Race and Riots

Guest Post by John Stossel

Race and Riots

“No justice, no peace!” they shout. Then they break windows.

It makes me furious.

But then I watch the video of the Minneapolis cop kneeling on George Floyd’s neck, while Floyd repeatedly says, “I can’t breathe,” and three other officers just watch.

Then I see the video of the woman in Central Park calling 911, claiming, “An African-American man is threatening me!” But that was a racist lie.

Christian Cooper just asked her to leash her dog. We’re supposed to leash our dogs in that section of Central Park.

But Amy Cooper didn’t leash her dog. She frantically called 911, claiming she was under threat. She knew that by telling the police “an African American man is threatening me,” she’d probably get a more aggressive response.

The left-wing New Yorker (she donated to Democratic campaigns) was careful to use that pointless, yet politically correct, term for black. Even though she’s a racist.

Watching things like that should help me sympathize with the people rioting last night.

So should my friend Fabian’s experience. When Fabian was 20, he bought his first car, a luxury edition Infiniti J30 Sedan. He’d saved up for it working as an airplane technician, transporting U.S. soldiers to war zones around the world.

Then, while pumping gas back in NYC, police officers approached him, demanding his license and registration.

He produced the documents and showed them that the car was registered in his name. But Fabian is black, and the police would not believe that the car belonged to him. They arrested him and charged him with grand theft auto.

He sat in jail for two days.

Finally, a judge dismissed the case — using the same documentation Fabian had showed the police. They released him — without any apology.

The trauma still haunts him. Fabian says it evokes a sense of helplessness — a fear that “anytime there’s an encounter with law enforcement, getting arrested or even death could be the outcome.”

Yet, as I watch protesters (even two lawyers were arrested) throwing Molotov cocktails at police officers, and I see opportunistic young people looting stores, and my privileged left-wing white friends say things like, “the looting of our society by unrestrained capitalism is worse!” I get even more furious.

This country, and capitalism, has done more good things for disadvantaged people of all races than any society, ever.

Fabian, despite his terrible experience, says that living as a black man in America is a gift. He came here as a teen from Jamaica. America, he says, gave him opportunity he would never have had elsewhere.

Now, he’s a capitalist who owns things. He smiles as he says he sees “a cultural black renaissance: promotion of black education, ownership, and acquiring assets as a top priority.”

America, he says, is the land of opportunity.

Even if some cops are racist bullies.

Yet, so much that is exceptional about America is drowned out by the loudest voices on the extremes.

On one side, we have an “unraveling” president, as George Will puts it, an angry bully “banging his spoon on his highchair…”

On the other side are the leftists who defend the violence and looting, like the masked antifa children who want to destroy capitalism.

On Twitter, I watched video of a group driving around in a Mercedes-Benz, passing out bricks (for protesters to throw). I applaud the young black woman who called them “stupid” and tossed the brick back into their car, yelling: “This white b—- giving a group of black men a brick to throw! You know that s— could get them killed!”

It could. No one wins in these clashes.

I assume there is less racism in America than there once was, but there’s no way to prove that. Even if there were, Malcolm X wrote, “If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there’s no progress.”

But I think that’s the wrong way to think about it.

George Floyd’s killer was arrested and other cops who abused their power were fired. In the past, police officers were never prosecuted.

For years in America, the percentage of interracial marriage has steadily increased. That suggests progress.

Burning police stations and looting stores won’t speed that progress. It sets us back.

John Stossel is author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com.

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Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

He forgot the part where the man in Central Part said she wouldn’t like what he was going to do next to her dog.
I am totally losing respect for people who are supposed to be “level headed” but are virtue signalling like hell. Why even discuss it.

Glock-N-Load

Jew or not Jew?

Panzerlied

Definitely Jew.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Sorry, no matter how you spin it- you cannot justify stupid, lawless, violent behavior! NO worries if we all marry outside our race everything will be OK! (Yea right!!!)

Byte Mee
Byte Mee

Well lets see.I don’t like Blacks.I don’t like Karens.I don’t like dogs leashed or otherwise.Not sure who to root for here.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

Neither is a viable option.

Ginger
Ginger

I didn’t get a chance to read the whole spiel, but did he ever get to the part where an african built and flew the first airplane, and they built skyscrappers but they were tore down by the Belgians.

JLW
JLW

Progress?? A black (half) was elected as President TWICE! But hell no, that’s not good enough. It won’t ever be good enough because ‘racism’ is part of the civil religion and its a ‘works based’ salvation system. You just can’t ever be good enough or do enough. Its a virtue spiral and it ends when all the craziest fucks in charge kill each other and nothing is left. Fuck that and them and the horse they rode in on.

I am looking at Argentina…. really. Near the Andes. Maybe I can hide till this ends.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

John – When young black men quit commiting 1/2 of all crime in America, then quite possibly, the police might look at them differently. As it is, 90% of the young black men are giving the other 10% a black eye.

B.S. in V.C.
B.S. in V.C.

Yeah John, now do an article about the white elderly couple shot to death by the black man while visiting their veterans son grave. Oh your boss told ya no, maybe next next time huh

BUCKHED
BUCKHED

John…white women may be marrying black men but very few white men marry black women. There maybe one attractive black woman out of five hundred . Face it they aren’t that attractive.

Time for a divorce in this country .

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