Views on Race: the Auster/Horowitz/Mills Debate

This past week or so, Mills, a leftist blogger for the Huffington Post, wrote an article accusing Lawrence Auster of being a racist. David Horowitz defended Auster, but apparently not with any enthusiasm. Auster writes about race in an unvarnished way, not sugar-coating it with P.C. embellishments. I think this makes a lot of people uncomfortable, because the Left will always cry racism when anything negative is written about the black race, whether it is true or not.

As Dinesh D'Souza wrote a decade ago in his book The End of Racism: If it's true, it isn't racism.

Auster argued that black-on-white rape is considerably more prevalent than the other way around. Readers wrote in to say he had misinterpreted the data; the data only dealt with surveyed crime cases, not all. In other words, the data was incomplete and accurate conclusions could not be derived from it.

Maybe that's true, but I suspect the complete crime statistics are out there somewhere. The FBI used to release an annual report of crime statistics by racial groups and it was always quite unflattering to blacks, particularly in the area of violent crime. Maybe I'll poke around and see what I can find.

Meanwhile, if any readers have any references or links that shed more light and less heat on the situation, please let me know.