Forget Facts - Atrocities Fueled by Emotions
Is anyone going to put a stop to these profane attacks on
our shared history and culture? Think “Krystal
Nacht” in Germany, the “sovietization” of Russia and the “cultural revolution”
in China. We’re not quite there yet, but
if left to the “censure and cancel” Nazis, with the approval of democrat city
and state administrations and the complicit mainstream media, we soon will be.
Unfortunately, this madness in our country is fueled by
emotions and feelings stirred up by left wing groups like Antifa and Black
Lives Matter, based on one or two anecdotal, but highly disseminated videos of
recent white on black police killings. The
anger from seeing these appalling and brutal events has been expertly magnified
all out of proportion, by activist led demonstrators in our streets, to imbue
the national psyche with accepting that we are a nation of RACISTS!, and our
police are particularly RACIST! and oppressive to our black American citizens.
Numbers and statistics showing that this is not at all the
case in modern America, fall on completely deaf ears once the false mob
narrative is planted and accepted. But these
following, are the facts, not emotional
rhetoric. This is from Heather MacDonald’s
recent op-ed citing shootings by whites and blacks.
“In 2019 police officers fatally shot 1,004 people, most of
whom were armed or otherwise dangerous. African-Americans were about a quarter
of those killed by cops last year (235), a ratio that has remained stable since
2015. That share of black victims is less than what the black crime rate would
predict, since police shootings are a function of how often officers encounter
armed and violent suspects. In 2018, the latest year for which such data have
been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in
the U.S. and commit about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the
population.
The police fatally shot nine unarmed blacks and 19 unarmed
whites in 2019, according to a Washington Post database. In 2018 there were 7,407 black homicide
victims. Assuming a comparable number of victims last year, those nine unarmed
black victims of police shootings represent 0.1% of all African-Americans
killed in 2019. By contrast, a police officer is 18½ times more likely to be
killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police
officer. Again, A POLICE OFFICER IS 18 ½
TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE KILLED BY A BLACK MALE THAN AN UNARMED BLACK MALE IS TO
BE KILLED BY A POLICE OFFICER.
This past weekend, 80 Chicagoans were shot in drive-by
shootings, 21 fatally, the victims were overwhelmingly black. Police shootings
are not the reason that blacks die of homicide at eight times the rate of
whites and Hispanics combined; criminal violence is.”
These facts do not matter a whit to the activists in our
streets, and also unfortunately, these facts don’t matter to our gullible
public who follow these sheepherders and their mainstream media allies. Feelings and emotions rule, even if they have
been manipulated away from the facts.
So, we have violence and rioting in the streets, burning of
buildings, defacing and tearing down of statues and national monuments,
occupation of a part of a major city, all to the tune of “peaceful protests” by
our left-wing media, and incompetent inertia by democrat city and state governments.
There is no “systemic racism” in this country, who have passed
myriad laws to ensure equal rights for all Americans. There is some bigotry
among our 325 million people, but this frowned upon and slowly dissipating.
The one greatest factor that hampers upward mobility and
equal opportunity for minorities in this country are the very city, (and some
state), DEMOCRAT administrations that that have run these cities for as many as
the past 50 years as political fiefdoms, and used the cancer of identity
politics to create separation and dissension from the rest of American society.
This link enumerates the atrocities being perpetrated by the
“censure Nazis”.
Ray Gruszecki
June 15, 2020
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