But that takes time and effort. Activists, cultural elites and the mainstream media know that most people have too much going on in their lives to fact-check the narrative. Especially if the narrative is blasted out of every TV network, broadsheet newspaper and online social network.
Take, for instance, the most popular slogan of Black Lives Matter: “hands up, don’t shoot.” The genesis of this rallying cry came from the death of Michael Brown, a black man, at the hands of Darren Wilson, a white police officer.
The prevailing narrative of this sad event is that Brown was surrendering to Wilson, with his hands in the air, when Wilson needlessly and fatally shot him. This story came mostly from Brown’s friend, Dorian Johnson, who was with Brown at the time.
The problem is, multiple witnesses, as well as all the evidence, show that this narrative is a lie.116 Brown didn’t have his hands in the air; Johnson simply made it up. His lie led to massive riots throughout the country. Incredulously, mainstream media continues to pedal the “hands up don’t shoot” lie, with the exception of conservative voices, even RINOs like Megyn Kelly. Johnson has never been punished in any way for his lie, nor the riots he directly caused, and the narrative that Officer Wilson shot a man who had his hands up continues.
There is perhaps one major mainstream newspaper—The Wall Street Journal—that regularly publishes articles critical of Black Lives Matter. Virtually every other publication is completely on board with the poisonous message that America’s police officers, one of the most important groups defending black lives, somehow have it in for black people.
Here’s a selection of op-eds from mainstream outlets published in the past two years:
Washington Post: “Black Lives Matter And America’s Long History of Resisting Civil Rights Protesters.”
New York Times: “Dear White America.”
Chicago Tribune: “I Never Have To Worry I’ll Be Shot in Chicago. I’m White.” (This article amazingly manages to talk about the problem of gang violence while simultaneously condemning allegedly overzealous policing.)
You know, if I was fed a constant stream of articles telling me that the world hated me because of the color of my skin, I might burn down a city or three. But I don’t read the white supremacists at Daily Stormer. I don’t believe my race is under siege. Unfortunately, African-Americans rarely hear anything else.
I tried reading Ta Nehisi-Coates Between the World And Me, a dreadfully dull book/letter he wrote to his son. In it, Coates explained how he’d grown up in a bad neighborhood and had to be tough to survive. Incredulously, he went on to lament over the fact that his son would grow up to be treated…like he’d grown up in a hard neighborhood and thus had become tough. Between the World And Me won a National Book Award only because it was so unreadable. Everyone assumed that meant it was brilliant. It wasn’t.
Progressives have considerable power to shape the narrative. They control the mainstream media, all the prestigious awards, Hollywood, and the commanding heights of the new social media economy. If they were so motivated, they could use this power to create inexorable pressure to solve the real issues of America’s black population.
Instead, they’re using it to push Black Lives Matter, one of the most destructive movements in the country’s history.
And you know, it’s actually worse than that.
RACISM
Whenever you reveal truths about problems in the black community, or call out the hypocrisy of the cherished Black Lives Matter movement, as I have done above, charges of racism are not far behind. This is compounded by my level-headed analyses of the alt-right, which has led media organization after media organization to brand me a “white nationalist”—almost always followed by a groveling apology to me and a public retraction after my lawyers get in touch.
The Left in America is so stupid that they seem to genuinely believe that “disagrees with Black Lives Matter” is the same thing as “hates black people and wants a white ethnostate.”
Racism is the second most absurd of all the charges the Left has foolishly used in their futile attempt to sink the Battleship Milo, with the exception of the few leftists who are desperate enough to insult my hair.
Literally the worst thing I’ve ever said to or about a black person is: “Not tonight baby, I have a headache.”
In addition to the fact that I’m part Jewish, and thus have no love for anyone who hates or discriminates against minority groups, have you seen the people I sleep with? They come in a lot of colors, and very few of them are hues of white.
The Left’s usual response is to resort to a cliché. “Having black friends doesn’t mean you aren’t racist!” The reason they use this argument so often is because it eliminates the best possible defense against charges of racism. My question to people who make this argument: if it doesn’t satisfy you that I spend time with, make love to, and, for Heaven’s sake, fall in love with, black men when nothing is forcing me to, what would persuade you that I’m not a racist?
I already know the answer. Nothing.
Many of the most cherished people in my life are black men. Because I love and respect them, I believe they deserve truth, not lies, in the face of the harsh reality of black America today. It’s a reality that includes problems created and sustained by the Left, and by the black community itself—as well as real problems of enduring racism. The Left, by contrast, seeks to patronize minorities by preventing them from coming into contact with anything that might offend them.
There’s also the riposte from race baiters that you can be a racist and still sleep with black men because all you’re really doing is “fetishizing black bodies,” whatever that means. Their argument seems to boil down to how much it sucks that everyone finds them attractive. I’ve yet to hear a coherent argument, however, that explains how I could, for instance, get engaged to a black man and still be a racist. I’ve also never seen a black man get offended by the stereotypes about penis size. I guess some stereotypes are larger than others.
Leftists are convinced that my criticism of Black Lives Matter is motivated by racism. But real racists tend not to hide their motivations: they reveal it plainly in their language. Ask a white supremacist if he’s a white supremacist and you will get the answer: “Yes, I am a white supremacist.” (Daily Stormer helpfully puts swastikas and fasces on its front page.)