Neither will address the elephant in the room: the massively disproportionate level of violence and crime among the black population. How can we deal with any of this if we can't even get people to acknowledge the numbers and the fact that there is a subculture that devalues human life and propagates violence? Every week, I can give you a dozen or more incidences of black mob violence, and not just from Baltimore and Philly. How do we talk about the demonization and attacks, literal attacks, on cops if we can't even identify which group is overwhelmingly doing this? How is it that we can't even count on right-wing news sources to ask the most basic question at the hear of this: what's up with this subculture in the black community that rationalizes and denies wildly disproportionate levels of violence, that normalizes hatred of police, that blames violence that can't be discounted on other groups rather than taking responsibility for it?
What do you think the reaction is when for the 100th straight time in Philly that a flash mob descended on a store and grabbed half the merchandise, it was a group of young black folks. yet not a single news source, even the conservative news sources, like Fox, will make the most obvious observation of the one variable that has remained constant through all 100 of them? Or the You guessed it: it stirs up more racial animosity, not less, by pretending not to make the most obvious observation.
If we can't even get Fox News, with its millions of viewers, to ask, "What's up with all this violenceand hatred of cops in the black community," no other major media source, perhaps other than the WSJ, will ask it. They could have a dramatic effect on this debate by having honest reporting on these sorts of incidents that happen left and right in cities across the country each week. They bring on Heather MacDonald. They bring on Victor Davis Hanson. They bring on Larry Elder. All have written about this issue of wildly disproportionate levels of violence within the black community, but I haven't once heard them get a platform to talk about that particular issue on Fox News.