Study Discovers Racist Homicide Pandemic

At long last, the liberal establishment has produced evidence that blacks are oppressed; they are even being murdered:

In a paper published in the journal Homicide Studies, University of Toronto social work professor Tanya Sharpe and colleagues argue that the prevalence and spread of homicide grief — the grief that follows the murder of a loved one — in Black communities throughout the global diaspora can be viewed as a pandemic.

As we know from COVID-19, pandemics justify ham-fisted Big Government interventions.

“Homicide grief in Black communities in North America and beyond has reached pandemic proportions,” says Sharpe, Director of The CRIB [Centre for Research and Innovation for Black Survivors of Homicide Victims] and an Associate Professor at U of T’s Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work. “A comprehensive public health framework that incorporates anti-Black racism is essential not only for addressing the trauma from this kind of loss, but also for reducing homicide rates.”

The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the agenda. That goes double for public health lately.

Behold the evidence racism:

In 2020–2021, homicide rates were eight times higher for Black American males and four times higher for Black American females than their white counterparts.

Not only America but also guns are racist:

Although Black Americans make up roughly 14% of the U.S. population, they account for more than half of gun homicide victims.

This might be why the…

…U.S. Surgeon General recently declared gun violence a national public health crisis, noting the disproportionate impact of this violence on Black Americans.

We are told that “structural racism and systemic inequalities” are responsible for all these black people being murdered.

We are not told who is actually killing them. For that we turn to statistics from the hardly right-wing FBI, which admits that a black homicide victim is over 10 times more likely to be killed by another black than by a white, despite there still being a lot more whites out there for now.

Meanwhile, the authors decry “overrepresentation of Black people in the criminal justice system,” as if this were not because they are the ones committing the crime, and as if unleashing black criminals on their neighborhoods lowers the homicide rate.

The violence liberals attempt to exploit politically is severely exacerbated by their policy of defunding/demoralizing/marginalizing police and encouraging Communities of Color to run riot. Academics who spew black victimology crap are not merely useless but pernicious. They inflict as much damage on blacks as on the rest of us, if not more.

On a tip from Mike B.

A Very San Francisco Hate Crime

San Francisco has been ground zero for the wokefication of America. You might think it at least would be free of racism against anyone except Caucasians. But no; a black dog walker named Terry Williams says he has been racially menaced.

The San Francisco Standard reports that according to Williams…

…he received packages, each containing a blackface doll with a noose around its neck, on April 26 and May 5 at his Grove Street home.

Sounds doubtful. Then the story gets more serious:

Weeks later, Williams’ home was burned down; the cause of the fire remains unknown. …

On Friday, the SFPD named a suspect in the case — 67-year-old San Francisco resident April Martin Chartrand…

A warrant has been issued for her arrest.

“The San Francisco Police Department does not tolerate racism of any kind,” the department wrote in a press release Friday.

Looks like Chartrand sent the dolls and then set his house on fire to be racist. But wait: Chartrand is black too.

A LinkedIn page that appears to be Chartrand’s indicates that she has a master’s degree in psychology from San Francisco State University; an Instagram account under her name lists her as a dominatrix. A landing page on SFSU says her research has focused on, among other things, the “subcultured, racialized and marginalized” and women of color in the Bay Area fetish scene.

Unsurprisingly, Chartrand also claims to be a victim of racism:

On Facebook last month, Chartrand published a post urging people to condemn bigotry after describing how “an evil hegemonic woman” yelled a racist comment at her in front of about 30 people in the Mission District.

Getting a master’s degree in psychology from SFSU isn’t a complete waste of time. You learn how to use words like “hegemonic.”

Chartrand proclaimed that she found the incident “triggering” and screeched ungrammatically about the “undercurrents of racism and bigotry that is pervasive in all of society and also in San Francisco (USA).”

It’s not clear what makes police believe Chartrand is a suspect in the case of the racist threats or if she’s also suspected in the fire that destroyed Williams’ home.

Another suspect could be Williams himself. He says he…

…cut ties with people who thought he manufactured the hate crime and subsequent house fire.

“My circle of friends got smaller,” he said.

Why would his own friends think he was staging a hate hoax?

A motive in some hoaxes is the worshipful sympathy bestowed upon victims of racism:

Community members held a rally for Williams soon after the hate crime made headlines. In the months since the fire displaced his family, the burned-down building became a makeshift monument to solidarity: Hundreds of people left uplifting notes and art that now cover the exterior.

Whoever is behind the dolls and the arson, the motive is likely to have more to do with mental illness than racism.

On a tip from Steven S.

Reparations to Perfect the Weather

No need to wait for Kamala Harris to become the official rather than presumed president. Race-based reparations are already well underway:

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it was giving a private, historically black university in New Orleans a $19.9 million grant, some of which will be used to buy electric bikes for 300 families.

The bicycles cost up to $1,800 each.

Dillard University will get the $19 million federal grant and the city of New Orleans will get a $50 million federal grant to combat a “climate crisis.”

New Orleans qualifies for the handout because it is, as Ray Nagin famously proclaimed, a chocolate city.

The imaginary crisis cannot be resolved with free electric bikes alone:

Besides buying the electric bikes, the $19.9 million grant given to Dillard University will be used to expand bike-sharing programs, install electric vehicle chargers and having several building retrofit with solar and energy storage.

New Orleans will spend its $50 million federal grant on installing rooftop solar panels on 41 buildings, expanding its Blue Bikes share fleet, adding seven miles of bike paths and planting 7,500 trees in “underserved” neighborhoods.

“Underserved” is a Liberalese euphemism for “racially preferred.”

If temperatures come down as autumn approaches, thank the federal government for spending your money so wisely.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

Cackala Would Impose Reparations

For the government to give direct cash handouts to people explicitly for being black would effectively enslave those who are not black. The policy is so intolerably unjust that even some California Democrats hesitate to impose it. Blacks who want the rest of the population enslaved to them are not pleased:

A group of supporters of reparations for the descendants of enslaved Black Americans spent all afternoon inside the state Capitol to protest the California Legislative Black Caucus’ plan to not move forward with two reparations-related proposals.

According to State Senator of Color Steven Bradford, both bills have the votes to pass, but not to clear a veto by Gavin Newsom, who has been dragging his feet as he attempts to play both sides of the issue.

Activists threaten to take their anger out on the cackling kook who appears to be our current president. Shrieked a swarthy moonbat who wants the fruits of other people’s labor:

“The governor needs to understand the world is watching California and this is gonna have a direct impact on your friend Kamala Harris who is running for president.”

Relax, greedy racists. Commie-la is on your side. Here she explicitly states that she will confiscate the money (i.e., the labor) of some and give it to others to reward them for belonging to a favored racial group:

Going on 2 centuries ago, we fought a civil war over slavery. We may come to fight another.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

Cackala Proves She Is Black

Kamala Harris used to present herself as Indian-American, but presidential politics make it more expedient for her to be black. In the video below, she confirms that she is in fact a black woman — or at least, she conforms to a liberal elitist’s condescending conception of a black woman:

Maybe it’s the black blood mixed in with the Irish slaveholder blood that allows Cackala to go on for a whole sentence talking like a black woman — sort of.

On a tip from Mr. Freemarket.

Serena Williams Faces Racist Oppression

Serena Williams, a zillionaire tennis player hyped into the skies because of her preferred pigmentation, has encountered racist oppression:

On Monday, Serena Williams publicly accused a restaurant in Paris of denying her and her kids access.

She took to X to wail piteously that the Peninsula Hotel “denied” her a table even though it was empty.

The heart bleeds in the face of the oppression she has been forced to endure. Maybe she should have just commandeered a table anyway, like Rosa Parks on the bus.

Now for the rest of the story. The restaurant responded:

“Dear Mrs. Williams, Please accept our deepest apologies for the disappointment you encountered tonight. Unfortunately, our rooftop bar was indeed fully booked and the only unoccupied tables you saw belonged to our gourmet restaurant, L’Oiseau Blanc, which was fully reserved.”

Evidently the tables had been reserved by guests of the hotel. But how do we know these guests aren’t racists? Good thing she sicced the outrage mob on the establishment.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

Never Too Young to Be Punished for Thoughtcrime

Some children come out of public schools unable to read and write; others don’t get through the first grade without learning about totalitarianism:

A California 7-year-old was banned from drawing pictures at school and forced to sit out recess for two weeks for adding “any life” below Black Lives Matter on a picture she drew and gave to a Black friend, punishments that led to a federal lawsuit.

No one disputes what happened at Viejo Elementary School in Orange County:

The student, identified as B.B., drew the picture, which also included four colored-in ovals representing herself and three friends, after a lesson on Martin Luther King, Jr., and gave it to her friend, M.C., who took it home, where her mother saw it.

It is considered racist to suggest that all lives matter. M.C.’s mother complained to authorities.

The principal confronted B.B. and told her the drawing was “inappropriate” and “racist” and that she couldn’t draw at school anymore and had to apologize to her friend. When she returned to class, her teachers told her she was not allowed to play at recess for two weeks.

B.B.’s mother sued.

U.S. Central District Court Judge David Carter acknowledged that M.C.’s parents didn’t want B.B. punished and that neither student understood why B.B. was apologizing.

“Undoubtedly, B.B.’s intentions were innocent,” Carter said in ruling for the district. “B.B. testified that she gifted the Drawing to M.C. to make her feel comfortable after her class learned about Martin Luther King Jr.”

Yet Carter came down on the side of the thought police, on the grounds that “an elementary school … is not a marketplace of ideas.”

On a tip from Ed McAninch.

Know Them by Their Heroes

A healthy society requires heroes to reinforce self-respect and serve as inspirational models. The Founding Fathers are ideal examples. To systematically destroy a society, social engineers replace heroes with the lowest scum they can find. This erodes self-respect and discourages constructive behavior.

If you would like to have a street named after you in a jurisdiction that has succumbed to moonbattery, start with a strongarm robbery of a convenience store, attract the attention of police by walking down the middle of the street, and then get yourself shot by attacking a police officer and trying to take his gun — like liberal demigod Michael Brown:

A new St. Louis board bill calls to rename part of a street near City Hall after Michael Brown Jr., nearly a decade since his death in Ferguson, Missouri.

Alderman Rasheen Aldridge formally introduced Board Bill 69 on Friday, which would create an honorary street name of “Michael O.D. Brown Way.”

The idea is to encourage more behavior like Michael Brown’s. He counts as an unarmed black man shot by a white police office, making him a rare and precious asset to those struggling to prop up the liberal narrative.

On a tip from Steve T.