Racial Politics: The boy who cried wolf has more credibility than this president and his attorney general. They cried "Racism!" in Sanford, Ferguson and now Staten Island, and have been proved wrong in each case.
Within minutes of jurors clearing a white NYPD cop in the death of African-American suspect Eric Garner, President Obama phoned Eric Holder, who, in turn, launched a federal investigation into perceived civil-rights violations. The probe follows those already underway in Ferguson, Mo., and Sanford, Fla.
Never mind that a predominantly minority grand jury, sifting through all the evidence, found that the force used to subdue the 6-foot-3-inch, 350-pound Garner was reasonable. Or that Garner was caught on video repeatedly resisting arrest after breaking the law, though the career criminal knew the drill following 31 previous arrests. Or that cops showed no racial animus. Or that a black sergeant supervised them.
Such exonerating facts have zero effect on Obama, who seems bent on seeding distrust in the U.S. justice system as part of a radical racial agenda.
Hoover Institution scholar Thomas Sowell said the president "wants to spread paranoia" in the black community, adding, "What amazes me is how long it has taken so many people to see through this man."
Obama asserted the Garner case "speaks to the larger issues that we've been talking about now for the last week, the last month, the last year — and, sadly, for decades — and that is the concern on the part of too many minority communities that law enforcement is not dealing with them in a fair way."
Implying America remains institutionally biased against blacks is a serious charge. And it's a scurrilous one. Study after study has found no bias in the arrest, prosecution or sentencing of African-Americans.
Tearing down respect for the justice system is bad enough. But it's hardly the only institution Obama has accused of structural bias. He and his race-baiting attorney general have also framed banking, education and housing, among others, as equally racist.
Consider everyone they've accused of bias in the past six years: mortgage lenders, loan service companies, auto lenders, small business lenders, payday lenders, student loan companies, home insurers, investment bankers, credit card companies, branch bankers charging overdraft fees, credit reporting agencies, medical debt collectors, supermarket chains without enough stores in blighted areas, mayors and local zoning boards limiting subsidized housing, the 48 states barring felons from voting and employers using criminal and credit background checks to screen job applicants.
They've even accused school principals, teachers, resource officers and curriculum directors of discriminating against black students.
In this massive calumny, they've failed to cite a single example of intentional discrimination. Or ID a single victim by name. In every complaint, they've leveled ambiguous charges of "implicit" bias based on "disparate impact," a discredited theory based on raw stats which fail to control for legitimate factors explaining racial disparities. That's because they have no proof, just like in Sanford, Ferguson and Staten Island, N.Y.
Yet hundreds of billions of dollars are being redistributed based on these false claims of discrimination.
Worse, policies governing everything from bank lending and school discipline to hiring and credit-risk analysis are being revamped to produce the desired racial outcomes — that is, quotas — demanded by this president.
Now, with the administration investigating more than 20 police departments across the country for "biased policing," the same will be done for arrest, stop and search policies in communities of color.
Within minutes of jurors clearing a white NYPD cop in the death of African-American suspect Eric Garner, President Obama phoned Eric Holder, who, in turn, launched a federal investigation into perceived civil-rights violations. The probe follows those already underway in Ferguson, Mo., and Sanford, Fla.
Never mind that a predominantly minority grand jury, sifting through all the evidence, found that the force used to subdue the 6-foot-3-inch, 350-pound Garner was reasonable. Or that Garner was caught on video repeatedly resisting arrest after breaking the law, though the career criminal knew the drill following 31 previous arrests. Or that cops showed no racial animus. Or that a black sergeant supervised them.
Such exonerating facts have zero effect on Obama, who seems bent on seeding distrust in the U.S. justice system as part of a radical racial agenda.
Hoover Institution scholar Thomas Sowell said the president "wants to spread paranoia" in the black community, adding, "What amazes me is how long it has taken so many people to see through this man."
Obama asserted the Garner case "speaks to the larger issues that we've been talking about now for the last week, the last month, the last year — and, sadly, for decades — and that is the concern on the part of too many minority communities that law enforcement is not dealing with them in a fair way."
Implying America remains institutionally biased against blacks is a serious charge. And it's a scurrilous one. Study after study has found no bias in the arrest, prosecution or sentencing of African-Americans.
Tearing down respect for the justice system is bad enough. But it's hardly the only institution Obama has accused of structural bias. He and his race-baiting attorney general have also framed banking, education and housing, among others, as equally racist.
Consider everyone they've accused of bias in the past six years: mortgage lenders, loan service companies, auto lenders, small business lenders, payday lenders, student loan companies, home insurers, investment bankers, credit card companies, branch bankers charging overdraft fees, credit reporting agencies, medical debt collectors, supermarket chains without enough stores in blighted areas, mayors and local zoning boards limiting subsidized housing, the 48 states barring felons from voting and employers using criminal and credit background checks to screen job applicants.
They've even accused school principals, teachers, resource officers and curriculum directors of discriminating against black students.
In this massive calumny, they've failed to cite a single example of intentional discrimination. Or ID a single victim by name. In every complaint, they've leveled ambiguous charges of "implicit" bias based on "disparate impact," a discredited theory based on raw stats which fail to control for legitimate factors explaining racial disparities. That's because they have no proof, just like in Sanford, Ferguson and Staten Island, N.Y.
Yet hundreds of billions of dollars are being redistributed based on these false claims of discrimination.
Worse, policies governing everything from bank lending and school discipline to hiring and credit-risk analysis are being revamped to produce the desired racial outcomes — that is, quotas — demanded by this president.
Now, with the administration investigating more than 20 police departments across the country for "biased policing," the same will be done for arrest, stop and search policies in communities of color.
No comments:
Post a Comment