Since it doesn’t fit the preferred racial narrative, all of these much-more common deaths are ignored. Instead, attention is given to a circumstance that happens rarely—the killing of an unarmed black man by a police officer. Rarely, as in, a black person is more likely to be struck by lightning than to die unarmed at the hands of police. Rarely, as in, during the year 2019, out of an approximate 10 million arrests made, just 9 led to the killing of an unarmed black suspect, vs. the 19 unarmed white men that were killed. Rarely, as in, white men are 25 percent MORE likely to be killed by police officers in violent acts than black people.
I could no longer stay silent. I decided to release a video discussing these truths on my Facebook page. I made it clear that despite being in the midst of committing a crime, George Floyd should not have died that day. That was not a matter of debate. Rather, he should have been properly arrested and charged. That said, I was having trouble stomaching the dishonest media portrayal of George Floyd as a “gentle giant.” The journalists had refused to cover it, but Floyd himself had been a career criminal who terrorized the minority community with drugs and violence.
He had two convictions in the early 1990s for theft and the delivery of a controlled substance. He then served ten months in prison for theft with a firearm in 1998. In 2002, he was arrested for criminal trespassing and served another ten months in county jail. Later in 2002, he received an eight-month sentence for a cocaine offense, and another ten-month sentence in 2004 for a different cocaine offense. In 2005, he was charged with possession for intent to deliver a controlled substance for having more than 4 grams of cocaine, for which he served another ten months in state jail. Worst of all, came his sentencing in 2009, for an unspeakable crime he committed in 2007. Floyd, accompanied by five other male companions, pretended to be from the Water Department and forced their way inside a woman’s home, while a toddler was present. The victim testified that George Floyd pressed the barrel of a loaded gun to her abdomen, while another one of his friends whipped her in the side of the head with a pistol. The men proceeded to search and rob her house of jewelry and a cell phone, although they were apparently looking for drugs. George pled guilty to the charges and was released five years later in 2012.
The mainstream media story after his death mentioned none of this. The repeated narrative was that Floyd had moved to Minneapolis for a fresh start and had been living his life as an upstanding citizen and community leader since his release. That narrative fell apart, however, when his toxicology reports returned from the medical examiner’s officer. It turns out that the 911 caller was correct. Floyd was under the influence—of Fentanyl, an especially deadly, high-risk opioid that is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. The report determined that he also had methamphetamine in his system at the time of his death. This could perhaps explain why George Floyd uttered “I can’t breathe” long before the officer placed him on the ground and placed a knee to his neck. It is alleged that video shows that George Floyd first claimed he was claustrophobic and couldn’t breathe, while he was standing upright.
Nonetheless, Floyd was elevated as a hero in black America, while David Dorn, an elderly man who had lived his live admirably, was being cast aside. I was disgusted, because I knew at the root of this injustice was politics and watering that root, was a toxic culture.
My video rebuttal shocked the world. It garnered more than 100 million views in a matter of four days, and people all around the world reached out to me—thousands condemning me for speaking ill of their hero, but many more thanking me for having the courage to simply tell the whole truth. They thanked me for giving them the real statistics—for telling them that police officers are 18½ times more likely to be killed by black men than the other way around. For informing them that we do not have a “police brutality” problem in America, but we do have a black-on-black brutality problem in America, and when individuals like George Floyd are uplifted and hailed as honorable men, that problem becomes an impossible one to defeat.
Currently, the Democrat leaders in inner cities are calling for police forces to be defunded. Celebrities are backing this call. Hollywood idols and wealthy politicians can of course afford to have the police defunded because they live in gated communities and pay for private security. But can inner cities afford it? Can impoverished people afford it? Can a black woman who has her home raided by five armed men who press a gun to her belly, truly afford a world with less policing?
Black culture was once something to be proud of, but it no longer is. It has disintegrated into a web of lies and complacency. It is a perpetual diagnosis of our illnesses, running parallel to our endless denials of the antidote: the truth.
The hard truth is that the problems that exist in black America today are completely optional. We can unmarry ourselves from the toxic politicians and celebrities who further nothing but our own destruction. We can unmarry ourselves from a culture that celebrates brokenness.
Confucius also once said, “Real knowledge is knowing the extent of one’s ignorance.”
Take from that quotation what you will.
11 ON SLAVERY
A never-ending source of political debate today surrounds the injustices of slavery and its (highly implausible) lingering effects some four hundred years later. Quite surprisingly, this topic gets the most airtime and discussion from white liberals seeking positions of power. When Elizabeth Warren, the white millionaire senator of Massachusetts, declared her candidacy for the 2020 presidential election, she also immediately declared her support for slavery reparations in a statement to Reuters: “We must confront the dark history of slavery and government-sanctioned discrimination in this country that has had many consequences including undermining the ability of black families to build wealth in America for generations.”
Similarly, when Francis “Beto” O’Rourke, another white millionaire congressman from Texas, spoke before the National Action Network (a civil rights organization founded by Reverend Al Sharpton), he too declared unequivocally his support for a House bill that would create a commission for reparations.
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, also by chance a white millionaire senator from the state of Vermont, was careful not to use the word “reparations” but declared during a CNN town hall that, if elected, “we’re going to do everything we can to put resources into distressed communities and improve lives for those people who have been hurt by the legacy of slavery.”
The presentations here are obvious: wealthy white liberal Democrats feel guilty about the past transgressions of white people and are looking to take corrective measures to make amends—if elected as president of the United States.
Of every position the Left takes, this one is especially irksome because it relies upon an intellectually bankrupt analysis of human history and an anachronistic view of morality.
I believe that virtually any person today who would use the argument of American slavery as a demonstration of present injustice is either sorely uneducated or manipulative. In some cases, both.
NASTY, BRUTISH, AND SHORT
In my many speaking tours across college campuses, I began observing an odd trend among liberal students. When given an opportunity to ask me questions at the conclusion of my presentation, the students were fixated on the topic of American slavery.
I determined this to be odd, not because I was in any disagreement regarding their assessments that it was an immoral institution, but rather, because they were assigning the past transgression to white men exclusively. I began to suspect that their worldview was limited to the United States (a relatively young country with far less historical sin than many others), and with time, I found it entirely plausible that many leftists today are unaware that the world did not begin in 1619.
I do not present this theory in jest. In consideration of today’s education curriculum, which has grown increasingly more focused on social issues rather than hard academics, many young students are starved of more sensible studies. As their world become
s increasingly more technological, centered on social media clicks and trending hashtags, they are becoming more literate in celebrity culture than in the much more imperative world events.
A recent example of this growing deficiency played out in early 2020, when the American government sanctioned a military operation against Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. In the immediate aftermath of his death, social media platforms began buzzing with commentary that his assassination might provoke World War III. The response from the Left, in particular, was extraordinary. After years of their radicalized feminism and claims of systemic oppression against women in America, they suddenly launched a passionate defense of the Iranian regime. In peak hysteria, actress Rose McGowan, one of the first and loudest promoters of #MeToo, tweeted, “Dear #Iran, The USA has disrespected your country, your flag, your people. 52% of us humbly apologize. We want peace with your nation. We are being held hostage by a terrorist regime. We do not know how to escape. Please do not kill us.”
Those who possess even a basic understanding of the Middle Eastern region know that Iran is a country that, after the Islamic revolution of 1979, adopted a constitution which states that a woman’s life is worth half that of a man. Under present Iranian law, women can be punished up to ten years in prison if they are caught in public not wearing a hijab, a headscarf that must cover all of their hair and most of their skin. Among many other restrictions, women are not allowed to watch male sports in stadiums and are routinely imprisoned for speaking out in protest of discriminations.
But before there was time to wrap our heads around the Left’s dizzying about-face on women’s issues, another tweet went out from Colin Kaepernick, the former American football quarterback turned leader of the national anthem protests against the already-debunked myth of police brutality. His tweet read: “There is nothing new about American attacks against Black and Brown people for the expansion of American imperialism. America has always sanctioned and besieged Black and Brown bodies both at home and abroad. America militarism is the weapon wielded by American imperialism, to enforce its policing and plundering of the non-white world.”
This arrived as definitive proof that Kaepernick either does not know the definition of imperialism or is utterly ignorant regarding the history of Iran. Because Iran, of course, has been around since long before the United States, and up until 1935 it used to be known as Persia. And while Persia was known for many things, it was certainly never considered within the context of American imperialism. In fact, and rather unfortunately for Colin’s narrative, Persia is perhaps most notorious for its empire—a literal imperial dynasty—that lasted for two hundred years (almost as long as America has been a country!). The Persians imperialized regions from Egypt to India. They were once the most powerful state in the world.
The history of the Persians is not limited to textbooks either. Their brutal period of invasions is so well known it was even brought to the big screen in the 2006 blockbuster film 300, a fictionalized retelling of the ruthless Persian “God-King” Xerxes and his armies’ attempt to conquer the Greeks. Is it possible that Kaepernick was truly ignorant, or were his motives more sinister? A deeper look into his history of racialized tweets suggests the latter.
On Thanksgiving Day of 2019 Kaepernick signified that he had spent the morning at a Native American “Un-Thanksgiving” ceremony. He tweeted, “the U.S. Government has stolen over 1.5 billion acres of land from Indigenous people. Thank you to my indigenous family. I am with you today and always,” along with footage of him celebrating with a tribe. In the same vein, earlier that same year on the Fourth of July he tweeted, “what to the American slave, is your fourth of July?”—co-opting a Frederick Douglass speech that was given before the Civil War formally ended slavery. It should be noted that Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become one of the most prolific abolitionist writers of his day, also wrote in that same speech about the “genius of American institutions.” His speech was an effort to encourage America to rid itself of the horrible practice of slavery so that it could move forward to become the glorious country that he believed in. Despite Kaepernick’s portrayal, Frederick Douglass was very much an American patriot. Stripping the quote of its context and repurposing it long after slavery’s abolition was an act of pure deceit. It is exactly the sort of anachronistic behavior that the Left routinely engages in, in their efforts to portray false equivalencies.
Kaepernick’s tweets eternally convict America. He portrays the United States as a fundamentally immoral country, which will never be absolved of its early sins. This is the very sentiment perpetuated by many leftists and liberals who deem it mission-critical to right those wrongs.
But their sentiments are entirely rubbish, because slavery did not begin with colonial white European men in America. Rather, it existed everywhere in the world since the dawn of humanity. Therefore, and as a point of ideological consistency regarding the purportedly immortal shame of the practice, Kaepernick should not have been celebrating with Native Americans. Because they too once practiced slavery. Yes, it’s an inconvenient truth, but indigenous tribes were not sitting around kumbaya-ing over a fireplace, as leftists would have us believe. Rather, they were attempting to imperialize one another. They would enslave their war captives into labor and in many instances would utilize torture as a part of their religious rites. And it gets worse.
Before Europeans ever landed in the Americas, Native Americans routinely cannibalized one another. Most notorious among them, perhaps, were the Aztecs. When the Spanish colonists arrived in Mexico City, they were greeted by arranged piles of more than 100,000 skulls belonging to human beings who had been sacrificed to the gods.
In one archaeological expedition, they discovered the remains of forty-two children, all around the age of five, who were sacrificed to the rain god. Special ceremonies required more sacrifice. On the inauguration of the Aztec’s Templo Mayor, they sacrificed between 20,000 and 60,000 human beings.
Relying upon the research of Mexican-American Harvard historian David Carrasco, author Rodney Stark recounted the Aztec ceremonial practices in his book How the West Won:
The ceremonies… were performed in front of large crowds. An adult male victim usually was held down on a sacrificial stone atop a pyramid, his chest was slashed open, and the priest snatched his still beating heart and held it aloft to the sun. The head of the victim was usually severed and placed on a rack—soon to be a skull added to the ceremonial collection. Then [the remaining body] was rolled, flailing down the temple steps to the bottom where it was skinned and dismembered. The choice cuts were distributed to onlookers, who took them home and ate them.
Despite the fact that early colonialists wrote extensively about the savage culture of Native Americans, their writings were eventually dismissed in the name of political correctness. The preferred narrative was that white European men needed to savagely portray the indigenous people to justify their own genocidal pursuits. It was even assumed that the Native Americans themselves had lied, or rather, had been misunderstood in their own recorded sacred texts regarding their practices.
That is, until science. Eventual anthropological studies determined conclusively that Native Americans, just as Christopher Columbus and so many early colonists had first reported, routinely engaged in cannibalism. Today, this truth is no longer a matter of dispute. However reluctantly, even the left-wing New York Times published an article citing scientific evidence of indigenous cannibalism in Colorado, and the Smithsonian now formally acknowledges that northwest Native Americans practiced slavery. According to the Standard Cross-Cultural Files, at least thirty-nine indigenous societies practiced slavery, just as brutally and immorally as everywhere else. Yet for whatever reason, the sum of their slavery and cannibalism is not problematic for the Left, or at least, not as problematic as the white man’s slavery. So just why is it that the Left wants us to look the other way? Why is it that in their view, imperialism, cannibalism, murder, slavery, and every other undenia
bly sinful act become forgivable, so long as it was not executed by white men?
By no means do I intend to offer some sweeping condemnation of Native American tribes, nor do I intend to vindicate the actions of early colonialists. My purpose here is to simply tell the truth, and the truth is that human history is complicated and no men, regardless of skin complexion, stand guiltless.
Yet today black Americans are never told to consider the murderous Persian Empire or the cannibalism of indigenous tribes, or the heinous actions under the imperialistic Egyptian Empire, the Turkish Empire, the Muslim Abbasid and Rashidun Caliphate Empires, the Chinese Yuan or Ming Empires, the Mongol Empire, the Ottoman Empire, or the Japanese Empire, to name just a few. Black Americans are taught to believe that historical sin is almost synonymous with white men; the white man’s history and the white man’s history only is to be loathed.
Yet another inconvenient truth for leftists is the fact that the much-despised white men were, in fact, the first to formally abolish slavery. In 1833, Britain was the first country in the history of the world to pass a Slavery Abolition Act. They were quickly followed by France, who in 1848 re-abolished slavery to include her many colonies. Then of course came the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. After centuries of human slavery, white men led the world in putting an end to the abhorrent practice.
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