Talk about double standards and
racism. If a black man with an extensive criminal record and a weapon in his
possession is— necessarily or accidentally—killed by a police officer, the
media goes nuts for days, weeks or even months on end. “White police officer
guns down poor black man” they cry. Yet, when a white police officer guns down
a short, unarmed white female who arguably was trespassing the media refuse to
cover it. No mention of the victim’s race is allowed to be spoken, nor is the
officer identified. Reports all agree that “the incident was justified.” Case
closed. The science is settled.
Ashli Babbitt is forever dead. And no one
cares.
Conversely,
the offending officer in the first case is not only identified, but occasionally
has his or her place of residence and personal information disclosed.
The
media, a.k.a. “the enemy of the people,” fiendishly fans the flames of racial
hatred to get ratings and advance the leftist narrative and agenda. Tragically,
this works, because most Americans are tolerant, empathetic, emotional and
ignorant.
A couple
of months ago, Los Angeles-based Skeptic magazine published a survey
showing that roughly half of self-described liberal or very liberal respondents
believe that 1,000 or more “unarmed black men” are killed by police each year.
Over one-third of those respondents believe that the number could be 10,000
or more. Similarly, when people were asked what percentage of those
killed by police were black, every group overstated the reality by a factor of
2-4.
In
reality, a total of 18 “unarmed” black people were killed by police in 2020 and
13
in 2019, according to the very liberal Washington Post’s database on
police shootings. And several of those were likely not “unarmed.” Moreover, the
number of white people fatally shot by police is probably higher on a per
capita basis than the number of blacks.
The
number of black-on-black homicides, however, is astronomical. But
no one wants to talk about that, in fact it is verboten to do so in “progressive”
company.
If
black lives truly mattered to progressives, this would not be the case.
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