This week, a 16-year-old boy named Ralph Yarl — black — accidentally rang the doorbell of an 84-year-old white man, Andrew Lester. According to reports, Lester then shot Yarl twice through the door, wounding him in the head and the arm. According to Clay County prosecutor Zachary Thompson, “I can tell you there was a racial component.”
This fact pattern immediately sent the salivary glands of the media and the Biden administration into overdrive. Drooling with excitement, the media headlined the Yarl shooting for days; President Joe Biden himself immediately invited Yarl, who survived, to the White House.
The reason for the journalistic and political feeding frenzy is clear: For the political Left, the narrative of white supremacy must be maintained. What’s more, shocking examples of that narrative must be found. Yarl’s shooting fit the bill. Americans are supposed to believe, as Yarl’s attorney put it, that “blackness is under attack.”
This is a lie. Not only is it a lie, it is a blatantly idiotic and devastatingly counterproductive lie. That lie provides the impetus toward undercutting police presence in high-crime areas; it provides the basis for racially discriminatory governmental policies; it provides the foundation for the argument that all disparities between the races are the result of white discrimination.
The truth is far more troubling: In America, while most violent crime is intra-racial (white on white or black on black, for example), in cases in which blacks and whites have violent interaction, blacks are overwhelmingly the perpetrators, not the victims.
In 2019, for example, 3,299 white Americans were murdered; 566, or 17%, were killed by black perpetrators. That same year, 2,906 black Americans were murdered; 246, or 8%, were killed by white perpetrators. Adjusted for population size — there are far more whites in America (235 million) than blacks (47 million) — this means that approximately one out of every million white Americans killed a black person in 2019, while 12 out of every million black Americans killed a white person. Such numbers are reflective of a norm: every year from 2001 on, the number of black-on-white killings has approximately doubled the number of white-on-black killings. When it comes to violent crime generally, the same sad truth applies. In 2019, there were 562,550 reported violent black/white incidents. 472,570 were black on white — 84%.
The media routinely ignore these facts, since they don’t fit the narrative. In fact, the media have a general tendency not to even mention the race of perpetrators of crimes if those perpetrators are black. The people harmed most by this narrative failure are not white Americans, but black Americans, who are predominantly the victims of black crime. According to the Department of Justice, “In 2018, based on data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, black people were overrepresented among persons arrested for nonfatal violent crimes (33%) and for serious nonfatal violent crimes (36%) relative to their representation in the U.S. population (13%).” The vast majority of victims were black.
Understanding the facts about interracial crime presents different solutions than the lies we hear about the prevalence of white-on-black violence. Those solutions include encouraging fatherhood in the home. Only 37% of black children are living in a home with their biological parents; 72% of black fathers aren’t married to the mother of their children; and only 4.2% of black children grow up in areas with a poverty rate below 10% and over half of black fathers present in the community.
But such discussions never take place if we focus on a lie: the lie that black victims are disproportionately the victim of white evils. Those who promulgate that lie victimize all Americans, black and white.
Ben Shapiro, 39, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” and co-founder of Daily Wire+. He is a three-time New York Times bestselling author; his latest book is “The Authoritarian Moment: How The Left Weaponized America’s Institutions Against Dissent.” To find out more about Ben Shapiro and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
Since fox news was sued for Lying and misleading the truth?? When will the liberal news media face the same Consequences??? 2 really good examples of the lies are mostly peaceful protest and white people are racist and violent.
You should know the answer to that.. HELLZ NO they will never face any consequences for their OVERT and willful lies.
I.A.W. U.S. Census & FBI (Table 43a)
Black males make up about 7% of the U.S. population but every year commit ~56% of all the murders and ~64% of all robberies in the U.S… Every year in the U.S. there are ~6,000 African-Americans men, women and children killed and 92% of them were killed by fellow African-Americans.
Where is the outrage from “Black Lives Matter” and prominent members of the African-American community? Where are the words of condemnation and sorrow from “Black Lives Matter”, Obama, Al Sharpton, or Jesse Jackson over the fact that members of their own race are summarily executing each other?
How many bodies do you have to step over to get to the one that you think is important only because a White police officer was involved?
“Black people make up 23% of New York’s population, but they commit 75% of all shootings. …
Whites are 33% of the New York city’s population, but they commit fewer than 2% of all shootings…
“These disparities mean that 75% of the time that police in New York are called out after a shooting, they are being summoned into minority neighborhoods looking for minority suspects.” But these facts do not fit into the Democrats woke, lie and deceptions.
There is no outrage, because they can’t MILK IT based on racism..
As long as 10% rules, every demo or demo supporter is above the law.l
I am not sure it’s even 10%.. More like 5%.
Those leftist DemonRat LIARS are total garbage! They are the ones stirring up the racial hatred. Of course there are a few whites (read white trash) who are hateful bigots.
But look at the numbers: “In 2019, there were 562,550 reported violent black/white incidents. 472,570 were black on white — 84%.”
If that doesn’t open your eyes, you’re either Stupid, or willfully ignorant. (Or both).
Unfortunately, it’s the DemonRats and RINOs who control a majority of the media and education. It’s up to us God fearing flag waving patriots to educate as many as possible with the truth. Don’t be bashful or worried about what people will say. (Be polite, but firm).
“the political Left, the narrative of white supremacy must be maintained”,,,by diminishing the moral integrity of an entire white race who brought Truth, Justice and the American form of a Democratic Republic to the earth that has done more to enlighten humanity than anything that came out of Africa, Europe, Asia, South America, the middle East or elsewhere. While Washington refused the crown offered by his troops three times and gave power back to THE PEOPLE, Napoleon Crowned himself, as did Mao, Stalin, Castro, Hitler, Shaka Zulu and others who took power from THE PEOPLE unto themselves. Blackness has always been under attack by the American formed forces of freedom, but it was blackness of the heart and soul that came under fire, not skin color, taking down even the very dark forces within the souls of White Americans themselves that has placed into the hands of every American son of Africa, Asia or elsewhere more rights, freedoms and ability to create a real life than any other nation on this planet. If blacks could score social goals and victories in their own communities, like they do on the equal playing football field, they would have no fear of inequality. They have met the enemy,,,and it is they, themselves and the self-defeating entitlement democrat party of mind and soul manipulations. Entitlement is not equality, just a means to control who controls.