Response to "Taylor's Death a Grim Reminder For Us All" by Jason Whitlock

Jason Whitlock argues that the real reasons for many deaths of black men are different than those most people see. He says that black men, unfortunately, are the almost exclusive cause of murder of black men. They do this to each other, Whitlock says, and bring the destruction upon themselves by the way they act, live, and think, and from the music (if you can even call it that) and other influences pouring violence and immaturity into their minds. Jason terms those blacks who use violence to keep other blacks in their place--because dey ain't "keepin' it real"--as the "Black KKK."
I agree with Whitlock. Numbers are hard to argue with. If black people are usually the ones killing black people, then black people are usually the ones killing black people... facts are facts. As sad as it is, it's true. Jason goes on and gives reasons why this is the case, as well as a general, blanket solution (in its basic form): stop letting in bad influences, and start accepting things that improve your future. This advice cannot sensibly be denied, and this is why the culture of many black youths (and many whites as well) is so brainless. They are given the opportunity to break away from the degradation in a few different forms and places. Not enough take that option.

An excellent use of parallelism comes to us is this sentence: "There's only one group of people who can change the rotten, anti-education, pro-violence culture our kids have adopted." This stresses the importance--equal importance--of these three qualities (anti-qualities, really). It clarifies the sentence so we can more easily see just how horrible and degrading the culture is. The article is about the very negatives of black youth culture and what it causes, and how black men are the essential cause of the evil of it, since it comes from within them. Whitlock also makes a call to action to change things. By using parallelism in this sentence for that point, the article is strengthened by making the negatives clear, so that when he calls for the positives, there may be no mistaking what's right and what's wrong.