Obama’s Rush to Judgement and Identity Politics Contributed to their DeathsBy Michael Hoffmanwww.RevisionistHistory.orgShortly before several Dallas police officers were killed by a sniper (or snipers) on July 7, President Obama spoke at a NATO summit in Poland and immediately rushed to judgment by insinuating that officers in Minnesota had done something seriously wrong in their treatment of a black motorist who died as a result of a traffic stop.
The two events may seem unrelated, but at bottom, they concern the same fundamental problem
Had American racism occurred in exact reverse, with whites being the victims of slavery, terrible Jim Crow abuses, and the soul-devouring hopelessness of festering ghettos and barren reservations where jobs are rare or nonexistent, wouldn’t many of us have turned to crime or drug dealing to survive?
In fact, in circumstances lacking a racial factor, as in economically devastated Appalachia, mass dysfunction associated with heroin use has reached epidemic proportions.
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