Heather Mac Donald, author of the just-published War On Cops, has a message for San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick: “Get your facts straight.”
She says she’ll leave it to sports fans to decide the propriety of Kaepernick’s refusal to stand for the National Anthem in protest of alleged bad behavior by police. But, she says, “if you’re going to do that, at least make sure you understand this issue.”
Mac Donald, who wrote the cover story “Black Lies Matter” to be published on the Washington Examiner website Saturday morning, says Kaepernick’s claim of “large-scale oppression of blacks by the police or society as a whole is just false.”
“In Chicago this year, about 2,700 people have been shot, an overwhelming majority of them black,” Mac Donald says. “Police shootings make up just 0.6 percent of all shootings in Chicago. If [Kaepernick] wants to save lives he should be talking about fathers staying around to raise their children, sending out a message of educational discipline so kids succeed.
“To demonize the cops will result in more black lives being taken by gangbangers rather than saving black lives.”
