Winds of Change

My new Taki's Magazine column is on this week's inflection point in talking about black crime.

From my new column in Taki’s Magazine, Winds of Change:

The single biggest impediment to the rest of the country making New York City-size progress against crime is the embargo on racial realism about who commits the majority of murders. A crackdown on crime is always going to require more of a crackdown on black criminals than on Asian, white, or Hispanic criminals because there are a lot more black criminals per capita. That’s the inevitable by-product of blacks being an incredible order of magnitude more likely to kill than whites. You can’t effectively fight crime without cops being more likely per capita to confront blacks than whites.

Nobody is supposed to mention racial crime statistics in the newspapers (The New York Times has only printed the term “black homicide rate” three times in the past 52 years), so many influential Americans are poorly informed. Thus, they were easily misled during the Great Awokening by cherry-picked statistics and incidents like Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and George Floyd. …

In contrast, even the most horrifying incidents of black-on-white crime, such as that black schizo with fourteen arrests on his rap sheet murdering the pretty blonde on the Charlotte, N.C., light rail system, call forth cricket chirps from the national press.

The New York Times finally took a time-out from its Emmett Till breaking news coverage (427 pieces over the past decade) to run a Rightwingers Pounce article on the Charlotte slasher in which three of its reporters explained why they feel morally justified in covering up black-on-white crime:

After the video’s release, a number of influential conservatives also accused major news outlets, including ‘The New York Times,’ of ignoring the story because the crime was committed by a Black man against a white woman….

The idea that mainstream news outlets downplay crimes committed by Black people has become more of a talking point in some conservative circles in recent years. The critique has emerged even as liberal critics of the news media have argued that crime coverage by American news outlets is distorted by anti-Black bias.

Then the reporters hilariously point out in their news (not opinion) article that North Carolina whites have a history of responding to coverage of black (excuse me, Black) criminality with white supremacist uprisings:

In North Carolina, as in other Southern states, newspapers in the Jim Crow era often egregiously exaggerated stories about Black criminality. Among other things, such stories served as a precursor to a white supremacist uprising in Wilmington, N.C., in 1898, in which at least 60 Black men were killed.

After all, 1898 or 2025: What difference does it make? No matter what year it is, whites still have the same evil genes. Unlike Blacks, whites just aren’t reasonable. We could show Blacks the video of George Floyd’s death over and over and over and it’s not like Blacks would then riot from May through October 2020. (They didn’t, did they?)

Read the whole thing there.