Racist Country?
Which is the best description? Is it horrible? Disgusting? Indefensible? Unjustifiable?
Each of those words, and many more, would be an appropriate description of the murder of George Floyd. This is noted here so that the following cannot be interpreted in any way as an attempt to justify or excuse the actions of Derek Chauvin and the other three police officers.
Each of those words, however, can also be used to describe much of the public reaction to that incident. Eulogizing George Floyd, a nine times convicted felon, who was resisting arrest for trying to pass counterfeit currency is disgusting. The 27 million dollar settlement with the Floyd family is equally disgusting. That is many times more than Floyd would have made in many lifetimes.
More troubling than this eulogizing, however, is what the actions of four police officers have done to the reputation of police forces everywhere. Because of Derek Chauvin and several other similar incidents that are being over played by the media, police personnel everywhere are being reviled. Today, the blue uniform is suffering the same degradation as the Army uniform did during the Vietnam War.
Officers volunteering to protect the public are being spat upon, having to dodge thrown rocks and bottles, being taunted and called pigs. Some radicals like U. S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez are even calling for the abolishment of all police forces.
This continuous degradation of the men in blue is resulting in unprecedented numbers of resignations and retirements of experienced officers and falling numbers of recruits.
The dwindling number of recruits for police academies is not surprising. Why anyone would want to become a police officer today is a mystery.
This persistent degrading of police that is continually kept in front of us by the media has led to another false claim adored by the radical left and its willing accomplices in the press. This is the ridiculous claim that America is a racist country.
WOW! Let’s broadcast that to the millions of foreigners who are struggling to get into the country legally and illegally. Maybe that propaganda would stem the flow.
The proof that America is racist is in the pudding, as the saying goes. Because of racism we have elected only one black man as president and the only female ever elected vice president is of a minority race.
Those two minority individuals are TS socialist/Democrats, but there is a Black Republican Justice of the Supreme Court and Blacks have served as Secretary of State and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Do not forget Senator Tim Scott, a black Republican from South Carolina, one of the states of the Confederacy. Remember, also, the numerous black mayors throughout the country.
If this were a racist country, how could two black men be elected to the U.S. Senate in one election in Georgia, which was the home of the Dixiecrats just a few years ago?
In today’s world, every time a black person is killed by a white police officer, the media portrays it as a racial incident. There is never a discussion of whether the result would have been different if the victim had been white. With two exceptions, every “race” incident involved police attempting to arrest an individual accused or suspected of committing a crime and the suspect was either vigorously resisting arrest or trying to flee.
What is the evidence that the result would have been different in any of those cases if the culprit was not a minority?
So here’s the perspective.
A street in Minneapolis has even been renamed in George Floyd’s honor. His family has been overcompensated for his death. All of this to memorialize a criminal hyped on drugs who was resisting arrest for his most recent criminal offense.
It is time to forget George Floyd and begin recognizing the Barack Obamas, Condoleezza Rices, Ben Carsons, Tim Scotts, Colin Powells, and others who are living proof of the real character of this great country.
There are individual black and white racists in our country. This, however, is still the land of the free of all men and women of every color and creed.
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