The National Anthem Protests -- Do Facts Matter? - Larry Elder

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The National Anthem Protests -- Do Facts Matter?
Larry Elder

Where was the angry left when Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called the national anthem protests "dumb and disrespectful"?

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...According to The Washington Post, almost 500 whites were killed by cops in 2015, an average of more than one a day. Two hundred fifty-nine blacks were killed by the police. Most suspects killed by police had a weapon.

Now for some perspective.

Do you know anyone who has been struck by lightning? Neither do most people. Yet each year an average of about 300 Americans are killed or injured by lightning. That's approximately 40 more than the number of blacks killed by the police in 2015. Is there an "epidemic" of Americans being struck and injured by lightning?

Continued at: https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2017/09/28/the-national-anthem-protests--do-facts-matter-n2387546

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Chicago has had more than 500 murders so far this year.   Roughly 90% of the victims are black.    Where is the attention for these people?

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Larry Elder rocks. A black libertarian, a very rare breed. Elder doesn’t think Trump is a racist.

The fact that Donald Trump got 30 percent more of the black vote than Mitt Romney, says something about the bogus racism attacks. This attempt to smear Trump as racist will certainly fall flat on its face by the end of Trump’s first term.