequent abandonment of the children born of those brief encounters. Terrible housing and just plain God awful schools guarantee another generation of serfs. Look at any urban ghetto for the results of this devious plan.

I must add another part of the plan that seems to have escaped Pastor Wright’s notice. Maybe his does but doesn’t care. Maybe he’s part of the problem. Maybe he goes off on his moon bat rants to divert attention from the horror which is all around him that he chooses to ignore.

Pay attention. I’ll write slowly.

You say that Black males make up 57% of the Division 1 male collegiate basketball players. You say that this number is “more than 4 times their share of the U.S. population”. That statement is incorrect. Your failure to include empirical evidence in your premise renders it invalid. Any conclusions reached are therefore incorrect.

Blacks make up 13% of the U.S. population. Half male/half female, correct?

If 6% to 7% of the population makes up 57% of the test sample then it is 8 times the share of the population as a whole.

The above statistic, a statistic that can stand outside scrutiny and independent inquiry, leads us to a wrong that Pastor Wright either is unaware of or, worse, chooses to ignore.

Since 1973 almost 40% of the abortions in this country were performed on Black women. While not quite as impressive a statistic as NCAA basketball players it does give new meaning to the word “final”. If ever an Affirmative Action program has worked this one has.

There is a word that can be used to describe this. It is a word that has lost its shock meaning because of flippant misuse.

Does the word genocide come to mind? If not, why not?

The issue is defined in the starkest terms. It is Black and White and black and white.

Why hasn’t Pastor Wright told us about this?

It is Easter Sunday morning. All over the land pastors are saying “He is risen”. All over the land we are told to go forth and tell everyone. Why hasn’t Pastor Wright told us about 2 generations of Black babies who will not be joining the celebration? How many Division 1 ball players will never put the ball on the floor?

In the Christian universe his job is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ crucified, risen, and soon to come again. If he does that then the lost sheep will come back to the flock. If he doesn’t then he is made of tinkling brass.

As is his parishioner.