Whenever I see or hear the words “Dear White People,” I have an involuntary cringe reaction. Why? Because I know that what is to follow these three words will likely be some of the most skull-hammeringly obtuse race-hustling heap of bovine excrement most of us have seen.
Such is the case with disgraced former Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) who did this very thing on social media after a New York jury acquitted Daniel Penny of murdering Jordan Neely during an altercation on a subway train.
In a lengthy tirade on X, Bowman trotted out the usual progressive talking points on racial injustice and oppression while making some rather outlandish claims.
The former lawmaker starts by saying, “Dear White People, I don’t know why I feel the need to keep talking to you. I don’t know why part of me still has hope for you and for us.”
Then he claims he has “seen countless incidents of brutal police violence and killings in my lifetime” and then brought up the Rodney King beating as an example. “Those officers were acquitted,” he wrote.
This is partially true. However, two of the officers involved in the incident were convicted of federal charges and spent time in prison.
Bowman turned to Jordan Neely, lamenting his fate and Daniel Penny’s eventual acquittal.
Jordan Neely is the latest. He was sick. He was not a threat. He was subdued. Still not a threat. Daniel Penny choked him for 6 minutes. And killed him. We all watched it on camera, and he was still acquitted.
Then, the former lawmaker claims that White Americans are not abused by law enforcement.
I’ve left out probably another hundred instances of this trauma in my life. For comparison, I ask white people, how many times have you seen a white man killed in cold blood on camera on your newsfeed? How many times have you even heard about this?
Apparently, Bowman does not keep up with the news, nor does he truly study the issue of police misconduct. There have been plenty of instances in which White victims of police brutality have been discussed on social media and in the news. Ryan Whitaker, Tony Timpa, and Daniel Shaver are a few notable examples.
Yet, the media never gave these incidents wall-to-wall coverage as they do to Black victims. The reason is because the press does not want the issue to be solved and they know if they showed more victims of all races being harassed, beaten, and even killed by law enforcement officers, it might prompt more calls for change that might actually lead somewhere.
This would mean the media could no longer use the issue to get ratings while pushing left-wing narratives about police. For them, it is better to simply exploit Black victims for this purpose.
Bowman then goes on to discuss one of his favorite topics: White supremacy. "Whenever you feel discomfort from your whiteness, Black people are harmed or killed. And there is never accountability or justice,” he writes.
Then, in what appears to be an encouraging word for Black people, he said he wishes he “didn’t have to live with all of this trauma deep in my bones” and that he marvels “at the beauty and greatness of my people in spite of white supremacy.”
Dear White People,
— Rep. Jamaal Bowman Ed.D. (@JamaalBowmanNY) December 10, 2024
I don’t know why I feel the need to keep talking to you. I don’t know why part of me still has hope for you and for us. Some of you are too far gone. But maybe enough of you aren’t and will join us in fighting to end white supremacy.
I’ve seen this same diatribe peddled by other race hustlers on the far left who seek to use the historical struggles Black Americans have faced to grandstand and signal their virtue while using their positions to further divide Americans of all ethnicities. His post prompted me to give a simple response:
"Dear White people" negroes are some of the worst.
— Jeff Charles, Doni's St. Bernard🏴 (@jeffcharlesjr) December 11, 2024
Feckless virtue signalers, the lot of them https://t.co/Opg4HMngzS
The only good that comes when these people use this rhetoric is that it exposes their true intentions, which have nothing to do with helping Black Americans or healing racial wounds.
If folks like Bowman were actually serious about addressing these problems, they would not alienate the very people they always ask for help. They would not seek to turn off potential allies that could help to move things forward. These are not stupid people; they know better.
Instead of making genuine efforts to form alliances with folks of all ethnicities, they are only ensuring that racial tensions persist – which appears to be their objective from where I sit. Folks like Bowman profit in some form from keeping these problems going. As long as they can build their brands on complaining about racism and history, they will always have at least a semblance of relevance, which is precisely what they are after.
