Happy 5th Anniversary of the Racial Reckoning
The triumph of Black Lives Matter got countless black lives murdered and splattered on the asphalt by lying about the death toll. The NYT continues the lying in this graph.
What’s wrong with this fifth anniversary George Floyd celebration graph in the New York Times on a topic I wrote about far more lucidly in Taki’s Magazine last week?
Notice that they put the vertical line denoting the effect of the beginning of the George Floyd racial reckoning on May 25, 2020 on homicides in the wrong year: between 2020 and 2021 when it should, of course, be between 2019 and 2020? This makes it look like there was a huge surge in homicides before George Floyd when, in truth, the huge surge was after.
Here are the actual CDC figures for black homicide victimizations and black traffic fatalities by week from 2018 to 2013:
Wow, it’s almost as if the triumph of Black Lives Matter on May 25, 2020 subsequently got a whole lot of Black Lives Murdered and Splattered on the Asphalt.
But the New York Times is not going to tell you that, even after 5 years of BLM induced mayhem.
2020 was such a crazy time. When it was happening, the George Floyd hysteria just kind of felt like it was part of the same continuation of craziness, so I personally didn't really think of it rationally, it was all part of, "All of this is nuts!"
But looking back, the George Floyd hysteria was a special kind of crazy all on its own. A convicted criminal died during an arrest for yet another crime, it was all very clearly an accident due to his own conduct and his own poor health, yet the whole world lost its frickin' mind because... why? And all four cops went to jail, because... why? And cities were burned down and destroyed and thugs took over sections of some of them for weeks at a time because.... why?
And it was all - covid, BLM, the Great Cancelation, Me Too - because they hated Donald Trump so much and couldn't stand to lose their power and their privilege to the candidate of the unwashed masses.
The election in 2024 was partly a reaction to all of that, but there are still plenty of people out there who think some kind of outrage occurred to this criminal, and somehow the entire country was justified at blowing up and tearing itself apart over it? I just don't get it. A saner society would say to itself, "Well, too bad he died, but at least that POS is no longer around to cause anyone else trouble".
The left in this country is dangerously crazy.
Another problem is that this is not a graph showing the absolute number. Even though it's low key designed to give that impression. What it is is the percent difference using 2015 as the zero point baseline. In which case, they would have done better to use 2013, the final full year pre-Ferguson, for the zero point.