A recent Gallup poll shows a huge split between blacks and non blacks on the question of what happened in the Trayvon Martin killing.

The poll itself is here.

72 percent of blacks polled think that Zimmerman was guilty of a racially based murder, or probably was guilty, versus non blacks, of whom only 32% hold that view.

This dichotomy between blacks and everyone else on the question of crime is nothing new.  Remember this iconic photo of the different reaction people had to the verdict in the O J Simpson murder trial?

All the blacks are whoop whooping in celebration that the murderer O J got the better of "The Man", while everyone else is stunned by the obvious miscarriage of justice.

It is the exact same situation now.  I believe it derives from the unique experience of blacks; from their view of discrimination and prejudice against them.

Further, in their tight and close community, there is, I believe, enormous pressure internally to conform in their thinking.  A guy like Don Cheadle, who looks at the case more like everyone else, will get the cold shoulder from his peers, and will likely hear that he is an Uncle Tom or an Oreo.

In a larger sense, this attitude among blacks suggests that they do not, as a whole, believe that justice for them is possible in the United States, and that the entire system is stacked against them.  If looked at in that way, it explains a lot about their tendency to nullify jurys, and to dismiss the giant incarceration rate among black men as no big problem for their community.

Further, it helps to explain the fact that they see government as a way to profit from or even loot society through transfer payments like welfare.  That may be one big reason that blacks vote so monolithically for Democrats than for the Republicans, who idealistically did so much more for them through the decades up to the 60's than Democrats, who instead cynically try only to make them wards of the state.

That's why you get people who say things like this, which looks stunningly stupid and ignorant to everyone non black, but which undoubtably is a widely held view among black Americans, and may well make sense to someone holding this type of world view.



What this means to our society in general is very bad.  When you have a significant proportion of the population that thinks they are very unlikely to be treated properly in the legal system, who believe that the government offers them nothing but a chance to grab some money, and who listen with belief to the message of victimhood from the Democrats and their very own black leaders ( think Reverends Wright, Sharpton and Jackson), you have a toxic, simmering stew that can only make the general society ill.

Unfortunately, I can see no solution to this situation that doesn't require decades of re education and leadership from both black society and at the national level. There has certainly been no progress whatsoever since the OJ trial.  Right now, there is no sign of this even beginning to happen.