Equalitizing

EVERY CONSERVATIVE TALKING HEAD in America, by which is meant every conservative, is falling all over itself using damned statistics to prove that African-Americans are treated no differently by the police than any other ethnic or pigmented group. Those same people are quite capable, of course, of using strange stats to demonstrate that racism is nonexistent, but rather is a hoax being perpetrated by liberals or Chinese, your choice. Statistics are the stuff of which miracles are made. There remains only one relevant question. How many times in recent America history, say, since the end of the Civil War, has an unarmed black man been arrested and killed, and how many times a white man? That, as Hamlet said, is the question. All lynchings aside, if a white man were ever strung up by a black mob, or if a if an unarmed white man was ever arrested and suffocated shortly thereafter by a quarter of black cops, it failed to make the news. The impeached president, twice indicted for racist business practices, spent the Obama administration accusing Obama of have come from Kenya, having been born there. He called African nations "shithole" countries, but he reliably, or unreliably asserts that he loves African-Americans, even as they encircle the White House. even as he twitter tweets hatred, the great prevaricator leads us through the current crisis with vicious dogs and looter shooters. To attribute police brutality against African-Americans to the rare "bad apple" cop is comparable to ascribing malaria to an occasional wayward mosquito. The solution is not to give several hours of sensitivity training to all probational cops, but instead to rebuild American culture from the ground, by digging it up by the root, and replacing it with cultural sanity. President Trump, who condemns heh murder of George Floyd, told police officers in NYC a few years ago that they should be rougher on people they arrested. president Trump, who now expresses approval of peaceful protests, not long ago called Colin Kaepernick an "SOB". Racism in American is a core value with a long tradition, and therefore a plank in conservative ideology, in the party platform in a party which foments racism by denying its existence. In the college town where I live a large protest occurred over the George Floyd murder, with several hundred people attending. they were all white. That's a start.