The Patriot Post® · The DOJ's Farcical Ferguson Report

Larry Elder: “The NBA consists of 76 percent black players. But blacks are just 13 percent of the country. Clearly, the league engages in racial discrimination against whites. Silly, right? Well, this is exactly what the sleight-of-hand Department of Justice pulled off to find that the Ferguson Police Department engages in ‘implicit and explicit racial bias’! … New York City is 25 percent black. However, of the traffic stops, blacks comprise 55 percent. The statistical ‘gap’ is 30 points. In Ferguson … the black population is 67 percent, but 85 percent of the traffic stops. The statistical ‘gap’ is 18 points – far smaller than New York’s 30-point ‘gap.’ Why aren’t Messrs. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Eric Holder marching on Times Square? … Obama, backed by research from the left and from the right, said, ‘Children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of school and 20 times more likely to end up in prison.’ Richmond, Virginia, is a city of 214,000, with a black population of 50 percent. Eighty-six percent of black Richmond families are headed by a single parent. Of Ferguson’s 67 percent black population, how many kids grew up in fatherless homes? Whatever the answer, isn’t this a far more relevant statistic?”