Lauren, sounds impressive when you blurt out indigently about white supremacy. So exactly, how many minorities have died as a result of white supremacy since Trump was elected?
Keep in mind this headline: “More than 175 killed worldwide in last eight years in white nationalist-linked attacks.” (source: The Guardian August 4th 2019 by Lois Beckett). Even one death is a tragedy and to much, but for you to make this sound like “the problem”, when the average is less than 21 deaths worldwide a year is the real crime. About the same number of African Americans are murdered by African Americans on a weekly basis in Chicago (one city), then white supremacist murders of African Americans worldwide in a year!
The vast majority of African American violent deaths (97%) are by caused by African Americans in Democratically controlled cities. Again why? Simply, without fathers, many young African Americans young men join gangs and without jobs they get involved in illegal activities to support themselves. This leads to death. Wake up and smell the coffee, stop being deceived and manipulated. Study the issue. Work for real solutions. It is the left leaning white middle age liberals going around calling Trump a racist, while the African American mothers are demanding school choice at Warren’s political events.
Let’s look at what happened under Obama.
“The number of black people killed by whites — a demographic in the FBI report that includes those of Hispanic descent — surged by nearly a quarter in 2015 from the year before, as the number of whites killed by blacks jumped 12 percent. Together, such interracial killings increased about 13 percent from 2014.” (Source: USNews Sept 29,2016 by Matthew Cella and Alan Neuhauser.
To Obama’s credit he tried to speak about the problems of “no fathers” in African American inner cities, but then backed off under pressure. He never did address the lack of jobs or provide real solutions to fix broken inner city schools.
You should invest some time in studying the issue of discrimination. If you do, you will find discrimination and discrimination related violence rise with unemployment levels and decline as unemployment goes down. Does not matter if the victims are Irish, Italian, Hispanic or African American. Unemployment breeds racial and ethnic violence. Two liberal professors from U Penn wanted to show racism increased under Trump and were chagrined when they found the opposite.
The study found the opposite.
“Americans, Hopkins and Washington said, have actually become less inclined to express racist opinions since Trump was elected. Anti-black prejudice, they found, declined by a statistically-insignificant degree between 2012 and 2016 while President Barack Obama was in office. After Trump was elected in 2016, the study found, anti-black prejudice took a sharp dive that was statistically significant. Moreover, contrary to their expectations, the decline was as evident among Republican voters as it was among Democrats. There was also a general fall in anti-Hispanic prejudice, the study found.”
I have five African American grandchildren including one growing up without a father at home. So if you care study the issue, not the newspapers. Look for the underlying causes of poverty and violence in the inner city African American communities. Dig deep enough to realize that while African American unemployment rates are much higher than white unemployment rates, they are the same based on education achieved.
When you make it about skin color, you make African Americans “victims” of something that can’t change, when you realize its about fathers and education you focus on things that can change.
