We had a remote group meeting at work yesterday. Several black employees expressed their fears about leaving their houses and their upset about being targeted by police. I feel bad for them! I don't want them to be upset. I want them to be given facts like the ones you showed and hopefully feel better about things. But that won't happen because most people won't believe it because it doesn't fit the narrative that is being pushed and has been pushed for decades. "Everybody knows" the police are racist and our country is racist and people simply cannot process things that run counter to that. The meeting was called a "safe space". It was only safe if you were going to say things supporting the dominant narrative. If I'd brought up the facts you brought up or any of the things I'm about to write, I'm quite sure I'd be out a job sooner rather than later on some pretext or other. I have to play along and keep my mouth shut.

There was a very similar case to the George Floyd one that happened in Dallas a few years ago. Except in this case, the person didn't even commit a crime to predicate the police action. He called the police asking for help. Charges against the police officers were dismissed. Things were captured on video. Yet, there was no national outrage or even coverage as far as I can tell. Why? I suspect because the victim of the police action was white. Here is a link to an article about it:

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/investigations/2019/07/31/you-re-gonna-kill-me-dallas-police-body-cam-footage-reveals-the-final-minutes-of-tony-timpa-s-life/

I posted on Facebook yesterday a column by a black columnist who was discussing the findings of a black Harvard economist. No one who regularly posts things about this ongoing controversy commented or even, I suspect, bothered to read it. If they did, they probably dismissed it out of hand. It doesn't fit the narrative.

Here is a link to the article. I'm going to post the contents of the column in a reply to my post here because it is paywalled.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/good-policing-saves-black-lives-11591052916?mod=opinion_lead_pos8&fbclid=IwAR3XAOFJ_IU6LcN2YthO23cq9T7QdLsKTOwI35r4kgWChRf1JpcJlhJoTUI

The police have bad actors and mistreat people of all races....sometimes, but not often considering the vast numbers of interactions they have. Fellow cops and their damned union cover for them. That needs to stop. The police need to be demilitarized. But this false narrative of black grievance doesn't help blacks, whites, or our society. But, leftists and other who use blacks for political power have a vested interest in keeping it going. Grievance, false or otherwise, is the new currency of power and people like having power. Things dealing with race are SO much better than they ever have been. Right now we're probably in many ways the least racist society that has ever existed. But from what people say and do, you'd think we were right back in Jim Crow Mississippi circa 1959! Certainly no acknowledgement of all the gains that have been made can be mentioned.

Finally, I'll post (again in reply to this post) an interesting little column I ran across dealing with "Passover Syndrome" among a certain segment of the white population in this country. They think they're immune to the forces they bestir. Maybe they aren't. Maybe none of us are.

I do know this. Keep trashing cities and all the Karens of America are going to be voting for some law and order types come November.