[W]e know -- but, America, we know that bias remains. We know it. Whether you are black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or of Middle Eastern descent, we have all seen this bigotry in our own lives at some point. We've heard it at times in our own homes. If we're honest, perhaps we've heard prejudice in our own heads and felt it in our own hearts. We know that. And while some suffer far more under racism's burden, some feel to a far greater extent discrimination's sting. Although most of us do our best to guard against it and teach our children better, none of us is entirely innocent. No institution is entirely immune. And that includes our police departments. We know this.

And so when African Americans from all walks of life, from different communities across the country, voice a growing despair over what they perceive to be unequal treatment; when study after study shows that whites and people of color experience the criminal justice system differently, so that if you're black you're more likely to be pulled over or searched or arrested, more likely to get longer sentences, more likely to get the death penalty for the same crime; when mothers and fathers raise their kids right and have "the talk" about how to respond if stopped by a police officer -- "yes, sir," "no, sir" -- but still fear that something terrible may happen when their child walks out the door, still fear that kids being stupid and not quite doing things right might end in tragedy -- when all this takes place more than 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, we cannot simply turn away and dismiss those in peaceful protest as troublemakers or paranoid.

These remarks don't expressly put blame on the murdered cops, or cops generally, or whites generally, or America generally, for the Dallas massacre.  But make no mistake, they're an only half-hidden adjunct to the rancid Black Lives Matter narrative that, we know from the assassin's own words, fueled the murders.

It's bad enough  --  and, as Baltimore is showing, lethal enough  --  that the President gives currency to this sort of stuff anywhere, ever.

To say it at the funeral of the murdered policemen was, to be blunt, worse than bad enough.  It was contemptible.

A grieving 13 year-old boy showed more of a sense of occasion, and more grace, than the President of the United States.

This is where we are.