The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young white men is
accidents, like car accidents and drownings. The No. 1
reason for death, preventable or otherwise for young black men, is homicide, almost always at the hands of another young black man. In 2018, there were approximately 7,400 black homicide victims, more than half of the nation's total number of homicides, out of a black population of 13%. Of that number, the police killed a little
over 200 blacks, and nearly all of them had a weapon or
violently resisted arrest.
Police: 26-Year-Old Arrested for Fatally Shooting Mom, Infant
A 26-year-old armed suspect was arrested for fatally shooting a mother and an infant in their Florida home, police said.
The Gainesville Police Department said Saturday that Kevi Ellis, 26, surrendered to authorities when they arrived at the scene.
Authorities found the woman dead with multiple gunshot wounds. The three-month-old had one fatal gunshot wound to the head.
Neither victim has been identified, and it is unclear if they have any relationship with the suspect. Officials say no motive for the attack was immediately clear.
Police said two other young children were discovered hiding under a bed. Officials say Ellis also struck a neighbor, but the neighbor was not shot.
Authorities charged Ellis with two counts of homicide and one count of attempted homicide.
Report: 12 Shot Monday Alone in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago
Twelve people were shot, one fatally, on Monday alone in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports the lone fatality was a 16-year-old boy who was shot in a parking garage by two attackers. He was shot around 2:35 a.m. and transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
One of Monday’s non-fatal shootings involved two moving vehicles “in the 4800 block of West Patterson Avenue” around 7:15 p.m. As the vehicles passed one another an occupant from one opened fire, striking a 30-year-old and a 41-year-old in the other vehicle.
The 30-year-old “was struck in the face and shoulder” while the 41-year-old “was struck in the arm and head.”
Monday’s violence follows a weekend in which 28 were shot, seven fatally, in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago.
Breitbart News reported 50 people were shot last weekend in Mayor Lighfoot’s Chicago, and five of those shooting victims succumbed to their wounds. Twenty-three people were shot on Monday, November 16, 2020, alone, and that Monday followed a weekend in which over 20 were shot, one fatally, in the city.
Five people were shot, including a 16-year-old boy, on Thanksgiving Day, in Mayor Lighfoot’s Chicago.
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A recent video captures some of this miseducation in Milwaukee high schools: In two city high schools, only one student tested proficient in math and none are proficient in English. Yet, the schools spent a full week learning about "systemic racism" and "Black Lives Matter activism."
Black Education Tragedy Is New
Several years ago, Project Baltimore began an investigation of Baltimore's school system. What they found was an utter disgrace. In 19 of Baltimore's 39 high schools, out of 3,804 students, only 14 of them, or less than 1%, were proficient in math. In 13 of Baltimore's high schools, not a single student scored proficient in math. In five Baltimore City high schools, not a single student scored proficient in math or reading. Despite these academic deficiencies, about 70% of the students graduate and are conferred a high school diploma -- a fraudulent high school diploma.
The Detroit Public Schools Community District scored the lowest in the nation compared to 26 other urban districts for reading and mathematics at the fourth- and eighth-grade levels. A recent video captures some of this miseducation in Milwaukee high schools: In two city high schools, only one student tested proficient in math and none are proficient in English. Yet, the schools spent a full week learning about "systemic racism" and "Black Lives Matter activism." By the way, a Nov. 19, 2020, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article asks: "How many Black teachers did you have? I've only had two." The article concludes, "For future Black students, that number needs to go up." New York City is one of many school systems in the United States set to roll out Black Lives Matter-themed lesson plans. According to the NYC Department of Education, teachers will delve into "systemic racism," police brutality and white privilege in their classrooms.
Should we blame this education tragedy on racial discrimination or claim that it is a legacy of slavery? Dr. Thomas Sowell's research in "Education: Assumptions Versus History" documents academic excellence at Baltimore's Frederick Douglass High School and others. This academic excellence occurred during the late 1800s to mid-1900s, an era when blacks were much poorer than today and faced gross racial discrimination. Frederick Douglass High School of yesteryear produced many distinguished alumni, such as Thurgood Marshall and Cab Calloway, and several judges, congressmen and civil rights leaders. Frederick Douglass High School was second in the nation in black Ph.Ds. among its alumni.
Also, in Sowell's "Education: Assumptions Versus History" is the story of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, a black public school in Washington, D.C. As early as 1899, its students scored higher on citywide tests than any of the city's white schools. From its founding in 1870 to 1955, most of its graduates went off to college. Dunbar's distinguished alumni include U.S. Sen. Edward Brooke, physician Charles Drew and, during World War II, nearly a score of majors, nine colonels and lieutenant colonels, and a brigadier general. Today's Paul Laurence Dunbar and Frederick Douglass high schools have material resources that would have been unimaginable to their predecessors. However, having those resources have meant absolutely nothing in terms of academic achievement.
If we accept the notion that rotten education is not preordained, then I wonder when the black community will demand an end to an educational environment that condemns so many youngsters to mediocrity. You can bet the rent money that white liberals and high-income blacks would not begin to accept the kind of education for their children that most blacks receive.
The school climate, seldom discussed, plays a very important role in education. During the 2017-18 school year, there were an estimated 962,300 violent incidents and 476,100 nonviolent incidents in U.S. public schools nationwide. Schools with 1,000 or more students had at least one sworn law enforcement officer. About 90% of those law enforcement officers carry firearms. Aside from violence, there are many instances of outright disrespect for teachers. First- and second-graders telling teachers to "Shut the f--- up" and calling teachers "b---h."
Years ago, much of the behavior of young people that we see today would have never been tolerated. There was the vice principal's office where corporal punishment would be administered for gross infractions. If the kid was unwise enough to tell his parents what happened, he might get more punishment at home. Today, unfortunately, we have replaced practices that worked with practices that sound good and caring. And we are witnessing the results.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.
“Black
Christians should protest the Democrat party's anti-Christian agenda which has
led to the moral decay of the black community; fatherless households, gangs,
crime, generational poverty, incarceration, and record-high black on black
homicides.” LLOYD MARCUS
Blacks are only 13% of the population. White America
gifted its first black president two terms. And yet, far too many blacks
absurdly believe Democrats' and fake news media’s lie that white America did
not want a black man in the White House. If America is such a hellhole of
racism, how did Oprah Winfrey, a dark-complexioned stout black woman, become
one of the wealthiest and most influential persons on the planet? The myth of
America's racism is evil, destructive, and must end. LLOYD MARCUS
Barack Obama’s race hustling
criminal coddling set the more recent tone where state and local
law-enforcement officers were routinely attacked, accused of serial
hate-inspired killings of suspects; where civilized norms were declared the
illicit fruit of white privilege; where the epidemic of black-on-black
homicides was either ignored or blamed on unresolved racial grievances. GEOFFREY P. HUNT
She never said it was the police, by the
way (she casually refused, in an article about police killings, to
place the blame anywhere), and we know it wasn't, because the police
killed about 19 unarmed black males in
2017,
and black people killed about 2,627 — a difference
of over a hundred times. In fact, in 2018, black people killed about 2,600 black people, and whites in
general — all of us, despite being 60% of the populace — killed only 234, more
than ten times fewer. The greatest danger to black people in America
today is always other black people. Black lives
matter to Black Lives Matter only when it gives them an excuse to attack white
people. JEREMY EGERER
13% of the population in the USA is black BUT THEY COMMIT 85% of all violent interracial crimes, 80% of all shootings, 79% of all robberies, 59% of all murders, 52% of all violent juvenile crimes, 45% of all drug offenses..
49% of all murder victims are black. 42% of all cop killers are black.
99% of all major riots involving property damage, looting and civil
disobedience are committed by blacks as opposed to ANY OTHER minority
in America.
93% of all
black murder victims are murdered by another black.
33% of all crimes in America are committed by 3% of the population; blacks
between the ages of 16 and 36
8% of America’s population are black men, yet they account for 40% of
America’s total prison population.
40% of blacks are on welfare
Only 59%
blacks graduate high school (Detroit, only 20%)Over 60% of black
households have no fathers present 72% of black mothers are unwed!
Blacks
account for 38% of abortions (only 13%
of population
and contraceptives are FREE)
(STATISTICS FROM Dept. of Justice, Dept. of
Commerce, FBI and USA Census (ALL and sect.5
Law Enforcement))
The Manhattan Institute's Heather MacDonald writes: "Regarding threats to blacks from the police: A police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer."
Why Don’t These #BlackLivesMatter?
Black Lives
Matter is a political advocacy group, “[f]ounded in 2013 in response to the
acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer,” according to the group’s website. Never mind that the George Zimmerman trial was a complete fraud,
as Joel Gilbert brilliantly explained in his recent
book and movie, “The Trayvon Hoax:
Unmasking the Witness Fraud that Divided America.”
BLM is a
self-described global network, which explains why protests and riots sprang up
seemingly spontaneously all over the world after George Floyd’s death. Starting
in Minneapolis, protests quickly spread to far off locales including New
Zealand, South
Korea, and the United
Kingdom.
On their
website, BLM states that they, “practice empathy.” Yet in 2017 this
happened.
A white teenager cowers in a corner, his hands bound with orange
cords and his mouth covered with tape. Four African Americans kick and hit him
and slash at his scalp. As a cellphone camera captures their blurry images and
broadcasts the ordeal on Facebook, the attackers hurl racial insults and
denounce President-elect Donald J. Trump.
As reported by the New York Times: “A hashtag linking the assault
to the Black Lives Matter movement exploded on social media.” Were the
four attackers card-carrying members of BLM? Does it matter? After all, every
police officer is a white supremacist and racist based on the actions of four
cops in Minneapolis. Generalizing can work both ways.
BLM claims
these noble goals: “We embody and practice justice, liberation, and peace
in our engagements with one another.” They are, “huided by the fact that all
Black lives matter.” Do they walk the walk, or just talk the talk?
Do the
lives of Gregory Lewis, Teyonna Lofton, or Angelo Bronson matter? These are not
and never will be household names like George Floyd. The Obama Foundation website won’t
feature their faces. Michelle Obama won’t show pictures of any of them on
her Instagram
page. The justice brothers, Jesse and Al, won’t be hustling their
deaths. Benjamin Crump won’t be representing any of their families. Dr. Michael
Baden won’t be reviewing their autopsies. Members of Congress won’t take
a knee for any of them. And there
certainly won’t be widespread protests and riots over their deaths.
Why not?
All three are black. Don’t their lives matter, too?
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These
poor souls were victims of another weekend in the killing fields of Chicago. As
the Chicago Sun Times reported: “18 murders in 24 hours: Inside the most violent day in
60 years in Chicago.” This was last weekend while millions were proclaiming
around the world that black lives matter.
“We’ve
never seen anything like it, at all,” said Max Kapustin, the senior research
director at the University of Chicago Crime Lab.
Yet I don’t
hear Democrats, the DNC media, woke celebrities and athletes, or any race
hustlers showing the least bit of concern. Where are the Obamas? This carnage
occurred in their home city. Will any cable news networks be live streaming the
funerals? Will Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot ban funeral gatherings of more than
ten for these individuals while encouraging gatherings of thousands of looters
on Michigan Avenue?
Why don’t
these black lives matter? These aren’t simply statistics but real
people leaving lives, dreams and families
behind.
A hardworking father killed just before 1 a.m.
A West Side high school student murdered two hours later.
A man killed amid South Side looting at a cellphone store at 12:30
p.m.
A college freshman who hoped to become a correctional officer,
gunned down at 4:25 p.m. after getting into an argument in Englewood.
Chicago was home to 653 murders in 2016, more than the total in New
York City and Los Angeles combined. Who was president in 2016? Who had eight
years to “fundamentally transform America” when he wasn’t busy lowering the sea
levels?
Interestingly CNN
reported, “Chicago's homicide rate decreases for
the third straight year.” Who has been president the past 3 years? Obviously,
CNN won’t notice that association because Orange Man Bad. In their reporting,
President Trump is a racist and white supremacist. The declining murder rate
must be due to Obama, despite it being much higher when he was in office. CNN
made the same
claims crediting Trump’s economy to
Obama.
It’s not
just Chicago where black lives don’t seem to matter. Look at the last
hundred homicides
in Baltimore. One only has to go back to
mid-February of this year to hit the 100 mark. The race of most victims was
listed as “unknown” yet 29 of the 100 were blacks.
Antwan
Phillips, Jared Hill, and Tyrone Henderson were among the victims, but no one
will be wearing a T-shirt showing their names or faces. Jesse and Al won’t be
at their funerals. Nancy Pelosi won’t take a knee on their behalf. Why don’t
their lives matter?
Last
January, 14 were killed by a roadside bomb in Burkina
Faso, including seven children. A week earlier, 35 people,
mostly women were killed in a terrorist attack. Did any of these black lives
matter? Where were the protests? Or kneeling? Where was Michelle Obama’s
#BringBackOurGirls hashtag she used as first lady, long before Donald Trump was a
presidential candidate?
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The woke
kneeling liberals sing the praises of Planned Parenthood, founded by eugenicist
Margaret Sanger whose goal was “to exterminate the Negro population.” Their abortion
clinics are disproportionately “located in ZIP codes with higher percentages of blacks
and/or Hispanics than the state’s overall percentage.”
In New York
City, home to some of the worst rioting, while blacks make up 25 percent
of the NYC population, 46 percent of abortions were black babies. Shockingly
more black babies were killed by abortion in NYC than were born
alive. By contrast, Whites make up 44 percent of the NYC population but only
account for 12 percent of abortions. Why don’t the lives of aborted black
babies matter?
Will these
protests cause a surge in Chinese coronavirus cases? Where are the protests
occurring and who will be most affected? According
to CNN,
Black Americans represent 13.4% of the American population,
according to the US Census Bureau, but counties with higher black populations
account for more than half of all Covid-19 cases and almost 60% of deaths, the
study found.
Social
justice warriors are happy to congregate in urban areas, ignoring the social
distancing and mask mandates that the rest of us have been clubbed with for the
past three months, potentially spreading the Wuhan virus to blacks, many of
whom live in the protest zones. It is almost as bad as protesting in a nursing
home. Don’t those black lives matter?
Liberal
do-gooders are hijacking George Floyd’s death for their personal quest for
power, money, and furthering their Marxist agenda. From defunding police
departments to saying, “Some white people may have to die”, as a University of
Georgia graduate student recommended.
If black
lives truly mattered, there would be calls for more school choice and fewer
abortions, more emphasis on intact nuclear families and less on reparations for
events hundreds of years ago. But those are not part of the BLM political
platform, contradicting their supposed message.
From a true
advocate for social justice, Martin
Luther King, Jr, “We must learn to live
together as brothers or perish together as fools.” If black lives truly
mattered, that would be the emphasis of BLM and their liberal sycophants.
Otherwise America will become a balkanized country, populated by fools who let
our once shining city on a hill crumble into the ash heap of ruin.
Brian C. Joondeph, M.D., is a Denver-based physician and freelance
writer whose pieces have appeared in American Thinker, Daily Caller, Rasmussen
Reports, and other publications. Follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter,
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