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I’m not sure exactly how, but on this subject there should be some way to bring the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” into the discussion. Do black voters really want every woman who cries “rape” automatically “believed”?

If there is any audience which should insist on the presumption of innocence, it is black men! For not just years, not just decades, but literally for hundreds of years, they — more than any other group — have been the victims of the “I believe” movement. They were imprisoned, tortured, and lynched because of the “I believe” culture. It was shameful,and shameful isn’t even a big enough word.

When you look at those left wing mobs over the weekend, there weren’t a lot of black women there. I think there may have been a reason. I suspect there are lots of black women who have a brother or father or uncle or cousin who was unjustly accused - perhaps not of sexual assault but of something else.

In “To Kill a Mockingbird” the town does believe the “victim.” It is what happens at the trial — when the questioning occurs— that truth emerges. (Although the innocent black man on trial is nevertheless found guilty).

Are we going to leave that book — where almost every white member of a community joins in to the “I believe” culture to the detriment of justice — in classrooms? Wouldn’t that mean it’s OK to put black men in prisons as just the price you pay for a woman to be believed?

As I said at the beginning, I’m not sure how to do this, but I know that almost every person who’s gone to high school over the past 40 years has been required to read this book and the book usually made a profound effect on their consciences.

One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees and the distaff side of the Executive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us. There is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious—because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe—some are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others—some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men.

But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court. It can be the Supreme Court of the United States or the humblest J.P. court in the land, or this honorable court which you serve. Our courts have their faults, as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal.

If there is any audience which should insist on the presumption of innocence, it is black men!

Spot on. Whatever the numbers are in the article, this past week is going to blow that away. Nobody has missed that the Dems are back to their lynching ways but the Republicans are the party that believes in the rule of law, evidence, and the presumption of innocence.

When you look at those left wing mobs over the weekend, there weren’t a lot of black women there.

Even during the campaign, the only visible antagonism from blacks was coming from the black leadership whose income comes from delivering black votes to democrats. The black population itself didn't really have a problem with Trump. Now that Trump has been president for over a year, and have visibly brought better economic conditions and opportunities to blacks, his support has about doubled since the election.

The real anti-Trump resistance is almost exclusively feminists and social justice warriors.