Isn’t the Absence of Racial Violence Good News?

For weeks, the progressive left has alleged that America is in the grip of a new outbreak of racist lynchings, the total lack of supporting evidence for the charge notwithstanding. The allegation is, however, perfectly calibrated to appeal to the left’s envious efforts to reenact the struggle of the civil rights movement, appropriating some of the movement’s moral authority.

And because the Associated Press never misses a moment to flatter the left’s pretensions, even the scandalously unearned sort, it raced to lend as much credence to this progressive misinformation campaign: