Today, May 25th, is the third anniversary of George Floyd's death.
How's that whole "racial reckoning" thing working out anyway?
It's starting to look like the harder heads of the Democrat-media industrial complex have decided it's best to memoryhole their 2020 mania.
The CDC tracks the cause of each death. Here's the weekly number of blacks dying by homicide (red) and motor vehicle accident (blue) by week from 2018 to late 2022. After George Floyd's death, black homicides jumped from a trend line of ~200 to ~300/wk and car crash deaths up ~45
The Occam's Razor explanation for why blacks suddenly died so many more Deaths of Exuberance (murders and traffic accidents) immediately after the cops retreated to the donut shop during the triumph of Black Lives Matter in 2020 is that black lives depend upon law and order.
On this 3rd anniversary of George Floyd's death, can you figure out when he died and the "racial reckoning" and "depolicing" began?
It's almost as if the George Floyd-Black Lives Matter mania of the 2020s was a catastrophic mistake at its basic task of saving black lives.
Three years of the "Racial Reckoning."
How's that working out for you?
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Riffing on Cecil Deaton's 2015 discovery of rising white white working class Deaths of Despair (suicide, opioid overdose, cirrhosis), I coined the term Deaths of Exuberance for rising black homicide and car crash deaths during the "racial reckoning" since George Floyd.
For a spectacular example of Deaths of Exuberance, observe the drunk and high Usual Suspect who killed 3 on D.C.'s Rock Creek Parkway in March by driving her Lexus into them at 100 mph while fleeing the police because her boyfriend had an illegal gun:
With the 3rd anniversary of the epochal death of George Floyd coming up on Thursday, it's time for the media to notice finally how much their vaunted "racial reckoning" at the behest of Black Lives Matter unleashed a historically novel surge in black deaths by homicide and crash.
The U. of California banned SAT/ACT admissions tests in 2021. The data is now available for 2022 acceptances and it looks like dumping the SAT was a disaster for UC San Diego's freshman class quality.
In 2020, 2,878 students from majority Asian and white L.A. County public schools were accepted by UC San Diego. This dropped to 2,199 in 2022 (down 24%).
In contrast, 1,601 applicants from majority black and Hispanic schools were accepted in 2020, but 5,130 in 2022 (up 215%).
How’d UC San Diego make room for all these extra low test score students from unchallenging public schools? Upscale public school acceptances were down 24%, private schools down 41%, out-of-staters down 24%, and internationals down 25%.
Even when adjusted for their parents' level of affluence, black men are four times more likely to be incarcerated than white men raised at the same level of affluence, with the ratio rising to 10 to 1 for those from the richest One Percent.
My graph based on Harvard economist Raj Chetty's massive database: black men are incarcerated 4x white men with equally affluent parents:
Among men raised in the dirt-poor lowest percentile of parental income, blacks are 3.3 times as likely to be imprisoned as whites.
At the 25th %ile, blacks are confined 3.9 times as often.
50th %ile: 4.5x
75th %ile: 5.0x
98th %ile: 6.7x
100th %ile: 10.7x
From Harvard economist Raj Chetty's data: Horizontal axis is percentile of parents' income 1994-2000. The black line is the % of black males born c. 1980 who were incarcerated on April 1, 2010, the blue line white males locked up.
The red line, measured against the right vertical axis, is the ratio of % of black males incarcerated to % of white males incarcerated. It rises from about 3 to 1 for the poorest Americans to about 7 to 1 among the richest, before exploding to 10 to 1 for the richest one percent.
There are only about 1800 blacks who were raised in the top 1% of parents' income vs. 186,000 whites. My guess is that Top 1% highest paid black families tend to be more athletes and entertainers, while Top 5% tend to be more CPAs and JDs. So that may explain 10:1 ratio at top.
As usual, Heavy.com is the site to go to for data dumps on murderers in the news. White doctor in Orange County on his bike was murdered by a middle class black Jamaican with Rastafarian and mainstream Democrat leanings.
Higher rates of schizophrenia are found among black male immigrants, rather like the Dana Point "white privilege" murderer. That's hardly proof of a link, but I wouldn't be surprised if schizophrenia played a role in this racist murder of a white doctor riding a bike.
Still, due to the higher rates of violent insanity found among black men, especially immigrants, our Establishment should think about toning down and cutting back on its anti-white racist hate speech deluge like "white privilege."