Ronald Reagan once said, "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so."
That's certainly the case when it comes to race.
As much as Democrats, educators, the 'news' media, celebrities, corporations, professional athletes and others loudly bemoan "systemic racism," it just doesn't exist in this country. Garden-variety racism, for the most part, doesn't either.
Systemic racism officially ceased to be a thing when, much to Democrats' chagrin, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed. Today, there is absolutely no evidence -- anectodal or otherwise -- of the ridiculous assertions that America is a racist country, 'systemic racism' is rampant, or there is some kind of actual, real crisis surrounding race relations. None. It's all manufactured.
And it seems the people that believe the lies have already forgotten the monumentally historic election of a black man to the highest office in the land. Twice, no less. His election would have been impossible without a majority of white people voting for him.
Another oft-repeated lie is the "epidemic" of unarmed blacks being shot by police. Even the Washington Post, a prominent liberal media outlet, will tell you that the rate of police shootings has remained constant over the last 5 years (this is as far back as the data goes.)
The same source linked above also proclaims that "black Americans are killed at a much higher rate than white Americans." This is true. Far from being evidence of "systemic racism," it's because blacks commit crimes at a much higher rate than white people.
For example, blacks commit over 47% of all violent crime and more than 22% of all property crime (for 25% of property crimes, the race is listed as 'unknown,' so logic dictates some of those are blacks.) This, despite blacks making up just 13% of the population in America.
Yet, here we are. A disturbingly large number of people believe these false narratives without question. This year, the dishonesty is being pushed even harder amid months-long COVID-19 lockdowns and an especially tense election year.
The 'news' media latched on to two incidents of black people getting killed by police, which led to nationwide protests (you know, because this is an "epidemic.") Those protests started turning more destructive and violent in some areas, causing millions if not billions of dollars in damage. There have been 90 consecutive nights of rioting in Portland, Oregon.
And just this morning, we woke up to reports of multiple shootings in Kenosha during last night's riots, with two killed. (How dumb do you and your friends have to be to chase an armed man around thinking he won't shoot and kill you?) This is an eyebrow-raising escalation in the rioting; up until now there haven't been any shootings. When the first bullets fly, they're not likely to stop.
All of this could have been completely avoided if even a small majority of Americans would do their own research into the things they're hearing out of the mouths of "educators," politicians, 'news' media, corporations and Hollywood, and apply a bit of critical thinking.
They would realize that there aren't hate-filled racists around every corner, police aren't on some racist murder spree against blacks, and America's institutions aren't racist and don't need to be dismantled. Our systems aren't perfect by any means, but they're the most perfect imperfect systems in existence today.
No, we don't need to have more "conversations" about race. No, we don't need to "do better" or "check our privilege." No, we don't need to "come together." YOU need to wise up. Educate yourself. Do some research. Quit being useful idiots for those trying to divide and destroy our country.
