Many will wonder when America started siding with the villains again and not with the victims — especially if those villains happened to be young and of a minority background.
This has been a problem since the social upheavals of the 1960s, mind you, but it’s waxed and waned depending on the political climate. However, starting sometime in the 2010s, the woke drumbeat for “criminal justice reform” began, which turned into “hands up don’t shoot,” which turned into “Black Lives Matter” and “defund the police,” and then the invariable backlash.
But the woke dogma still lives loudly within some corners of our national discourse (see: Mamdani, Zohran), so we ought to ask the question where it all began. My argument: the moment that then-President Barack Obama said that Trayvon Martin, a teenager with a considerable history of miscreant behavior who was shot after beating a man who confronted him about his suspicious presence in a neighborhood, “could have been my son.”