RACE POLITICS ARE NOT SIMPLY BLACK & WHITE

THERE were no riots three years ago when a black Minnesota cop murdered white Australian Justine Ruszczyk Damond. But race politics makes everything worse. American cities are now in flames after a white Minnesota cop killed a black man, George Floyd.

Please, please, let this be a lesson to our own race warriors. In a race war, everyone loses. Ask CNN. From the start, this Left-wing broadcaster defended the protesters.

“It’s now just sort of a merry caravan,” chirruped reporter Miguel Marquez, waving at one hooting mob. “It has been entirely peaceful.” But just then a protester threw a bottle at Marquez, who admitted: “Bottle thrown, which is not uncommon.”

Yet he couldn’t stop making excuses: “They haven’t been destroying anything, they like to take it out on the media, yell at us and throw stuff at us, not in a mean way.”

But no pandering to race mobs will ever be enough. Another then smashed into the CNN headquarters in Atlanta, screaming “anti-media rhetoric”, CNN reported. Two race warriors then clambered onto the defaced CNN sign, waving the Mexican flag and that of Black Lives Matter.

MSNBC reporter Ali Velshi declared: “This is mostly a protest. It is not, generally speaking, unruly.” Yet voters could see he was lying. Right behind Velshi’s head, flames roared from another building.

Off camera Velshi told an activist the violence was defensible: “Why do I have to play by somebody’s rules if there’s no justice?” But the protesters never gave justice a chance.

Last Monday, officer Derek Chauvin was filmed squeezing the life out of Floyd during a street arrest for fraud, keeping his knee on Floyd’s neck for nine fatal minutes.

I doubt Chauvin would have been so brutal to a white man, but who knows?

Still, this crime could have been left to Minnesota’s police chief, a black man, and its mayor, of the Left, to deal with. On Friday, Chauvin was charged with third-degree murder.

But race politics changes everything. It changes a single individual into a symbol to be exploited for another race war.

To say the mobs just wanted “justice for Floyd” is false. Few targets in the cities they attacked were explicitly political. Among the buildings they looted and destroyed were shops, a block of affordable housing units, and the offices of a Native American youth group. Much of the damage occurred in black areas. Yes, some violence was incited by far Left and Antifa extremists, mostly white, who grabbed the excuse to wage war on the police and capitalist democracy they want destroyed.

But even “peaceful” protesters were Antifa’s natural allies in destruction, because they, too, tend to treat all whites as guilty, not just one. And they trash the democracy and rule of law that are our best defence against the mob. This was the agenda not just of racist Black Lives Matter ringleaders, but of activists such as former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who offered to pay the legal fees of any “freedom fighters”.

Kaepernick, notorious for refusing to stand for his national anthem, praised violent protesters as if they were soldiers in a civil war: “We have the right to fight back.”

White celebrities full of fashionable selfloathing of their society and race, offered their surrender.

Filmmaker Michael Moore thanked the “good citizens” who burned down Chauvin’s police headquarters: “All police should go home … Rebuild PD with decent kind (people) aka of color.” And Americans last week saw what happens when police “go home” — when they are too outnumbered to stop a mob. We should be alarmed that here, too, forces play with this fire of race politics. Patriotism is despised. Our history is trashed. Our national days demolished. Multiculturalism is the creed, and “race” a qualification for jobs and political power. But every concession just feeds extremism. “F--k Australia, hope it f---ing burns to the ground,” shouted Tarneen Onus Williams of the “Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance” at an Australia Day protest.

“Burn this place to the ground!” yelled Aboriginal actor Nakkiah Liu on the ABC. “Let’s burn stuff,” agreed race activist Nayuka Gorrie, again on the ABC.

And Clementine Ford, a white author funded by Melbourne City Council, sneered: “White people are so dumb … We deserve everything we get.”

But read the warning in the flames of America: when race war comes, who can say which of us will burn?