Sorry, White Old Hippies: We Black People Want Safe Streets

Look at the crowds in Washington, D.C., protesting President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime. Who do you see? Not the mothers from Anacostia who’ve lost their sons to street violence. Not the churchgoers in Southeast who just want to walk home without fear. No—what you see are aging white hippies with protest signs, desperate to relive their glory days of the 1960s.

JD Vance and Pete Hegseth said it best on their recent visit to Union Station: These protesters aren’t the black community. They’re old white liberals, shouting on behalf of people who never asked them to. Because deep down, the black community knows the truth: Trump’s crackdown is saving black lives. And that’s exactly why the Left is fuming.

Black families don’t want lectures. We don’t want platitudes about “equity” from people who retreat to million-dollar condos after the rally ends. We want safety. We want to know that kids can play outside without dodging bullets. We want to know our grandparents can ride the bus without being attacked. Safety is the ultimate form of justice and white liberals pretending otherwise are lying. Not just to themselves, but to us.

Crime doesn’t hit Georgetown. It hits Southeast Washington. It hits the neighborhoods the protesters wouldn’t dare walk through at night. And the statistics don’t lie: The vast majority of homicide victims in this city are black. Every time a repeat offender is released, every time the police are told to stand down, it’s black lives put at risk.

So who benefits when Trump takes the handcuffs off the police and puts them back on criminals? The very people the protesters claim to represent. And that’s the Left’s worst nightmare: that black Americans might actually be safer under policies they despise.

And now, Trump has announced that the crackdown isn’t stopping with the District of Columbia. His administration is preparing to expand this tough-on-crime strategy to other Democrat-run inner cities plagued by violence. Places like Chicago and Baltimore that have been decimated by progressive policies and soft-on-crime delusion. For decades, liberal mayors and city councils have turned their backs on the very communities they claim to fight for, leaving ordinary people at the mercy of criminals. Thank God we finally have a president that is saying enough is enough.

Yet surely, however, his critics will scream “authoritarianism.” They’ll cry about “over-policing.” But those critics don’t live in the neighborhoods where gunfire is the lullaby at night. They don’t send their kids to schools where gangs recruit in the hallways. They don’t sit in churches with bullet holes in the windows. We do. And we know that real justice starts with real safety.

But here’s the kicker: When black conservatives, pastors, or parents stand up and say we support tough-on-crime policies, the same white liberals who chant “Black Lives Matter” turn around and call us “tokens” or “sellouts.” Translation: They’ll only listen to black voices when we parrot their politics.

The truth is simple. Most black Americans want what every American wants. Safe streets, stable communities, and the right to live without fear. That doesn’t make us “inauthentic.” It makes us real.

Real justice isn’t a slogan on a protest sign. It’s a grandmother in Anacostia finally able to walk home without being robbed. It’s a young man in Southeast living long enough to see his 18th birthday. And if Trump’s plan expands that reality from Washington to cities across America, then every life saved will stand as proof that the Left’s ideology has failed and that law and order works.

So let’s call it what it is: These protests aren’t about black lives. They’re about white liberals clinging to an ideology that keeps us unsafe. And if that makes them angry, so be it.

Because black people want safety, too. And no amount of whining from old white hippies is going to change that.

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