Crime is not a color, it’s a profession

March 9, 2019

A fellow co-worker looking at a police blotter scratched his head in Wonder at the fact that the culprit was caught smoking a joint in an unregistered vehicle well toting around a pound of marijuana.

“What? Is this guy nuts or stupid?” my coworker retorted.

Unfortunately, he's a classic liberal one of those want to be Upper West Side people who have particular view of criminals and are part of white guilt for not having grown up in a place of disparity and so have no clue as to what the Criminal Mind is all about.

liberals assume there is a certain logic behind crime or some social factor that drives people to desperately do things that ordinary people would not otherwise do.

Much of the current debate over crime is an attempt to blame it on racism, part of a movement that started in the 1960s by misguided radical writers such as Kenneth B. Clark. His books and others like his have become bibles for the reparation movement, blaming racism on the reason for crime, and creating the allusion that orange is the new black – meaning prisoners.

If you think anti-white bigotry ended with Clark in the 1960s, you ought to check out the crap that Ed Baptist is selling, a real snake oil salesman for black reparations that does his best to distort history in order for his book to become the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of the 21st Century – an 18th century book that set the model for modern distortions such as Roots, and most recently Whitehead’s fictional account of the Underground Railroad.

The first Roots was so distorted, it has historic people that weren’t even born when the book claimed they were – leaving a lot of question about the so-called facts contained in it. The new Roots is even more distorted. Some of the events did happen, but not nearly as often as the film claims.

Whilehead took similar liberties and won the praise of papers like the New York Times – suggesting a similar manipulation of fact.

Clark and others like him manufactured this race-based concept for crime as a way to explain why so many African Americans are in prison, a condition that has gotten worse, not better since the Civil Rights movement. Part of this, of course, was the massive violent crime that took place in many of the urban areas. Many of these places such as New York’s Harlem, which Clark wrote extensively about in his book, Dark Ghetto, have since between transformed through gentrification – as liberals moved back into areas once more considered safe, after conservative law enforcement created a kind of slum clearance through odious laws like stop and frisk, profiling and arresting people for minor crimes to curb the potential for more violent crimes later.

This last resulted in a massive increase in the jail population, especially African Americans and other people of color.

Clark’s misguided assessment of crime largely ignored historic patterns that date back to the Civil War era and other immigration that also produced crimes, or even to the more fundamental creation of ghettos that saw law Jewish populations – none of which were race-based, but rather class-based. Works by writers such as Louis Wirth and William Foote Whyte largely provide evidence that Clark came to his studies with an agenda and came to the result he wanted to obtain, that crime among people of color was based on white racism.

This has translated into the more contemporary Orange Movement and the efforts by radicals and well-meaning liberals to reinvent the abolitionist movement, but instead of freeing slaves in the south, they are bent on freeing blacks from prison.

But the issue isn’t just black and white – regardless of what Clark claims – it is about being poor and powerless, and finding a way to feel important, even if it is an anti-social response.

This misunderstanding of reality is what fuels much of the liberal reform of the Criminal Justice System, unlocking doors they really know nothing about, letting loose the savage part of our world without fully comprehending what exactly makes that person savage – white, black, orange or green.

Crime is partly a result of poverty, and since there are more poor people of color, more of them turn to crime as a possible solution. But it is more than just seeking economic justice. There is a criminal mind-set liberal tend to or deliberately overlook.

In response to my liberal co-worker I said, “He's a criminal I said that's what criminals do.”

My coworker looked at me as if I was crazy and just shook his head, having already filled his mind with misconceptions about what criminals are, having apparently no real experience into what they do for why they act the way they do.

Liberals like this assume that there is some social injustice that motivates crime.

Sometimes there is, but as often as not criminals are either stupid or arrogant and don't ever believe they're going to get caught and so they are motivated by all the same things that non-criminal people are.

While liberals ache to turn sinners into saints, the truth is many criminals think crime is cool and that they have found a way to beat the system. Some actually think society owes them for some historic slight, and so, they are perfectly willing to get their own reparations – explaining in part why people loot during riots.

Very few of the criminals I’ve known during my own criminal past or in the years interacting with criminals, dwell in self-pity, and may well get a giggle out of the massive load of pity liberals have for them (getting over on the liberals is almost a game.)

Some criminals make up for their lack of social standing by seeming to be tough or creating some fabricated persona that allows them to have status in the ghetto. Many – especially those who take advantage of the so-called social reform – see themselves as part of an elite, or even worse, as rebels against society, hiding crime behind social reform.

Liberals are constantly looking for some social reason for why people turn to crime they were abused as children or raped by adults or denied things for the color of their skin or their lack of status.

All these things may well be true for some criminals, but liberals tend to ignore the most obvious reason for why people turn to crime:  it is because criminals like being criminals and find some satisfaction and getting over on other people getting stuff for free or alienating the mass of straight people who do not deviate from rules.

In many cases criminals want to be criminals.

This was true for many of those from Billy Night Rider and others who I hung with in the streets of LA in the late 1960s to those hippies turned hipsters in the 1970s dark streets of lower Manhattan, and even to the coked out crowd I was friends with and in sometimes in love with in the 1980s – and is still true among those who have tried to use me to take advantage of others after the turn of the century.

Many of those I knew got sucked into that life because of drug addiction. One of the great horrors of my life was watching the flower children of the summer of love become the prostitutes and pushers in the 1970s, while career criminals exploited them and their addictions. One of my best friends went from being a Ronald Reagan wanna-be to a career scam artists when he got too much taste for cocaine and found he could not afford it, a white middle class Irishman who resorted to doing crack in phone booths when he could no longer afford the more high class variety.

While some more savvy people with experience in the Underworld do realize that there is a whole different pecking order when it comes to crime of which most liberals really haven't a clue.  And that's what my coworker seems so puzzled, thinking that there is a logic typical of our world that operates in the Underworld, when the whole thinking process is different.

And that's part of the problem with liberal reform.

To begin with, many criminals aren't the most intelligent people on the block -- which is why they generally get caught.

Some criminals are stupider than others but most of the time it involved arrogance this fundamental belief that they're going to get over on someone.

Even petty criminals seem to believe they are smarter than the average bear.

There's always a scam and angle, an ultimate goal that isn't doesn't conform to straight people's logic.

This is part of the reason why criminal reform is so difficult because many criminals think they have an angle for easy way out and do not want to conform to the constrictions that most people of society do.

Criminals, whether smart or stupid, ultimately believe they are not going to get caught which is why they get involved with crime.

There are different layers of criminal activity. But ultimately all of them have the same fundamental flaw.

They do not want to have to be the guy who waits in line but want to be the guy that the bouncers step aside for, letting them cut into the line near the front.

As Clark accurately pointed out, it is a dark world, even if the reason people get trapped there is not because of white oppression.

Worse, still there are layers upon layers, and the deeper you go into that world, the more difficult and ultimately impossible to climb back out.

Liberals like to believe any one can be saved, and that if you eliminate racism and poverty, people can turn magically into productive citizens – if only given a chance. Liberals do not realize many criminals do not want to be productive citizens and see productive citizens as suckers who can be and should be exploited, and usually are.

Many criminals think, he or she is smarter than society and there's a certain arrogance that comes with this belief.

There is also a certain sense of power and getting away with something.

The underbelly of Society strongly resembles a Greek version of Hades where there are different strata, a slick surface layer that almost seems inviting, that helps hide the deeper and more scary layers beneath. Dante sort of got it right with circles of hell.

There are a host of characters that exist on The Fringe, filled with posers and wannabes, the part-time prostitute male and female, the sometimes part-time gambler, the numbers guy,  the seller of pot in the workplace, the seller of guns, stolen goods (that stuff that fell off the back of a truck) the gang Bangers or just total fakes who play act as petty mobsters.

In old-school sociology studies these were called tour guides people who allowed straits to interact with the underworld but not directly.

These are not the oppressed masses that liberals would make out to be. tTese are people who like the fringe and like living dangerously getting the vagarous thrills out of being on the in with mobsters and pimps and drug dealers and such.

These are the characters, who for price will get you something, connect you with some service that is somewhat suspect, a cheap thrill a drug or some kind of interaction with gambling or worse.

Straight people who want some kind of forbidden fruit can rely on these people possibly for the most part to connect them but do not risk the danger that comes with actually meeting face-to-face some of these dark forces.

Third Street in Passaic for most of the 1980s was a regular supermarket filled with these fringe people, who greeted cars filled with kids from Garfield seeking drugs or sex.

Some tour guides spend their lives on the fringe, delving just below the surface, making their deals, trading favors, getting ego from being a rebel.

But often, fringe people become the vehicle for straight people to get sucked deeper into the vortex, and eventually fall deeper into it themselves, addicted to cheap thrills that eventually leads to deeper addictions and psychosis.

The Fringe people are the ones who most often get picked up for petty crimes, serving short sentences, learning in jail how to become better criminals and coming out into the world often at some deep level in the vortex.

This idea that crime is the exclusive result of poverty, white oppression or social dysfunction ignores reality and ignores the whole network of power this existence provides.

Liberals have this myopic view of crime and criminals and paint it over with their own self-deception.

Yes, there are social victims in the ranks but many more are simply seeking power.

What they can’t get in the straight world, they get in the underworld even though ultimately few achieve anything but their own self-destruction.

What was that guy thinking?

He thought he was getting over on the system like all criminals think they do.