Are there any lessons to be learned from the brutal, deadly beatdown of Tyre Nichols by several out-of-control Memphis police officers? Possibly, but none that have anything to do with racism. And none the left will acknowledge. All of the officers who beat Nichols are black. The black cops involved might have acted as they did because they thought Nichols defied or disrespected them, or because they were having a very bad day, or because they are thugs. There is no reason to believe they acted as they did because Nichols is black, and common sense tells us they did not.
This is an extremely important and timely post. I was a prosecutor for over 20 years and not once did I encounter police abusiveness anything like this. A more searching inquiry must be undertaken of how and under what circumstances each of these five got on the force. The five were 100% black. If they were representative of the City, about 65%, or only three of them, rounding off, would have been black. Why the imbalance?
Trying to make police forces more black has been going on for years. Equity and inclusion, dontcha know. Because on average blacks lag behind the educational attainments of whites, there is a natural push to lower standards to serve the equity and inclusion agenda.
What do you get when you lower standards? You get cops who shouldn't be cops. And that's what we saw in this murder. Did the lowering of standards directly result in these hires? We don't know yet, which is why that question needs to be investigated thoroughly and honestly (a prospect about which I'm not optimistic; I think a CYA "investigation" is much more likely).
If it turns out that this travesty is the product of hiring unqualified applicants for DEI reasons, that will be a bold, if grotesque, lesson in why excellence counts and inclusion doesn't (or shouldn't). But I fear I'll be 200 years old before I see the MSM let any such lesson see the light of day.
Zora Neal Hurston is being quoted on the Left in connection to the Nichols case: “All skinfolks ain’t kinfolks”. With reference to the incorrigible—and opportunistic—race hustlers, that cuts both ways.
Why can’t our elected Republican “leaders” articulate these truths in a way that ordinary folks can understand. The inability of the center-right to convey such common sense ideas to the voters is one of my perennial frustrations.
This is an extremely important and timely post. I was a prosecutor for over 20 years and not once did I encounter police abusiveness anything like this. A more searching inquiry must be undertaken of how and under what circumstances each of these five got on the force. The five were 100% black. If they were representative of the City, about 65%, or only three of them, rounding off, would have been black. Why the imbalance?
Trying to make police forces more black has been going on for years. Equity and inclusion, dontcha know. Because on average blacks lag behind the educational attainments of whites, there is a natural push to lower standards to serve the equity and inclusion agenda.
What do you get when you lower standards? You get cops who shouldn't be cops. And that's what we saw in this murder. Did the lowering of standards directly result in these hires? We don't know yet, which is why that question needs to be investigated thoroughly and honestly (a prospect about which I'm not optimistic; I think a CYA "investigation" is much more likely).
If it turns out that this travesty is the product of hiring unqualified applicants for DEI reasons, that will be a bold, if grotesque, lesson in why excellence counts and inclusion doesn't (or shouldn't). But I fear I'll be 200 years old before I see the MSM let any such lesson see the light of day.
Zora Neal Hurston is being quoted on the Left in connection to the Nichols case: “All skinfolks ain’t kinfolks”. With reference to the incorrigible—and opportunistic—race hustlers, that cuts both ways.
Why can’t our elected Republican “leaders” articulate these truths in a way that ordinary folks can understand. The inability of the center-right to convey such common sense ideas to the voters is one of my perennial frustrations.
Great insights. Jim Dueholm