{"id":355142,"date":"2020-07-08T16:20:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T20:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=355142"},"modified":"2020-07-09T16:09:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T20:09:03","slug":"poll-of-african-american-views-on-cops-debunks-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/07\/08\/poll-of-african-american-views-on-cops-debunks-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll of African-American Views on Cops Debunks Myths"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Okay. I want you all to listen to this, and particularly those of you in the audience who are African-American. It struck me when I ran across the story. The story is actually… I found it at Power Line, the great blog. It was written by Paul Mirengoff in this case, but what he\u2019s done, is he found a couple of polls of black people and has analyzed them and reported on them.<\/p>\n

It struck me that I don\u2019t see polling data where the respondents are exclusively African-American, and that kind of surprised me. It\u2019s one of these realizations that, “Wow, I\u2019ve never seen that.” Yet you think it happens all the time because what happens is that African-Americans just get lumped in with the Democrat Party because African-Americans vote 93, 95% on average every presidential election for the Democrat candidate.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s assumed that blacks believe whatever Democrats believe, and then — I know I\u2019ve heard it a number of times; so have you — usually a white liberal will get in your face. “You don\u2019t even know what it\u2019s like! You don\u2019t even know what it\u2019s like to be African-American. Go talk to them! They don\u2019t think they\u2019re gonna see their 21st birthday. They think cops are gonna shoot \u2019em for a bad taillight or something.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So you end up believing that the African-American population really is that… (sigh) Their outlook is that bleak. People just believe it. You\u2019ll be sad about it, but you accept it. Well, apparently none of that is true because somebody actually has gone out and taken a poll exclusively with black respondents. Now, the title of Mirengoff\u2019s blog post here is, “What Do Blacks Say About the Police?”<\/a><\/p>\n

A couple pull quotes from the piece: “[B]ut for African-Americans, Bernie Sanders probably would be the Democratic nominee for president. African-American voters saved Joe Biden\u2019s campaign, even though, as some of his opponents liked to point out, he collaborated with Dixiecrats, opposed school busing, and led the charge for stiff sentencing of drug offenders.<\/p>\n

“Michael Javen Fortner, author of Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment focuses here on black attitudes about the police. Do blacks in America really believe … that ‘they can be killed anywhere at any time by anyone, but especially by [cops]\u2019? Fortner argues that they don\u2019t” believe this.<\/p>\n

“When asked, ‘How satisfied are you…'”? Remember, this is a poll of black respondents. “When asked, ‘How satisfied are you with the job your local police department does,\u2019 21% said ‘very satisfied,\u2019 51% said somewhat satisfied, 12% said somewhat dissatisfied, and only 5% said that they were ‘very\u2019 dissatisfied. These results do not suggest a complete endorsement of contemporary policing, as many blacks report negative interactions.<\/p>\n

“Yet nearly [75%] of surveyed African-Americans report themselves satisfied with their local police departments.” What? Who would believe that? I mean, isn\u2019t virtually everything happening here under the guise of social justice, isn\u2019t it happening because we\u2019re told that African-Americans…? We gotta defund the police departments because African-Americans think that police departments exist only to harm them.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re told this. We don\u2019t dare argue it or refute it. “The Washington, D.C. area has a large number of black immigrants from Africa.” Paul Mirengoff writing here. “My impression (and it\u2019s only an impression) is that these immigrants make up a considerable percentage of people who care for the elderly in this area, and are well represented among local taxi drivers.<\/p>\n

“I gather they are well represented in certain other job categories too, but it is in these capacities that I encounter them. Do blacks from Africa view America as a racist nation? Not likely. They wouldn\u2019t have come here if they did. My impression (and again, it\u2019s only that) is that these immigrants find America a relatively congenial place.<\/p>\n

“They appreciate not just the economic opportunities, but also the presence of order and the absence of rampant corruption. I might be wrong,” Mr. Mirengoff writes, “but I don\u2019t sense that they detest the police or that they want America to be radically transformed.” These are African immigrants in Washington that he\u2019s talking about here.<\/p>\n

“But then,” he says, “I doubt that many native African-Americans want this either. Keep in mind that, but for African-Americans, Bernie Sanders probably would be the Democratic nominee,” then he writes about, “Michael Javen Fortner, author of Black Silent Majority, and black attitudes toward the cops. He says This: “‘Polling data suggest that most African-Americans do not share [the] bleak view of their experiences'” that you think they do.<\/p>\n

“‘In a 2019 Pew survey, 44% of blacks reported being “unfairly stopped by police” because of their race; 54% said, “No, has not happened to me.” In a Monmouth poll taken after Floyd\u2019s death, 44% of African-Americans reported that they or an immediate family member felt “harassed by police,” but a majority did not share this experience.<\/p>\n

“‘When asked, “How satisfied are you with the job your local police department does,”‘” just to repeat, this is Pew and Monmouth, “‘21% said “very satisfied,” 51% said somewhat satisfied…” Folks, that\u2019s a total of 75% somewhat satisfied with the job of local police departments, African-Americans, in 2019. Things could have changed, obviously, but I don\u2019t think that dramatically.<\/p>\n

“‘These results do not suggest a complete endorsement of contemporary policing… Yet nearly three-quarters of surveyed African-Americans report themselves satisfied with their local police departments,'” and then it says, “These results shouldn\u2019t come as a surprise. But polling data present at least one counter-intuitive result:<\/p>\n

“‘A 2015 Gallup poll found that black adults who believed police treated black people unfairly were also more likely to desire a larger police presence in their local area than those who thought police treated black people fairly.'” That is stunning. Now, admittedly, it\u2019s 2015. But to me, it doesn\u2019t matter. This runs counter to everything we\u2019ve been told.<\/p>\n

\"\"Again, it\u2019s a survey — two surveys — of exclusively black respondents. “[B]lack adults who” think the cops treat them unfairly “were also more likely to desire a larger police presence…” Stop and think about. You know, the color of one\u2019s skin doesn\u2019t change one\u2019s humanity, doesn\u2019t change the desire you have for your kids to do well, to want a good education. It doesn\u2019t mean anything.<\/p>\n

Why would the color of your skin somehow make you not want a police department where you live? It makes no sense. And yet this is what we\u2019re being asked to believe, that a majority of African-Americans do not want police departments. And this effort to defund police departments in Democrat cities and states is being run in the name of African-Americans, and it isn\u2019t true. But because there\u2019s never any polling data exclusively of black Americans there\u2019s never any refutation of it.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the conclusion from Mr. Fortner, who did the poll and analyzed it: “‘Elite institutions have committed themselves to a theory, program, and performance increasingly detached from the aspirations, worldviews, and everyday concerns of millions of blacks. Activists have secured pledges to “defund” or “dismantle” police departments, but black Americans haven\u2019t received concrete, alternative public-safety plans to curb violence.'”<\/p>\n

In other words, get rid of the cops; it doesn\u2019t make things safer. How are you gonna do that? “‘Most African-Americans clearly desire police reform over abolition. … Any “antiracist” movement that disregards how working and middle-class African-Americans define and pursue the good life is not worth its name.'” Boy, is that ever right. The idea that just because of skin color, certain people don\u2019t pursue, don\u2019t want to pursue, don\u2019t think it\u2019s possible to achieve the quote-unquote “good life”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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