Tim Walz: 'Children of people who look like me run to the police, others have to run from [the police].'
Walz refused to send law enforcement because they "started the problem in the first place.”
Please share this magnificent article by Heather Mac Donald on VP nominee Walz’s despicable reaction to the destruction of Minneapolis.
[T]im Walz’s tenure as Minnesota’s governor will be defined by the George Floyd race riots in Minneapolis and his response to them. Americans everywhere still live with the consequences….
The violence in Minneapolis began soon after a cellphone video of [Floyd’s death] went viral on May 26. …
On May 27, Gov. Walz used his midday Covid press briefing to racialize what he called Floyd’s wrongful death….: “We all know that these types of incidents disproportionately affect our black and brown community members,” Mr. Walz said. He thanked the “protesters” for their “commitment to safely protest during this pandemic”—an apparent reference to wearing masks—and “encouraged everyone to be safe, especially in light of the Covid 19 pandemic.” …
On May 29, Mr. Walz held a press conference to explain his decision to send in the National Guard and its belated timing. “There was a decision during the day whether—did you occupy the entire city and shut it down after those 24 hours?” he said. The problem Mr. Walz allegedly confronted was that the “tools of restoring order are viewed by so many as the things that have oppressed and started the problem in the first place.” He spoke of “people who are concerned about that police presence of an overly armed camp in their neighborhoods that is not seen in communities where children of people who look like me run to the police, others have to run from.”
Mr. Walz’s skin color bore on his legitimacy as a decision-maker, he said: “I will not patronize you as a white male without living those experiences of how difficult” it is to have a police force occupying one’s neighborhood. He described the riots themselves as a manifestation of systemic racism: “What the world has witnessed since the killing of George Floyd on Monday has been a visceral pain, a community trying to understand who we are and where we go from here.” Mr. Walz imputed a sacramental quality to the looted and torched buildings: “The ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish, unheard.”
The limited deployment of Guardsmen proved insufficient. …
[I]n Minneapolis, more than 1,500 businesses and buildings burned. Property damage was estimated at $500 million; the livelihoods destroyed by the mayhem were incalculable…
So far in 2024, homicides in Minneapolis are 114% above their 2019 level. Homicides in the Third Precinct are more than three times the 2019 figure, and robberies are up 84%. Crime in the state as a whole is up 12% compared with 2019, when Mr. Walz took office….
In 2022 Mr. Walz declared May 25 “George Floyd Remembrance Day”… Mr. Walz signed legislation in 2023 to lessen criminal penalties, expunge convictions and reopen felony murder sentences ….
Read the whole thing here.
Walz is a pathetic nobody even by VP standards and he’s a massive dupe even by Minnesota standards.
If Walz is arguing that whites are congenitally unfit to govern blacks and browns--and vice versa--then I tend to agree. Representative government requires affinity between the ruler and the ruled. For the sake of ourselves and our posterity, let us reject the delusion of multi-ethnic civic nationalism. Whites, blacks and browns arrive at profoundly different social orders when left to themselves.