Enough

We're getting to the point in this country where an armed felon can't even flee a traffic stop and then turn on a cop with a stolen gun loaded with 23 bullets anymore.

The militarization of police in our society is a serious and pressing issue.  Matters of personal liberty, privacy and dignity in the face of the power of the State are of monumental importance for all of us.  But I can think of nothing more destructive to the need for this debate that the insistence on treating violent criminals as saints as long as it fits into a disgusting, intellectually bankrupt narrative of irredeemable American racism.

The latest "unrest" in Milwaukee came after a young black man was shot and killed by another young black man.  Unfortunately, this tragedy plays out nearly every single day in Milwaukee and countless other cities.  So why did this shooting evoke such a violent outburst?

Well, because in this case, the young black man who shot and killed the other young black man was wearing blue.  He wasn't a crip; he was a cop.  Were he a crip, there would have been no riots.  But he was a cop.

A sizeable number of African-Americans saw fit to destroy property and attack random white people while screaming "black power" and urging their peers to "take this shit to the suburbs".  On what planet is that a rational response to a violent criminal being killed by a police officer?

The mainstream media did not cover the events in Milwaukee very heavily.  If there were a mob of white people attacking random black passersby while screaming "white power" we all know the wailing and gnashing of teeth would have been unyielding and unending, and justly so.  But why is the reaction so different when black people are engaged in racist anarchism?

The answer is that the media, the Democratic party (which is nearly always in charge of areas where these things happen, and "sophisticated" white people are hopelessly racist, but not in the way the Black Lives Matter crowd thinks.  Here's how:

Firstly, when black people riot and loot and attack random white people for the sin of being white, that's not "the African-American community" in action.  It is, instead a nihilistic subset of that community.  The media glosses over this difference and pretends that sociopathic thugs represent "the African-American community".  That's racist.

The rioters in Milwaukee don't represent the "black community" any more than Dylan Roof or David Duke represent the "white community".

Some examples: there are more than 43 million African-Americans in the U.S.  Were they an independent nation, the size of their economy would be over one trillion dollars.  That would make them the 20th richest nation on earth.  The average income of African-Americans is over 48,000 dollars.  That's a higher average income than people have in Germany, Canada, Taiwan, and 200 other nations.

What does this mean?  It means that people who set gas stations on fire to protest the death of an armed felon do not represent the "black community".  When the media implies that they do, they are engaging in the worst kind of racism: the bigotry of low expectations, the idea that if a black person engages in completely indefensible behavior, it's not really their fault because........well, the unspoken implication in mainstream media treatment of this issue is that black people should not be held to the same standards as everyone else.  And that's racist.

 Hillary Clinton invited the mothers of several African-Americans who have lost children to speak at the Democratic National Convention.  Most of these anguished parents had sons who were killed by police officers.  The most well-known was the mother of Michael Brown, whose death triggered the Black Lives Matter movement.

Michael Brown robbed a store and then assaulted a police officer.  While his death was tragic, and while no parent should ever have to bury a child, what does it say about the Democratic Party that they feel that a young man who would punch a police officer in the face and try to take his gun is a fair representation of the "black community"?

Were there mothers of young black men killed by other young black men?  Or, far better, were there black business owners, doctors, lawyers, teachers, or God forbid, police officers?  Not at that convention.

The young black police officer who had to make an awful split second decision to save his own life is far more representative of the black community than was the young man who lost his life because he insisted on playing out the idiotic "thug life" fantasy.

The ultimate victims in this while fiasco are African-Americans, the vast majority of whom just want to live in peace and pursue their own happiness.  But when the elites in our society treat the predators who rob and kill law-abiding black people as the true victims of "systemic racism", it is a disgusting disservice to the black community and it is the clearest example of "systemic racism" that I can possible imagine.