Quit concern trolling about black “fatherlessness”

The right isn’t interested in the real reasons why black kids grow up without dads, so they can stop pretending to care

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Last week, the Baltimore police union tweeted out a video of a group of black teens dancing with guns in their hands and singing the chorus of a rap song with the caption “This is what our Cops are facing under the current administration #CityInCrisis.” The local news reported that the kids were shooting a music video and the guns were fake, but the tweet had already gone viral on conservative Twitter.

In response, came a familiar refrain.

This sort of rhetoric isn’t exclusive to fringe conspiracy bozos like Mark Dice or random racist trolls—it’s common among all segments of the right. By…