The Anniversary the Media Would Prefer You Forget

 Ann Coulter

With the black community itself bearing the brunt of the violence, by now, the ruling class's fawning embrace of the Black Lives Matter movement has gotten tens of thousands of black people killed.

"How did I miss the third anniversary of George Floyd's death? Were the media caught sleeping? Three years ago, Floyd was given funerals in three states, carried in a gold casket and driven to his final resting place in a horse-drawn carriage. It was like the funeral for a pharaoh.

"From Floyd's death on May 25, 2020, to the end of the year, The New York Times alone ran more than 4,000 articles about him. But exactly three years later, Floyd's name made it into only three Times items -- fleetingly and barely.

"Are the media (and Democrats, and Hollywood, and corporate America, and the universities and grade schools, and hospitals and military and President Biden) hoping we'll forget about their weird campaign to make black Americans even angrier?

"Since May 25, 2020, the single-minded message delivered to black people, without interruption or contradiction, has been that they live in a country steeped in white supremacy, anything bad that happens to them is proof of racism, and oh by the way, the police are trying to kill them.

"The You Are a Victim! message is unlikely to produce stellar behavior in anyone. Directed at a group that already had a pretty high rate of criminal offending, it nearly destroyed our country.

"By the end of 2020, the national homicide rate had shot up an unprecedented 30% and has continued to climb since then.

"As Heather Mac Donald writes in her new book, "When Race Trumps Merit":

" 'New homicide records were set in 2021 in Philadelphia, Columbus, Indianapolis, Rochester, Louisville, Toledo, Baton Rouge, St. Paul, Portland, and elsewhere. The violence continued into 2022. January 2022 was Baltimore's deadliest month in nearly 50 years, with 36 people killed, compared to 35 in 1973, when the city's population was much larger."

. . ."But the 98% of black people who are killed by other black people are of zero interest to the media or the Democratic Party. It's that crucial .01% of blacks killed by cops that get the headlines." . . .