The media has put on its best air of bafflement about the origins of the Dallas shootings. Let's consider the kind of rhetoric that was in the air. Particularly from MacArthur genius grant awardee and literary darling Ta-Nehisi Coates who wrote in his celebrated bestseller, Between the World and Me, that the police officers who died on 9/11 “were not human to me. Black, white, or whatever, they were menaces of nature; they were the fire, the comet, the storm, which could — with no justification — shatter my body.”
Clearly someone in Dallas agreed.
Coates' hate tract filled with racist rants was not only heavily promoted by the media, but appeared on Obama's reading list.
The tragic truth is that what took place in Dallas was aided and abetted at the highest levels of our society and politics.