Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Can We Pull Back From The Brink? (Episode #207)" video.

  1. Dear Mr Harris, I am jumping in before hearing the entirety of your podcast, because I have never heard such a dystopian gathering of words and phrases from you in less than 3 minutes. If you read the comments, I think this deserves looking at when the topic of social protests in your country is being discussed. This information on how many people were killed in the USA by police in 2019 is staggering. This vital information is not getting out there in your country to people who think all the cops in America are racist, and I think it should. I know you are going to be surprised by this. In paraphrasing a videocast from Peter Schiff about racism in USA, I found Mr Schiff’s account of what is actually going on at odds with a lot of what minority communities are accusing the police of and also of the reporting on social and mainstream media. But let’s let everyone decide for themselves. This is what Mr Schiff has to say: The narrative now is that the death of George Floyd is that he was killed because he was black. And that if it was a white man in the same circumstances, he would not have been killed. Mr Floyd would not have died but for the color of his skin. Maybe it’s true; but you can’t jump to the conclusion that he was killed because he was black and not white because that would be racist to jump to that conclusion. Even if it was the case, it’s the exception and not the rule. There is no statistical evidence that police are disproportionally killing blacks in America. In 2019 just over a thousand people were killed by police in the USA. Approximately 25% were black. Somebody might say, well, blacks are 13% of the population, and if 25% of the people the police are killing are black, then they must be discriminating, because why isn’t it 13%? You have twice as many blacks being killed in relation to their population, but Mr Schiff says you can’t look at that. Because that is the racial breakdown of the people who are committing crimes. Because it’s the people committing crimes who are interacting with the police. In 2018 African Americans committed 53% of the murders in the USA and about 60% of the robberies. This was in the Wall Street Journal and most likely fact-checked. The point is that if blacks are committing such a disproportionate large percentage of crime, then if 25 % of the people who are getting killed by police are black, then that is not because of racism of the police; it’s because they are interacting with a much larger percentage of blacks. In fact, if you look at how much crime blacks are committing, they’re actually under-represented. They are being killed in a lower proportion in their interaction with the police. Astonishingly, about 40% of the police who are killed in the line of duty are killed by somebody who was black, but only 25% of the people police kill are black. That means that if you are a policeman and you are killed, you are 60% more likely to have been killed by a black person than you are to have killed a black person in the line of duty. In reality it should be the police who are out protesting. These are Mr Schiff’s words, and everyone has their own opinion. I Always say too much, but I would like to say that you must realize that a boil is being punctured in your country and around the world by this apparently man-made virus, economic meltdown. The predictable social upheaval from a tragic incident with the police has enflamed the world. But perhaps the most important Lesson we have learned is that President Trump is giving it his level best. Yes, that's right. But what we see is the leader of the free world has no capabilities in leadership. So why has he done us all a favor? Trump has shown us we have to find the answers in ourselves, we don't need someone to tell us what's right for our lives. Sure, it's caused utter havoc in your country not having someone at the helm, but we must get over the obstacle of letting total disorder confuse us, rule us. Peace.
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