HOW RACIST ARE WE REALLY? Part I

Well, that’s the question of the day, isn’t it? There must be a way to answer this without bias or prejudice. Can real data prove one side or the other? 

 

Let us first acknowledge what many conservatives sometimes don’t want to admit: The world can still be an ugly, racist place. Anonymity, once provided by white hoods is now given to every racist idiot in the world with an internet connection. Recently, prolific abuse was heaped on Ghostbusters star and comedian Leslie Jones for the heinous crime of being black and sassy (White and sassy gets you your own reality show.) In response, she claimed to be a human being or something and quit Twitter in despair.

 

I don’t know, maybe she was being too sensitive?

 

Philando Castile was shot after notifying an officer he had a legally registered gun. He was just reaching for his driver’s license. The fact that the officer who shot him was Latino was not advertised much in the media. He seemed distraught immediately afterwards so it might not be what it seems. The interesting thing, however, is that Castile had been pulled over 52 times in his life. Never arrested, he accumulated 86 citations on minor violations.  If it was me, I’d just get my taillights fixed, but still….

 

Black Republican U.S. Senator Tim Scott (He’s real!) has talked about the pain of being racially profiled. As a senator, he has been harassed and his credentials questioned by federal security officers. This is a real frustration for many blacks. However, in 2011, 13% of black drivers and 10% percent of white drivers were pulled over at least once, according to the U.S. Justice Department. 68% of black drivers considered the stops legitimate compared with 84% of white drivers. This is not exactly earth shattering. And when you consider that blacks have a violent crime rate about six times that of whites, you cannot write off increased police attention as simple racism.

 

The current narrative is that white officers are gunning down innocent blacks in the street with impunity. Words like “epidemic” and “systematic” are used. Is it true? Heather MacDonald’s new book The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe is a hot topic with columnists and on conservative talk shows and many of the numbers below are from this book. In 2015, of the 990 people shot dead by police, 93 were unarmed of which only 38 were black. Of the 505 people killed by police so far this year, 37 were unarmed and 13 of those were black. Have these numbers been rising? No. Police shootings of blacks are down 75% since 1971.

 

The New York Times recently published a study from esteemed black Harvard Professor Roland G. Fryer Jr. that showed blacks were about 18% more likely to be manhandled by cops but actually less likely to be shot. Given the much higher crime rate of blacks, the fact that being pushed around is only slightly higher shows blacks are somewhat treated with deference. “In shootings in…10 cities involving officers, officers were more likely to fire their weapons without having first been attacked when the suspects were white.” “It is the most surprising result of my career,” said Fryer.

 

A recent study out of Washington State University found similar results from an experiment that put officers in “strikingly realistic” simulations. The results were that white officers were less likely to shoot both armed and unarmed blacks than whites.

 

The biggest race scandals in the last few years have all turned out to be either hoaxes or just plain false. Mike Nifong, the DA in the Duke rape scandal was disbarred and imprisoned for trying to imprison men he knew were innocent. Trayvon Martin looked like a victim of racism until pictures of George Zimmerman were released months later showing he had been badly beaten by Martin. NBC news deceptively edited Zimmerman’s 911 call to make him sound like a racist.

 

Three of the six officers indicted in the Baltimore/Freddy Gray case have been acquitted and one ended in a hung jury. After the prosecution was sharply rebuked by the judge for bringing such worthless cases, DA Marylin Mosby dropped the charges on the remaining two. Detective Dawnyell Taylor stated the written statement she was expected to read to the grand jury was full of inconsistencies and misstatements. When the jury asked her if the arrest was legal, prosecutors swooped in and removed her. In Mosby’s press conference, she blamed the police department and the whole racist system for a miscarriage of justice, even claiming evidence was fabricated and the case was intentionally sabotaged. Two prosecutors on the case have since resigned.

Lyin’est woman in America. Also very angry.

 

The worst of all, however, is the Michael Brown incident in Ferguson, MO. The local DA and Obama’s own justice department found that the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” narrative was a complete lie. Brown attacked the officer and tried to take his gun. Yet, activists across the country still use Ferguson as “proof” of epidemic police racism.

 

The angry backlash at police has caused what is known as “the Ferguson effect”.  The anti-police rhetoric has caused officers to back off out of fear of having their careers ended. The result? After 20 years of decline, crime rates in big cities were up 17% in 2015. Among other violent crimes, homicides are up 90% in Cleveland, 25% in St. Louis, 24% in Chicago, 83% in Nashville, 54% in D.C. and 61% in Minneapolis. Baltimore had the worst murder rate in July since 1972. All but two of the victims were black. To “Black Lives Matter”, black lives don’t matter.

 

Lies have consequences. Fakehatecrimes.org lists hundreds of them. If racism is so prevalent, why would you have to make stuff up? The real epidemic is a false narrative that causes hate and division and yes, lots and lots of dead people.

 

(Fear not. Part II is coming soon. There. Will. Be. CHARTS AND GRAPHS!!!)

TRANS MADNESS

Q: ARE WE NOT MEN? A: WE ARE DEVO.

 

 

Musical genius/social commentator Mark Mothersbaugh asked a question in 1978 that is strangely relevant today. The idea of gender throughout all history has been rather Newtonian: fixed and unchanging. The existence of those rare individuals who were something different didn’t change the principal. And then the Millenials happened. A handful of elites have openly advocated destroying traditional notions of sexuality and gender since the sixties. Finally, they got someone to listen.

 

Facebook now has 57 different gender categories. Gay marriage, formerly unthinkable since time began is now beautiful. While divorce rates are declining and the ideal of marriage is still high even among Millenials, the actual rate of marriage is the lowest in modern history. Despite volumes of research showing cohabitation has terrible outcomes, shacking up is the preferred arrangement. What the bleep happened? A kind of madness has fallen over the land.

 

The narrative pushed by the left is that gender dysphoria is common, natural, healthy and has an easy solution: living as the other gender (or no gender) or seeking permanent surgical change. The irony of the current zeitgeist is that homosexuality, a behavior, is fixed and unchangeable, while gender or more accurately sex, which science says comes from chromosomes (a real thing!), should be based on feelings.

 

So what does science actually say about transgenders? They are only about .3% of the population. In one survey, 61% of transgenders had medically transitioned (hormones and such) and 33% surgically. Interestingly, 14% of trans women and 72% of trans men said they don't ever want full genital construction surgery. Far from being a group of otherwise healthy individuals, transgenders often have a host of comorbid psychiatric problems. A staggering 42% have attempted suicide. A small number of studies show maybe as low as 3% but possibly up to 20% regret surgical transition. Transgender Walt Heyer has documented numerous stories of regret and surgical detransition. One literature review showed that operations do tend to relieve gender dysphoria but post-op transsexuals continue to have much higher rates of psychiatric issues such as depression, psychotic symptoms, substance abuse, and suicidality. Overall functioning seems little changed for many. Almost a fifth attempt suicide post surgery.

 

Digging into the minutiae of transgender research is interesting but it misses the point. Of course, we should do our best to treat these rare individuals with compassion and respect as human beings. They have a terrible burden the rest of us cannot understand. But the real issue is not these people, it is something else entirely. 

 

Racism has largely been banished to the ugly fringes of society. We have free school, plentiful, cheap food and a free, open society where barriers against success are lower than at any point in civilization’s history. But every generation needs a cause, an Emmett Till to fight for. Today’s proxies are transgenders. And who are the dog-siccing, fire hose blasting Bull Connors? 11 year old girls who feel uncomfortable showering with penis-havers. Bigots.

 

Millenials, most of whom are just dumb, ignorant kids, (you know, like every generation) seem to hold a simple moral code: 1. Don’t hate people. 2. Stand up for those once oppressed by our awful parents. So when the elites hand them a category of people to fight for, the kids (and those who just never grew up) take up the cause. Simple as that. What’s behind it, however, is a little darker.

 

In “Marxist Feminism’s Ruined Lives”, Mallory Millett describes her involvement in the creation of a radical feminist organization with great influence. In the home of founder Lila Karp in 1969, they started the meeting with this chant:

 

"Why are we here today?" she asked.
"To make revolution," they answered.
"What kind of revolution?" she replied.
"The Cultural Revolution," they chanted.
“And how do we make Cultural Revolution?" she demanded.
"By destroying the American family!" they answered.
"How do we destroy the family?" she came back.
"By destroying the American Patriarch," they cried exuberantly.
"And how do we destroy the American Patriarch?” she replied.
"By taking away his power!"
"How do we do that?"
"By destroying monogamy!" they shouted.
"How can we destroy monogamy?"

Their answer left me dumbstruck, breathless, disbelieving my ears.  Was I on planet earth?  Who were these people?

"By promoting promiscuity, eroticism, prostitution and homosexuality!" they resounded.

They proceeded with a long discussion on how to advance these goals by establishing The National Organization of Women.  It was clear they desired nothing less than the utter deconstruction of Western society. The upshot was that the only way to do this was "to invade every American institution.  Everyone must be permeated with ‘The Revolution’": The media, the educational system, universities, high schools, K-12, school boards, etc.; then, the judiciary, the legislatures, the executive branches and even the library system.

 

Mallory’s sister Kate was called by “Time” magazine “the Karl Marx of the Women's Movement.”  Her book laid out a course in Marxism 101 for women.  Her thesis: The family is a den of slavery with the man as the Bourgeoisie and the woman and children as the Proletariat. Kate Millett’s writings still grace women’s studies courses across the land.

 

(Oh, it’s always the communists with you!)

 

The question everyone should be asking is ‘why is this such a big frigging deal now?’ Was there an epidemic of high-voiced men and women with abnormally large Adam’s apples getting beat up in bathrooms? No. So why should the desires of a minute number of individuals compel the destruction of a whole historical paradigm?

 

Ever since a scantily clad Goddess of Reason defiled Notre Dame and paraded through Paris during the French Revolution, utopians have conspired to tear it all down and create a new man in their image. Mao Zedong once said half of humanity may have to die for the glory of socialism. Both he and Fidel Castro begged the Soviets to launch nuclear missiles. When leftists talk of revolution, they mean it. Destroying gender itself is just another box to check on the way to a new heaven and earth.

 

Despite every utopian experiment in history ending in blood and fire, these true believers know they will get it right this time. Of these types, German writer Johann Goethe once said that the only thing they truly love is their own opinions. So while the “enlightened” masses have blindly jumped on the latest bandwagon to protect an oppressed group from the “bumpkin” masses, the real players who manufacture these outrages du jour are after something bigger: Everything.