The civil rights movement began in the
1960s with a black
man's dream. He dreamed of a colorblind meritocracy, where black
people's skin color didn't matter, but the content of their character
did.
His dream proved to be both prophetic
and counter-intuitive. Prophetic in the sense that his dream not only
became true within the eyes of the law, but was also written into the
narrative of the culture. Counter-intuitive from the perspective that
when black people are judged by the content of their character, their
character usually leaves much to be desired. In fact, judging black
people by the content of their character typically results in an
individual being socially ostracized for “racism.” So much so,
that it's one of the few times we've witnessed a reversion of change,
and returned to the days of black people being judged by the color of
their skin. It's just more politically correct (and peaceful) to
blame white people when black people's content of character is
lacking. That is to say, it's more representative of our values.
Nowadays, the apostates have a dream of equity,
not equality.
An appropriate illustration of this can
be seen in the current George Floyd saga. When George Floyd is judged
by the content of his character, it can be empirically
concluded that he was a thief, counter-fitter, drug addict, drug
dealer, armed robber and ex-convict, who, at the time of his death,
had just resisted arrest, was positive
with COVID-19 (and not wearing a mask), high on methamphetamine and
had a fatal
level of fentanyl in his system. Contrarily, when judged by the
color of his skin, he was yet another innocent black victim of a
racist white society.
The latter
opinion can be observed in a recently published Washington Post piece
titled: How
right-wing media keeps smearing George Floyd with the racist ‘no
angel’ narrative:
But some in right-wing media keep
doing their utmost to make this tragedy about Floyd’s drug use and
troubled life, in what seems like an attempt to absolve Chauvin long
before the jury reaches a verdict. In effect, they are putting Floyd
on trial.
It feels all too familiar. This is
the “well, he was no angel” narrative, obliquely blaming the
victim for his fate. It’s a narrative all too often applied to
Black men who die at the hands of police.
The “no
angel” narrative, and its variations, are racist smears. Unlike
George Floyd, they deserve to die.
Innocent or not, everyone (even the
jurors) knows the outcome of a Chauvin aquittal. This scenario was
already played out 30 years ago with the 1992
Los Angeles riots. People can have faith in the justice system
all they want (does anyone?), but Chauvin was found guilty long
before the jury reached a verdict. So save me the, “racists want to
absolve Chauvin long before the jury reaches a verdict” nonsense.
In any case, as you can see, when black
men “die at the hands of police” it's because they're a “victim
of fate.” In other words, they're not being held accountable for
their actions, they're being judged by the color of their skin. In
the opinion of the average “woke” leftist, George Floyd would
still be alive if his skin had been white, instead of black.
But would he?
Since 2015, there have been more than
5,500
fatal police shootings in the US, and of those, 2,801 were white
people. As a matter of fact, there were more white people killed by
police than all other groups combined (2,801 white – 2,729
non-white; Note of interest: if Hispanics were included as “white,”
like they are in FBI
crime data reports, the figure would be 3,832 white – 1,466
black). The “wokist” would counter with, “yea, but blacks are
only 12% of the population and account for 25% of all fatal police
shootings.” To which a rational person would say: “yea, but
blacks are 12 % of the population and commit over 40%
of violent crime” (murder, robbery, rape, aggravated assault;
over 50% if you just include murder and robbery). Therefore, it only
seems logical that if a group commits roughly half of all violent
crime, there would be a significantly higher statistical
representation of that group when it comes to fatal encounters with
the police. In other words, police probably aren't as likely to have
a shootout with a staggering drunk driver (81% white) facing 6 months
probation as they are a trigger-happy murderer (52% black) looking at
life in prison.
So, this begs the question: what if
George Floyd had been a white man?
Well, like over 35,000
other white people who die every year from an opioid overdose, he
would have been another forgotten statistic, instead of another
“murdered by racist cop” martyr. When white thugs overdose in
police custody, or die by cop for not complying with demands, they're
never made into heroes.
Particularly when the autopsy says:
“Chief
medical examiner Dr. Andrew Baker, who listed Floyd’s death as a
homicide, thought the amount of fentanyl in Floyd’s blood was
“pretty high” and could be “a fatal level of fentanyl under
normal circumstances.”
“If Mr. Floyd
had been found dead in his home (or anywhere else) and there were no
other contributing factors he would conclude that it was an overdose
death.”
Nevertheless, the most obvious answer
to that question is that we would have never known who George Floyd
was. Furthermore, there have been literally thousands of white George
Floyd's, we just can't remember their faces or names. Because when
white thugs get killed by police, nobody seems to care. Or maybe they
just choose to judge white people by the content of their character,
and not the color of their skin.