{"id":392497,"date":"2021-04-15T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=392497"},"modified":"2021-04-16T15:58:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T19:58:37","slug":"rush-drops-a-truth-bomb-african-americans-want-more-cops-not-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/04\/15\/rush-drops-a-truth-bomb-african-americans-want-more-cops-not-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Drops a Truth Bomb: African-Americans Want More Cops, Not Less"},"content":{"rendered":"

KEN: We are in the thick of something right now, and it\u2019s the result of myth and lies and narratives and propaganda. That\u2019s where we are, and I don\u2019t know how many more times we can say it. You in this audience, you know it. If the news media, if journalism did its job — and journalism pretty much died, I don\u2019t know, forties, maybe, in the fifties. Hard to say.<\/p>\n

I think there was still some left in the sixties and seventies. I remember Mike Wallace breaking a few big cases wide open. But if they did their job, when there was a myth… Like right now, one of the most toxic environments right now is this law enforcement-civil rights dynamic, because it\u2019s riddled with myth and fantasy and lies designed to move certain agendas forward. Rush explained it beautifully. Here he is.<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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?”<\/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-Americans saved Joe Biden\u2019s campaign, even though, as some of his opponents liked to point out, he collaborated with Dixiecrats, he opposed school busing, and he 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 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? Well, Michael Javen Fortner argues that they don\u2019t” believe this.<\/p>\n

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