On Sunday, The Daily Signal posted an article about a claim made by Representative  Ayanna Pressley that there is a national crisis of “widespread modern-day lynchings” and “racial terror.”

The article lists eight cases of black people found hanging from trees. Only one of those people, a woman, was found to be the victim of foul play. Her murderer, a black man,  has been found and arrested.

The article reports:

The investigation found no national racist conspiracy. From 1995 through September 1998, authorities investigated 670 arsons, bombings or attempted bombings involving houses of worship. Two hundred twenty-five involved predominantly black churches. Most did not. Of the 106 suspects arrested for arson at black churches, 68 were white, 37 were black, and one was Hispanic. 

Some fires were indeed racist crimes, but the sweeping media narrative was false. America had again been stampeded into believing white racism had suddenly and everywhere reared its head. 

The article notes:

Meanwhile, these so-called leaders ignore the elephant in the room. 

They ignore the epidemic of black children born without a father married to and living with their mother, despite overwhelming evidence that two-parent families improve economic, behavioral and educational outcomes. 

They ignore the crisis of K-12 schools in urban America, where most black fourth graders are not proficient in reading or math. Democrat politicians and teacher unions control and defend public urban schools. 

They ignore black-on-black crime. In 2023 more than half of the nation’s homicide victims were black, and of those victims, nearly 90% of the identified offenders were black.  

They ignore the effect of illegal immigration on black joblessness and wages. A U.S. Commission on Civil Rights investigation found that illegal immigration has tended to increase the supply of low-skilled labor and depress both wages and employment rates for low-skilled American workers—a disproportionate number of whom are black men. Research presented to the commission estimated that the immigration influx from 1980 through 2000 reduced the employment rate of low-skilled black men by 8 percentage points. Other research estimated that immigration cost the average American man without a high school diploma approximately $1,800 annually in reduced wages. 

It’s time to make stable families great again!