I would like to understand and be shown what this thing called “systemic racism” is and what both organizations would share with us are their policy solutions. Both organizations’ statements of policy failures ring hollow with ambiguity. These are convenient buzz words with no basis in truth. The days of pointing out education and poverty along with the convenient incarceration rates are old and tired.
According to the American Free press and their analysis of crime data, “for every black killed by a white police officer in the U.S. every year, there are about 71 blacks killed by other blacks.” If you take — on average — 9,252 black-on-black murders every year for the past 35 years, you arrive at a staggering 323,820 blacks killed by other blacks on America’s mean streets in just three-and-a-half short decades. Where has the outrage been on this fact these past many years?
Our country provides opportunity and justice to all if they chose to take advantage of it. We are a free people in America and no amount of money or programs are going to solve today’s societal problems. At some point people must choose to own their situation and stop blaming others for their lot in life.
Let us allow our justice system to do its work rather than use the death of one man to paint our country in a light that is unfair and unreasonable. No amount of money, policy or laws will change culture. White guilt is not going to change our culture. While there may be injustices perpetrated by individuals and even groups, there is no such thing as “systemic racism” in America and it is time to move past false phases.
In closing I will not accept the anticipated responses to this opinion calling me insensitive, biased and a racist. The days of these amateur accusations on anyone that disagrees with the progressive liberal guilt of their own privilege is not my concern.
Robert Cutler
Leawood, Kansas