by John Perazzo
David Horowitz’s new book pounds a leftist lie into dust.
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We live in an age of many lies, and David Horowitz’s I Can’t Breathe
lays bare what is perhaps the most destructive lie of them all: the
claim that America is a congenitally racist nation where, as Vice
President Kamala Harris puts it, black people have “never been treated
as fully human.” This lie has colossal implications, for it has caused
countless millions of African Americans to view themselves as nothing
more than pathetic, eternal victims of contemptible white oppressors,
while simultaneously causing untold millions of well-meaning, non-racist
whites to rebel angrily against being wrongly smeared as bigots. If
ever a lie was destined to poison race relations and breed mutual
contempt between blacks and whites, it is this one. But now, with a
stirring assault of hard facts and blunt candor, I Can’t Breathe
pounds and grinds this leftist lie into dust. In the process, the book
exposes Black Lives Matter (BLM) as a violent, malevolent movement
founded by Marxist revolutionaries whose principal objective is not to
promote racial justice, but to foment a race war that will tear our
nation apart by any means necessary.
The book begins its assault by citing, on the very first page, “the
disturbing video that recorded the last breaths of George Floyd” in May
2020 and sparked “one of the greatest eruptions of lawlessness and
violence in American history.” It points out that not only did BLM
activists play leading roles in about 95 percent of the more than 600
violent riots in 200+ cities that broke out shortly Floyd’s death, but
that the organization’s foremost leaders steadfastly refused to condemn
that violence. This, notes Horowitz, was “in direct contrast to the
Civil Rights Movement leaders of the 1960s, who insisted on the
principle of non-violence and whose demonstrations were not accompanied
by attacks on police or the destruction of local businesses.”
I Can’t Breathe makes it clear that although BLM has chosen
to break from the non-violent traditions of past civil rights
crusaders, it is no mere fringe movement. Rather, it has evolved into a
massive social phenomenon whose influence is enabled by mountains of
cash donated by tax-exempt foundations, major American corporations, and
millionaires and billionaires from all walks of life.
Moreover, the book explains, BLM has enjoyed the devoted and
unwavering support of the Democratic Party, whose National Committee in
2015 went so far as to pass a resolution formally “affirming” the merits
of BLM’s crusade against the supposed epidemic of “extrajudicial
killings of unarmed African American[s]” in a nation where blacks are
routinely “stripped of their dignity under the vestiges of slavery, Jim
Crow and White Supremacy.” The Democratic Party’s foremost luminaries –
the Obamas, the Clintons, Kamala Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, and a
multitude of others – have gushed with praise for BLM and its ideals.
During the Obama years, for instance, BLM leaders were invited multiple
times to the White House, where they often had an audience with the
president himself.
Throughout 2020, Democrats and leftist media outlets – claiming that
11,000+ “peaceful protests” had been held at more than 2,000 distinct
locations across the country – argued that BLM’s public demonstrations
were “mostly peaceful” expressions of dissent protected by the First
Amendment. But Horowitz points out that their assertion is wholly
illegitimate, in light of the fact that even those “peaceful” events:
(a) “advanced the same Black Lives Matter indictment of America as a
systemically racist society,” and (b) were most often “staged during the
daytime and then regularly morphed into riots under cover of night.” In
other words, writes the author, it is “difficult to regard the
‘peaceful protests’ as distinct and separate from the violence, rather
than as fraternal accessories to it.”
As BLM’s toxic message intimidated and devoured one American
institution after another throughout 2020, it became clear that
Democratic political leaders across the country had neither any
intention of standing up in defense of law-enforcement, nor any
inclination to reject BLM's “Defund the Police” initiatives which were
gaining traction among the left. As a result, police officers quickly
concluded that the Democrats who ran their respective cities could not
be counted upon to back them up in any meaningful way, and that their
own law-enforcement careers, their pensions, and indeed their very
lives, could suddenly go up in smoke if ever there came a moment when
they might need to use deadly physical force against a black criminal
suspect. Thus, the police understandably became reluctant to
engage criminal suspects except where absolutely necessary. This trend,
coupled with the considerable destructive energies of hordes of newly
emboldened criminals, led to a sudden upsurge of violence that dwarfed
anything ever before seen in American history. The national homicide
total rose from 16,669 in 2019, to 21,570 in 2020 – thanks mostly to the
climate of violence created by BLM and its ideological allies.
Not at all chastened by the fact that its raging rhetoric and
violent orientation was directly responsible for America’s national
bloodbath of 2020, BLM has been relentless in claiming that the racism
of police officers -- and of white America more broadly -- constitute
the deadliest threats to black lives in the U.S. Addressing this
allegation with unapologetic bluntness, I Can’t Breathe deploys
a vast array of facts and statistics which reduce it from a bonfire of
wild accusations to a faint, smoldering ember deprived of the
intellectual oxygen it needs in order to sustain itself.
The book also examines the cases of the most significant and highly
publicized “martyrs” mourned and lionized by the BLM movement – i.e.,
blacks whose deaths resulted, for the most part, from violent
interactions with white police officers. When one reads the accounts of
their deaths, the pattern that emerges is unmistakable: In case after
case, the martyrs were longtime hardened and violent criminals with
volcanic tempers who refused to cooperate with police, often fled from
police, and sometimes even tried to murder police. Moreover, in many
instances the suspects were severely impaired by their recent
consumption of large quantities of alcohol or mind-altering drugs. The
absurdity of blaming police for being unable to reach harmonious
resolutions with such disturbed characters, is self-evident to anyone
who reads the damning summaries of these encounters.
Notably, I Can’t Breathe does not turn a blind eye to
incidents where police officers, under tragic and sometimes chaotic
circumstances, have killed black individuals who could not, in any way,
be described as out-of-control menaces. Consider, for instance, the 2014
police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, a black Cleveland youth who
was in a public place brandishing a toy gun that was an exact replica of
a Colt M1911 semi-automatic pistol. Rice was shot by an officer who
thought the boy was raising the gun in preparation to shoot at him.
While some critics, in hindsight, contend that the shooting of Rice may
not have been necessary, the officer who had to make a split-second,
life-or-death decision did not have the same benefit of hindsight in
that fateful moment.
In a similarly tragic situation, a young black man named Philando
Castile was shot and killed by a Minnesota policeman who apparently
misinterpreted what Castile was intending to do with a handgun in his
possession and made a split-second – seemingly panicked -- decision to
discharge his weapon. In a nation where 700,000 police officers engage
in countless millions of encounters with civilians each year, it is
inevitable that some of them will occasionally make mistakes – just as
some lawyers and civil rights activists will make mistakes, and just as
some longtime felons and their acquaintances will make mistakes.
Tragedies happen, sometimes even to people with the best of intentions.
But when BLM seizes upon such incidents in order to exploit them as
evidence of a white war against black innocents, the organization’s
dishonesty and malevolence stand out in bold relief.
“If Black Lives Matter were a civil rights organization,” Horowitz
trenchantly observes, “one would reasonably expect its patron figure to
be Martin Luther King, and its aspiration to be King’s vision of a
race-free America where individuals are judged on their merits and not
by their skin color. Instead, the revered figure and inspirational icon
for Black Lives Matter activists is a designated terrorist and convicted
cop killer: Assata Shakur.” Formerly known as Joanne Chesimard, Shakur
is a lifelong Marxist revolutionary who once belonged to the Black
Liberation Army, an organization that achieved its fame by robbing banks
and murdering cops. Having escaped from prison in 1979 with the help of
left-wing terrorists, Shakur has lived for decades as a fugitive in
Communist Cuba. Indeed, the late Fidel Castro, the sadistic dictator who
protected Shakur in his island nation for many years, is yet another
revered icon of the BLM movement.
“If Black Lives Matter were a civil rights organization,” Horowitz
writes further, “one might reasonably expect its leaders to condemn or
at least distance themselves from well-known race haters like Louis
Farrakhan and Al Sharpton. But Black Lives Matter leaders embrace both
of those demagogues.” Of course it does. What else would one expect from
an organization that proudly endorses the Boycott, Divestment &
Sanctions movement, a Hamas-inspired initiative designed to crush the
state of Israel economically and politically?
And if BLM were indeed a legitimate
civil rights organization, surely it would promote the formation of
black families – particularly in the present era, where roughly 70% of
black babies are born to unmarried mothers in fatherless homes. It is
well documented that regardless of race, being raised without a
father is the strongest predicter that a child will grow up to
experience long-term poverty, psychological and emotional pathologies,
and extended prison stays. And yet, in spite of all this, BLM openly
disparages “the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure,” in favor
of alternative arrangements like “collective” communities and
“villages.” Why? For no reason other than because Marx and Engels saw
the dissolution and abolition of the traditional nuclear family as a
natural and desired outgrowth of “the abolition of private property and
the introduction of socialism.” This fact alone serves as proof positive
that to Black Lives Matter, the overwhelming majority of black lives
don’t matter at all.
In other words, an entire year of racial strife and social upheaval
that resulted in the most dramatic, sudden upsurge in homicides that our
country has ever seen, was based entirely on a carefully crafted lie
injected purposefully into the American psyche by a pack of destructive
Marxist revolutionaries who don’t give a damn about black lives, white
lives, or purple lives. By making this very demonstrable reality plain
to every reader, I Can’t Breathe makes a major contribution to
the vital task of finally, and blessedly, casting that lie into the
dustbin of evil, discredited dogmas.
John Perazzo
Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/11/racial-hoax-killing-america-john-perazzo/
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