Anything that could have been done for the people rioting in the streets over George Floyd’s death could have and, in many cases, has been done at the local level, but liberals are still trying to hold President Trump accountable for the continued unrest. It’s all apparently because he’s yet to give a nice speech or sign some new law that Democrats themselves aren’t even committed to.
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson wrote Monday that this would all go away if only “a competent president could help lead us through a process of recognition, reconciliation and healing.”
Yeah, right.
Barack Obama did a lot of “recognition, reconciliation and healing.” That didn’t seem to stop breakouts of rioting, looting, and vandalism when he was president.
Baltimore went up in a ball of flame and broken glass in 2015 after the death of Freddie Gray.
There were nationwide riots that same year in response to Eric Garner’s death.
The same thing happened in 2013 with the death of Trayvon Martin.
I recall Obama giving a fairly good speech each and every time. He even noted that if he had a son, “he’d look like Trayvon.”
But here we are today, in need of more “recognition, reconciliation and healing.”
Robinson isn’t that naive. The unrest isn’t about racial equality. It’s about politics. That much was clear after the White House and both houses of Congress produced their own plans for police reform, only to watch the chaos across the country intensify.
Our political leaders bought into the media-backed narrative that, contrary to all evidence, cops are out in force to harass and even kill black Americans. When virtually everyone collectively agreed that reforms to the police would be beneficial, the story immediately became about income disparity, access to healthcare, and demands for race quotas.
Robinson and others can pretend, but these riots are not about justice at all. That’s why no amount of “recognition, reconciliation and healing” can stop them.
