Second thoughts from the Right Wing

Newt Gingrich on the police and African-Americans: "It is more dangerous to be black in America," he said. "It is more dangerous in that they are substantially more likely to end up in a situation where the police don't respect you and you could easily get killed. And sometimes for whites it difficult to appreciate how real that is and how it's an everyday danger."

Leon H. Wolf at Red State suggests something similar: Every time I post these stories, I get a flood of comments from people who look for even the smallest hook on which to hang an excuse for the cops. "Well, he was rude and confrontational to the cop." "Well, when the officer was trying to arrest him, he ran." "He was 'resisting arrest.'" (My personal favorite, which was used by several dozen people I talked to regarding Eric Garner, whose "resisting arrest" consisted entirely of turning his back to a cop and putting his hands in the air.)

So did Matt Lewis of The Daily Caller:And if there’s any good to come from this horrible trend, it may be that the scales are coming off the eyes of a lot of well meaning, if naive, white Americans. My hope is that this will change public opinion to the point that we can change public policy.

Note that these comments didn't come after the two high-profile police slayings of black—such things, as shocking as they still are, occur with depressing regularity and are part of The Spectacle—but after the Dallas ambush shooting and the slaying of several police officers.

I guess these right-wing whites are hoping not to get shot next.