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Passive policing, induced by the Ferguson lie, emboldens the bad guys, which causes an increase in crimes whose victims are disproportionately blacks living in the inner city — the very people the Democrats claim to care about. The Ferguson lie also makes young black men distrust the cops, assuming that, as young blacks, they serve as targets of police brutality. How does this mindset, encouraged by the Obama administration’s rhetoric, affect the interaction between black civilians and cops? Is that “impeachable”?

The lie of systemic or institutional racism inspired three different black suspects to murder, execution-style, two cops in New York City in 2014, plus three in Baton Rouge, La., and five in Dallas in 2016. How do we know the murders were inspired by the bogus notion of anti-black police brutality? The suspects said so, either to others or in their social media posts. About the Dallas shooting, the head of the city’s police department said the suspect told cops that he was upset over recent police shootings and he “wanted to kill white people.”

As to alleged institutional racism, Obama falsely claimed that “more young black men languish in prison than attend colleges and universities across America.” This is not even remotely true. There are twice as many black men attending colleges and universities than in prisons and jails. If one focuses on college-age black men, there are five times as many attending colleges and universities than in state and federal prisons. Even the Obama-loving Washington Post, which fact-checked it, gave Obama’s claim four “Pinocchios,” as bad a grade as the paper allows.

Professor Ivory A. Toldson of historically black Howard University calls Obama’s false assertion “the most frequently quoted statistic about black men” and warns us about the consequences of promoting this “myth.” Is it “impeachable” to falsely accuse whites and the police of racism? Is it impeachable to encourage blacks to believe they remain persecuted by an “institutionally racist” criminal justice system?

LarryElder is a bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio talk show host.