I Can't Breathe: How a Racial Hoax Is Killing America

Most people have only heard one side of the story when it involves race. It takes courage for someone to break from the media orthodoxy and tell the other side. Horowitz is one of those rare authors who is not afraid to see things differently and write about it.BLM's agenda, which they proudly declare is based on Marxism, is to divide people by race instead of class. Horowitz asks the question as to whether or not dividing people by race is ethical. BLM also denies that MLK was right that we are all brothers and sisters who should not be judged by our skin color. They seem to believe that skin color completely defines a person. The truth is, it doesn't.Horowitz reveals the errors of this kind of thinking where something as meaningless as the color of your skin defines all human beings. He disputes the concept of collective guilt where all police officers in the country are judged by the actions of a few in Minneapolis. He denies that you can group people by race and use one as a scapegoat for the problems of another.In order to grow we must hear both sides of every story. No matter what your position is, if you have not heard this side of the story, you are not informed. This book should also be required reading in schools alongside critical race theory to balance the concepts. An excellent rebuttal to the very harmful group judgmentalism that is being used to attack people in America today.

Some favorite passages:Page 3 - "On May 25, 2020, the death of a black American in the custody of Minneapolus police led to ONE OF THE GREATEST ERUPTIONS OF LAWLESSNESS AND VIOLENCE IN AMERICAN HISTORY."This is true and worrying. What would cause a group of people to initiate a reign of terror over the death of a criminally volatile man like George Floyd?Pages 50-51 - "Contrary to this Black Lives Matter eulogy (which called Floyd "beautiful"), George Floyd's was not a typical black life, and black Americans have no reason to live in 'fear of walking outside' lest they meet George Floyd's fate. Police killings of unarmed blacks are exceedingly rare--just fourteen in 2019 compared to twenty-five police killings of unarmed whites ... To describe George Floyd as a typical black citizen is to defame the black community, the overwhelming majority of whose members are not drug addicts or drug dealers or armed robbers but law-abiding assets to our nation, to whose well-being they have contributed since its inception. It is also a reprehensible attempt to make them fear for their lives for 'simply existing.'"Black Americans should, statistically speaking, FEAR men like George Floyd far more than they do the police. He couldn't safely function in society. Nine times in jail attests to this statement (page 50). But common sense isn't the rule of the day. The loudest voices on social media are the new conscience of the screen-obsessed masses.But, really, this is the guy people wanted to freak out about? Is he relatable?If you can relate to George Floyd, I hope you are attending Narconon meetings, keeping off the drugs, staying in touch with your parole officer, going to church, trying to make amends with the people you've wronged, especially your children, respecting the people who try to keep everyone safe at the risk of their own lives, finding gainful employment, and going above and beyond to give back to the society that you have taken from.It isn't hard to understand how George Floyd's mug is everywhere when you realize that Black Lives Matter and their supporters revere a woman who killed a policeman execution style back in the 70s.A 34-year-old state trooper and Vietnam vet named Werner Foerster (SAY HIS NAME!) stopped Assata Shakur for a broken tail light on her car.So she shot him.Then, as he lay dying and pleading for his life, she walked over and finished him off (page 161). On what planet is that admirable?Assata Shakur is a hero to every person who would love to murder a white person. Just because they're white.Werner Foerster SAY HIS NAME!!!Page 30 - (Regarding a rant by Colin Kaepernick about how the United States is systemically racist)"Actually, America did not enslave Kaepernick's ancestors. Black African slavers did that and sold them at auctions to British slavers who brought them to America. White Americans, within a short time historically speaking, freed Kaepernicks's ancestors."On page 31, Horowitz quotes African American scholar Thomas Sowell, "Then how did slavery end? We know it ended in the United States--at a cost of one life lost in the Civil War for every six slaves freed."Page 33 - "On July 30, the Boston Art Commission voted to remove from the city's Park Square a replica of Thomas Ball's 1876 'Emancipation Memorial'--a statue depicting President Abraham Lincoln freeing a black slave. The original statue in Washington D.C., HAD BEEN DONATED BY LIBERATED BLACK SLAVES."You can't make this stuff up. Black Lives Matter are just more of the evil of this world. They are in it for the money, only, the big cheeses at the top don't seem to share it with anyone.They, like all other con men, have exploited the weaknesses of their marks: Heavy, almost infantile emotion, lack of concern for facts, and lots of hatred.

David Joel Horowitz (born 1939) is an American conservative writer, who—until the mid-1970s—was an adherent of the New Left, and was closely aligned with Huey Newton and the Black Panther Party. (His book, Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey,’ details his radical political changes.)He wrote in the first chapter of this 2021 book, “On May 25, 2020, the death of a black American in the custody of Minneapolis police led to one of the greatest eruptions of lawlessness and violence in American history. The violence was provoked by a disturbing video that recorded the last breaths of George Floyd… who expired with a policeman’s knee pressed firmly on the side of his neck for more than nine minutes. The principal organizer of the protest was … Black Lives Matter (BLM), which for seven years had been conducting similar demonstrations against what it called the ‘systemic racism’ and brutality of a ‘white supremacist’ society that targeted black Americans like George Floyd.” (Pg. 3) He adds, “during the first 103 days of the unrest, there were 633 violent protests … there were also approximately 11,400 so-called ‘peaceful protests’ … The peaceful protests associated with Black Lives Matter were staged during the daytime and then regularly morphed into riots under cover of night… the daylight protests created an atmosphere of lawlessness that … contributed to the violence that followed.” (Pg. 4)He continues, “In direct refutation of the central claim of Black Lives Matter---that rampant ‘white supremacy’ in America had led to George Floyd’s murder---the actions of the arresting police officers were universally condemned across the country. The spectacle of a black man’s life slipping away on camera was horrifying to Americans, both black and white. Police chiefs and police unions across the country were as outraged as everyone else … describing the incident as … ‘deeply disturbing,’ and ‘absolutely reprehensible.’ These condemnations came in advance of any autopsy report or formal investigation. Not a single voice was raised in defense of the police… Instead, bowing to the political demands of the rioters, the Minneapolis authorities---all Democrats and supporters of Black Lives Matter---ordered their police department not to suppress the violence of what were, in fact, vigilantes, and therefore not to fulfill their oaths … to ensure civil order and peace.” (Pg. 6-7)He asserts, “The various ‘Defund the Police’ initiatives sent a message to police officers across the United States that they were on their own, that the political leaders … did not have their backs… They responded by … deciding to be less proactive in apprehending lawbreakers… Violence reached particularly disturbing levels in Chicago… Other cities, including New York, were turned into war zones too… Though a large percentage of the victims of these shootings were black, none were memorialized by Black Lives Matter because, in almost every instance, they were shot by other blacks. Their black lives… were irrelevant to Black Lives Matter.” (Pg. 28)He notes, “In fact, there is not a crime statistic to support the harsh claims of a hunting season on blacks by police. The statistics show that more unarmed whites are killed by police each year than unarmed blacks; in some years, whites account for twice as many victims of police shootings as blacks. The number of such cases, moreover, is miniscule for blacks as well as whites. Every year, more than 10 million arrests are made by police departments annually. In 2029, 14 unarmed blacks and 25 unarmed whites were killed by police.” (Pg. 44)He observes, “In the course of George Floyd’s forty-six years, he served nine separate jail sentences for various crimes, including a fairly recent [2009] five-year sentence for the armed robbery of a young black mother whom he had terrorized by pointing a gun at her … while his five accomplices looted her home… To describe George Floyd as a typical black citizen is to defame the black community…” (Pg. 50-51) He adds, “when Floyd was arrested he was high on methamphetamines and a dose of fentanyl large enough to be fatal. He was also suffering from severe multifocal arteriosclerosis and hypertensive heart disease, and was positive for … the virus that causes COVID-19.” (Pg. 51-52)He draws a conclusion, “There was no racial element to the death of George Floyd. It was a fact obvious from the beginning, since two of the four officers involved were members of racial minorities, including one who was black.” (Pg. 60)He says of some other cases, “what [George] Zimmerman did [to Trayvon Martin] was a crime, and at the very least he should have been convicted of manslaughter and given a stiff sentence.” (Pg. 62) Later, he adds, “this was a case of unauthorized vigilantes taking the law---or what they thought was the law---into their own hands.” (Pg. 131) Rodney King “was high on PCP … the effects of which include ‘a sense of super strength and invulnerability…’ far from being subdued, [King] can be seen charging the police …” (Pg. 67) Of Michael Brown, he says of the ‘delusional racial fantasy’ that “[the cop] shot bullets into the top of his head as he knelt on the ground with his hands up,” that “That fact that it is believed by so many people… is a threat to the cohesion of America’s communities.” (Pg. 81) He says of Philando Castile, “Castile’s death was a tragedy that never should have happened. But there was no evidence of malice on the part of the officer who killed Castile.” (Pg. 108) Of Breonna Taylor, he comments, “fentanyl dealer … Jamarcus Glover … had been Taylor’s boyfriend two years before, and Taylor had kept in touch with him and been involved in his criminal activities.” (Pg. 136)Of the five police officers intentionally killed by Micah Xavier Johnson, he observes, “This was the deadliest single incident for law-enforcement officers in the United States since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.” (Pg. 113)He notes, “When Black Lives Matter launched a campaign to ‘defund the police’ and ‘dismantle’ police departments, a Gallup Poll showed that 81 percent of black American opposed them.” (Pg. 112) He adds, “Far from serving the black community, the ‘defund the police’ and ‘abolish the police’ agenda of Black Lives Matter would increase exponentially the incidence of lawless vigilantism---and the vulnerability of law-abiding black citizens.” (Pg. 132)He summarizes, “The casualties of the scorched-earth war unleashed by Black Lives Matter dwarf the total casualties of all the alleged racial injustices the organization has protested… The crippling of police departments has led to out-of-control rates of murder and violent crime that affect… America’s most vulnerable lack communities. Livelihoods lost, community centers destroyed, and massive flight of tax-paying citizens make the prospect of recovery a distant one---particularly if the Democrat Party continues in support for criminality and destruction… one could reasonably conclude that, thanks to Black Lives Matter campaigns… advances in both race relations and protections for urban black communities have been set back fifty years.” (Pg. 150)He adds, “black communities across America… are the principal victims of black criminals, and, unlike the celebrity millionaires and billionaires who promote and fund Black Lives Matter, they live in the eye of the urban storm created by baseless attacks on their law-enforcement protectors.” (Pg. 152)He points out that “In [Manhattan Institute scholar Heather] MacDonald’s words, ‘… [a police] officer’s chance of getting killed by a BLACK assailant is 18.5 times higher than the chance of an unarmed black getting killed by a cop,’ … Naturally, this makes officers jittery when they face armed individuals who are black, and that fear can lead to fateful misjudgments in their reactions.” (Pg. 155)Turning to the 2020 election, he becomes explicitly partisan: “Biden’s margin of victory was 43,000---or 0.027 percent of the total---spread across three battleground states: Arizona, Georga, and Wisconsin. If the results in those states were flipped, both candidates would have received 269 Electoral College votes and the decision would have been thrown into the House of Representatives, where Republicans controlled a majority of the states. The result would have been a second term for Trump… there was obviously a credible basis for concern. But when Trump and his allies raised concerns, they were dismissed as … ‘crackpots,’ ‘insurrectionists,’ and ‘traitors’---a threat to American democracy itself.” (Pg. 186) He adds, “Trump was particularly isolated since the Republican-controlled legislatures of five of the six battleground states agreed to go along with obvious illegalities, as did leading Republican figures like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell…” (Pg. 187)Of the January 6th insurrection, he states, “Trump’s actual instructions to the crowd … were, ‘I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol Building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard…’ Before Trump had finished speaking, a small segment of the crowd… likely hundreds, rather than thousands, judging from the 510 arrests---had already made their way to the Capitol… where they broke into the basically unguarded building and proceeded to stage a mini-riot in the chambers and threaten some legislators… The officer who killed [Ashli] Babbitt was neither investigated nor punished for what was clearly a case of manslaughter---possibly murder. Democrats who had been in an uproar all summer whenever an armed black felon resisting arrest was shot by police were silent over this miscarriage of justice…” (Pg. 188-189)(Horowitz is quite silent on Trump’s utter failure to convince any courts of his supposed evidence to ‘Stop the Steal.’ He is equally silent on the court’s decision in the murder case of George Floyd, where Derek Chauvin’s knee WAS determined to be the cause of death.)He concludes, “If there has been a coup in Washington, it took place on January 20, 2021, when Biden issued the first of his executive orders, targeting America as a ‘systematically racist’ society and proclaiming… the redistribution of wealth and privilege according to race---as America’s new guiding principle and moral compass… The orthodoxy of our new Democrat rulers is as anti-American a vision as can be… [The purpose of] the so-called ‘January 6 Commission’ … would be …. An existential threat to the nation. Fortunately, most House Republicans refused to provide bipartisan support for this witch hunt---hopefully because they have finally grasped the sinister design of the Democrat’s agenda… to put in place the elements of an American fascism suppressing the diversity of opinion that has been the lifeblood of our country… hopefully enough Americans will wake up to this threat before it is too late.” (Pg. 200-201)While Horowitz occasionally makes some valid points (e.g., about the actual circumstances of some of the most prominent cases; or when defending most police officers), overall this is a rabidly partisan diatribe by someone who clearly does not believe in ‘majority rule,’ and who sympathizes with those who tried (and are still trying) to overthrow our validly elected leaders. He would prefer a President appointed---not elected---by a minority of Republican representatives due to an Electoral College ‘tie,’ but who nevertheless lost the popular vote by 7 million votes. Is this ‘Democracy,’ Horowitz-style?Don’t buy his book (he doesn’t deserve the money); or if you do, wait a month or two until it’s remaindered, and used copies are selling for less than a buck.

A thorough, clear and actually eye-opening expose of the innumerable falsehoods and hypocrisies that continue to be put forth in the leftist/woke narrative, and the serious, even at times deadly, consequences resulting from such a deeply unfortunate philosophy. The author has done his homework, and it shows in this courageous volume that has no use for political correctness.