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Race Everywhere
American Greatness ^ | 1 Feb, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 02/02/2023 5:09:12 AM PST by MtnClimber

“Whites”—to the extent we can determine any race in an intermarried, multiracial society—do not fit the now ossified definition of an exploitive majority.

Recently an unarmed 29-year-old African American, Tyre Nichols, was brutally beaten to death by five black Memphis police officers. They were charged with murder. All belonged to a special crime unit known as the Scorpions.

Both the victimizers and victim were black. The Memphis police chief is black. The assistant police chief is black.

Nearly 60 percent of the police force is black. The white population of Memphis is about 25 percent.

The now-disbanded Scorpion unit of mostly black officers was created as a response to grassroots appeals to stop spiraling crime in mostly black neighborhoods.

The death of Tyre Nichols could be attributed to many things: a basic lack of humanity on the part of the officers, poor police training, lax administrative supervision, and lowered hiring standards.

Instead, no sooner was the beating death announced than accusations of “systemic racism” surfaced.

Van Jones, the former Obama Administration green czar and recent recipient of Jeff Bezos’ $100 million “courage and civility award,” pronounced on CNN that the black police oppressors were acting out white racism.

Some claimed that charging the five black officers with murder was itself racist. Others alleged that creating the unit in the first place to reduce black-on-black crime was racist.

Yet, when everything becomes racist, then nothing in particular can be racist.

About the same time, the city of San Francisco, along with the state of California, was exploring paying out huge cash reparations to its African-American residents for the ancestral sin of slavery.

That evil institution was abolished some 158 years ago through a Civil War that killed some 700,000 Americans.

Yet California was always a free state with no history of

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To: MtnClimber

Today’s racial politics are little different than Hitler’s who blamed everything wrong in Germany on the Jews. Today everything wrong in society is blamed on white people. Again we fail to learn from history.


21 posted on 02/02/2023 8:50:28 AM PST by The Great RJ
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To: The Great RJ
Today’s racial politics are little different than Hitler’s who blamed everything wrong in Germany on the Jews. Today everything wrong in society is blamed on white people.

Don't get on the train car!

22 posted on 02/02/2023 9:00:53 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
"All belonged to a special crime unit known as the Scorpions."

The questions that no one is asking is

1) Who authorized and organized this rogue group of cops?

2) Who supervised this group?

3) Were they trained to do what they did?

4) Who had the authority to disband the group?

5) Is this the first documented incident of violence performed by this group?

23 posted on 02/02/2023 5:42:37 PM PST by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: MtnClimber
Others alleged that creating the unit in the first place to reduce black-on-black crime was racist.

and yet, the reason the unit was created in the first place was it was alleged that not having blacks on the PD specifically to address black-on-black crime was itself racist, reminding one of the old adage, damned if you do, damned if you don't

24 posted on 02/02/2023 5:51:11 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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