Nusrat Choudhury claimed police kill unarmed black men in America ‘every day.’ That’s nowhere near true.
Shelby Steele calls them “poetic truths.” They are narratives that play down or disregard reality and facts to advance a favored ideological position. A poetic truth about policing and race in the U.S. has gained currency in recent years, and it was on vivid display last week at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
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Jason L. Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a columnist at The Wall Street Journal, and a Fox News commentator. He is the author of the recent book “The Black Boom.”
This piece originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal