Ever notice that facts drive liberals crazy?

A Troubled Rule of Law

Inflammatory rhetoric poured forth from every institution in the country—from the presidency, Congress, corporations, law firms, banks, tech companies, academia, and the public school system. The mainstream media pounded home the narrative about unchanging black oppression. And even after the verdict, the White House (perhaps that name will be gone in another year) and the press have doubled down on the systemic racism conceit, despite the coordinated effort to convict among Minnesota’s public officials and the state’s most prestigious members of the private bar.

In 2020, the police fatally shot 18 allegedly unarmed blacks (unarmed being defined extremely loosely to include suspects grabbing an officer’s gun or fleeing in a car with a loaded pistol on the seat). That represents 0.2 percent of all blacks who died of homicide in 2020, and an infinitesimal percentage of the 40 million blacks in the U.S. If the police ended all fatal shootings tomorrow, it would have a negligible effect on the black death-by-homicide rate, which is 13 times higher than the white death-by-homicide rate for decedents between the ages of ten and 43.

Over 8600 blacks were murdered in 2020 according to reports, this was an increase of over a thousand from 2019. Approximately 90% of those murders were committed by other blacks. Moreover, only 18 of them were the sort of unarmed black man police shooting that had led to the largest social unrest probably in most of our life times. Nobody riots, loots, or lashes out over the two dozen daily killings. Rather they turn their ire on those unarmed black person police shootings, which takes place about once every three weeks, and is almost aways deemed to be warranted under the circumstances.

Yet, to listen to the rhetoric, the average black person cannot walk outside their doors without fearing for their lives. Not from the two dozen daily random murders committed at the hands of other black people, but from the police. Nobody bothers to point out that 99% of  those police shootings take place during police calls and criminal apprehension. Nobody bothers to point out that nearly every instance involved someone choosing on their own to resist arrest. Nope. Just rhetoric to drive emotions.  Moreover, this is amplified all the way to the top, by our commander in chief who either is just as blind to the facts or sees it as a political calculation. 

Yet President Joe Biden took the occasion of the conviction to recycle his favorite “white supremacy” themes from his allegedly “unifying” inaugural speech and campaign rhetoric. Biden said from the White House. The “summer of protest” had sent the message, according to Biden: “Enough. Enough. Enough of the senseless killings.”

Biden was not referring to the senseless killing of seven-year-old Jaslyn Adams, gunned down in a Chicago McDonald’s over the weekend. He was not referring to the four dozen black children who were killed last year in their beds, front porches, back porches, at barbecues and family birthday parties, and in their parents’ cars. He was not referring to the dozens of blacks killed every day in drive-by shootings—more than all white and Hispanic homicide victims combined—even though blacks are only 12 percent of the nation’s population. Those thousands of black deaths get no attention from the Black Lives Matter movement and its most fervent press acolytes because the homicide perpetrators are other blacks, not the police or whites.

The only thing senseless in all of this is the fact the people like Joe Biden and others simply refuse to look at the true cause of violence in the black community. Has the rioting led to a safer environment for blacks? To the contrary, there are now approximately 100 more monthly murders than there had been in 2019. If you don't believe that this has much to do with these riots and police officers no longer wanting to respond to calls for fear that they might have to engage a black criminal and put them in a position to lose their job or even their freedom if force is required, then you are out to lunch.

Sorry liberals, but those are the inconvenient facts here. I understand the "facts" are a frustrating thing for liberals to handle. But until we address the "facts" rather than the rhetoric, none of this will ever be resolved. Of course, we can't assume that liberals and their black race baiters actually want to see any of this resolved. But that is a whole other topic of discussion.