Loose lips sank ships and caused carnage at sea during the Second World War. But loose lips today—mouthing the Democrat Party and Black Lives Matter police brutality canard—cause carnage in America’s inner cities.
Donna Brazile, a Democrat operative, wrote this recently in the Wall Street Journal:
As a black woman, I’ve experienced plenty of discrimination… [I]n the past year I’ve watched the same videos and read the same accounts that millions of people around the world have seen—images of police killing unarmed black people in American cities. I cried over these horrific killings.
Right.
Except it’s really not right, it’s mostly wrong. People in the public policy space should know better.
Last year this writer took after Catherine McGehee, the headmistress (you can still say “headmistress,” but not “headmaster” and certainly not “house master,” at least not at Yale) of Foxcroft, a girls’ finishing school in Middleburg, Virginia. McGehee had said, “We struggle with the loss of yet more unarmed Black men and women, which regrettably continues as a cruel legacy of our nation’s racist history.” We remarked that if Ms. McGehee had bothered to determine how many “unarmed Black men and women” had been “lost,” she might not have had to struggle so much.
If McGehee had bothered to look up the statistics, she would have discovered that, in the year in which she struggled so much, just one unarmed black woman was killed by police, and nine unarmed black men were. Of the 10 killings, only two resulted in criminal prosecution because the rest were considered justified.
Ms. McGehee runs a secondary education organization, while Ms. Brazile, au contraire [see below], is a public policy maven—she’s the person who helped Hillary Clinton cheat in one of her debates with Donald Trump, and she is a former chair of the Democratic National Committee.
“Au contraire,” incidentally, means “to the contrary” in French, a language many schools have probably given up teaching, much like Princeton has given up requiring Latin and Greek in the Classics Department(!) because the “history of our own department bears witness to the place of Classics in the long arc of systemic racism.”
Of course, a viewer can’t tell, as she watches killings by police on television, how many of them will not result in criminal prosecution. Even so, there wouldn’t seem to be enough to justify Brazile’s phrasing (“images of police killing unarmed black people in American cities,”) which implies, obviously, multiple images. Yet that was her phrase, and written in a column, not ad-libbed in an interview.
Maybe Ms. Brazile thinks two unjustified killings is a scandal requiring wholesale uprooting of policing and the broader criminal justice system. But adults, at least those who don’t help people cheat on exams, might ponder that number (it was two) in relation to the population of the United States, which is about 340 million.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, the “defund the police” movement has been causing havoc and death, especially in black communities, and you might think that would receive special attention from people like Donna Brazile.
Murder is up everywhere. According to the Council on Criminal Justice, “Homicides, aggravated assaults, and gun assaults rose significantly beginning in late May and June of 2020. They jumped by 42 percent during the summer and 34 percent in the fall when compared to the summer and fall of 2019.” This trend has continued. Murders are up 800 percent in Portland, 56 percent in Minneapolis, 40 percent in Philadelphia, and 27 percent in Los Angeles.
Some people have blamed the Chinese Flu, but murder rates in other countries have not gone up. In this country, however, crime rates have soared where Democrats have “re-imagined policing,” which is woke-speak for defunding, or cancelling, the police—even as Princeton has re-imagined the Classics by giving up Latin and Greek.
Brazile’s piece may have been primarily about anti-Semitism, but someone in her position obviously can’t resist playing the race card. Too bad she couldn’t spare a few tears for the dozens of black Americans killed in the inner cities by other black Americans in the last few months, though not—alas?—on national television. Now there’s a scandal, and one that far outpaces police misconduct.
But unfortunately for the people who live in the inner cities, that carnage is not a scandal easy to blame Republicans for, and so it will be forgotten or ignored—as World War II is soon likely to be. After all, President Roosevelt described it as “a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization,” which does not align with the woke ideology.
via theamericanconservative
Donna Brazile’s Race Delusions Endanger American Communities
That is a totally disgusting photo but it suits the individual perfectly.
She looks like an over aged call girl.
And the bimbo refuses to acknowledge that 8 out of 10 of her people that got smoked by law enforcement , were felons to start with, plus, I very seriously doubt that the weapons these fools had on them were legal ( most likely prohibited or STOLEN) so , NO SYMPATHY from me or most of mainstream society. + she’s ugly.
Black lives don’t matter any more to blacks than cockroach lives. It’s all about liberal communist politics and race baiting for dollars.
well we have three idots that spew their internal hate as race baiting. michelle opera and donna girl. i keep trying to tell them we as white people are the ones that are in the so called hot seat not the blacks. the blacks do what they want without any action. they get away with everything in the books become career criminals and then become saints if the get killed. we are the ones that are being intimidted on the streets at restaurants,beaten up smacked in the head attacked no matter what the age or sex and also robbed. our houses are at risk as well. just break in and take what you want nothing will happen to you remember the police are downsized and in some cases gone. thank you blm and antifa. ar you listning obama whinfry or brazile
Young people who have never known better may buy into her bullshit. BUT – people who have lived thru it all have seen tremendous changes. To hear people like Donna Brazille tell it – ALL black people live in poverty (yet she does not) where they are subjected to police brutality on a daily basis. Look at Atlanta – a very affluent city – predominantly black. Where I live there are many black families living in mansions or high end homes along the water. They own boats – maybe not yachts – even though some do have yachts like every other race around here. They drive around in new cars of all makes and models including Hummers – Mercedes Benz’s and BMW’s. The point is that they ARE NOT POOR. They are not famous or athletes – many are doctors – lawyers – a lot of engineers – business people. They studied and worked hard and have achieved the “American Dream”. Far from daily abuse from the “racist police” many have never had as much as a traffic ticket. So when I hear someone putting ALL black people in the same category – I know I am listening to a true racist. The Democrats notion that ALL black people think and vote alike is racist. Joe Biden saying that black and brown people cannot afford or even understand how to use things like a smart phone – home computer or the internet is racist. Whenever someone is appointed to a new position they are referred to as “The First” (Fill in the blank) that to me is racist and demeaning. Why not just say this is – fill in the blank – our new whatever. To make a statement of pointing out their race or sexuality makes it sound like that is the only reason they got the job in the first place. It’s like saying “This is Ed – Ed is our new finance director – for those of you who have not noticed Ed is black”. It should just be said ” This is Ed our new finance director.”