Liberals Don’t Want a Discussion About Race - WSJ:
..But liberals have no use for even handedness or caution when it comes to charged incidents involving blacks and whites, and they immediately took the commentators to task.
Mr. Lemon had failed to acknowledge that the video was irrefutable evidence that our racist criminal-justice system targets blacks.
And Ms. Symoné had invoked black personal responsibility, which is akin to a capital crime among progressive thinkers.
Hence, petitions circulated at both networks calling for Ms. Symoné and Mr. Lemon to be fired.
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When convenient, racial disparities are presented as evidence of racial animus.
When inconvenient, racial disparities are ignored.
The Justice Department report released in March on the Ferguson, Mo., police department noted that between 2012 and 2014 “African-Americans account for 85% of vehicle stops,” despite comprising only 67% of Ferguson’s population.
But that doesn’t prove racism. It merely shows that different groups—races, ethnicities, ages, genders—have different driving habits.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, blacks are nearly a third (31%) more likely than whites to be stopped for a traffic violation, and men are 42% more likely than women to be stopped.
Of course, that sort of context didn’t make it into the Obama administration’s report because the whole point of the exercise was to highlight racial disparities and equate them with racial discrimination.
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Liberals do not want to have a discussion about race.
They want to conduct an inquisition that results in acknowledgment that white racism explains racial disparities and is a major impediment to black advancement.
Facts to the contrary will be ignored, and disagreement will not be tolerated.
"Just one day after she become secretary of state, Hillary Clinton signed a document asserting that she understands “negligent handling” of classified information poses a potential danger to national security, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
