Iryna Zarutska, Decarlos Brown, and the Politics of Race in 2025 - 9/10/2025

I can't unsee this, no matter how I try.

 

 

Decarlos Brown, even though I don't think Row 2, 3rd one is him, this collage is a testament to FAILURE.

$3.3 MILLION from left-wing NGO The MacArthur Foundation went to Mecklenburg County to “reduce the jail population”, the very county that released career criminal DeCarlos Brown 14 times.

There's a pendulum of society, culture, and policy in most things. Today, I want to talk about the politics of race in modern day America, and, spoiler, to assert the pendulum has swung too far. It is absolutely the fault of the progressive left, and organizations like The MacArthur Foundation that the pendulum has swung so far, unacceptably and absolutely unjustifiably to a point where a mentally insane, murderous career criminal like Decarlos Brown is free, largely because he's Black and there's too many Black people in prison. I suggest there are only 3 ways to reduce the number of Black people in jail. Two of them are unacceptable. Here goes:

1) Career violent criminals (no matter what color they are), at some certain point, swiftly eliminated via the death penalty. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200.

2) Raise the threshold for incarceration to some insanely high level, putting career and insane, violent criminals on the street instead of in jail. This is what we have now in many jurisdictions across America. This is what we have in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. This is what leftist NGOs like The MacArthur Foundation are working toward. This is why Iryna Zarutska is dead. We can't lock up all the violent criminals, there's too many of them. What? YGBSM.

3) (The only acceptable solution, in my opinion.) Reduce the incidence or frequency and the number of instances of violent crime in the Black community. I do not know how to do this. Any ideas I might have, that anyone might have for that matter, will be opposed as racist and unacceptable. Yes, there are too many Black people in jail. Yes, the system has been historically harder on Black people in the criminal justice world.

As to #3, above, you don't want to hear this, but tough shit, here it is: Start with single-parent, fatherless households. Too many heroic Black women (and White women with bi-racial children) are raising their kids on their own. This is true in the White community, too, but the point of this post is reducing the numbers of incarcerated Black people. Next, is there a religious and spiritual void. Religion is not a cure-all, nor a solution, but being raised with and developing a faith is undeniably a way to reduce, I didn't say eliminate, instances of criminal behavior. Three, schools need to educate: reading, writing, and arithmetic. Academic standards are unacceptably low in many parts of our country, especially in our cities. There may be 1,000,000 reasons and justifications for that. IDGAF. A kid either reads at grade level, does math at grade level, or they don't.

Switching gears, only slightly. If you think I'm being racist because I think progressive policies are failing society in this regard, you are a huge part of the problem. You're trying to make Black crime levels an Emperor's New Clothes issue, where nobody is allowed to say it, lest they suffer accusations of racism.

Imagine if Miss Zarutska was Black and Mr. Brown was White. Every single thing about this case would be entirely different. Everything. And that's wrong.

Finding fairness and justice is important. Making our country unsafe is not a correction to those injustices, not by a long-shot. I'm not a big fan of the death penalty, but damned if Decarlos Brown don't deserve it. IDGAF if he's mentally ill. I really don't. Is he curable? Is he capable of being rehabilitated? Is he capable of remorse? I don't think so.

If the Emperor won't allow us to talk about the cultural and societal reasons Black prison populations are too high, and we don't want the death penalty, and we can't keep letting career, violent criminals loose, what to do? We'd better build much larger prisons and fill them with violent felons. Why? Because otherwise, a fourth option I didn't list, above, will come to be, all by itself:

Vigilantism. If our government won't protect its people, those people protect themselves.

A final thought. I saw a good number of posts questioning other riders of the Charlotte light rail. Why didn't they step up and step in? I can explain in two words: Daniel Penny. How much more about it can I say? Progressive prosecutors and leftist political activists would make any, especially any White good Samaritan, out to be the bad guy.

Part of the Yahoo headline about the Daniel Penny / Jordan Neely story: 

"Daniel Penny, who choked a homeless man to death"

Decarlos Brown was homeless with a long record of menacing, too. Just sayin'.