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.
What Do They Really Want?
Imani Bashir, writing for the New York Times, says, "Living abroad is my way of prolonging my black son's life." It's actually the title of the article. She says she's been living abroad for years now, in places like Cairo and Poland and Malaysia and Wuhan (yes, that Wuhan), and that the bills are piling up and they're eating at her soul. Still, she won't move back to America. She sees her son's face in every black person the police kill. She's stuck in Florida for the moment, waiting for the borders to ease up so she can go anywhere else.
Her husband, from Buffalo, New York, is traveling with her, coaching American football where he can. She says before he turned 25, 30 of his friends had been killed. They never talked about white picket fences when they got married. They said if they were going to make it, if their son was going to make it, they had to go anywhere but here.
But notice they didn't go anywhere. They went to Poland, noted for its strict (and some say "bigoted") stances on immigration and gay rights; Cairo, a place that just blew up a few years ago, is looking to blow up again, and is known for its horrible treatment of women; and China, a communist country known for locking up Christians and Muslims and honest reporters, for not having habeas corpus, for selling the organs of political prisoners, and for grinding its workers into the dust. It's a firm supporter of the most oppressive, volatile states in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. It has a domestic surveillance system seen only in our most harrowing classics of science fiction. Nineteen eighty-four came almost to life, and Imani Bashir moved there instead of Schenectady.
I mention these things because of where she didn't go. For instance, if she can scratch out a living on the fly, why not anywhere in black Africa? Why not the sub-Saharan region, where, as Howard French reports in China's Second Continent, 10 of the 20 fastest growing economies exist? Why not somewhere where the cost of living is cheaper and where, since she says racism exists everywhere, there could be little to no racism against her son?
These questions deserve a solid answer — especially if it's anything other than "I don't want to live around black people." It should also be asked of all the other famous black people who don't want to live around black people. Beyond this, I think it's questionable that 30 of her husband's friends died at the hands of the police. 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.
My theory is that she doesn't go to black Africa because she doesn't feel safe around black people, and she doesn't want to be confused for them. He doesn't, either. It's what they call a hidden bias. People with the sort of mindset I suspect here know that a fraction of their 13% of Americans is responsible for 50% of the crime, and they're profiling. The fact is, they can't say it. Once they admit it, the whole anti-racism scam is up. It means white parents, whose children, according to the FBI, are killed twice as often by black people than the other way around, have more of an excuse to move their kids to Poland. It means they have a reason to stop busing black kids to white schools, and going soft on crime, and beating their chests, and being hard on police. But Bashir says she's scared of us — and because she's afraid, people are rioting. I remind you that racism means being afraid of people for things they don't do.
The question is, what does she want? The New York Times reports that Minneapolis, like all the other places on fire, is one of the most liberal cities in the nation. Surpassing even Seattle, Minneapolis has black people on the City Council. Two of these black council members are transgender. None of them is a Republican. Juneteenth gets a yearly parade, and the police chief, until this week, was a black man. They're so devoted to fighting racism that you can't zone for single-family housing anymore — ostensibly to make the housing cheaper for blacks and to keep richer whites from having better neighborhoods to move to.
This means that Minneapolis and all the other left-wing cities on fire already do everything they can to police the police — and if they go any farther, they'll have to get rid of them altogether. The main job of the police officer, after all, is not to stop crimes in progress (since there are too few of them to see everything), but to show up after the fact and then sniff out a suspect. This means everyone who fits a criminal's description in the area will be tracked down, picked up, tied up, and locked up — and if he refuses, probably beaten up. If he refuses too manfully, possibly killed. In a country of 330 million people, there are going to be a few dozen murders by cop. But you get rid of this right to track, and you've gotten rid of the police. You get rid of profiling, and you get rid of the concept of policing. You get rid of the police, and you get rid of society. And Minneapolis, where the violent crime rate was already horrible — this year, before the riots, twice the national average, and last year three — is already too dangerous. Thanks to Black Lives Matter blowing up the police stations, it is about to get worse.
I ask you again — what does Imani Bashir want? What they all want and can't say: to live somewhere her son can't theoretically be mistaken for or hurt by a black criminal. It's a legitimate want. We want it for all good black people, too. But Black Lives Matter isn't finding ways to stop the criminals. It's instead finding ways, mostly, to punish the innocent. Bashir profiles and runs and barricades herself, and she's a victim of racism. I just wish that she, and the Black Lives Matter movement, and The New York Times, would respect us when we do it, too. They won't.
The American left does not recognize
America's government
Thanks to the useful death of St. George Floyd of the Church of Black Lives Matter, the execrable Ben Crump has found the best way ever to leverage his profile and his bank account. Crump attaches himself like a leech to high-profile black deaths and will use any means necessary to push a narrative. His latest push is to use Floyd's family as a means to attack American sovereignty by appealing to the U.N. to police America's police.
Crump's made a career out of representing the families of black men who died during interactions with the police or who otherwise had politically useful deaths. Considering how few unarmed blacks die at police hands (especially since Trump became president), Crump probably has to leverage cases to make a profit. (There's profit to be had with the Floyd family, who are now the beneficiaries of a $13.8-million GoFundMe campaign.) That lust for fame and money may explain why Crump held his tongue when the prosecution against George Zimmerman for Trayvon Martin's death used a fake witness to push the narrative that Martin was a good kid, not a wannabe thug.
With Floyd's death, Crump is going beyond America and speaking to the world. He has written an open letter to the U.N. to demand that it step in to govern America's police departments:
The group sent a letter on June 3 to one of the international body's working groups asking for support for the end of the provision of military equipment and military-type training for police, the teaching of deescalation techniques, independent prosecutions and autopsies for "extrajudicial" police killings, and more.
"When a group of people of any nation have been systemically deprived of their universal human right to life by its government for decades, it must appeal to the international community for its support and to the United Nations for its intervention," Floyd's family attorney Ben Crump said in a press release.
A few things need to be said: first, this is an attack on American sovereignty, something that bothers Americans but not Democrats. (I'm not even pretending anymore that Democrats consider themselves Americans. They see themselves as world citizens fighting the evil that is America.)
Second, this is the same U.N. that has nothing to say about police abuses in China, among the Palestinians, in Venezuela, or anywhere else in the world that's not America.
Fourth, this is the same U.N. that allows Palestinian terrorists to use its ambulances in the terrorists' perpetual wars against Israeli citizens.
Fifth, the U.N.'s high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet, insisted that Floyd's death was the "latest in a long line of killings of unarmed African Americans by U.S. police officers and members of the public" and urged "serious action." The U.N. is champing at the bit to demean America.
Crump knows that the U.N. cannot affect policing in America. This is theater, but it's disgusting theater to see a race-hustler appeal to an anti-American organization that has no trouble with totalitarian organizations around the world abusing people under their control, and that turned a blind eye for decades to its own organization's abuse of blacks. Thinking about Crump's conduct, perhaps it's time to drag out the Logan Act...
Chutzpah Cities: Bailouts, beggings, and food deserts, starting with Minneapolis
Exhibit A is Minneapolis, whose far-left mayor failed to protect his city from a multi-night orgy of looting and rioting and now wants a $55-million taxpayer bailout to sweep the entire mess under the rug.
There are a lot of blue cities out there with an unusual sense of entitlement. We got the first whiff of it during the coronavirus stimulus debate, as mismanaged blue metropolises demanded pension and other unrelated bailouts from Congress from what were supposed to be emergency response funds.
But now in the wake of riots, they're really getting bad. They're demanding taxpayer bailouts for riot damage after failing to protect their cities, all so they could claim they were woke. They're begging big box retailers not to pull up stakes and leave after allowing them to be trashed and looted. They're complaining about sudden food deserts appearing as inner-city shopkeepers are thrown out of business after being robbed, burned, and destroyed and wondering why these stores don't re-open. It all underlines an amazing failure to recognize any consequences for bad decisions taken, coupled with a howling sense of entitlement. Call these solid blue failures "Chutzpah Cities."
Exhibit A is Minneapolis, whose far-left mayor failed to protect his city from a multi-night orgy of looting and rioting and now wants a $55-million taxpayer bailout to sweep the entire mess under the rug.
Minneapolis Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey is ordering city officials to begin a wide-ranging query of the damage done to the city's infrastructure from the race riots that began last week after the death of George Floyd, planning on requesting a federal bailout for the city to repair the damages done by "protestors."
Early preliminary estimates gauge the price tag of property damage from the riots at more than $55 million dollars. Frey is already working with U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar and representatives Ilhan Omar and Betty McCollum on a potential bailout package for the city.
Any apology for bad decisions? Any promise to return to rule of law so taxpayers don't have to keep doing this to eternity? Normally, bailouts come with tough conditions for reform to ensure future sustainability. But Frey has no intention of reform; he just wants you to bankroll his latest social experiment.
Reform in Minneapolis comes not raising the price for rioting and looting and promising to enforce law in order, but by getting rid of the police. Frey's lashed to the mast with a rabid far-left city council, which has enacted a veto-proof majority to de-fund the entire police force. That'll ensure that riots and looting don't happen again, right? Apparently, the next spray-shooter can rest easy and fire away, as the police will be gone. It's an idea so bad that it sounds as if an enemy dreamed it up. It can only be called a plan for permanent bailouts, because the results will be a disaster. The plan seems to be to make Minneapolis a second Cuba, always looking for the next Uncle Sugar to sustain its communist failures. And the productive members of society are supposed to go along with this, gladly emptying their pocketbooks.
Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis, was last seen doing some kind of chicken dance, which gives you an idea as to how busy he's been:
He's not the only one running a blue Chutzpah City.
How about the mayor of Chicago, who, after failing to protect her city's big box retailers from an orgy of looting, called upon these establishments not to leave her city?
No promises of no looting again ever. Just calls to stay and get looted again. No sane business would take her up on her offer. There are plenty of other places to go, where law and order still mean something and where making money doesn't have to be discounted by losses from looters. The citizens of these blue cities are likely to go where they go as well. All of the major blue cities are losing people, something that makes the big boxers even less likely to be able to turn a profit. Fewer people, fewer buyers, all the result of blue-city policies, which include high taxes and low job creation rates. Chicago for sure is among them.
Then there's this plaintive whine:
Brought on by this:
What the heck did they think would happen if they allowed rich, white Antifa trust-fund bunnies to go out and loot struggling small inner-city businesses with little cushion for recovery? Thomas Lifson predicted that in these pages very early. People who work 16-hour days and operate on razor-thin margins don't recover from mob assaults easily. Did they really think these businesses could shake the losses from mass looting and destruction like water off a duck's back? The hard reality is, trash your small, struggling businesses, and there won't be small, struggling businesses. Good luck getting the tax revenue to pay for the bloated bureaucracies.
The whole thing underlines the ugly reality about leftists: that they lack introspection and firmly believe they have nothing to answer for. Kevin Williamson has an excellent piece on that here. For the left, there's no sense of making things better with this bunch, there's just an adherence to the socialist template, failure after failure, letting someone else pay the bill. All we see in this wretched picture is entitlement and greed, even when they are sitting there in the mud, the victims of their own abhorrent decisions. This is chutzpah in the extreme, the classic phony plea of man who killed his parents, and then told the judge to have mercy on him for he was an orphan.
It calls to mind that they really do need to bear the consequences of their own bad decisions, hard as it may be. This may be the only way to halt the extreme leftward slide of the Democratic Party. That may well be the real meaning of President Trump's presidency, for surely he will put a stop to this, as long as he remains in office.
Imagine how bad it would be if Joe Biden were in the presidential saddle instead. These blue cities, it is reported, are already supposedly waiting or their 'Biden bailouts, refusing to cut spending, refusing to reform, waiting for Biden to come onboard to bail them out, knowing that Trump will see right through them and their toddler-like entitlement and tell them no. It underlines why Biden must never be elected president. Just say no to these spoiled brats who fail to learn from their mistakes, and like socialists, just keep making the same mistakes over and over and over.
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The Left’s radical agenda takes a twisted -- but expected -- turn.
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