Ann Coulter
. . .This is the cautionary note for black people. The Democrats' Free All Criminals policies have hurt black people in myriad ways -- mostly by getting thousands more of them robbed, assaulted and killed each year -- but also in other, more subtle ways, like this. . .
"This is a cautionary tale for all Americans, both white and black." Last Sunday, a college couple, 22-year-old Adam Simjee and his 20-year-old girlfriend, Mikayla
Paulus, were driving through Talladega National Forest when they were flagged down by a black
woman having car trouble. If I tell you the good Samaritans may have been National Review readers,
you can probably guess that one of them ended up dead.
"As they were trying to fix the car, the woman, Yasmine Hider, pointed a gun at them and demanded
they walk into the woods and hand over their phones and wallets. At some point, Simjee pulled out
his own gun and started firing at Hider, wounding her. She shot back, killing him.
"The reason I suspect the couple were National Review readers is that the "good Samaritan" ruse was
one of the bullet points in John Derbyshire's famous "The Talk: Nonblack Version," which got him
fired from National Review in 2012 -- standing athwart history and mewling, "Please like me,
liberals."
"Derbyshire hadn't even published the piece in NR.
He was responding to a spate of lachrymose accounts of black parents describing "The Talk" they
have to give their sons, instructing them to be super polite to police officers -- smile and say, "Yes,
sir" -- lest the officer shoot them to death for no reason whatsoever. (Ask any police officer, and they
will tell you black arrestees, to a man, are the politest people you will ever meet.)
"In the piece, Derbyshire issued exhortations about treating black people with "the same courtesies
you would extend to a nonblack citizen," but then listed "some unusual circumstances," requiring
extra vigilance due to "considerations of personal safety."
"The "personal safety" rules concerned only complete strangers. His point was that when you have
no other information to go on, you have to rely on statistics.". . . . . .Back in the halcyon days of Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg, we had one other fact to guide us: Criminals were in prison. Unfortunately for black people, a small percentage of their community commit a boatload of crime. But as long as criminals went to prison, New Yorkers could pass black men with little concern because if they were criminals, they'd most likely be locked up, not standing on a subway platform next to you...
