What ties the May 25, 2020, and May 14, 2022 disasters together? The simple answer is institutional racism, at least according to many in the media and on the left.
A black guy was killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. Onlookers captured the event on camera and shared it on social media, exposing American racism to the rest of the globe. There was no sympathy in it. It was lethal. It disguised itself as a white man wearing a uniform.
Two years later, nearly to the day, a mass shooting occurred in a Buffalo grocery store. Thirteen individuals were injured, with ten of them dying. Eleven of the victims were black, while the assailant is white.
What ties the May 25, 2020, and May 14, 2022 disasters together? The simple answer is institutional racism, at least according to many in the media and on the left.
A black guy was killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. Onlookers captured the event on camera and shared it on social media, exposing American racism to the rest of the globe. There was no sympathy in it. It was lethal. It disguised itself as a white man wearing a uniform.
On the Saturday before the massacre, I was in Dallas for a seminar with a number of notable African Americans, including Glenn Loury and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. We focused on the following question: What is holding back black America?
We began by recognizing the enormous accomplishments achieved by African-Americans in America since integration in 1964. We’ve had a black president who won landslide elections and continues to enjoy widespread support. There are two black justices on the Supreme Court. We have black billionaires, professors, journalists, actresses, and comedians.
All of this is not to imply that America is a paradise for black people. We also acknowledged racial disparities in education, housing, crime, and family breakdown. We were shocked to learn that while black people make up only 12% of the population, they account for 55% of homicide incidents.
