It's time for a reckoning on the reckoning. No more woke fantasies, because black lives matter.
Ann Coulter "Wow, the racial reckoning after George Floyd sure has gotten a lot of black people killed!
"According to the FBI, amid the extravaganza of violence following Floyd's death in 2020, an additional 2,400 black males and 405 black females were killed, compared to 2019. The post-Floyd murder surge of 2020 is, by far, the largest year-to-year increase in homicide in U.S. history.
"So far this year, 615 black people have been killed in Chicago (out of a total of 767 homicide victims, 29 white); 164 in Baltimore, (out of 323 total, eight white, with the race of 144 murder victims somehow "unknown"); and 373 black people have been shot to death in Philadelphia (out of 460 fatal shootings, 35 white).
"All this makes me wonder if we wouldn't be better off encouraging the violent elements of the black underclass to stop acting out, instead of ginning up their anger by relentlessly pounding away at "systemic racism." Perhaps our prestige media could help if they told disaffected urban youth that they're not heroes when they shoot up neighborhood block parties, beat up their teachers or fight with the police.
Instead, elites tell them the exact opposite. The most celebrated entry in the "White People Are Out To Get You" genre is Michelle Alexander's 2010 book, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." Alexander, who is only half-black (always the loudest at the anti-racism rallies), argues that the criminal justice system "labels" black men "felons" in order to deny them basic human rights, such as the right to vote -- exactly like under Jim Crow!" . . .