The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is slamming author Toni Morrison as a "prime example of black hatred toward whites" after the author, holder of both Pulitzer and Nobel prizes, suggested police violence against whites was necessary to end racism.
In an interview with the London Telegraph, Morrison claimed: "People keep saying, 'We need to have a conversation about race.' This is the conversation. I want to see a cop shoot a white unarmed teenager in the back.
"And I want to see a white man convicted for raping a black woman. Then when you ask me, 'Is it over?’ I will say 'yes.'"
Peterson, founder and president of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND) and author of "Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America," says such comments simply mean the author is a "racist."
In an interview with WND, Peterson explained: "Morrison and other racist blacks don't want justice; they want revenge against white 'oppressors.' Until Morrison and other blacks like her stop hating white people, racism will never end.
Peterson said the "hatred that Toni Morrison and other racist blacks have for whites prevents them from having compassion or showing love to whites."
"Until we can have an open and honest dialogue about black racism, we won't be able to move past the race issue and it will lead to a full-blown race war," he said.
Colin Flaherty, author of "White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It," contends such comments from Morrison are not surprising.
"President Obama has claimed several times that Morrison's Song of Solomon is one of his favorite books. And this favorite author of the president sees the world entirely through the lens of race," he said.
"In the president’s favorite book, Morrison's characters talk about killing two white people for every time a white person or cop kills a black person. So her talk of cops killing white people as some kind of revenge is not new," said Flaherty.
"The murderer who killed two cops in Brooklyn last year in retaliation for Eric Garner and Michael Brown even left a note talking about this two for one exchange," he said.
"Morrison is an enabler of racial violence and racial hostility of the worst kind."
While Morrison suggests it has never happened, there have been recent shootings of unarmed white men by police that have been mostly ignored by the media.
On Oct. 6, 2012, Gilbert Collar, an unarmed white 18-year-old male, was shot and killed by black police officer Trevis Austin in Mobile, Alabama.
On Aug. 11, 2014, Dillon Taylor, a white man, was shot by a nonwhite police officer. The killing took place at a time when the national media was fixated on the shooting of black teenager Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri.
As Peterson noted: "These black on white killings barely received any media coverage. No marches by white or black leaders. No #WhiteLivesMatter Twitter campaigns. And not a word from Barack Obama or Eric Holder."
Flaherty sees Morrison's allusions to white males raping black women as deeply dishonest.
"Morrison talks about a white man being arrested for raping a black woman. This is her 'poetic' way of saying that the number of black people … arrested for rape is wildly out of proportion and there can be only one reason for that: White racism. This means white men apparently get away with rape all the time.
"One problem with this fantasy: There are no victims. No videos. No police reports. No 911 calls. Nothing to even remotely substantiate her claim that white men are raping women of all races and getting away with it," he said.
"In fact, the opposite is true: A woman wrote a column for the Washington Post last month where she said she did not file criminal charges against Bill Cosby because he was black. And Melissa Harris-Perry of MSNBC said black women do not call police following domestic violence and other sexual abuse because they know their men will be victims of the racist criminal justice system.
"The Guardian carried a similar column from a black woman a few weeks back; explaining why black women do not seek to have black men arrested for rape and domestic violence. So the real numbers of black rape are far higher than the already bad numbers indicate."
Jack Cashill, author of "If I Had a Son: Race, Guns, and the Railroading of George Zimmerman," believes Morrison is shying away from racial realities on crime, especially with regard to rape.
"Ms. Morrison needs to acquaint herself with the reality on the ground. In the United States, in a typical year, more than 30,000 white females will be sexually assaulted or raped by a black man, while between zero and ten black females will be sexually assaulted or raped by a white man. This is probably why she does not see the conviction she would perversely hope to see."
According to the U.S. Department of Justice's Statistical Tables for Criminal Victimization in the United States for 2008, there were no white on black rapes recorded the entire year. The estimate is based on a very small number of sample cases recorded, but it does indicate that such cases were statistically insignificant.
Flaherty says the premise of Morrison's thought is "social justice arrives when everyone is arrested equally."
"But that just doesn't align with the facts."
As Flaherty observes, Morrison has been well rewarded by the same country she so enthusiastically condemns for racism.
"Many of her works are required reading in college classes – both English and black studies, though I wonder how many would read it if it were not required."
Morrison was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama in 2012, the nation's highest civilian honor.
Peterson believes such honors imply a duty to promote good race relations and national unity. And now, he says, she has failed that duty.
"Shame on Toni Morrison! America has been good to her and this type of divisive rhetoric is no way to repay the white and black Americans who've supported her work," he said.
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