Democrats have thrived on blaming crime in black communities on ‘white racism’ says expert

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Democrats have had little incentive to address rampant crime in cities where they control the political system because blaming problems on white people has served as a useful excuse to dupe black voters into keeping them in power, according to a Manhattan Institute senior fellow.

But with the party’s ruling majority in peril, they have a reason to tweak their messaging, especially when it comes to their anti-police rhetoric.

With crime having exploded in the aftermath of the mayhem that came after the viral video of George Floyd’s death sparking leftist politicians to pursue policies to strip local police departments of funding, voters in crime-ridden areas are experiencing the violent fallout of measures that were justified by pointing the finger at systemic racism and the myth that cops were disproportionately targeting blacks and could be about to turn on those who enabled criminals.

Manhattan Institute senior fellow Jason Riley who is also a columnist for the Wall Street Journal described the cynical political strategy to Fox News Digital.

“It’s about power. And the Democratic Party gets a lot of mileage out of blaming problems in the black community on white people,” he said in a phone interview. “And black activists, that’s how they stay relevant, it’s how they raise money — by blaming the problems of blacks on whites. This is how politicians and liberal politicians, progressive politicians, get elected and scare people to the polls by blaming black problems on white people,”

“There’s a racial spoil system in place. You can make a very good living blaming all of black people’s problems on white racism. It’s very lucrative,” he said.

But now with President Joe Biden’s numbers falling across the board, including with black voters, it could be that the obvious failure of the progressive tendency to coddle criminals could open the door to a revised approach.

Fox News Digital also spoke with one of the authors of a New York Times essay who suggested that the policies implemented to “help” black people have, in fact, had the opposite effect, backfiring spectacularly.

Hannah E. Meyers, the Manhattan Institute’s director of the policing and public safety initiative told the outlet, “A lot of these policies were designed explicitly around the idea that blacks are so disproportionately represented in the people who are arrested and the people who are prosecuted and convicted and incarcerated — and trying to design criminal justice policy to back-engineer that number to be more on par with the racial demographics of everybody of society.”

“That in itself has created a bigger problem,” she said.

According to Riley, “The police do pull back. They’re less likely to get out of their cars and interact with the public and violent crime spikes. We saw it in Ferguson after Michael Brown. We saw it in Baltimore after Freddie Gray. We saw it in Chicago after Laquan McDonald. So there’s definitely a pattern here,” pointing out the results of the Democrat narrative that leaves residents in black areas at the mercy of criminals.

He also spoke of the “disconnect between the activists and elites” who purport to speak on the behalf of black communities and the actual members of those communities.

“What I would hope is that the media would have a better job reaching out to the individuals who live in these neighborhoods, and not simply keeping the NAACP on speed dial. I think that’s a real disservice to the people in these communities who are being misrepresented, both in Washington and on cable television,” Riley said.

With the worst of the crime affecting some of the deepest blue cities, especially Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia and New York City, a shift is already visible, notably the election of retired police officer Eric Adams as mayor of the Big Apple as well as increasing political pressure on leftist district attorneys Chesa Boudin in San Francisco and George Gascon in Los Angeles.

“Joe Biden’s numbers among blacks and Hispanics have really fallen off considerably. To a point where Democrats can’t win elections if they’re only getting 65 – 70% of the black vote,” Riley told Fox News Digital, “If they’re looking at the polls right now, they have an incentive to change their messaging.”

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  2. The majority if not the PRIME SOURCE of White Racism resides in the DEMOCRAT PARTY! It’s ALWAYS been the DEMOCRATS! They were the antagonists of blacks in the South and then when blacks migrated North the dems were ready there too!! Go to any democrat controlled city, go to the black parts of the city, and now go to the side where all the WHITE democrats live – see any differences??? I bet you do!! And the dems push programs that further destroy the black families – WHY?? SO THEY WILL BE DEPENDENT ON GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS! Then the dems coerce black votes by assuring them that all those handouts will end if the R’s win! How can you VALUE ANYTHING if you don’t WORK for it??

  3. What’s with you blacks , Latinos ?You are the Democrats slaves ,
    Have been for years.
    And you don’t seem to get it !
    Forever they have controlled the blacks ,Latinos ,get their votes then your all told to fk off .
    We’ will see you in four Years ,and you bought that for decades.
    Now your awakening , know that you’ve all been lied to .
    The Demorat swamp is your demise . If you chose it to be .

  4. If they’re looking at the polls right now, they have an incentive to” change their messaging,” So in other words lie to get re-elected. Got it..

  5. BPR, your (new) comment system sucks. Why is it every time you click on a different topic/story you have to keep signing it? Western Journal is no good.

  6. What increasingly annoys me is that big cities like Chicago, Philly, NYC, LA, Denver, Detroit were built by white Europeans. Now that they are filled with black criminals, whites are being driven out.

  7. “If they’re looking at the polls right now, they have an incentive to” change their messaging,” So in other words lie to get re-elected. Got it.

  8. BLACKS AND CRIME ARE AKIN TO SALT AND PEPPER !! WHERE ONE IS YOU WILL FIND THE OTHER NEAR BY AND THIS IS NOTHING NEW !! 72 YEARS IN MPLE MN AND I CAN HONESTLY SAY BLACK CRIME HAS NEVER SUBSIDED OR EVEN LEVELED OFF ON THE NORTHSIDE OF MPLS !! THE ESCALATION IN THE LAST FEW YEARS IS TOTALLY PART OF THE POLITICAL AGENDA OF THE EVIL LEFTISTS AND MAYBE, WHO KNOWS, THE CULT CULTURE OF NOT SPEAKING OUT AGAINST YOUR BRO WILL BE ON ITS WAY OUT !! DON’T EXPECT MIRACLES THOUGH, YOU STILL NEED TO VOTE THE EVIL OUT TO PROTECT YOUR FUTURE !! F.J.B. AND PHUCKOBAMA MORE !

  9. It’s called “the curley effect” used in every major city in the United States. This is a Communist Jewish tactic spawned and implemented. Whereas bad faith actors helping with strategy are as follows.
    1. Soviet Negro Republic
    2. Fabian Communist Rockefeller Republicans
    3. Menshevik/Bolshevik Democrats
    4. Communist Chinese
    5. Communist Latinos

  10. Black on black crime is prevalent, and black on white is following right behind. Will Smith on national television attacks Chris rock. Then there’s the black capital cop, hired by Pelosi, that murdered Ashli Babbit a White woman, in cold blood. Then there’s jussie smollett, that paid Nigerians to put a rope around his neck that he could cry racism, making it look like black dudes are going after Jamaicans. It’s all propaganda, when we see the truth clearly before our eyes.

  11. Two sides, their problems are due to white people when you consider policy makers (namely Joe Biden) and the voters gullibility.

  12. My problem is that i don’t see enough black folks acknowledging this fact. We have the same problem with the Musilm community not acknowledgeing the extremist.

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