BLM and the increased death of blacks

 Ann Coulter:

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 Floyd's 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 "unknown"); 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 wouldn't 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 "systemic racism." Perhaps our prestige media could help if they told disaffected urban youth that they're 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 "White People Are Out To Get You" genre is Michelle Alexander's 2010 book, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." Alexander, who is only half-black (always the loudest at the anti-racism rallies), argues that the criminal justice system "labels" black men "felons" in order to deny them basic human rights, such as the right to vote -- 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.
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The black-on-black crime rate is hard to ignore, but liberals seem to do all they can to ignore it and blame "systemic racism" for all the ills of the black community.  The fact is that defunding the police has taken its largest toll on black people who are victims of crime. That was mainly a response to BLM demonstrations and rioting that destroyed businesses in black neighborhoods.