Former presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke
said that racism in America is "foundational" and that people of
color were under "mortal threat" from the "white supremacist in
the White House."
Pete Buttigieg chimed in to explain that
"systemic racism" will "be with us" no matter who is in
the White House.
Senator Cory Booker called for "attacking systemic
racism" in the "racially biased" criminal justice system.
Let's follow up by examining Booker's concern about a
"racially biased" criminal justice system. To do that, we can turn to
a recent article by Heather Mac Donald, who is a senior fellow at the New
York-based Manhattan Institute. She is a contributing editor of City Journal,
and a New York Times bestselling author. Her most recent article, "A
Platform of Urban Decline," which appeared in Manhattan Institute's
publication Eye On The News, addresses race and crime. She reveals government
statistics you've never read before.
According to leftist rhetoric, whites pose a severe, if
not mortal, threat to blacks. Mac Donald says that may have once been true, but
it is no longer so today. To make her case, she uses the latest Bureau of
Justice Statistics 2018 survey of criminal victimization. Mac Donald writes: "According
to the study, there were 593,598 interracial violent victimizations (excluding
homicide) between blacks and whites last year, including white-on-black and
black-on-white attacks.
Blacks committed 537,204 of those interracial
felonies, or 90 percent, and whites committed 56,394 of them, or less than 10
percent. That ratio is becoming more skewed, despite the Democratic claim
of Trump-inspired white violence.
In 2012-13, blacks committed 85 percent of
all interracial victimizations between blacks and whites; whites committed
15 percent. From 2015 to 2018, the total number of white victims and the
incidence of white victimization have grown as well."
There are other stark figures not talked about often.
According to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting for 2018, of the homicide
victims for whom race was known, 53.3% were black, 43.8% were white and 2.8%
were of other races. In cases where the race of the offender was known,
54.9% were black, 42.4% were white, and 2.7% were of other races.
White and black liberals, who claim that blacks face a
"mortal threat" from the "white supremacist in the White
House" are perpetuating a cruel hoax. The primary victims of that hoax are
black people. We face the difficult, and sometimes embarrassing, task of
confronting reality.
Mac Donald says that Barack Obama's 2008
Father's Day speech in Chicago would be seen today as an "unforgivable
outburst of white supremacy." Here's what Obama told his
predominantly black audience in a South Side church: "If we are honest
with ourselves," too many fathers are "missing -- missing from too
many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities,
acting like boys instead of men." Then-Senator Obama went on to say,
"Children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to
live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools
and 20 times more likely to end up in prison."
White liberals deem that any speaker's
references to personal responsibility brands the speaker as bigoted.
Black
people cannot afford to buy into the white liberal agenda. White liberals don't
pay the same price. They don't live in neighborhoods where their children can
get shot simply sitting on their porches. White liberals don't go to bed with
the sounds of gunshots. White liberals don't live in neighborhoods that have
become economic wastelands. Their children don't attend violent schools where
they have to enter through metal detectors.
White liberals help the
Democratic Party maintain political control over cities, where many black
residents live in despair, such as Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago.
Black people cannot afford to remain fodder for the
liberal agenda. With that in mind, we should not be a one-party people in a
two-party system.
