Anti-Trump bigots fuel riots in US, raise bugbear of racism

<p style="font-weight: 400;">The death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man in Minneapolis, has triggered riots in the US. Typically, it has also resulted in an orgy of Leftwing lies, not just in America but all over the world. Unsurprisingly, it is a Left terrorist organization that is reportedly behind the violent protests.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Floyd’s death is a case of murder, which a white police officer Derek Chauvin has been charged with. He had pressed his knee against the neck of a prostrate and handcuffed Floyd. The three accompanying officers have been sacked. The video of Chauvin pressing his knee is disturbing and has caused public outrage.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Which is natural, but the radical protesters have exploited the outrage to indulge in rioting and arson. Public intellectuals, the opponents of US President Donald Trump, the mainstream media, and sundry busybodies have joined in the fun.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said that the Floyd’s killing has “ripped open anew this ugly underbelly of our society.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">A <em>Washington Post</em> opinion piece saw Floyd’s death as “yet another reminder of how black people are killed by law enforcement in disproportionately high numbers.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Canadian singer and actor Justin Bieber wrote, “This makes me absolutely sick… angry… sad. Racism is evil.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">American actress Viola Davis wrote: “This is what it means to be Black in America. Tried. Convicted. Killed for being Black.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Systemic racism—cried everybody in unison in the liberal establishment, which is increasingly becoming putty in the hands of radical Left. Academics, top journalists, and other opinion makers are unquestioningly accepting the notions and theories that Leftists have been peddling about America, indeed about all democracies—the notions and theories that have no resemblance with the reality.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">There would have been substance to the charge of systemic racism if the cop accused of murder had been retained citing attenuating circumstances; this hasn’t happened. He is facing trial, charged with serious offences. There would have been systemic racism had he received any support from any Republican or conservative leader; he hasn’t.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Data also show lack of systemic bias against blacks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal, created a comprehensive database of officers involved in fatal shootings during 2015. Its conclusion gave the lie to the propaganda that has been going on for decades: “We find no evidence of anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparities across shootings, and White officers are not more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Indeed there is evidence that shows that black cops are more likely to gun down blacks than their white counterparts. A study of the Philadelphia Police Department by the US Justice Department in 2015 found that black cops were 67 per cent more likely than white officers to mistakenly shoot an unarmed black suspect</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The racism myth is propagated by the media which tells us that blacks are killed disproportionately. Their population is 13 per cent of the American population, but they are two-and-a-half times as likely as white Americans to be killed by the police.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">What they don’t tell us is that, according to the official data, “Of adults arrested for murder [in 2018], 53.0 per cent were Black or African American, 44.4 percent were White, and 2.6 percent were of other races.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">This is not to suggest that blacks are violent by nature. Their high representation in violent crime has to do with social and economic factors and not ethnic characteristics or systemic flaws.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">No society is perfect; America is no exception. There are white supremacists. There are also people with race biases. But there is certainly no systemic bias against blacks.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The last American president was a black. By the way, can a black person or even a Caucasian become president of China or prime minister of Japan?</p>.