In a recent appearance [June 23?] on the podcast of Eric Metaxas, Black American conservative Larry Elder discusses at length his film “Uncle Tom,” a film not likely to be given much attention in the mainstream media, a film which Metaxas declares utterly destroys the narrative of “systemic” White racism in America. It is available on line by simply adding .com to the title.
Elder, emphasizing the fact that 70% of Black kids in inner city America are raised without fathers, insists that it is Black urban culture rather than White oppression that is the main problem of his people, citing study after study which show that cops are actually less likely to use violence against Blacks than Whites. Every 3 years since the mid 90s, apparently, the FBI has been conducting an extensive Police Public Contact Survey including of course members of all segments of society. It has revealed no evidence whatsoever of “systemic” racism. In 2019, 9 unarmed Blacks were killed in the U.S. by the police as opposed to 19 Whites. While this would make sense given the population of the two groups, Blacks resort to criminal activity at a radically higher rate and the statistics actually validate that they are in no way the victims of a bias.
Elder cites the findings of Black Harvard academic Roland Friar who was convinced that his research would confirm the consensus view and utterly shocked to discover that the facts did no such thing, that White cops were in fact less likely to use violence on Blacks than Whites.
Elder wryly invokes the 2015 murder of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, noting that the mayor of that city, its chief of police and indeed several of the officers involved in the killing were Black, while the media at large exploited it as but another result of “systemic” White racism.
Racism, Elder avers, has never been less of a factor in American life in all of its history. That there are approximately 50 million interactions between the police and the general public per year which resulted in but 9 unwarranted Black deaths in 2019 is not the result of some systemic cancer but of the simple fact of human imperfection, of human evil. For taking this moral stance, of course, Elder has been denounced as an Uncle Tom. Hurling insulting epithets your way, Elder asserts, is the only recourse of those devoid of rational arguments. It is the modus operandi of the contemporary Left, not of those on the outer edges, but of the mindless, sentimental, mainstream Left. Check out the N.Y. Times, Washington Post, Toronto Star or Globe and Mail any day of the week. You will absolutely be regaled with terms such as White Supremacism, White Privilege or the ever popular “hate speech” in lieu of any actual intelligent, rational discussion of the facts.