
TWENTY-FOUR people, all of them black, were shot and killed during the weekend of May 30-31 in Chicago while hundreds of Chicagoans were looting and rioting over the alleged murder of George Floyd. An additional 61 people were injured in shootings. The Chicago Sun-Times did a yeoman’s job of highlighting these shootings, committed by other blacks, but everyone knows the truth about the victims: they don’t matter, nor do the detectives and other policemen who will investigate.
No billionaires, no foundations will be giving millions to publicize and oppose these crimes. Not a single one of these victims will ever become a household name, you can be assured of that, and if their killers ever come to trial, no reporters or television cameras will be there and the police will get no credit, none at all, for pursuing justice.
The grisly drive-by shootings and other apparent revenge shootings included 18 fatalities in a 24-hour period, the highest in 60 years. This suggests a surge of generalized criminality has been unleashed by the rioting — and national and local leaders who pandered to the looters and did not intervene are heavily to blame for that. This increased criminality will hurt many blacks, probably for years to come.
Life is cheap in black neighborhoods. Disgustingly cheap. And that’s not because of guns. It’s because of revenge, hatred, greed, and jealousy, none of which can be controlled in places dominated by gangs, political agitators and soulless bureaucracies.
Blacks have plenty of reason to be mad at whites.
But it’s not because of white “racism.” It’s not because of brutal cops. It’s because whites have left them to this God-forsaken hell. (more…)