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1 " On September 16, 2020—the fourth anniversary of Crutcher’s death—religious leaders from Tulsa’s churches and temples gathered outside a midtown Unitarian Church to commemorate Crutcher and to endorse the message that “Black Lives Matter.” Rabbi Dan Kaiman of Congregation B’Nai Emunah said, “We… see a need, the need, right now to hold up this phrase, ‘Black Lives Matter,’ and to reclaim it for our lives, for all our lives, here in Tulsa. We do not view this phrase, ‘Black Lives Matter,’ as political speech but as a declaration of something that should be obvious but is not.”33 "
― David Horowitz , I Can't Breathe: How a Racial Hoax Is Killing America
2 " Other cities, including New York, were turned into war zones too. In the first full month of post–George Floyd rallies and riots, the number of daylight shootings—a sign of brazen gang violence—more than tripled across the city.87 Between June 1 and June 30, there was a 130 percent increase in the number of shooting incidents, a 30 percent spike in murders, a 118 percent rise in burglaries, and a 51 percent increase in auto thefts.88 June was New York’s bloodiest month in a quarter of a century. The NYPD’s chief of department, Terence Monahan, blamed the trends largely on the fact that “the animosity towards police has been absolutely unbelievable. "
3 " Kaepernick’s historical illiteracy frames the whole Black Lives Matter narrative. It is useful to remind ourselves of the facts. As African American scholar Thomas Sowell explains, [a] cliche that has come into vogue is that slavery is “America’s original sin.”… Today the moral horror of slavery is so widely condemned that it is hard to realize that there were thousands of years when slavery was practiced around the world by people of virtually every race. Neither Africans, Asians, Polynesians, nor the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere saw anything wrong with slavery, even after small segments of British and American societies began to condemn slavery as morally wrong in the 18th century. What was special about America was not that it had slavery, which existed all over the world, but that Americans were among the very few peoples who began to question the morality of holding human beings in bondage. That was not yet a majority view among Americans in the 18th century, but it was not even a serious minority view in non-Western societies at that time. Then how did slavery end? We know how it ended in the United States—at a cost of one life lost in the Civil War for every six slaves freed. But that is not how it ended elsewhere. What happened in the rest of the world was that all of Western civilization eventually turned against slavery in the 19th century. This meant the end of slavery in European empires around the world, usually over the bitter opposition of non-Western peoples. But the West happened to be militarily dominant at the time.99 "
4 " One cost of the Ferguson riots was noted in their wake—a nationwide spike in violent crime, as police across the country retreated under the wave of anti-police hostility. In 2015, America’s 56 largest cities experienced a 17 percent rise in homicides. Several cities with large black populations saw their 2015 murder totals spike even more dramatically—they went up by 54 percent in D.C., 60 percent in Newark, 72 percent in Milwaukee, 83 percent in Nashville, and 90 percent in Cleveland. St. Louis police chief Sam Dotson, referring to the town where Michael Brown’s death took place, attributed the increased criminal violence to “the Ferguson Effect.”29 "
