Black Lives Matter and the New Religion

The Social Justice Movement as a New Religion

Welcome to the Conversations That Matter podcast. My name is John Harris. A special welcome to those who are new subscribers within the past two weeks. I don't think I've ever seen so many new subscriptions on iTunes and YouTube since I started, actually, than I have now, and so I appreciate the support.

Those of you who have been listening from the beginning and those of you who are new, here's what you can expect if you're new, because I know many of you watched the last video I put out, Why Are All My Friends Marxists?, and I'm going to focus on issues that really pertain to working class Americans especially.

Things that, especially Christians, those of you who are trying to feed your family and honor the Lord, I want you to be prepared to answer objections that you're going to get, and you are getting right now, from the social justice religion, because it is a religion.

I pointed that out in my last video. It might be good to go watch that first if you haven't, but this is not a political movement strictly. This is, at the core, a religious movement masking as a political movement, and so we are seeing the formation of something very new in a sense, but it's been around for a while.

It's a repackaged deal. It's Marxism at the core, but it's been in academia alive and well for quite some time, and it's been on seminary campuses now for at least a few years. I encountered it when I was a student a few years ago, and so I've been trying to sound the alarm on this, but sadly, there have not been many pastors, para-church organizations, institutions that are Christian that have produced resources to help working-class people identify and respond to this new religion, and so I have a lot of sympathy, especially for parents who, you know, your son or your daughter went to school, they're coming back, and they've bought into this new religion.

They've sat in class for hours a day being trained in a new religion, and they've memorized their arguments, and you're probably caught off guard. You're probably caught off guard now. Your son or your daughter might have called you a racist.

I also have a lot of sympathy for those of you who just spend a lot of your time trying to do the right thing. You want to worship the Lord, and you want to feed your family, and you work hard, and now there's this new religion, and there really aren't resources.

Your favorite pastors haven't been talking about this stuff, and you don't have time maybe to even go and research critical race theory and figure out what it is, so my aim is to help you as much as I possibly can, and it may be that further on down the line there will be other things that we need to respond to, but my hunch and my hunch for a long time has been that this is the new paradigm, and we saw it with the response to COVID, and now we're seeing it with the Black Lives Matter protests, and I mark my words we're going to see a re-emergence of the Me Too movement with a vengeance.

We're going to see the climate change initiatives come right back into public discourse. We're going to see a lot of things, and social justice, that paradigm is going to be applied to them, and so let me give you a quick review of what I'm talking about, why I call this a religion and not just a political movement, and then let's get into some really, really important understandings that we need to have if we're going to interact and respond to this.

So a little review here, this is the formation of a new religion, and I pointed this out. I actually added one thing to this chart since last time, but social justice parallels the Christian gospel in so many ways.

White male straight privilege is like original sin. You don't have to do anything. You're just born with it, and you're in sin. You're a racist even though you may have never thought or done anything racist.

Political correctness is the new law, the do's and the don'ts, what you can and can't say. Being woke is like being born again. Liberal politics are the sacraments, so taking down historical monuments, redistributing wealth in some way, disbanding the police now.

I don't know if you saw Minneapolis has disbanded their police force or they've defunded it. I mean, this is, these are sacraments now. There's woke leaders that are priests, sociologists, and woke pastors if you're in the evangelical movement.

Sociology is the new canon. Sociological books you have to read, usually by critical race theorists like Kimberly Crenshaw Williams or Derrick Bell or D 'Angelo or, you know, there's many different books now out there that people are probably shoving in your face saying you must read this.

Heaven is on this earth. It's equality. It's pursuing. It's the hope that, the eschatological hope, that we're going to achieve some kind of equity or equality here on this earth. And then the victims, this is what I added, are our saints.

So you have now victims of shootings or police brutality and they are the new saints of this new religion. So how does social justice contradict the gospel? Well, the focus is on external behavior instead of heart condition.

Systemic solutions, not individual hearts. The oppressor classes are the ones focused on, so groups instead of individuals. And then you have a problem with the ordering. So this is how it contradicts Christianity.

In Christianity, justification and then sanctification. You're justified before the Lord because Christ has taken your sin, given you his righteousness, and now you are in a process of sanctification, becoming more like the Lord.

Well, in the social justice gospel, this is completely reversed. You have got to be sanctified in some way before you can be accepted and justified. And of course, culture and really the social groups that you're, even voluntary associations that you're part of, they will accept you if you're properly woke enough.

And then there's perpetual repentance instead of justification. And so I put this chart up there just to show you, and I explained a little more in the last video, how this is a religion. But this is the process.

This is sort of the conversion experience. You get woke, so that's like salvation. Come to an understanding of systemic oppression. Realize you are complicit in the system as a result of your privilege.

If you are in fact, I mean, and really everyone has some level of privilege. There's always going to be someone that has less privilege than you. And so you have to somehow check that privilege, be aware of it, redistribute it.

Then you're supporting whiteness or maleness or heterosexuality. Participate in lamenting and raising awareness. These are new ordinances. Find forgiveness from oppressed people. Those are the new priests.

They're going to absolve you in some way, at least temporarily. And then your goal is to do evangelism. You're going to shame others. You're going to promote oppressed perspectives in these new holy books, and you're going to make some ultimatums.

You're going to force people into the mold, and that's the new catechism. And so this is really what we're seeing happen around us. And it's interesting. This was a tweet from a secular person on Twitter, but this is not a Christian, right?

And this is Michael Tracy. And he says, I'm telling you, every protest I've been to so far perfectly mirrors an outdoor evangelical Christian worship service. And you can see if you're watching, they're outside of a police headquarters, and there's all these protesters kneeling, putting their arms up.

A lot of them are descendants of Europeans, you can tell. And it looks exactly like a prayer vigil of some kind. Looks like an evangelical worship service, and he's not far off. And I want to just give you a few more examples.

I gave some examples in the last video, but let me just show you a few things that I noticed this week that look exactly like secular worship. Here's the Democrats in Congress kneeling with these African pattern scarves.

And so the first picture is them kneeling, taking this almost nine minute moment of silence for the Floyd situation. And then there they are angry, very angry about systemic oppression in the United States of America.

And you have people now, this is a new movement, shaving their heads in solidarity. And of course, there is some historical basis for this. People, I mean, you even read in the Old Testament about people shaving their heads when they're in mourning.

And so this is the emotional reaction. It's to change your appearance. Here's some examples of policemen. Here's one story about policemen. And it says white policemen specifically and civilians washing the feet of black organizers and asking for forgiveness at a rally.

Here's another one. This is in Webster, I believe, Massachusetts. And I want you to just watch this very short video. Now, for some of you, you probably want to hide. You can't believe that a sheriff would prostrate himself to a crowd like that.

And maybe you're thinking, too, I can't believe Minneapolis would defund their police department. And New York and L .A. want to take some of that funding and give it to the quote unquote black community.

And you got historical artifacts being destroyed and coming down and damage to property. And it's just too crazy. And you probably just want to go and go fishing or something and just forget about it.

The world's crazy right now. And I get that tendency. But here's the reality. Your friends are getting caught up in this. If you live in the United States, I can almost guarantee you have at least one friend who's getting caught up in this new religion.

And I want you to think about that police officer, that sheriff. If he was against what's going on, what is he going to do? He's got a huge portion of his town coming out to demand, to see him prostrate himself, to pay homage, to kneel.

I'm thinking proskuneo, the Greek word in the New Testament for paying homage and kneeling. Don't tell me this isn't a religion, but it's a religion that's not just coming from the top down because it is.

You probably are getting emails from every subscription you've ever had telling you that they care about racism. Their organization stands in solidarity. And it's the same thing that you saw during the COVID crisis.

Every organization did the same thing. So there's a top down element, but what about from the bottom up? Who are all those people in that audience demanding to see, at least desiring to see, a police officer prostrate himself?

We have to be ready to share the gospel and to combat a false gospel with our friends. And that's why I've prepared what I'm about to show to you. You may need to watch it a few times because it's a little heady, but I've tried to use diagrams and to break it down as simply as I possibly can.

Now, if you're a regular listener, you may want to watch this episode just because I do have these visuals. And of course you can see I put so much hard work into these stick figures, but they get the job done.

But if you're listening and you can't watch it, I will explain to the best of my ability what I'm looking at. And I may use some big words. I'll try to avoid that as much as possible. But I have to explain to you, the social justice movement that we're seeing, the religion that your friends are being taken in by, is a combination of postmodernism and Marxism.

Now there's different kinds of postmodernists. There are different kinds of Marxists. So I realize these aren't like monolithic movements, but what I've seen from those who have sent me info on what their friends are posting, what I've seen in the media, there is a certain kind of epistemology and a certain kind of metaphysics that are driving this.

Now those are big words. I understand that, but epistemology is just concerned with questions like, how do you know what's true? And metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with questions like, what is the nature of reality?

And so broadly speaking, social justice warriors tend to look at things through a Marxist metaphysic. So they're asking questions Marxists would ask. They're giving solutions Marxists would give. They see reality the way a Marxist would see it, with oppressors and oppressed and the solutions, the ethical, so ethics plays into this, the ethical solutions that Marxists offer.

Now from the epistemological end, the how do you know end, social justice warriors believe that certain perspectives have a greater truth value than other perspectives. So an oppressed group of people understands more what is really going on in reality than a majority culture or an oppressor culture and the perspective that they would hold.

Now I'm going to flesh this all out for you, but I needed to say that up front just so you kind of know what I'm getting at and where I'm going here. So this is, again, this is about your friends. All right.

This isn't about big heady philosophy stuff. This is about just your friends because they're adopting this without, they don't know all these terms. They're just, you know, worldviews are more caught than taught.

They're catching this. So postmodernism, let's start. Experience. Experience. Here's a red stick figure I made with red glasses in a red box. And this red stick figure is actually a member. I created the stick figure, so I get to determine this, but this red stick figure is a member of a community of red stick figures.

Even though you can't see them, I'm just saying there could be more in the box with this person. And they all have similar experiences because they're red and they have red glasses. And so they have a certain reality.

We'll call it red's reality. And to them, the world looks red. Now let me ask you this before I go further. Is there some truth to that? Yeah, there is. Our experiences do color the way that we look at things, right?

No one argues against this that I know of. That's not a uniquely postmodern idea. Postmodernists don't have a corner on experience. The real question though is, is there a way to adjudicate between different perspectives?

Meaning, are there tools that someone in the Himalayan mountains and someone in the Bahamas, so two different completely cultures, different geographic areas, different socioeconomic, let's say, categories, are there tools that either of those groups can use by which to determine truth?

Has God spoken in such a way that he has given us natural revelation by which we can determine as best in our finite capabilities as possible what is true? That's the question, right? And the postmodernists, the kind that I'm talking about, they want to say that we're essentially in a box.

You're in your cultural box. So if you're, let's say, I'm using red, but if you're part of, let's say, the female experience or the sexual minority experience or the, in this case, right, the black experience, you have a certain set of experiences that members of your community share which colors the reality that you live in.

Okay? It's, you see the world through this lens, but it also kind of, it determines the truthiness, the truth claim, the reality that you live in. All right? So now that we understand that, let's keep going here.

There's another group of people. So we have the red people and now we have the blue people. Blue people have their own experience, their own set of shared values, their own traditions, and they live in these boxes and we'll call them blue's reality.

Now, blue can't see outside of this box. Okay? Just like red couldn't. And everything to blue looks blue in the box that blue lives in, in the community of blue. Now, think with me for a moment. We have the Smurfs and the communists, I guess, red and blue.

How do you know if the Smurfs, the blue people, if they say something is the case, right? They say two plus two is four. And the red people say, no, two plus two is not four. It's three. How would you be able to determine what the truth of the situation is?

Well, if all we have is these boxes that we live in that we're trapped by and sets of experiences and traditions and all the rest that go into a culture, if that's all we have, then there really isn't much you can do if you are in one of these categories.

If you're blue, you can't go to red and convince them. If you're red, you can't go to blue and convince them. Now, here's where the critical race theory, the social justice, what you're seeing your friends buy into, this is where it starts to make sense and get real.

This branch of postmodernism assigns to a group, we're going to use red in this case, a superiority. So red actually has something closer to the truth in their reality. Their reality is more truthful than blue's reality.

And in fact, blue should just listen to red, right? Because red has, there's something about red that makes red's reality more truthful. So red is superior. Red's voice needs to be platformed. Red needs to be listened to.

And blue just needs to listen and not talk and listen to what red has to say. Blue is inferior. And so blue stays in their reality, but somehow they got to try to listen to red's reality. Now, the contradiction you're probably already seeing is if they both have their own realities, how in the world do they break out of that?

And that is the Achilles heel. But the postmodernists that you're watching on Facebook right now, this is what they're saying. This is the whole understanding that they have when they say, you need to just listen if you're white, right?

Because you have an inferior experience. Your set of experiences can't give you truth. But if you're someone who's in a oppressed category, those experiences have a greater truth value to them. Okay? So here's the next obvious question.

Who is determining that red's experience is better or superior than blue's experience? Because it can't be red and it can't be blue. They're both in the boxes. Well, there's a God view. There is something that transcends these experiences.

There's something at a bird's eye view that can look down on both these experiences and say, red is superior. And who are those people? Well, those are the sociologists. Those are the priests, the new group of priests who are academics, who are historians, who are journalists.

And that's why right now you're being told you got to go read these books, let me tell you, because they're going to give you the quote unquote God view, the bird's eye perspective that can adjudicate between blue and red, between black and white, between different communities and tell you which one has the legitimate right experience.

Okay? So they have a special privilege. You want to talk about, you know, white privilege. There is a group, there's a class of priests that have a special privilege, a special access to a God view, and they can help you communicate with the divinity through their holy books.

So all the critical race theory books you're supposed to read. Okay? See the religion coming out in this? Now to the sociologists, everything is actually red. Even blue's experience, it's really red. So blue is in a deception.

Blue doesn't see reality for what it really is because blue's got blue glasses and you got to have the red glasses in order to see everything through the lens of red. And so these sociologists are actually assigning reality to red.

They're saying red is actually, even though on the front end they'll say red's in their box, blue's in their box, they have different experiences. What they're, what they really are saying when it gets down to it is that actually no, red's not in a box.

They contradict themselves. Red actually has access to reality and blue is the one trapped in a box. So red sees things as they are. Blue sees things as they are not. And it's up to blue now to try to get out of the box.

This is the salvation. Okay? Getting out of your perspective. And in order to do that, blue needs the Holy Spirit. I'm sorry, did I say Holy Spirit? No, it's not the Holy Spirit. In the social justice religion, it's not the Holy Spirit that gives you truth and helps you transcend the box that you're in.

It's the experience of red. So in this case, to apply it to the current situation, it would be like the black experience, whatever that is. Blue must listen by putting on the glasses of the black experience and seeing the world through the lens of oppression.

Then, maybe then, blue will be able to see reality for what it really is. Then, white people will be able to see reality for what it really is. The problem is, white people, just like the blue people in this diagram, are still in the box and they can't get out.

No matter what you do, no matter what holy books you buy in this new religion and read, no matter what friends of yours who are minorities you listen to and you hear their stories and you try to lament with them, no matter what you do, you will always be in that oppressor box and you will always be in constant need of grabbing the glasses again, grabbing another holy book.

So this time, maybe this time, you'll really understand, but you never will. That is the sad part of all of this. Your friends, many of them who are buying into this, are buying into a completely hopeless religion.

There is no escape from the box that they, that the chains that they have put around themselves. So this is, this is the situation. Here's what Christianity says, all right, to just give it a little contrast here.

There's God's view, which is reality, and then you got the red people, you got the blue people, and God has revealed aspects of his character. You can read Romans one, you can talk and look at this, but God has revealed through special and natural revelation, a understanding to both, and this applies not just to Christians as non-Christians also, even those who don't have special revelation still have access to natural revelation, which is part of God's revelation, right?

So you have humanity having access in part to God's view so they can see reality. So in Christianity, the important part is, are we viewing it through the lens of revelation, special revelation, natural revelation?

Are we putting on the glasses God has given us? Not are we putting on someone else's glasses? No, we all have access to these glasses. And so that is, that's Christianity, and that's how it differs. That's how it's a complete contradiction to say that social justice is just part of Christianity.

No, it's not. No, it's not. They are antithetical belief systems in total. Unfortunately, many so-called evangelicals are buying into this, and here's a good example, an answer really to the question, where is this going?

Where does this train end? What's the end goal here of all of this? And the reason for evangelicals, who have said they're evangelical, at least getting involved. This is a post from the Jude 3 Project, which ironically, Sean McDowell, who's an apologist, his father's famous, he posted about this yesterday, this Jude 3 Project, and recommended them, said, yeah, they're great.

Well, here's something they're selling, listen, lament, legislate. Listen, lament, legislate. Guys, that's salvific. This is a program, and the ultimate end goal of this, the redemption of some kind, what we ought to do in our listening, in our lamentation, right?

It's not listen to the Word of God. Listening's fine, but it's not listen to the Word of God, repent of your sin, and come to Christ. It's listen, lament, legislate. It comes back to a government solution of some kind, and I'm convinced it, I mean, people have been saying, who are in the social justice movement, no, we're just saying we want to change things at our churches.

Well, that may be, and that may not be good, but ultimately, I think it's going this way. It's going to be a government solution, and let me show you something that related to this. Here are three evangelical leaders, the BD Annabelle, Ed Stetzer, and David Platt, and of course, all involved at high levels with different organizations.

David Platt has been very involved with the SBC, Ed Stetzer as well, but Ed Stetzer's at the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton, and then to BD Annabelle, of course, very involved with Nine Marks Ministries, and all three of them, in some way, showing solidarity by marching with Black Lives Matter.

And, you know, this is very interesting to me, especially David Platt's tweet here. David Platt says, march and pray and sing with other followers of Christ from churches across the district tomorrow at 2 p .m. in DC.

He posted this last Saturday. He's talking about an event on Sunday. Now, it was pointed out to me that David Platt's church is not meeting right now because of COVID, COVID restrictions, but somehow, he's going to encourage his congregation on the Lord's Day, on Sunday, to go and participate in a Black Lives Matter demonstration.

That's incredible to me. I mean, talk about priorities being off, but this is the world we're living in. When politics become more important than even what happens as far as the church is meeting, you know you're in another religion.

You know it. It's not a question anymore. Let's talk about Black Lives Matter. I want to give you some things to think about and to help you navigate conversations with friends of yours. We're going to start out with the organization, and then we're going to talk about just the hashtag because most of your friends don't know details about the organization, but they probably should if they're going to use that hashtag and go to these marches and so forth and so on.

Black Lives Matter as an Organization and Its Marxist Vision

First of all, this is Black Lives Matter in Schools Week of Action. This was this year, February 3rd through 7th. Here's what they were recommending. I'm not going to read all of it, but Restorative Justice, Diversity, Empathy, Loving Engagement, Queer Affirming, Transgender Affirming, Unapology Black, Black Women, Black Families, Black Villages, Globalism, Intergenerational and Collective Virtue.

Now, there's problems with just about every single one of those and the way they're applied, but I wanted you to your intended to go off when I said Queer Affirming and Transgender Affirming. What does that have to do with Black Lives Matter?

Well, let me read for you. This is from the organization itself in their About section. This is what they say, We make space for transgender brothers and sisters to participate and lead. We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift Black trans folk, especially Black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans antagonistic violence.

We build a safe space that affirms Black women and is free from sexism, misogyny, and environments in which men are centered. We practice empathy. We engage comrades. Comrades. Yes, they use that word.

Don't tell me this isn't Marxist. We engage comrades with the intent to learn about and connect with their contexts. We make our spaces family-friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children.

We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work double shifts so that they can mother in private even as they participate in public justice work. Now, they just talked about being family-friendly.

Listen to this next paragraph directly following it. We disrupt the Western prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families in villages that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.

We foster a queer-affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual, unless s slash he or they disclose otherwise.

We cultivate an intergenerational and communal network, free from ageism. We believe that all people, regardless of age, show up with the capacity to lead and learn. We embody the practice of justice, liberation, and peace in our engagements with one another.

These are Marxist revolutionaries, and a Christian ought to be ashamed if they would dare to even set foot on the same street in support of a Black Lives Matter protest of some kind. This is an actual organization, and you might be asking yourself, with all the junk I just read, what do Black Lives Matter have to do with any of that?

It's so unrelated, you would think, but it's not in their minds because they're practicing a different religion. If you think what you just saw in regards to police brutality and racism and so forth isn't going to spin the wheel and become about vilifying men or heterosexuals or families or churches, you're living in a fantasy.

You're just living in a fantasy. The church is, churches that, I should say, are engaging in this in a positive way, churches that are doing that are tying their own hangman's noose. It's going to come after them the same machine that they are.

In one case, I remember someone, I mean, I've gotten so many of these stories, someone told me that their local fundamentalist church bought pizza for Black Lives Matter protesters. These organizations aren't on your side, guys.

They're not. They're going to put the sights on you next, and maybe it'll be 10 years from now. I don't know. I happen to feel it's going to be closer than that. It won't take as long. Here's the question I would ask.

These are some good questions for those who support the organization Black Lives Matter and think there's no problem, right? There's a lot you could ask, but what about abortion, gang violence, and I like to use specific examples because they do, and David Dorn.

Do those Black Lives Matter or just the ones that you can use for your political agenda? Let me give you some stats. Let's talk about abortion. Abortion giant Planned Parenthood, which kills an estimated 247 Black Americans every day.

This is from LifeSite News. A startling 2016 study exposed that in New York City, more Black babies are aborted than there are born. Similarly, in 2010, Planned Parenthood fell under scrutiny after a census suggested that abortion giant was preying on Black communities as at 79 of their surgical abortion facilities were within walking distance of African American or Hispanic communities.

Abortion induced deaths of the unborn in the Black community are 69 times higher than HIV deaths, 31 times higher than all other homicides, 3 .6 times higher than cancer related deaths, and 3 .5 times higher than deaths caused by heart disease.

You know what I don't really want to hear about anymore? If I could avoid it, that COVID -19 is exposing systemic racism because minority communities are getting it worse because of systemic oppression and poverty and nutrition and etc.

Even though men tend to get it, were dying at rates higher than women, no one seemed to want to talk about that in the media because that didn't play into the narrative. But they could show that, hey, they're in minority communities, I guess, and I haven't verified this, higher rate of deaths from COVID.

That's a drop in the bucket, guys. And the same crowd does not want to talk about abortion at all. Why is that? What about these guys? This is actually dated now because this is from two days ago. I don't know if the number remains or not.

17 people have died in protests rioting following George Floyd's death. 17. Death. Died. That we verify. Probably there might be more. I don't know. Look at the picture if you're watching. Hmm. I don't see any white people.

Maybe the person bottom left is more a descendant of Europeans. Maybe. Other than that, these are all minorities of some kind. And there's David Dorn. David Dorn. The police officer, retired police officer, who was trying to prevent looters from, I believe it was taking a television or televisions, and he was killed.

Why aren't they marching for him? In honor of him? Or does he not fit the narrative because he wore blue? I'm just asking. These are the kinds of things that need to be pointed out. Let's look at some statistics, shall we?

If you believe Black Lives Matter, which I do, believe all lives matter, and Black people are included in that, then we should not just be concerned about abortion, but we should be concerned about crime that would kill them.

They're made in God's image, just like all people are. And so here's a chart. This is from 2018, pretty recently, peer-reviewed chart. And it shows the percentage of violent incidences according to race and ethnicity.

So you have all the violence against white people were perpetuated by, 62 were perpetuated by white people, and 15 were perpetuated by Black people. Of all the incidences where Black people were the victims, so violence committed against them, 10 .6 were from white people.

70 .3 were from Black people. Now what does this mean? There's a disparity, right? Of some kind. We all know that disparities are so wrong. Well, the disparity is that there's more Black people killing Black people in the United States for some reason.

Now, I suspect this is probably in urban areas where there's fatherlessness and gang activity, but hey, that's problematic. How come we don't have marches in the street every time someone dies from gang violence who happens to be Black?

Or is it just that if the perpetrator is white or a police officer, then it counts. Then their lives matter. But then they can become a martyr, even if they were a criminal. But not if it's someone who's Black who kills them.

Why is that? Good questions, right? If Black lives truly matter. How about these charts? Unarmed police shootings. So you have 2017 to 2020, and you can see they're going down quite a bit, which ironically, this is under Trump's America.

Police shootings are going down. Even for Black people, police shootings are going down. Do you think Trump will get credit for that? Probably not. But here's the thing. You can see based on this chart, quite handily, that white people are killed.

There's a lot more white people killed, I should say, in unarmed police shootings than Black people. Now you might say, John, hold on though. You'd expect that. There's a lot more white people in the United States.

And I would say that's very true. But here's, I found this as well. In 2013, the FBI has Black criminals carrying out 38 of murders compared to 31 .1 for whites. The offender's race was unknown in 29 .1 of cases.

If this is true, if it's true that there are more Black people committing violent crimes, if that is true, then you would expect these statistics to show more police shootings against Black people. Would you not?

But that's not what you see on the chart. If these things are true, then you could actually make the case, and I'm not making it, I'm not making this case just so you know, but someone could make the case that there's actually racism against whites because they don't contribute to the percentage of violent crime at the same rate, but they are shot more and killed more in unarmed police shootings.

Why is that? Here's another chart for you to look at. Black-on-white homicides versus white-on-Black homicides. In other words, Black people killing white people, how many incidences per year from 2005 to 2015, and then how many white people killing Black people.

I'm not going to tell you what the numbers are. You can see the chart though. There's a whole lot more Black-on-white homicides than white-on-Black homicides. This is pretty indisputable stuff. The source for this was local, state, and federal crime statistics.

So it was someone who had taken all of those and put them into an understandable graph. If that's true, then why isn't the racism against white people? Why isn't that the systemic racism? Why is it Black people?