It’s a riot to watch Black Lives Matter supporters say there should be equal racial representation at every single level of government and corporate affairs and then immediately discount race as a factor when things don’t go their way.
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who is black, announced Wednesday that there would be no murder charges against any of the police officers involved in the case of Breonna Taylor, who was shot and killed by police several months ago in a drug bust where everything went wrong.
One officer faces charges of wanton endangerment for allegedly having fired his gun blindly and with reckless abandon, but Cameron said, otherwise, there was no evidence to support the narrative that Taylor’s death was anything other than a tragic mistake, nor was there compelling evidence that her being black was a factor in the incident.
Surely, that a black man came to this conclusion, with the richness of his experiences, should count for something. But no, because the conclusion is wrong.
MSNBC host and race-obsessive Joy Reid shook her head in furious disagreement.
Reid said Wednesday on her show that Cameron “did nothing but give a speech.” And because Cameron is a Republican, she said, “You have to always look at [political] party. Party is the religion now in America, especially for Republicans. Don’t look at the fact that this guy is black. That does not mean anything. He is a Republican, through and through.”
Reid’s guest, former federal prosecutor Paul Butler, said Cameron’s failure to bring murder charges “stinks of politics” because Cameron “is a conservative Republican.”
Alicia Garza, an original founder of the Black Lives Matter movement who was also on the show, said, “I think what I saw this morning was a Bull Connor speech in 2020. And … unfortunately, it was being given by a black prosecutor.” (Bull Connor was a politician in the segregation-era South who fought against civil rights for blacks.)
Just like that, racial representation in positions of power is suddenly not such an imperative.
Reid and her crew are an embarrassment to the social justice crowd. At least most of the rest seem to look uncomfortable when throwing a black person under the bus.
But it should serve as a reminder that social justice causes such as Black Lives Matter are only tangentially concerned with physical characteristics such as race. It’s otherwise an ideology no different from conservatism or liberalism.
Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts said it perfectly more than a year ago.
“We don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice,” she said. “We don’t need black faces that don’t want to be a black voice. We don’t need Muslims that don’t want to be a Muslim voice. We don’t need queers that don’t want to be a queer voice. If you’re worried about being marginalized and stereotyped, please don’t even show up because we need you to represent that voice.”
In other words, it’s not a person’s race that matters so much as their worldview. If it’s not in line with what the Left is looking for, then you don’t matter.
What Cameron had to say about the Taylor case isn’t what the social justice people like Reid were looking for. So, it doesn’t matter, and he doesn’t matter either.
