Ok, let me back up.
Today is July 7th, 2016. There have been a couple of police shootings today that are very controversial. One especially looks very bad for the cop involved. Of course immediately people began taking sides as far as who was right, or which shooting was justified. I thought that since I wasn't there for either of them and news reports are usually unreliable at the very best, I'll just wait until after the grand juries / trials are over and hear about them then. You know, what I considered a sensible move.
Then... Oh man, then...
I saw a link to an article by someone named Simcha Fisher and no, I don't expect you to know who that is. The article was referencing one of the shootings that happened today so I wondered "What could she possibly know about this?" I clicked on the link. Bad move.
The article, just a couple of lines really, wasn't about the shootings of today, though she had linked it as such. It was titled "But Philando Castile was black". In the body of the article she instead talks about some old white codger who was disarmed by police after he threatened them. Her summary: This guy was white. He's still alive. That's all I have to say." The implication being, of course, that cops don't shoot white people, just blacks, because, you know, racism and stuff.
This was cross linked with a similar heap of bullshit from the one and only Mark Shea, who responded with this image:
Because cops don't shoot crackers! Only blacks get the pop pop pop of stainless steel, bitches!!! He goes on with this gem soaked in 30 weight sarcasm: "That’s because white guys in open carry states are Patriots, but black guys in open carry states are thugs."
Because cops just shoot black guys. Because they're racist! White guys are never viewed as a threat. His smug self-satisfaction was bordering on the masturbatory.
Now here's the thing: I know there are bad cops. I know there are even some racists out there. That's reality. But the assertion that cops are just going out daily and mowing down innocent black guys for sport and letting whites get away with everything because they're white is a stupid, false leftist trope and if any of you reading this actually believe it, then you need to either get snipped or have them tubes tied, because you are too stupid to be allowed to reproduce.
What's that? Can I prove it's false? Well, yes, actually.
There's actually a site called "The Counted" that was set up by the Guardian newspaper explicitly to showcase how overwhelmingly disproportionate the racial violence against blacks by American law enforcement was. Thing is, once they put the data in, is actually showed the opposite.
You can check out the site here and play around with the stats.
So far in 2016 the cops have killed 279 whites and 136 blacks. So, right off the bat you can see that both Shea and Fisher are totally full of shit. Whites do get gunned down by the cops, quite often in fact. It just doesn't make the national news.
Now I could end it there, but there is one last point I wanted to share. If you sort the numbers by 'white' on that site, you'll see the name "Dylan Noble". I saw it when I checked the site out and the name struck me. I had heard about it somewhere, but couldn't remember where. So I searched for the case.
There isn't a whole lot on him, actually. He led the cops on a chase when they were looking for another suspect. They confronted him and told him to comply with arrest. He made a sudden move for the small of his back, and the cops, fearing he was bringing a firearm into play, shot him. He died. It turned out he was actually unarmed.
Now, I'm pretty sure every one of you remembers the name "Michael Brown". How could you not? Slogans, t-shirts, endless Facebook memes, his face on signs at protests... How many of you remembered the name "Dylan Noble"? I can tell you how many. That number is zero. None of you do. Not a single one of you knew his name or what happened. This has a lot to do with the fact that the media really didn't pick up the story at all, and it stayed local news. No marches, no mass protests, No one, including you, could possibly have given a shit less. Noble, being white, wasn't politically useful.
Really, the facts in either case are irrelevant. The only thing that matters to people it seems is how politically useful the death was. Dylan's death wasn't useful in propagating the popular campfire story leftists like Shea and Fisher love to tell each other, the story that all the cops in the US wake up in the morning and the first thing they do is whoop out "YYYEEEEEHHAAAWWW! I'm gonna kills me a nigger today!"
* UPDATE *
BlackLivesMatter decided to have a march in Dallas this evening to protest the shootings. In the process, someone murdered 4 police officers. Yeah, there is a slim chance that it's TOTALLY unrelated I suppose. However, considering the race baiting that has been non stop in the news ALL DAY today, promoted by smug bullshit artists just like Mark Shea and Simcha Fisher, I don't think it's too much of a leap to make the assumption that someone decided to hell with the legal system, I'm getting payback.
Dear Mark and Smicha. If you two ever read this, eat a dick, the both of you.
