Liberals Deny Reality of Race Relations Crisis

Liberals are freaking out over comments made by Donald Trump about the ever-deteriorating state of race relations in America.

Trump’s particular transgression in the eyes of progressives was correctly identifying the unrest and violence that has gripped city after city in America in the aftermath of controversial police shootings for what they are — race riots.

“Somebody said don’t call them race riots, but that’s what they are. They’re race riots. And it’s happening more and more,” Trump said.

“We’re a divided nation, and each week it seems we’re getting more and more divided,” Trump said Monday at a rally in Colorado. There are “race riots on our streets on a monthly basis. Somebody said don’t call them race riots, but that’s what they are. They’re race riots. And it’s happening more and more,” Trump said.

The liberal media is not happy. “Trump says ‘race riots’ are happening every month,” ran The Washington Post’s headline — note the scare quotes. Buzzfeed too reported on the speech using scare quotes.

The Post story was picked up by the Houston Chronicle, where it received an even more blatantly biased headline. “‘Race riots’ talk the new crazy thing Donald Trump is saying about race in America,” it reads.

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Trump’s claim that such riots are occurring every month does seem to be true. September saw riots in Charlotte, North Carolina, in response to the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott. Police and white people were targeted in violent attacks and the destruction of property and looting were rampant. That is a race riot.

August saw riots in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in response to the police shooting of Sylville Smith. Once again, police and white people were targeted in violent attacks and the destruction of property and looting were rampant. That is a race riot.

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July saw riots in St. Paul, Minnesota, in response to the police shooting of Philando Castile. Police were attacked with everything from rocks to bottles to Molotov cocktails, and the so-called “protesters” flooded onto I-94, shutting it down. That is a race riot.

The attempt of liberal journalists and activists to censor the phrase “race riots” is particularly frustrating — given the fact that liberal journalists and activists share much of the responsibility for fomenting the riots in the first place.

For decades the Left has instilled in black Americans — and progressive white Americans, for that matter — the belief that America is a systemically racist country in which fundamentally racist law enforcement singles out innocent black people for oppression. Clinton herself has strongly endorsed this myth throughout the 2016 campaign.

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“Race remains a significant challenge in our country,” Clinton said during the first presidential debate. “Unfortunately, race still determines too much. It often determines where people live, it determines what kind of education in their public schools they can get, and yes, it determines how they’re treated in the criminal justice system,” Clinton continued. “We’ve just seen those two tragic examples in both Tulsa and Charlotte,” she added.

While stirring up a sense of victimhood is a reliable, if not demagogic, way to drum up support, progressives in America have been repeatedly telling African-Americans that the biggest threat to their safety and security is racist white people with badges — despite the mountains of evidence to the contrary — for so long that they have started to believe it.

And when one believes one’s own government is actively out to kill them for no just reason, civil unrest is inevitable. The fantasy of pervasive white racism has created a reality of rioting and civil unrest.