All the Things BLM Gave Us
with John McWhorter
A lot has changed since the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012, and, in this clip from our most recent subscriber-only Q&A session, a reader asked John and me to sum up where we were then and where we are now. At least on the race front, it’s hard to say things are better. If Black Lives Matter has given us anything, it’s more racial division and more resistance to the idea there is more to racial disparities in this country than “white supremacy.”
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Of course, I agree that BLM has not been positive. Glenn is on-point here. John, as usual, is looking for the "silver lining" in BLM. There is none. It was (and is) a scam. It's a scam led by Black folks, ostensibly on behalf of Black folks, but it's really just for the benefit of the organizers. (This is pretty much chapter-and-verse for most Marxist crap!) One other point, specific to police shooting and killing people.
Over the last five+ years, the Washington Post has maintained a database of this metric. I downloaded the data and analyzed it myself. Given that a picture is worth a thousand words, I would post a picture, but cannot do that on here, as far as I can tell. As such, a description will have to suffice.) The short answer. Police apparently shoot and kill roughly 1000 people PER YEAR. (Interestingly, this number remains roughly consistent dating back to 2015.) Of that number, roughly 15% are Black and 27% are white.
About 60% of all suspects are armed with a gun. WaPo also analyzes the data, and (expectedly) draws conclusions about "the chances of being shot if you are Black" and related. Their methodology for arriving at that conclusion is flawed in my view, but that is beyond my scope for this post. The point I wanted to make is that contrary to what Glenn says, the police do not shoot and kill "a lot more white people" at least not from what I can tell. Then again, maybe almost twice as many is what he means by "a lot more." To be honest, they are not shooting "a lot" of anyone in my view, although one could certainly argue that any death is one too many. (For anyone who wants to check out the WaPo database, along with their analysis and methodology, it can be found here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database)
BLM is to Black Americans as is Hamas to the Gazans.
BLM is responsible for riots, burnings, killings and extensive damages to Black communities. I agree with Glenn that their Marxist philosophies are of no benefit to Black communities.
BLM has also twisted the narrative of many of the deaths of Blacks in the hands of police that have little or nothing to do specifically with race, and are oblivious to obvious factors such as drug use, resistance to arrest and the use of weapons by the perpetrators during the arrest attempts.
The deification of criminals by BLM and Liberal organizations is absurd. Anyone's unexpected violent death is tragic, but those individuals that put themselves at risk by criminal behavior are different from innocent people that are killed while minding their own business.
The fact that the BLM leadership are supposedly Marxist, yet apparently live like capitalists is total hypocrisy.
And finally, I also agree with Glenn that separating police accountability by race is unnecessary. Police misbehavior affects all races.