Personal Story: As I See It Part XII
Race Baiting and “White Privilege”
Much of this nation grew tired of Obama’s 8 years of race baiting. In 2016, a Hillary administration would have meant just more of the same. The current Democratic Party, along with their Leftist media cohorts, is towing the line. All lives should matter in this country no matter who you are…Black, White, Brown, Blue…saying so is not racist. Yet, academia and schools like USC have deemed the statement: “There is but one race, the human race” to be racist. It is not true that there is a war against blacks by the police. It has been proven false by the facts. It is a tragedy that any innocent unarmed person be killed. When you leave out the fact that more whites are killed than blacks, even when adjusting for population differences, it creates a false picture.
The mainstream media is selective about what they report. Did anyone hear about the two black police officers in Louisiana who shot into a car of a white man and his 6-year-old son, killing the child? The police officers claimed the white man in the car tried to ram them with his car, yet the dashboard cam proved that a lie. Did the national media cover this? Were whites taking to the streets destroying property, and pulling people from cars beating them up? This is only one example of many of unbalanced reporting designed to create a narrative that is false, present-day cases included.
Even though I don’t approve of the knee on the neck strategy, George Floyd was loaded with Fentanyl (a lethal dose), meth and other drugs. I watched the entire 15-minute video of the 3 officers trying to get him in the cruiser, while Floyd repeatedly flopped himself on the ground and said he wasn’t going to get in car because he was claustrophobic and couldn’t breathe. He overdosed on drugs and would have still died even if he had gotten in the back of the cruiser. There was another case in Texas of a young white man who died while police had a knee on his neck, yet no mention in the news was warranted because he was the wrong color.
Breonna Taylor was not shot when police mistakenly went to the wrong apartment as the media first reported. According to later reports, her name was on the warrant, there had been a dead body in the rental car she used, her boyfriend started shooting injuring an officer, and Breonna was shot in the crossfire. Later released videos showed her boyfriend saying it was Breonna that shot a cop. Regardless, she participated willingly in her boyfriend’s lifestyle of crime. Sad for her family, but she was the victim of her choices.
The Left’s spin on each circumstance of a black person being killed by police, distorts the actual facts and circumstances surrounding the encounter. In Los Angeles, blacks make up 9% of the population but commit 44% of the crime. This statistic is comparable to most cities. We can ponder why and come up with many reasons. But we aren’t allowed to discuss this without having a Leftist lunatic blaming white privilege and systemic racism…anything and everything that denies personal choice ever comes into play. Instead, the Left calls for defunding the police. With massive numbers of police officers quitting, and huge increases in crime, the Democrats again blame the police. I ask, what do you expect?
The white privilege fallacy doesn’t hold water. It creates racial hatred where there was none before. It is sickening that colleges have white privilege courses meant to shame whites into saying that just by being white you are racist. I listened to Obama talk about racism he felt when a white woman didn’t want to get on an elevator with him. I’ve heard other black people talk about being humiliated with derogatory racist terms…and it is all sad that some people are ignorant and judge people solely on the color of their skin. Growing up as a poor white child, I could also tell you stories of being followed around the dime store by workers sure I was going to steal something, of being told that since I was born poor, I would always be considered low class, and being told that it didn’t matter how smart I was my skin color dictated that I wasn’t worthy of financial aid for college.
The assumption that whites have privilege just because they are white is a load of crap. Money gives you privilege. Once you have money in this world you have the privilege. Look at every black celebrity, executive, athlete, music star, producer; they have privilege that goes along with the wealth. The years of slavery in this nation was among the darkest times in our history. Thinking that Trumpers applaud that time in history is ludicrous. Critical race theory and the 1619 project taught in our schools, corporations, and government is nothing but racist propaganda that seeks to divide and destroy our country. It was purposely implanted to destroy this country from the inside, thanks to the likes of Soros and other Leftist Democrats.
There is definitely an agenda at play.