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The Patriot Post - Alexander's Column 7-13-2016
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In a new Harvard study, “Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force22,” the lead researcher, professor Roland Fryer Jr., noted, “On the most extreme use of force — officer-involved shootings — we find no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account.” Fryer, who is black, added that the findings were “the most surprising result of my career.”
As for police who do kill their assailants, according to Bureau of Justice Statistics, the rate of black officers who kill black offenders is 32 per 100,000 black officers, which is more than twice the rate of white officers who kill black offenders — 14 per 100,000 white officers.
Let me share a little secret.
Having spent years as a street cop early in my career, I can tell you that when 95% of murder victims in urban centers are “people of color,” and 95% of perpetrators are “people of color,” cops of any color are going to be more cautious with “people of color.” This isn’t “racism,” this is reality, driven by a desire to make the community safe and to return home at the end of that day’s tour.
Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald, author of “The War on Cops23,” recently responded to BO’s repeated assertions about “racist cops,” declaring, “Obama embraced the Black Lives Matter myth that there is a racist war by white officers against black civilians in this country. … In fact, there’s no government agency more dedicated to the proposition that black lives matter than the police. Proactive policing has saved tens of thousands of minority lives since the mid-1990s.”
That notwithstanding, in the days following the Dallas attack, there were attempts to murder police in Georgia24, Missouri25, Tennessee26, Baton Rouge27 and Washington, DC28. Additionally, San Antonio’s police headquarters was fired on multiple times, but thankfully there were no injuries.
Perhaps Obama/Clinton constituents should pause to consider what would happen if police officers in urban centers across the nation came down with a weeks-long case of “blue flu” and didn’t show up for work. Those cities would turn into bloodbaths. Of course, some of their constituents are advocating just that. Black agitator and Obama/Clinton supporter Jessica Disu insists, “We need to abolish the police. Period.” When asked who would provide protection, Disu insisted, “We need to come up with community solutions.”
In Dallas on Tuesday, there was an interfaith memorial for the slain officers. Police Chief David Brown spoke for three minutes. Former President George W. Bush spoke for seven minutes. Barack Obama spoke for 40 minutes, referencing himself 45 times.
Obama offered fitting references to the slain officers, references to Scripture and then resorted to more race-bait rhetoric. I have posted excerpts from their remarks here29.
Disgracefully, in the first sentence of Obama’s memorial remarks, he made a joke — “I’m so glad I met Michelle first because she loves Stevie Wonder.” This was a reference to Dallas Police Chief David Brown’s recitation of lyrics from a song. Obama left a long pause for laughter.
Equally offensive were Obama’s thematic race-bait assertions.
Allow me to respond to one: “We know that centuries of racial discrimination, of slavery, and subjugation, and Jim Crow; they didn’t simply vanish with the law against segregation. … America, we know that bias remains.”
The fact is, Obama and his ilk, who are the purveyors of “black privilege30,” have ensured that racial bias has endured for generations. BO’s black father had no roots in America, so he has no generational “black experience.” But allow me to offer a few words from those whose roots run deep.
At the conclusion of the War Between the States, famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass wrote, “Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, ‘What shall we do with the negro?’ I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. … [If] the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall. … All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!”
Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee University, was among the last generation of black people born into institutional slavery prior to emancipation. Washington became a leading advocate for the rights of blacks — and of all people.
In his 1911 work, “My Larger Education,” he wrote, “There is a class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. … There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.”
In the footsteps of Booker Washington followed Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950), an esteemed historian, author, journalist and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Woodson is most often cited as “the father of black history,” and this passage from his seminal work, “The Mis-Education of the Negro,” is representative of his thinking: “If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.”
Fact is, Democrats have masterfully maintained the black ghetto welfare plantation through policies that ensure they will “never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.”
Carrying on the legacy of Washington and Woodson today is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who notes: “Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs may have been motivated, in part, by good intentions cannot provide refuge from the principle that under our Constitution, the government may not make distinctions on the basis of race.”
Thomas speaks precisely to those concerns expressed 150 years ago by Frederick Douglass.
Today, the truth is that if black lives really mattered to those charged with advancing the Democrat political agenda31, Obama, Clinton and their leftist cadres32 of race hustlers33 would stop the institutional enslavement of black people on the urban poverty plantations34 created by their failed “Great Society35” experiments. For Obama and Clinton, it’s more aptly stated, “Black LIES Matter.”
And a final observation from President Ronald Reagan36: “We must reject the idea that every time a law is broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.”
Disclaimer: This column is not written from the armchair perspective of inbred Beltway journalists and commentators. It is written, as always, from the grassroots perspective. Notably, it is also written from the vantage point of having graduated from a state police academy at age 19, having served through my college years as a uniformed police officer in three states, and having maintained close ties with the men and women in blue ever since. During those years, and in other capacities since, I have been in many situations that required split-second life-or-death decisions. If you haven’t been in the shoes of officers involved in pressure-packed and highly volatile altercations, you simply can’t understand the context of those incidents based on edited videos. Police officers are human, and they occasionally make mistakes — sometimes deadly ones. BUT THOSE ARE RARE EXCEPTIONS. To that end, watch the transformation of a protestor37 who steps into the role of a police officer. And to better understand how fast a traffic stop can go wrong, click here38.
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