“The charge of racism today is basically tantamount to saying: ‘I have nothing. I can’t make an argument.’ It is the all-purpose response to try to shut down evidence that you don’t like,” Heather Mac Donald said in an interview with The Epoch Times for the “American Thought Leaders” program. Mac Donald is a Thomas W. Smith fellow of the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor at the institute’s City Journal.
Mac Donald said President Donald Trump was “absolutely correct” in claiming Baltimore is a failed city. Trump was recently denounced as racist after he criticized Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings, the chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, and described Cummings’s Baltimore district as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” that is a “very dangerous & filthy place.”
