The tragic irony of the Black Lives Matter movement is mind-blowing.

It targets police, but police are the best source of security black communities have.

It targets incarceration, but incarceration has helped reduce a crime rate that disproportionately injures, and kills, blacks.

And, let's just say it out loud, it's worse than merely a tragic irony. It's borne of racial hatred of white police officers. What exactly are we supposed to make of the BLM slogan, "Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon"?

That Democratic candidates genuflect to this Movement and its origins in hate is reason enough, standing alone, to refuse to vote for them.

The world changed in 1948, when Truman's support of civil rights laws caused Southern Democrats to Dixiecrat and again in 1964 when the GOP picked Goldwater, who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, over Rockefeller, who did not. Dixiecrat candidate Strom Thurmond became a Republican, as did segregationist Jesse Helms and a host of other white Southern Democrats (e.g., Phil Gramm, John Connolly, Trent Lott, Richard Shelby).

Between that, the Southern Strategy of Richard Nixon, GOP opposition to school bussing, Ronald Reagan starting his 1980 Presidential Campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi talking about State's Rights in the shadow of the graves of Schwerner, Goodman and Cheney, and a host of decisions hostile to civil rights laws by conservative justices on the US Supreme Court, African Americans got the message--the new home of the Old South was the Republican Party and there was little interest in their votes. Can you really blame them?

https://me.yahoo.com/a/uYyQYbV53OVQ_EKeVwp_98wlHAKGjg3tRlHv#701b1, It would be better if you used some kind of name.

As Professor Sowell notes, cherry picking can be utilized support either side. The northeast leadership of the Democrat party did decide to embrace the civil rights movement, with several southern democrats either capitulating or changing parties. Lyndon Johnson switched, Al Gore Sr., and Robert Byrd did not.

Fidelity to busing remains explicit evidence of stupidity. Busing itself is racist.

The Democrat solution to racism was to build urban ghettos, put urban blacks on a subsistence income, lower the standards and expectations (dumb down) of urban schools, subsidize the break up of black families, and allow free abortion to eliminate a significant percent of black babies, just as eugenics devotees intended.

All of these policies spilled across racial lines, negatively influencing society as a whole, but by far, urban blacks suffered most.

This is a blog focused on criminal justice. When policies advanced by one political party result in the murder, rape and addiction of millions of urban blacks, at seven times the ratio of whites, we are going to call it out.

There is absolutely no excuse for what has happened to this nation's urban black population and no question about who is responsible.