It is dangerous to draw a sweeping conclusion from a single event, but our rulers do it all the time. A white man shot and killed three black people at a Dollar Store. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and their media allies immediately used the killings to push an agenda.

Much of the criticism was leveled at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. “Now is the time for all Americans to speak up,” said President Biden. “History is being erased, books are being banned.” This was a crude attempt to link the murders to Governor DeSantis’s campaign against critical race theory in schools.

The President wasn’t alone. Many media outlets attacked the governor, and he was booed at an event to show support for the victims. The AP published a news article whose URL initially read “apnews.com/article/jacksonville-desantis-racist-republican-shooting-haley-scott.” [Emphasis added.] When conservatives called attention to the slur, the AP changed the URL to “apnews.com/article/jacksonville-racist-shooting-desantis.”

The article quotes the NAACP, which suggested Governor DeSantis had fostored “open hostility towards African Americans and people of color.”