An Honest Conversation on Race?
By Fletch Daniels
One of the trite pearls of wisdom repeated ad
nauseam for the past several days is that America
needs to have an honest conversation on race. It’s a
constant theme repeated in the self-flagellating
virtue signaling spewing forth from prominent
figures in industry, academia, and even the
military, put out in hopes that the Orwellian
cultural Death Star doesn’t cast its eye of
destruction on them.
Of course, the media manipulators and
leftists have no interest in an honest conversation.
The only thoughts allowed in their version are
mostly false ones that have been approved by
leftists for the purpose of inciting racial hatred
and overthrowing America.
Anyone willing to throw around words and ideas
marked with the liberal stamp of approval like white
supremacy, white privilege, microaggressions, or
systemic racism will be rewarded mightily with the
bonus that these towering giants of moral cowardice
also get to humbly brag about their bravery in
speaking truth to power. Bonus points if they take
an actual knee in abject surrender.
It takes no courage to adopt these positions. True
courage is displayed by those willing to publicly
buck this toxic stew, especially for black Americans
like Thomas Sowell, Candace Owens, and Shelby Steele
who show more courage on any given day than many
people show during their lifetimes.
People are entitled to their own opinions, no matter
how wrong or off base, but they aren’t entitled to
their own facts, which is why the left has worked so
hard to outlaw both facts and conservative opinion.
True facts that are weighed appropriately for all
variables shred the leftist narrative.
An honest conversation on race would include
discussion of plenty of inconvenient facts, such as
the fact that black men disproportionately commit
violent crime or that police almost never kill
unarmed black men. Indeed, the facts show that
nearly
40 percent of cop killers
are black and that a police officer is more than
18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black
American than for a law enforcement officer to kill
an unarmed black person.
An honest conversation on race would express horror
at the fact that somewhere around three-quarters of
black men are raised without fathers and note the
tremendous societal damage this causes.
An honest conversation would ponder why
black American homicide-victimization
rate is three times the rate of Hispanics and seven
times the average white rate, almost exclusively
murdered (94%) by other black Americans.
It would certainly question how defunding the police
could do anything other than slamming the pedal to
the metal on these horrific and mind-blowing
statistics.
It might also note that those killed by law
enforcement were almost always engaging in actions
that precipitated their deaths and that
black-on-white violent crime in all categories is
far more commonplace than the reverse.
If we were having an honest conversation in America,
we would lament all the communities and businesses
destroyed by the wanton violence and lawlessness and
stop the noxious virtue signaling. When the final
butcher’s bill for this latest leftist lunacy comes
due, there will be many black lives that apparently
did not matter enough to not be destroyed,
sacrificed gleefully by leftists on the altar of
horror and misery.
An honest conversation might notice that all of
the worst alleged incidents happened in areas
ruled by Democrats for decades, and that
failed Democrat policies perpetuated the cycle of
violence and victimization (often intentionally)
that has come to define these areas, while poisoning
the culture. It might also notice that powerful
unions, long a hallmark of Democrat protection, have
protected the few bad apples that no doubt exist in
police departments.
An honest conversation would admit that abortion
started with strong racist eugenics connections and
that the existence of abortion today, with clinics
heavily weighted in areas with sizable populations
of black Americans, results in the slaughter of
entire generations of unborn black babies, something
liberal hero Ruth
Bader Ginsburg once all but admitted
was part of the motivation for it.
There will never be an honest conversation on race
because liberal policies are largely to blame for
the tragic and terrible state of too many black
majority communities and the toxic culture that
results in so much death and despair.
As he often does, Thomas Sowell
captured this phenomenon
perfectly when he tweeted, “Racism is not dead,
but it is on life support -- kept alive by
politicians, race hustlers, and people who get a
sense of superiority by denouncing others as
‘racists.’”
The concept of racism will exist so long as
liberalism holds cultural supremacy because it is
the most powerful weapon in the left’s arsenal,
employed in racist fashion to try to keep black
Americans wedded to the Democrat party.
There is nothing surprising about this The Marxist
left is at war with America. That has been obvious
for many years. This is the latest front in that
war, following on the heels of “Russia, Russia,
Russia” sedition, the already forgotten
“impeachment,”and the manipulated COVID lockdowns
aimed as a stake in the heart of the U.S. economy.
This latest chapter won’t end until it is either
clear that these violence-fueled protests are
benefiting the president or when the media
manipulators are on to their next assault, a new yet
unseen front in the war on America. This will also
continue because Democrats are scared that they
their iron-fisted control of blacks as a voting bloc
is slipping. So, they agitate and burn communities
to the ground even as more people catch on to their
depraved and evil game.
With liberal support starting to coalesce around the
clearly Marxist-inspired idea of defunding the
police, one wonders if this is the left’s
Stalingrad, meaning that this might be such an
insane overreach that it starts sapping their energy
and resources, resulting in a turning of the tide.
My fervent hope is that enough sane Americans
recognize this for what it is and that a massive
silent majority turns out in November to make their
voices heard at the polls.
But, I am not confident in that hope. The mere fact
that this can happen with so few people objecting,
cowed into silence by the cultural Marxists, shows
that America has already changed in a very
fundamental way, even as the provocateurs of that
change, responsible for decades of educational
brainwashing and media manipulation, continue their
subversive mission unchecked.
Time will tell whether this has yet produced the
critical mass of voters needed to overthrow the
greatest experiment in freedom in human history.
In the meantime, I will remember and repeat the
names of federal protective service officer Dave
Patrick Underwood and retired St. Louis police
captain David Dorn, two black Americans (no doubt
among many) killed in heartbreaking fashion in the
leftist carnage. Their lives mattered. There will be
no mass funerals for them. They will not be martyrs.
Their lives were little more than an inconvenience
for the leftists actively working to destroy their
country.