The Negative Heuristic of Black Lives Matter

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The media is unbelievably biased and selective in its coverage. The only time that you can interest Benjamin Crump, the civil rights attorney in a black victim is if there's a white perpetrator or a cop perpetrator. Every day dozens of blacks are killed in homicide, more than all white and Hispanic homicide victims combined. There's dozens of children who are gunned down fatally each year in these insanely barbaric drive by shootings,. virtually all killed by blacks. If it was reversed, you would never have gotten the race.

Shermer and Mac Donald discuss: race as America’s original sin • civil rights • equality vs. equity • disparate impact • overt racism vs. systemic racism • why Blacks make less money, own fewer and lower quality homes, work in less prestigious jobs, hold fewer seats in the Senate and House of Representatives, run fewer Fortune 500 companies • race and science, medicine, classical music, opera, Juilliard, Swan Lake, museums, and the law • crime and mass shootings • George Floyd and race riots.

Heather Mac Donald is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a New York Times bestselling author. She is a recipient of the 2005 Bradley Prize. Mac Donald’s work at City Journal has covered a range of topics, including higher education, immigration, policing, homelessness and homeless advocacy, criminal-justice reform, and race relations. Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, and The New Criterion. Her new book is When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives.