By Ann Coulter
12/15/2021
Wow, the racial reckoning after George Floyd sure has gotten a lot of black people killed!
According to the FBI, amid the extravaganza of violence following Floydâs death in 2020, an additional 2,400 black males and 405 black females were killed, compared to 2019. The post-Floyd murder surge of 2020 is, by far, the largest year-to-year increase in homicide in U.S. history.
So far this year, 615 black people have been killed in Chicago (out of a total of 767 homicide victims, 29 white); 164 in Baltimore, (out of 323 total, eight white, with the race of 144 murder victims somehow âunknownâ); and 373 black people have been shot to death in Philadelphia (out of 460 fatal shootings, 35 white).
All this makes me wonder if we wouldnât be better off encouraging the violent elements of the black underclass to stop acting out, instead of ginning up their anger by relentlessly pounding away at âsystemic racism.â Perhaps our prestige media could help if they told disaffected urban youth that theyâre not heroes when they shoot up neighborhood block parties, beat up their teachers or fight with the police.
Instead, elites tell them the exact opposite. The most celebrated entry in the âWhite People Are Out To Get Youâ genre is Michelle Alexanderâs 2010 book, âThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.â Alexander, who is only half-black (always the loudest at the anti-racism rallies), argues that the criminal justice system âlabelsâ black men âfelonsâ in order to deny them basic human rights, such as the right to vote â exactly like under Jim Crow!
The book has sold a kazillion copies, mostly by virtue of being mandatory reading in every college and high school across the nation.
Although Alexander claims that gobs of black men are in prison solely because of racism, there is another possible explanation: Black men commit a LOT of crime. Black people are only 13% of the U.S. population, but commit 33% of all violent crime (not including murder), according to the Department of Justice. (On the plus side, although only 13% of the population, black people are 90% of television commercial models.)
When it comes to murder â the most reliable crime statistic because a dead body canât be intimidated or threatened â black people are an absolute majority of those arrested. And consider that the astonishingly low clearance rate for random shootings in cities like Chicago and Philadelphia (5% to 11% and 21%, respectively) means that a lot of murders donât lead to anybody being arrested. (Itâs highly unlikely that whites are committing the drive-by shootings.)
The New York City Police Department keeps more detailed criminal statistics than most. In 2020, the cityâs population was 33% white, 29% Hispanic and 23% black. And yet, 96% of all shootings were committed by blacks or Hispanics. More than 72% were committed by blacks alone. Just 1.4% percent of shootings were committed by whites.
Also from the report:
And so on.
Surely, Alexander must have some killer examples of innocent black men rotting in prison solely because they are black. After all, itâs her book that launched the whole âmass incarcerationâ craze, with zealots, idiots and idiot-zealots demanding that all black men be released from prison â and pronto! (Trump to Biden at the first debate: âYou call them âsuperpredators,â and Iâm letting people out of jail now.â)
This is how Alexander begins her book:
âJarvious Cotton cannot vote. Like his father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather, he has been denied the right to participate in our electoral democracy. ⌠Cottonâs great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Ku Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation. His father was barred from voting by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Jarvious Cotton cannot vote because he, like many black men in the United States, has been labeled a felon and is currently on parole.â
What trivial infraction did Jarvious commit that got him âlabeled a felonâ? (No doubt something your typical white person does every day.)
Answer: He shot to death a 17-year-old high school kid after robbing him and his friends at gunpoint, then escaped from jail â with help from his mother â and fled from Mississippi to Brooklyn, where he lived under an alias for five years, before being captured again.
Unbelievably, Jarvious continued living in New York for another year while left-wing groups sued to block his extradition to Mississippi, finally losing 8-0 in the New York Court of Appeals.
I wonder if Alexander realizes she left out the murder/jail break part. Maybe she just ran out of space. To be fair, her book was only 421 pages long.
Now, I canât speak to the accuracy of the stories about Jarviousâ father, grandfather or great-grandfather â though Iâm starting to question Alexanderâs reliability as a narrator â but as for Jarvious, Iâm pretty sure he lost the right to vote not because white people are randomly locking up âblack bodies,â but because he murdered a teenager.
Jarvious is Alexanderâs case in chief, not mine. If she had had a better example, I think she would have used it.
Itâs time for a reckoning on the reckoning. No more woke fantasies, because black lives matter.
COPYRIGHT 2020 ANN COULTER
DISTRIBUTED BY ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION
Ann Coulter is the author of THIRTEEN New York Times bestsellers â collect them here.
Her book, ÂĄAdios America! The Leftâs Plan To Turn Our Country Into A Third World Hell Hole, was released on June 1, 2015.
Her latest book, Resistance Is Futile!: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind, was released on August 21, 2018.