Yesterday, before the Dallas massacre, President Obama made it plain that he considered what happened to Alton Sterling and Philandro Castile part of a continuing series of racial attacks by cops on Black men. He did so without waiting for all the facts to come in and before hearing one word from either police officer about what happened.
His exact words:
“…I am encouraged that the U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation in Baton Rouge, and I have full confidence in their professionalism and their ability to conduct a thoughtful, thorough, and fair inquiry.
“But regardless of the outcome of such investigations, what’s clear is that these fatal shootings are not isolated incidents. They are symptomatic of the broader challenges within our criminal justice system, the racial disparities that appear across the system year after year, and the resulting lack of trust that exists between law enforcement and too many of the communities they serve.”
But try and find even one instance when President Obama described massacres by people who specifically professed their allegiance to ISIS, as attacks by radical Islam.
You can’t, because there isn’t any.
What are we supposed to make of this? Your call.
