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... I ... I ... the earth and George just another piece of evidence of the EU country durable content ... yet this nation often shows and displays for black mean ... in just a matter of weeks ... in this nation we will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary ... of the March on Washington and a ... wonderful dream speech by Dr T I have a dream in that speech you'll recall ... one line that we all seem to know not much else we know that one line ... I want my children one day live in a nation what it what not be jealous of the color of their skin but not the content of their character ... been ... welcome to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... was radio and TV hosts have a smiley in recent days on ABC News ... commenting on the George Zimmerman verdict ... political diary editor Jason Riley is also the Fox News contributor is here to talk about ... the civil rights leaders reactions the trial Jason ... he also said this week she put in your op ed today in an all read it and I quote ... do you know that Negroes or ten percent of the population St Louis and are responsible for fifty eight percent of its crimes ... we've got to face that ... and we've got to do something about our moral standards and quote that was Dr King in nineteen sixty one ... how did the civil rights leadership go from that position by taking responsibility for actions ... to tap a smile ... well ... well it's a lot in the common area aam and and ... um that that ... does have a doubt for for Blackstone show content in his words ... toward blacks aam you know we'll acting ... up twice electing a black present a funny way ... of showing in Iowa think ... I'm but you're right there is the difference between ... the approach that people still writes leadership use to take ... any approach that this'll rights leadership today takes and of course the ... the older of Wright's generation emphasize personal responsibility and what's ... even more important that they did so that I was honestly much more racism ... unlawful and Dr King said that nineteen sixty one where talking pre voting rights Act which increase Opel writes that ... they took the racism as a constant their view was ... we as black people need to get our act together notwithstanding all the races in this role ... today is black leaders State ... and Philly eliminated rates of them don't blame us for any which is why take that stand to look at the end of the way CP Benjamin jealous of Commons he's been making ... what is his interest in perpetuating ... I this view that the America is a very racially divided country and the ... view that the plaques responded well I think he has a personal stake in the organization has a personal ... stake in in in in sort of continuing a narrative ... that races um ... um or oppression or discrimination ... is the main barrier to black progress ... in America I think in the case of Trayvon Martin with Ethan potentially irresponsible ... is in not acknowledging that these ... perceptions of black criminality ... that ... perhaps played a role in this case ... are based on hard data ... on black criminality ... IAG's mission create ... a new piece and and I wanna read it says quote any candid debate on race and on on recent renown in this country we have to start ... from the fact that blacks commit an astoundingly disproportionate number of crimes ... just how the easy is it too sick to get those facts and why aren't they discussed a bit ... more uncomfortable discussing some these I think ... um because people fall around because groups like ofthe in Dublin CP and people ... like Tavis smiley or so quick to play the race car into Iraq ... even raising this discussion even having in China have an honest debate ... about black behavior ... and that behavior driving perceptions ... is very difficult ... what's interesting is that this perception of black criminality ... is not only white perception Jesse Jackson and says that when I'm walking down the street and nine I hear footsteps behind me in a turn around and see a white person ... on relieved ... which is to show that ... both law abiding blacks and law abiding whites ... have this perception of black criminality and so any discussion that we have in this country is the discussion that might look at the China halfback in nineteen sixty one we set that which is a discussion with in the black community about getting its act together but has little to do what white people per se this is a discussion these Apple twin ... black leaders and parents and children in full force ... on because the local crime rates are are astounding and and they are what is driving this for negative perception of black men have to ... leave it that political diary editor Jason Riley Fox News contributor ... thank you so much for being on the show ... we're going to have more on the aftermath of the George Zimmerman verdict ... James Francis here state ... welcome back ... to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel ... thirteen people were all arrested in Los Angeles in these last hours protesting the George Zimmerman verdict you're looking at them now ... but there has been widespread violence were race riots so why is it that our political class in Armenia ... are celebrating this racial progress ... thus the Web Today columnist James Taranto joins me now James ... you are in your column yesterday about the New York Daily News covering lot put that up on the screen a pretty inflammatory cover ... why emphasize this aspect ... of race in America ... and in not the situation that the Zimmerman Trial ... who shout what let's talk about what about what the comparison may hear the names here ... and it fell ... by was lynched in nineteen fifty five in Mississippi after flirting with a white woman ... on James Chaney and civil rights worker who was winched by five ... along with our incidentally the the ... editoral blessing Lee notes the Daily News side to Weisel rights workers ... these are all people and I'd I'd were killed by white mobs ... ahh and died it's completely un ... dissimilar to the side Gaiman Trayvon Martin case which was clearly a tragedy ... RI Trayvon Martin does did not deserve to be killed five but Zimmerman made what the jury found a plausible of leased to a reasonable doubt ... I'd self defense argument ... OT none of these other people in these cases claim self defense of the Daily News is trying to ... ride is trying to hide ... Blake and this ... tragic encounter in which ... Zimmerman behaved recklessly and perhaps Martin behaved recklessly two any case there's a lot of ambiguity so that you couldn't get a jury verdict of guilty ... of a title like that in with twenty six dollars per person is called to ... for those terrible days when you did have things like ... race riots and Lynch mom perverse cost of about twelve point one N Y with it why would the left have this perverse nostalgia because ... when their work which mobs and Diane died institutionalized discrimination when when Jim Crow was a reality ... are there was you with them ... he was morally clear The was good The was a clarity there and there was a righteousness to being opposed to it yet ... did I think there is an argument from the black community and I think ... rightly so you can carry if needed ... because there is such a high criminality rate blacks or stop when and why it's they they do and if the experience of American society that wants my ... honey respond usually when that argument is made I'd be the first part about the high rate of black writers not acknowledge suspicion pointed out in the previous segment ... that said I think that's a completely legitimate point ... I'd you do have a different experience if you're a black man ... remember the skip Gates case are four years ago with a side by ... Harvard professor once I do ... to be suspicious because he was breaking news on house ... I had a similar starts about type twelve years earlier stage in a friend's house ... a neighbor spotted me I looked unfamiliar I was alone in the house by the neighbor call the cops I found myself faced with two ... top Arlington Virginia policeman one of whom had is gone on holster he wasn't pointing at me but he added that the ready ... and right now I'd quickly defused situation exploited to the much rather not have the Teesside and they were satisfied unless ... I can never I sorta felt put upon by the cops haven't run up but it never occurred to me that this had anything to ... raise your hand the fact that the fact that it occurs to somebody like skip Gates is a burden of being black America I think it's one that we need to acknowledge okay so the argument is is is that we've we've made a lot of progress ... in me and our political class don't acknowledge that ... um ... it was that progress come from change when you attribute that to while most importantly of all this'll rights movement and tie and its culmination in eighteen sixty four nineteen sixty five with sweeping legislation ... that outlawed died discrimination in in many different I in in many different categories ... I think in the long run that has created AEI chain stitch credit a change in white attitudes ... by the Daily News one of the cases cited was a case ... in which I'd ... a black man who'd been accused of killing a policeman why despite lynched by the KKK after being relieved after the injury of Felda convict him ... that was the lastest believe in the last line change in American history that was nineteen eighty one the most ... thirty two years ago ... well my lifetime ... and while I was on and that was so unusual but that was extreme I knew it was this the last race riots were a major race riots ... the recent riots in Cincinnati in two thousand won that was an outlier who DLA Wrightson I try to pretty much race riots though ... you get to go back to the sixties to find a lot of them ... so both white and black attitudes it seems to me have improved ... add it to the fact that there were no race riots right after the Zimmerman verdict is not something that we need to celebrate it's it's something that we ought to take for granted ... the idea that people were thrown around a third way the race riots is actually an ugly stereotype ... of stereotype that has some basis in history oh we should acknowledge that I've that Americans of all races have moved beyond a lot of the outlet with Mr Atkinson moved to be honest ... with us to the Web Today columnist James Taranto ... thank you for being on the show ... now it's time for Best of the male were our columnists a answer your questions ... are best when Today columnist James is still unsettled me now argued recently that cohabitation ... is a bad bargain for women ... not men because women have the biological clock Mendel ... I James ... aren't going out to the first reader comment so I'll later subjectively or is this something now ... and I quote ... play acting in marriage will be any closer to the real thing if your partner is not truly committed to knock an unknown period have some self respect please ... if your goal really is to be like ... and don't play the role of women con sort Benjamin ... the center Feinstein that's from Jennifer aligns well ... I guess if you're a gentleman in your goal is to be wif u far you need to cut its complicated although it's become easier with a recent US Supreme Court decisions ... by God that this is the advice that on a woman would be ... would take from the column I wrote ... that I've ... that ... the likelihood it is ... EA's use expecting to get married ... and you live in boyfriend ... he is noncommittal ... but that's probably not going to change ... our eye and guided it was a ... good case I discussed IAU dynamic killed by a slew ... of a sociologist wrote about this match and both of one of his friends who moved in with a boyfriend which was twenty eight ... she started hitting and the kids got stronger and stronger and finally ... at age thirty three she gave an ultimatum ... and he said no new walk away now while the shifting out by thirty three who really wanted the next question and I quote ... if indeed go and Dish has a bad bargain for women ... as the sun imply that marriage is a bad bargain from my craft what I mean are you must've ... wonder dear soften somewhat contrived who isn't married ... ahh and died ... he was speechless this this is what this is ... the basic social purpose of marriage he is to control man to domesticated matter ... to tide them to ... our women and children so it matter giving up their freedom for the benefit of women and children ... high when he is so many to have incentives to make that bargain ... by and by ... the rise of cohabitation as an option of the availability of sex outside marriage takes a lot a lot of those incentives in addition ... five ... no fault divorce means the man can't necessarily count on the woman to stay by Arik ... are committed to the other study I discuss that study showed that the column ... shows that the rate of adult realign wives has been increasing ... among ... husband's its status and although to be sure was tired begin with ... pot and so I guess it is it is a bad bargain for man and a half to the reasons why it's a good bargain Dow reasons for reasons for women to ... really go the third question now and I quote feminists setback women's and children's security and men's worth by devaluing marriage ... in any and then taking a cue from feminists now leave the bread winning to their wives as well ... extreme feminism has wound up in sleeping when ... John Grant ... well I think there's some truth to this argument Taiyuan peace Prize to here ... are the real problem artful for women is not even the ones who were ... were married and whose husbands are in a presumably in many cases I've porn part of the way it's at the low or high Economic of rungs of society where are the norm is increasingly for women that cold outside of wedlock ... odd because the men our Fourth Marin or or Winkelmann whatever ... and died so the women have to be the breadwinner and the caretaker and dotted seek huge perk ... for them and and for the children that that that of course the children don't have the bye influence of the father anti live outside the box but as bad doubled its a bad omen for Society with about thirty seconds left I wanna get this last question and I quote many perhaps your marriage is a precursor to children ... sensing a winning connect children in marriage is the most socially acceptable means of child rearing ... as long as there's cohabitation when they're less likely to want children ... or you can ... yet well everyone and we should keep in mind this goes back to the bilateral clock that you mentioned earlier ... ay ay ay ... a lot of men want to have children ... but they don't have the same urgency as women do for biological reasons ... and so ... that's one reason why it meant to be less committal ... ok and thus the Web Today columnist James wrestle with the last word ... thanks very much for being on the issue ... next up are Washington's regulators creating another too big to fail industry ... James Freeman is the news sticking ... welcome back to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel first there were too big to fail banks ... then there were too big to fail auto companies in now and guess what ... here we go again with the insurance industry according to ... the system editorial page editor James Freeman James Hayward high at did we learn our lesson the first time around ... why in the world that you created too big to fail and the three yet it's a it's when you think about the location rage of taxpayers during the financial crisis of having to pump money into these big institutions another still paying bonuses in can you believe that it's a ... so it is ironic that one of the government done since then basically set up a system where they officially ... designated firms as systemically important but it's telling everyone these are ... these are the too big to fail company chance I thought that was only the banks that were to be designated too big to be honest any insurers are too well it's it's already on the clearing houses so you're standing behind that wall Street derivatives trading and the other really there they are going after insurers that maybe AIG of this recently systemically important and now they wanna ... pull Prudential and possibly MetLife and in this universe is well and it's really a ... just a basic misunderstanding I think among these regulators in who really understand a nice that they understand that the industry banking and don't s early to ensure that his inventory on our pages today says among other things ... they wanna ... apply the same kind of regulation insurers they apply that banks ... make you hold on to capital ... et-cetera ... what effect would this have ... was as yourself I haven't had the cost of less competition so I'll probably higher prices when you go buy a policy of it ... a lot of it you read the a ... B of ... A basically an explanation that they put out when the media GE officially too big to fail ... and it's just a misunderstanding of insurance of a radio talk about it like ... an insurance company can never run on the bank where people come and demand deposits all ... this is probably has a lot of people I've I've written is not what you mean I think all of my life insurance company and Tesla get a bunch of money back in ... no no ... you should ... know that if you stop ... when to stop doing business with them ... they get to keep all the premiums if they then you get the kids so ... it could actually would improve the capital position of an inch or infinite crisis so by juvenile cancel their policies having ... paid for years so it's a ... it's it's bizarre to say the least but it's a danger that ACA changes were laughing about this but rather are the regulators in Washington ... they don't understand insurance ... and may ... raise our prices and put ... all these burdens on him he's big yes ... unelected ... board of Wiseman shared by the Jack Lew the Secretary of the Treasury now we have likened so as you recall when ... he was up to become Treasury secretary whether he really understood thank you so that that's the big question but now he's making it clear in ... the family doesn't understand insurance while I well system editorial page editor James Freeman on how to keep on the case to ... keep us updated thanks very much based on the show ... comments you can follow us on Twitter email us at Opinion Journal Live it WS J dot com ... or you can check out our brand new Facebook page for it WS J opinion ... 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