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Every life unjustly killed deserves justice. In the cause to make things right, I will not join a movement that has nearly everything wrong. More innocent lives have now been killed (including cops) since these predominantly violent protests began over George Floyd’s horrific death. What about the black lives killed in this nationwide chaos? Do they matter?
“Well, you don’t have to agree with everything. Just pick out the good things in the #BlackLivesMatter movement,” I’m told. Really? Let’s apply that same logic to another example. I’ve been repeatedly approached to partner with New Black Panthers in anti-abortion billboard campaigns. We agree on the violent injustice of abortion, and that’s it. Our worldviews are diametrically opposed. But, but, but they believe unborn lives matter! That doesn’t matter. Their mission is not my mission. I cover all of this in-depth in my new podcast, Life Has Purpose.
Yes, #BlackLivesMatter. But Truth matters. As a Christian, the Church should be leading on these issues instead of sheepishly following a deceptive movement hostile to the Gospel.
The original BLM founders, the #BlackLivesMatter Foundation (BLMF), created it to radically shift culture. The far-left Ford Foundation, the world’s largest population control organization, vowed in 2016 to raise $100 million for the Movement for Black Lives (MFBL)—a nationwide coalition of BLM groups (including BLMF). MFBL released a shocking manifesto of policy positions that are deeply political and deeply disturbing.
Drawing mostly from those positions, here are the top 10 reasons why I will never support the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
The premise isn’t true. I hate racism. And I hate when it’s used as a political weapon.According to the FBI’s latest homicide statistics, I’m 11 times more likely to be killed by someone of my own brown complexion than a white person. Also, a comprehensive 2019 study concluded: “White officers are not more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers.” Every loss of life is tragic, but Washington Post’s database on police-involved deaths puts things into further context. In 2020, among those killed were (all males): 2 Native Americans, 9 Asians, 46 Hispanics, 76 blacks, 149 unlabeled individuals and 149 whites (whose deaths don’t get reported by national mainstream media). Only nine black individuals were actually unarmed.
There is no goal of forgiveness or reconciliation. None. It’s never mentioned on their sites. You can’t talk about the sins of the past and expect to move forward if there is no intention of forgiveness. I’m tired of the deeply prejudiced oppressed/oppressor critical race theory paradigm. It’s not Gospel-centered. This should, immediately, be a deal-breaker for Christians. keep reading
Because all I’ve heard for 70 years is boo-hoo, boo-hoo, boo-hoo and I’m sick to death of it. They get their way time after time and everytime they squander it like petulant children. Never constructive always destructive. And the criminals like Obama and Sharpton are enriched and celebrated by left and right. Well F_U!
Today is D-Day and a lot of really good young men died for THIS?
Way back when all this started I asked my most lefty friend (trust fund baby that has never had to work) what was wanted – what is the end game – in specifics please. Nothing general. None of this “end racism” stuff. Tell me how and tell me what that world will look like.
He still has no answer. Just SJW catch phrases.
He needs to renounce his father’s money to have any integrity in his extreme “fight the rich” screed.
Beware, you might suffer eye-roll lock if you ever get to hear him go on.
When I see them stop killing each other in the streets over a dime bag, maybe I’ll give a listen.
Until then, it’s just hypocrisy with political ambition.
the left is playing for keeps on this election….they know two things can NOT happen:
1) folks like Candace Ownens can not be allowed to awaken the black population to be aware they are nothing but voting whores for the Democrats who NEVER can afford to see blacks advance, lest they never vote for the party of welfare, abortion and illegal immigrants.
2.) TRUMP can not be re-elected or he could literally shape the Supreme Court for a generation. Further if the Republicans were to get Trump Re-elected and keep the Senate and gain the house, I would fully expect the Democrats to do unimaginable destruction to the country to prevent anything from getting accomplished….this will and mark my words include Riots, assassinations or even setting off a nuclear bomb in DC to prevent their loss of power….these folks are sick Mother F’s and need to be stopped at all costs.
Because they are about instituting a Leftist political agenda, not about Black lives.
For me, it all boils down to the fact that our goals are diametrically opposed; I see racism as a character flaw, proof of defective thinking, and something to be eradicated for the benefit of all because it is destructive, BLM does not work towards or even want an end to racism, they view it in terms of profit and aggrandizement, something to be exploited and manipulated. In truth, they want more racism, not less.
They, like antifa and the new left want every little thing destroyed. They don’t have a plan for what happens afterwards. Even if some of them do, it’ll never happen the way they like. One huge reason is because we would be invaded by another country before the end of that month.
Ask any veteran cop. It was not that long ago they carried blackjacks “saps” and heavy D cell flashlights to konk those who “RESISTED ARREST” Then everything changed when too many folks were badly hurt and the lawsuits came poring in.
Fast forward to today and note that the knee on the neck is still taught at the the minneapolis PD
Maybe all the PC WOKE CRAP should be flushed and NOT BE focused on and more on basic arrest tactics.
As a former AIRBONE RANGER we were taught to recognise the knee on the neck for what it is..a death move.
When will the accountability of PD upper managment be asked why a knee on the neck not be abolished like the way of heavy flash lights and saps?????
…to BLM, racism is America’s Original Sin, but there’s no Jesus and we can NEVER be forgiven of it. So all we can do is continuously sacrifice unto them in God’s place, and then MAYBE, they’ll let us live until the NEXT sacrifice.
…and their ENTIRE precept is that no slavery of anyone ELSE, anywhere ELSE matters, not even where Black people and Arabs contemporaneously had slaves, JUST White-on-Black antebellum Southern American slavery matters.
Never mind that EVERY RACE has enslaved EVERY OTHER RACE at one time or another. Never mind that Black people sold OTHER Black people into slavery. Never mind that Muslims STILL enslave Black people TODAY.
No, only antebellum Southern slavery, that was enforced by Black overseeres, matters or was SO bad, it can’t be recovered from, EVER.
…which also misses the point that VERY FEW White people actually PARTICIPATED in slavery, and MOST opposed it.
Memorial day, we visited the VERY LARGE Civil War section of a cemetary in Cincinnat where one of my wife’s relatives was laid to rest during the war. Cincinnati was the Northern extent of the Civil War, and other than some calvary raids by Morgan and some Confederates looking across from Covington and deciding Cincinnat was too well fortified to mess with (and Cincinnati businessmen illegally selling pork to the South, but that’s a different story), no real battles of note happened here. Many of these guys just died of dsease in Camp Dennison, others were hauled back from not-too-distant areas, but it’s STILL very large and well-populated.
With White people who died FIGHTING slavery.
And EVERY large Eastern and Midwest city HAS one.
That’s my WIFE’S folks. MINE were still in Ireland and Germany being persecuted by OTHER WHITE PEOPLE.
And NO Black person livig TODAY ever WAS a slave in America. MOST Black people aren’t even RELATED to a slave, some even have White ancestors.
…but to BLM, none of this matters. Soneone who was rumored to approximate MY hue 170 years ago was mean to someone darker once, so now that’s somehow MY fault, mine and EVERY DESCENDANT OF MINE. I and mine MUST be punished for looking a certain color while OTHERS must be given the fruit of our labor for being a DIFFERENT color, and this is somehow NOT racist…
My White son has been denied opportunites because of his skin color, doesn’t have access to college admissions others do because of THEIR skin color, has to be TWICE as good as any POC to be considered for employment, promotion, ANYTHING, and ALWAYS will get axed im a layoff instead of a darker skinned person because THEIR institutional, govenment-mandated racism is OK, but alleged racism that is from a “disparate impact” if blind standards are used is NOT OK.
My wife being chased out of the High School she was bussed to because they hated her skin color was perfectly OK.
My not qualifying for a house loan that I WOULD have qualified for had I been Black was OK.
A 2001 consent decree in the City after race riots that made cops eager to pull over White drivers for their skin color was OK.
There IS institutional racism, different treatment from skin color, and everything they SAY…but its against WHITE people.
Doesn’t matter, says BLM. White people bad and must be punished, and can NEVER be forgiven.
…far as I’m concerned, if BLM insist on payment, there’s a receipt for them on EVERY NORTHERN SOLDIERS GRAVE. A receipt for them in EVERY medical and funeral bill that a White person beaten and killed for his skin color in the ‘hood that the media doesn’t report on. A recepit in every opportunity Affirmative Action has taken from a White person for no reason other than his race. A receipt in every involuntary wealth transfer for race-based programs.
A receipt for every time we’ve had to rebuild a city that Democrats have promoted the destruction of for political gain over and over again.
I strongly suspect it will be far more than that 40 acres and a mule we are constantly badgered about.
…whatever was ever owed, if anything, has long since been paid with interest.
We owe BLM nothing but three hots and a cot in the nearest prison.
@Jeffrey L Nihart, do you have personal first-hand knowledge that the knee on the neck is still (or was ever) taught at the MPD?
Although retired, I’m still pretty familiar with police/arrest tactics, at least here in California, and no agency that I know has this as an approved technique to arrest or restrain.
I mentioned earlier in another post that the reason these 4 were fired the next day was that they went outside of protocol and used a non approved restraint technique. If they were just following their training, they would still be on the job, or at least until they were arrested.
Black Lives Matter or BLM, a faction organization created by wealthy socialist progressive elites to destabilize and destroy American freedom and liberty and stop all reliance on capitalism to gain global control. It has nothing to do with race relations. Black people are used as “marks” because they have been the most successfully brainwashed by socialism.
This organization was modeled after Hitler’s Nazi regime.
BLM’s tactics of looting and damage to cultural monuments and historical figures and especially the broken windows of businesses, during World War II known as “Kristallnacht” the Night of Broken Glass when Jewish businesses and synagogues were destroyed – are right out of the Nazi playbook.
The way BLM operates is to pretend to take mostly unwarranted grievances of localized useful idiots and convince them the falsehood, “systemic racism” is the cause. Useful idiots are then recuited by sophisticated communist cadre leaders, (usually originating from large cities) sent into communities to arrange “peaceful protests” that can be triggered into violent assaults on police. Local leftist government officials are easily intimidated by the threat of more violence and surrender parts of their authority to this crimminal organization.
There is absolutely nothing advantageous, in fact, it’s deadly connecting to communism in any form it takes and BLM is a perfect example of those destructive results.
BLM is a Soros creation and largely funded by him and his fellow travelers. It has nothing to do with black lives and everything to do with exacerbating racial tensions and creating havoc throughout the country in the hopes of pushing us towards socialism.
Blm Antifa liberal three groups that tell their members are victims. They are the racists and use you as pawns if you are dumb enough to follow them
Jeffrey L Nihart
JUNE 6, 2020 AT 2:40 PM
“Ask any veteran cop. It was not that long ago they carried blackjacks “saps” and heavy D cell flashlights to konk those who “RESISTED ARREST” ”
…I learned some stuff from cops about using a Mini-Mag flashlight, “AA” size, on pressure points to make obstreperous persons a bit more docile in a hurry, even push them away or make them get out of cars.
Never seen it done on any of these “Real PD” type shows, though, so maybe that stuff’s a bit too ’90s, too.
…it’s a shame, that crap WORKED, and didn’t do any real damage, either, just painful was all…
How about 1 reason: it’s leftist bullshit.
This whole pile of steaming crap ratcheted up when Ohomo stole the presidency. Blacks that believe this way have only themselves to blame. For three generations they’ve sold their own souls to their leftist/liberal masters for free stuff. Whether they are using their EBT funds, looting, killing or demanding the souls of so-called ‘privileged’ white folks it has to be given to them or they’re not satisfied.
All must be equal under the law or there is no law
just as all lives are sacred or none are.
If you look at what the Democrats are doing you will
see they are trying to undermine both of these basics
of a civil and honorable society.
Exactly, John. Succinct, excellent and well stated comment.
Sent to me by a friend, under the subject line: BLACK LIVES DON’T MATTER
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Okay, now that I have your attention.
There is absolutely not a shred of evidence that George Floyd was killed because of racism. None.
There is no evidence that police departments — which currently disproportionately employ (thanks to affirmative action) blacks and other minorities — are systemically racist. None. (Unless you want to recognize that affirmative action hiring and promotion practices are racist, which they are.)
There is no evidence that blacks who become targeted for arrest by police are more likely to be killed by a cop than whites. In fact, whites are twice as likely to be killed under such circumstances. And cops are 18 times more likely to be killed by a perpetrator than vice versa.
There is some academic speculation (based on social science studies using undergrad psych majors as guinea pigs) that police might hold stereotypes that make them more suspicious of blacks as potential perpetrators of crime. However, the only credible peer-reviewed studies that have been done using actual police officers disprove this hypothesis.
Blacks make up 13% of the population. Blacks are responsible for 40% of all murders. (In NYC, it’s 50%). If we narrow this down to males (who are far more likely than females to commit murder), then we have roughly 6% of the population who are committing nearly 40% of the murders.
So black males make up 6% of the population, are responsible for nearly 40% of all murders (mostly of blacks, by the way), and also are responsible for in excess of 40% of burglaries, muggings, assaults, and drug crimes. That’s why they also are vastly overrepresented in arrest statistics, jails and prisons. This is not “discrimination”. This is not “racism”.
The Constitution recognizes the right to “peaceably assemble”. Vandalism, property destruction, looting (stealing), and assaulting other people are crimes. Not “assembly”. Not “protest”. Not protected.
The Democrat party and even many politicians in the Republican party are worried about getting votes. Or cowards. Or just so used to pandering that they don’t even know when they’re doing it any more.
Black Lives Matter was born out of OFA (Obama) community organizing after the Ferguson “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” LIE, when a police officer who was attacked by a thug defended himself.
Let’s cut the shit already.
The Truth Matters.
Ten reasons? How about one, fuck them.
@janitor – The Truth Matters.
That’s why the Left murdered the Truth and tossed it into the dumpster years ago!
Matter? To whom?
Certainly not to other “blacks.”
So, why should they “matter” to me?
If you haven’t enough pride and self-respect to stay out of the clutches of the law, why should I give a fuck? Does anyone actually believe that cops just show up at the homes of negroes and start beating the fuck out of them? Anybody?
Raise your hands, #BLM maggots! You believe that? You really that fucking dumb?
Traditionally … historically … it’s negroes who are riding around our urban areas killing each other at random with abandon.
NOT cops.
NOT rednecks.
NOT angry white folk.
NOT crazed spics.
NOT bloodthirsty filthy fukkin ragheads.
Get a grip. An old guy once told me:
“You want a helping hand?”
“Look on the end of your arm.”
izlamo delenda est …