Black Professor to Mark Levin: I See No Pattern of Epidemic Racism Among Our Police

PJ Media ^ | 06/16/2020 | Jeff Reynolds

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Dr. Wilfred Reilly. Screenshot from video.

On this week’s episode of Life, Liberty, and Levin, Dr. Wilfred Reilly pushed back on the concept of systemic racism. Reilly told Mark Levin that many of the examples cited by activists have huge variables other than race to explain why they happen. He said that while systems of oppression have existed in America in the past, many of them have disappeared under our civil rights laws.

Reilly is an associate professor of political science at Kentucky State University, a historically black university. He has authored three books, including Hate Crime Hoax: How the Left is Selling a Fake Race War:

Professor Wilfred Reilly examines over one hundred widely publicized incidents of so-called hate crimes that never actually happened. With a critical eye and attention to detail, Reilly debunks these fabricated incidents—many of them alleged to have happened on college campuses—and explores why so many Americans are driven to fake hate crimes. We’re not experiencing an epidemic of hate crimes, Reilly concludes—but we might be experiencing an unprecedented epidemic of hate crime hoaxes.

Levin asked Reilly about the concept of systemic racism, to which he responded,

Systemic or institutional racism as an academic is a phrase that I’m always a bit skeptical of. Now obviously, if we want to be honest about some of this country’s history, there have been systems like criminal sentencing in the past, where until quite recently, you did see discrimination at kind of a broad, group-targeted level.

[ClearCase_guy]

Now obviously, if we want to be honest about some of this country’s history, there have been systems like criminal sentencing in the past, where until quite recently, you did see discrimination at kind of a broad, group-targeted level.

I have no problem with that statement. The Democrats opposed Reconstruction, the Democrats imposed Jim Crow, such systems were in place in the past. But they are not now. We have made tremendous progress. Discrimination is now illegal and everybody knows it.

BLM gives us no credit for making any progress at all. They still see systemic racism everywhere they look. That's because they don't know what racism is. That's because they've never seen racism. That's because we don't have systemic racism in this country.

[maddog55]

There is no systemic racism in America only in the MSM and the liberal left. They hate everything.

[philetus]

I wonder how all these systems and laws that discriminate against Blacks were ever put into place.

[hecticskeptic]

Very glad you posted this... this was a very compelling interview and along with the open letter from the professor at Berkley, these were two items that I’ve been sending out to others who might have been sitting on the fence about all that has gone on.

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RE: this was a very compelling interview and along with the open letter from the professor at Berkley

The sad part is this Berkley professor had to write his letter ANONYMOUSLY for fear of backlash. This does not bode well for academic freedom and free speech.

[hecticskeptic]

Totally agree and I’ve made the point to those I’ve sent it on to. Hopefully he will come out of the shadows...

[elbook]

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Facts, logic, reason - none of these thing matter to Leftists who Lie as Easily as they Breath - to further their poisonous agenda.

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