America In 2021
The late Mohammad Anwar, and his flipped over car.
Three False Narratives Fatally Collide In DC
America is a promised land for immigrants.
The greatest domestic threat to America is white supremacy, of which the Capitol LARPers on January 6th were exemplars.
(For non-premium ZeroHedge readers, the another version of that post).
African Americans live in constant fear of police.
Those three narratives collided in our capital city last week.
Immigrants Climbing The Economic Ladder
For every successful immigrant entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, there are orders of magnitude more Mohammad Anwars. Anwar immigrated to the United States from Pakistan in 2014. He worked as an Uber Eats delivery driver. If he was like most Uber Eats delivery drivers, according to Ridester, he made less than minimum wage:
Overall, Uber Eats drivers earn less than minimum wage. This comes mostly from a lack of compensation for drivers’ time (such as long waits to pick up orders) and the fact that Uber Eats doesn’t automatically add tips to orders in the Uber Eats app.
The White Supremacist Insurgent Threat
We've had National Guardsmen occupying Washington D.C. since shortly after the January 6th Capitol incursion. We've been told by FBI Director Christopher Wray that "white supremacists" (such as, presumably, the elderly woman and her son below) were America's biggest terrorist threat.
Instead, National Guardsmen have little to do in D.C., except for one deadly incident last week.
African Americans In Constant Fear Of Police
Hundreds of corporate-backed Black Lives Matter protests last year were predicated on the claim that there was an epidemic of unarmed African Americans being killed by police. But as the scholar Zach Goldberg pointed out, drawing on Washington Post data, that claim was inaccurate.
And as the journalist and blogger Steve Sailer noted ("Black Lives Murdered"), crime spiked in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests last year, with blacks overrepresented among both perpetrators and victims. That crime spree suggests that the criminals have little fear of police.
Narratives Collide
Those narratives all collided last week in an incident captured in the disturbing video in the tweet below.
Two African American teenage girls ordered an Uber Eats delivery and then shot the driver, 66-year-old Mohammad Anwar, with a taser, and drove off with his car, with him hanging on to it. They ended up flipping the car on its side, in front of a gaggle of National Guardsmen, throwing Anwar to the pavement. As Anwar lay dying on the sidewalk, with no one attempting to comfort him or otherwise attend to him, one of the girls complained to a National Guardsman that she left her phone in the car she had just attempted to steal.
There is a fundraiser for Mohammad Anwar's family on GoFundMe if you'd like to contribute.
Back To Investing Content Later
It's hard to think about investing immediately after learning about this senseless crime. We'll try to post something investing related later this week. In the meantime, if you're looking to add downside protection, you can visit our website or our app.
Sunday Evening Updates
1) The carjacking that lead to the murder of Mohammad Anwar was not an isolated incident: Carjackings in DC are up 350% this year:
2) Steve Sailer and others point out that the economics of importing unskilled men in their late 50s to do sub-minimum wage work make no sense:
Seriously, while I feel really bad for the elderly Pakistani gentleman who immigrated here in 2014 at around age 59 and gets a really bad job and then is murdered during the Racial Reckoning by teenyboppers … but why do we let unskilled 59-year-olds immigrate anyway? How much are they going to pay in taxes before going on Medicare (assuming they don’t go on Medicaid immediately). Has anybody done a cost-benefit analysis of this?
3) The fund raiser for Mohammad Anwar's family has now raised over $600,000.
