Five questions about race that deserve answers

1. When police kill a black man (e.g., George Floyd), why is it always racism by default, but not when they kill a white man (e.g., Tony Timpa) in nearly the same way?

2. If white privilege keeps African-Americans in a perpetual state of economic disparity, why doesn’t it do the same to Asian Americans or to blacks who come to the United States from Nigeria?* Why are dark-skinned people of Indian descent able to fare so exceptionally in a country dominated by a debilitating white racism?

3. If black lives are such a grave concern of the BLM movement and its sympathizers, why are they fixated on a comparatively tiny number of deaths (unarmed victims of white cops) and not the slightest bit preoccupied with the many thousands upon thousands of deaths caused by other blacks each year? How is that even remotely logical?

4. We often hear about institutional racism. Which institutions are the racist ones? The progressive left dominates so many of our country’s largest, most influential institutions: the media, education/academia, the tech industry, entertainment, urban city governments. Is the left to blame?

5. Why are unarmed black women so seldom the victims of police shootings? If police bias is arrayed against the black race as a whole, wouldn’t it apply to men and women alike? For that matter, why are white men shot far more often than white women? Is institutional sexism at work, a bias against males?

Let’s hear some answers.

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* The very fact that Africans immigrate to this country might make for a sixth question: Why would black people who live outside the United States ever come to live in a place that is systemically racist against them? Dennis Prager has raised this question, following up with another: “Would a Jew ever immigrate to a country known for its antisemitism?” Probably not, but it’s a good question.