Hey! Don't you bring sense into this thread! 
/parker!? you a donald westlake/ richard stark fan? 
Actually I have only read point blank, it was a old book I found of my aunt's in the Basement. Parker is my last name, but my aunt has said my wry sense of humor is kinda like Westlake's.
So the black community in America live by a different code, more like the days of the wild west?
Kinda, but not, there is a plague of mis-direction, drugs, low self esteem and self hatred, put that all together and mix in a lil gov't help, you have a sure fire recipe for self destruction.
Coincidently, at the time of the Wild West, there were a few black Outlaws, but they were far out-number by white men, and those men became legends of the Wild West, celebrated for their lawless-ness. By the 1950's black men had been stereotyped as Yella, and cowardly. Violent, nooo, not a black man, he wasn't capable of violence. It wasn't until the Civil Right's movement where the Black Church, typically the pasifist part of the black community (was used to quell rebellions, etc), led by black men, that black men became a threat. And one can go back before that to the Heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson. Before Jack Johnson, white pro boxers, or any white boxer would not fight a black man in the ring, said that they were beneath them and were cowardly. It took awhile for Jack to get a title shot, white men would only fight him in a bar behind closed doors, where the fight wouldn't count. Then he started beating white boxers in the ring, and all hell broke loose.
As far as the drug thing, around the same time as Jack Johnson (the 1920's), there were reports in numerous newspapers down South about "Cocaine-Crazed Negroes", about how cocaine was giving black super-human power. Sound familiar? But what they failed to mention is that people in high society (rich white folks) were getting high on the stuff as well. Ahhh, double standards, the times may changes, but the games never do....
