The riots subsequent to Michael Brown’s shooting were based
on multicultural logic. Multiculturalists
know police arrest and shoot black Americans more than any other group. But, as they hold that all cultures are
wonderful and equal, they cannot attribute differing arrest records to culture.
So, having no other basis upon which to explain disparities, multiculturalists
conclude that differing arrest rates indicate that police and society are
racist.
President Obama publicized this narrative after Brown’s
death. Suppose the President
instead acknowledged that the inner city black culture is broken. What if he said, “Blacks killing blacks,
failing to take education seriously, and family breakdown need to be halted.” Blacks would have then had to look upon their
educational, criminal, and economic disparities as sources of shame, rather
than justifications for resentment.
Michael Brown would have made an exemplary platform for
culturist analysis. We must confront Rap music’s anti-social messages. In his rap recordings, Brown spoke
about killing people and 'smoking weed since 9.’ This is poignant because Brown had marijuana in his system
when he died. At the same time,
Brown graduated from high school via a credit recovery program and enrolled in
a vocational education program. Brown personified the impact of
cultural choices.
Brown’s “father” could have highlight the breakdown of the
black family. Michael Brown Sr. left the family in 1989 when his son was 2
years old. In 2012 a case was
brought against him for not paying child support. Michael,
the son, wrote songs about his pain over his father’s lack of financial and
emotional support. Thus the son’s
anger at being abandoned could have brought sympathetic attention to the
connection between fatherlessness and crime in black America.
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