Gregory Kane: Black-on-black killings and Uncle Toms

"There will be no mass outcry from black Americans about Albert's death. You won't see hundreds of us descend on Chicago, as we did in Jena, La., back in 2007 to protest charges against the Jena 6, a group of young black men who attacked a white high-school student almost as viciously as Albert was attacked.

"No, Albert's death will not get our dander up. That's because we're pretty much accepting of the Bigger Thomases among us, while we rail against and vilify those blacks we feel are much like another fictional character: Uncle Tom."

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"So, for some blacks, it's better for black children to attend schools in a system that is financially bankrupt, rather than have them attend charter schools, which only Sambos and Uncle Toms support. When we look for the guilty parties in the murder of young Derrion Albert, we'd better look farther than the four young men who've been arrested for his murder. Some of us need look no farther than the nearest mirror.

"It's US. We've been so obsessed with excoriating, attacking and degrading the Uncle Toms among us that we've let the Bigger Thomases run buck wild. But let's check the damage each has done. Is it Clarence Thomas who has fathered out-of-wedlock children in black America and left the mothers to go it alone in raising the children, or a mess of Bigger Thomases out there?

"Let's compare body counts. Thomas and Steele have killed no one. Black America's Bigger Thomases have killed thousands. Who's the greater threat to the race: Uncle Tom or Bigger Thomas?"