The world is watching in horror as America goes up in
flames.
We outsiders recall previous problems in cities like
Baltimore, Ferguson and Los Angeles. There have also been race riots in Chicago
and Detroit.
So this outsider opened up a map of America and found some
fascinating facts.
My knowledge of American history includes the north–south
divide over issues of race. That was when the north under President Lincoln
went to war with the south over slavery with the southern states being the
slave owners.
The American Civil War was waged over the abolition of
slavery. Lincoln was considered a moral
statesman.
Today, we are led to believe by the Democrats that they hold
the moral high ground over race and minority issues, but I found it curious
that Lincoln was not a Democrat. He was a Republican president. Strange! It
seems the Republicans were the pioneers of racial equality, not the Democrats.
In the period that Lincoln was president, 1861-1865, the
southern states where slavery existed were not Republican. In fact, the
Democratic Party dominated the South due to its opposition to civil and
political rights for African-Americans.
In the 20th Century, the Democratic Party set out
to represent and support minority rights.
How have these principles worked out?
When you hear that the Lincoln Memorial has been desecrated and
the World War Two Memorial was defaced with spray-painted graffiti you know
that nothing is sacred to those who would wish to come to power riding on the
Democratic coat-tails.
Nothing. Not even America itself.
After listening to Democratic politicians and media
pontificators lecture in high moral tones about the lack of civil rights in the
Republican camp, I took a look at the American political map to check where
recent outbreaks of rioting, violence, arson, and looting have taken place in
the name of “racial justice.”
My research uncovered more shocking facts, and you deserve
to learn of my discovery and conclusions.
Denver is a Democrat city where a councilwoman with the
unlikely name of Candi CdeBaca actually called for virus infected people to
attend Trump rallies to infect his supporters. That is as politically insane
and inciting as you can get.
But we are not here to talk about the virus. We are here to identify
the locations of destruction and social breakdown of individual states and
cities, wrecked by unremitting racial injustices.
In Denver, on the night on May 31, at least 120 rioters were
arrested on charges that included illegal weapon possession, physical assault,
arson and property destruction. Dozens of police officers were injured and
several were hospitalized.
Denver was far from the worst case of anarchy provoked by
radical groups on the left of the Democrat Party purporting to be protesting
the death of George Lloyd.
The recent destructive riots have in common. They have all occurred
in Democratic cities and states.
Minneapolis, Los Angles. New York, Detroit. Oakland, San Francisco.
Philadelphia, Washington DC, all Democratic cities.
Minnesota Democrat.
Illinois Democrat. California
Democrat. NYS Democrat. Virginia Democrat. Pennsylvania, currently governed by
a Democrat. San Francisco and Los Angeles in Democrat California. Denver in
Democrat Colorado.
How can it be that race riots only occur in Democratic
cities if the Republican are guilty in perpetrating racist policies? It doesn’t make sense.
How is it that white supremacists express their racial hatred
only in Democratic states? Hardly likely. In fact, the media went in search of
white incitement to make a case against Republican but found instead that white
inciters were members of the far left Antifa anarchist group that support and
vote Democrat and that the local and imported agitators, looters and arsonists
were predominantly black.
In sharp contrast, the locations that were not dragged into
mayhem were Republican states and cities where there is more racial harmony. How
come?
Maybe it’s because they’ve got their policies right?
Why the difference? Maybe it’s because playing up, even
exaggerating, racial discord is an integral part of Democratic social policy? Constantly beating the drum of racial division
is incitement. It leads to action, often violent action, and it constantly
takes place in Democratic cities and states.
Dare I compare George Lloyd’s horrible death to that of Justine
Damond?
She was shot to death in Minneapolis in 2017 by a police
officer. There were no protests or riots then. Why not? The reason was that Justine was white and the
cop that shot her to death was black. There is little rhetoric about blacks
murdering whites. This is not considered a race issue.
The racist rhetoric perpetrated by opportunists such as Al
Sharpton and others over black deaths at the hands of police is statistically
wrong.
My research uncovered another uncomfortable truth. That the
murder of Justine Damond, a white woman, was more common than the death of
black citizens, such as George Lloyd, at the hands of the police in America.
Accord to the Statista
Research Department statistics on May 31, 2020, during the years 2017-2020,
1268 white people were shot to death by police in America. This was almost
double the numbers of African-Americans killed by cops (698) during the same
period.
It would appear that white Americans seem to have a greater
cause to call out police brutality than blacks.
Based on these figures, It is hardly unexpected that a
survey conducted by Omar Wasow, an assistance professor at the department of
politics at Princeton, found that the riots have nudged most Americans closer
to the Republican camp than the Democrats.
Perhaps this is due to a white majority that finds itself marginalized
by the forgery of the provocations against them by prominent members of the Democratic
Party and the violence of the mob.
Wasow’s
conclusions included this, “I find that black-led protests in which some
violence occurs are associated with significant decline in Democratic
vote-share in the 1964, 1968, and 1972 presidential elections.”
The
physical damage inflicted upon city centers and urban neighborhoods by predominantly
black rioters and looters does not encourage entrepreneurial business people to
return and rebuild destroyed stores and shops to serve a destructive and
violent community.
Such
people will never vote Democrat again after being failed by local and state
dereliction of duty.
One
prominent American civil rights attorney Leo Terrell, an ardent Democrat said,
as the riots spread across America, “I am disappointed, shocked that there
has been no Democratic lawmaker in the last 72 hours who have focused on the
criminal activities of these individuals who are not protesting. I’ve got
news for you: you’re alienating me.”
He said
of Democrats. “I’m a black voter and you have lost me if you don’t stand up
and do something about these criminals.”
Let’s be
clear. What has been going on has got nothing to do with George Lloyd. He got
lost in the stampede to anarchy. Lloyd’s family will eventually get justice,
but the question hovering over the smoke of ruined American neighborhoods is,
do you want chaos and mayhem? Or do you want law and order?
The ruin is down to the utter failure of Democrat governors and
mayors unable to solve the problems as well as their Republican counterparts
have done in their states and cities.
Historically, it has been the Republican Party that has
taken a sympathetic look at racial issues and dealt with them more
successfully.
In short, the most progressive states in America, when it
comes to harmonious race relations and peaceful prosperity, are Republican
states.
As an outside observer, may I suggest that American voters
give Republicans an opportunity to prove their worth in their communities.
After all, as Trump asked rhetorically in 2016, what do you
have to lose?
You are already living in chaos under Democratic governance.
Barry Shaw, Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
Excellent article and perspective. As someone, a naturalized citizen of the US, who was born and raised in the Middle East, I also share your views.
ReplyDeleteGet rid of Trump ASAP and those in the Senate who are responsible for this anger, and bring on Bernie Sanders and things will hopefully quiet down.
ReplyDeleteMy feeling on your obviously idiotic response to this article is that you are a communist sympathizer paid to be a democratic troll on social media in order to spread more anger and confusion in America. You are so blatantly obvious as a fake and not even a tiny bit convincing that no one will take your statement even the least bit serious. Lol
ReplyDelete