{"id":1508604,"date":"2022-06-09T07:34:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1508604"},"modified":"2022-06-09T07:34:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:34:38","slug":"the-washington-posts-jonathan-capehart-insists-its-ok-for-black-people-to-be-scared-of-crazy-white-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-washington-posts-jonathan-capehart-insists-its-ok-for-black-people-to-be-scared-of-crazy-white-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The Washington Post\u2019s Jonathan Capehart Insists It\u2019s OK For Black People To Be Scared Of \u2018Crazy White People\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-washington-posts-jonathan-capehart-insists-its-ok-for-black-people-to-be-scared-of-crazy-white-people%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1508604&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Jon-Capehart.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Imagine picking up a copy of the Washington Post (as if you ever would) and reading the headline, \u201cWhy White people are afraid of \u2018crazy\u2019 Black people.\u201d Setting aside the obvious reasons that would come to mind, you\u2019d immediately realize you were dreaming and wake up, because the Post would <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/11\/30\/the-jussie-smollett-trial-isnt-about-a-hoax-its-about-the-entire-social-justice-movement-being-a-scam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">never run such a thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But it would and did publish the inverse in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/06\/07\/splc-poll-black-people-afraid-great-replacement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a column<\/a> this week by the thickly spectacled Jonathan Capehart. \u201cBlack people are not afraid of White people,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWe\u2019re afraid of \u2018crazy\u2019 White people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Capehart, who is black, went on to say he and other People of Color\u2122\ufe0f have come to live in great fear of whites who profess to believe in the so-called \u201cgreat replacement theory,\u201d wherein America\u2019s political leaders are deliberately remaking the country\u2019s electorate via mass immigration. (Up <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/17\/congrats-to-the-media-for-finally-finding-a-white-supremacist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">until recently<\/a>, Democrats and plenty of Republicans simply referred to this as \u201cdefault policy.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>He cited a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2022\/05\/21\/post-poll-black-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">survey<\/a> claiming that 75 percent of blacks are at least \u201csomewhat worried\u201d that they or someone they love will be assaulted because of their race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s all because the number of \u2018crazy\u2019 White people in America fearing \u2018replacement\u2019 appears to be growing,\u201d wrote Capehart, \u201cand they seem ready to do whatever it takes to stay at the pinnacle of American life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone can be somewhat worried about anything for any reason at all. I\u2019m often somewhat worried that the airplane I\u2019m in won\u2019t properly lift off. Similarly, that fear isn\u2019t based on the reality that such a thing pretty much never happens.<\/p>\n<p>That whites at large have become blood-thirsty savages ready to violently attack blacks or other minorities isn\u2019t born out by any data. In 2020, the most recent year for which <a href=\"https:\/\/crime-data-explorer.app.cloud.gov\/pages\/explorer\/crime\/crime-trend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FBI data<\/a> is available (and what a fun year that was!), the race of the offenders of all violent crime \u2014\u00a0which includes homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault \u2014 is split evenly between blacks and whites, 44 percent each.<\/p>\n<p>What should cause Capehart to blush a little is that blacks make up just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/quickfacts\/fact\/table\/US\/PST045221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">13 percent<\/a> of the U.S. population. In other words, almost half of the nation\u2019s violent crimes that year were committed by members of a race that only comprises one-tenth of the people who live in that nation. What\u2019s more, the victims of those crimes in 2020 were more likely to be white (56 percent) than black (38 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Go back the previous two years, and the numbers are just the same. There\u2019s also the fact that interracial violent crime, at least as far as homicide goes, <a href=\"https:\/\/ucr.fbi.gov\/crime-in-the-u.s\/2018\/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018\/tables\/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">is fairly rare<\/a>. Blacks are usually the victims of other blacks, and the same is true for whites. (To that, Capehart said Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ha3HIX3eZ5w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on MSNBC<\/a>, \u201cThat\u2019s not the point!\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>So, tell me again\u2014 who has more reason to be afraid of the crazy who? <\/p>\n<p>Trick question. Don\u2019t be afraid of people based on their race. Although if you really wanted to make Capehart blush, you\u2019d point out that his husband is white. Hopefully not a crazy one.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Privileged-Victims-Americas-Fascists-Hijacked\/dp\/1642931454\">Privileged Victims: How America&#8217;s Culture Fascists Hijacked the Country and Elevated Its Worst People<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine picking up a copy of the Washington Post (as if you ever would) and reading the headline, \u201cWhy White people are afraid of \u2018crazy\u2019 Black people.\u201d Setting aside the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}