Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan
Half a century ago this summer, the Voting Rights Act was passed, propelled by Bloody Sunday at Selma Bridge. The previous summer, the Civil Rights Act became law on July 2.
We are in the 7th year of the presidency of a black American who has named the first two black U.S. attorneys general.
Yet race relations seem more poisonous now than then, when the good will of America’s majority was driving legislation.
Today’s issue, however, is not voting rights, open housing or school busing. It is black vs. blue: African-Americans inflamed at what they see as chronic police brutality and police forces feeling besieged in a demagogic “war on cops.”
And the media are obsessed with it, and determined to make us equally so.
Consider. On June 9, America’s “newspaper of record” ran four stories in the first section about police violence against blacks.
Page one of The New York Times told of black leaders in Cleveland, “distrustful of the criminal justice system,” invoking a “seldom-used Ohio law,” by going “directly to a judge to request murder charges” against the cops involved in the death of Tamir Rice.
Responding to reports of a man with a gun, a cop, two seconds out of his car, shot Tamir, 12. The gun was a toy.
Yet, though this happened six months ago, the Times went into loving detail again on how Tamir died. It then regurgitated the deaths, also last year, of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner on Staten Island.
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