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What is
Black Lives Matter, anyway? Is it an altruistic group of people? Do they just
want the world to stop thinking that black lives don’t matter?
This
question is critical to answer, because suddenly America is accommodating and
extolling this organization in grand fashion. Mayors are publicly apologizing
to its leaders and painting its slogans on their streets in bold strokes.
Blue-chip companies and moneyed celebrities are donating generously to its
coffers. Police chiefs and congresspersons are conspicuously marching in its
rallies. A June 10 Morning Consult poll said 61 percent of American voters view the movement
favorably, two
thirds again the number from just three years ago.
Virtually
overnight, George Floyd’s untimely death made blm mainstream.
So
just what is this
movement America is now treating so reverentially?
Black
Lives Matter (blm) was
founded in 2013 after George Zimmerman—a private citizen, not a police
officer—was acquitted in the killing of Trayvon Martin on the grounds of self-defense.
Nothing in the organization’s mission statement suggests any concern about
the epidemic of black-on-black violence. It was
founded on the notion that police officers across America are indiscriminately
targeting and even murdering black people for being black.
blm does
not advocate law enforcement reform. Its
members want to defund and disband the
police entirely. They aim to overturn a system they deem inherently
racist. blm has
grown into a global activist complex that aims to “eradicate white supremacy”
and to “build local power” to resist whites. Prominent blm activists regularly
endorse or even encourage destruction of property, mayhem in American cities,
and violence against police.
According
to its website, blm is
also a “queer affirming network” that aims to “disrupt the Western-prescribed
nuclear family structure,” “dismantle” patriarchal practices, and support
community “villages” that “collectively care for one another.” It wants to
destroy the capitalist system and replace it with a collectivist society. This
is, by definition, a Marxist revolutionary movement—a Communist insurgence.
blm is
not calling on people to merely understand their grievances or accept their
existence. They demand total
ideological conformity. Even remaining
silent rather than expressing full-throated support now opens
individuals, organizations and companies up to withering attacks from blm devotees—including
verbal assaults, boycotts, divestment, public shaming, death threats and
physical violence.
It is
difficult to tell how much of the growing support for this movement is
springing from genuine sympathy, and how much from compulsion, intimidation and
fear. Zealous blm advocates
don’t seem to care, as long as they can maintain their advance march. And
whatever their motivation, large swathes of white people the world over have
been acceding to and abasing themselves before this radical cult.
Space to Destroy
Minneapolis
went up in flames the last week in May largely because the police were
commanded to stand down. The city’s radical leftist mayor, Jacob Frey, even
ordered the police to evacuate the
Third Precinct so rioters could smash up the station and burn it down.
Apologies
do not matter to Black Lives Matter. There is no forgiveness.
“The
symbolism of a building cannot outweigh the importance of life, of our
officers, or the public,” Frey later explained, seemingly oblivious to the fact
that the symbolism of a smoldering police station would only embolden the
lawbreakers. “We could not risk serious injury to anyone,” he said—not even the Communist agitators
who were smashing, looting and burning their way through Minneapolis for nearly
a week, apparently (emphasis added throughout).
Similar
scenes of mayhem and devastation spread across America, particularly in cities
where left-wing mayors told law enforcement to give “protesters” space to
destroy. Eighteen people were killed in Chicago on Sunday, May 31, the city’s
most violent day on record. Its emergency operations center received 65,000
calls for help that day—about 50,000 more than usual.
Michael
Pfleger, a longtime Chicago church pastor, said he heard many people saying,
“Hey, there’s no police anywhere—police ain’t doing nothing.” Pfleger said he
sat and watched a store get looted for an hour and saw no police. He drove
around the city to observe the looting—and the absence of police.
New
York City became a war zone. This is the place where just a few weeks before, everyone had to
stop working, stay home and wear masks—and police came to break up funerals for
violating the latest social-distancing rules. Once the Floyd protests began,
people filled the streets to march, provoke, smash store windows, steal—and
scream at, attack and shoot at nypd officers. Dozens of police vehicles were damaged or
burned, and dozens of officers were injured, including two struck by vehicles
in hit-and-run attacks.
In St.
Louis, 77-year-old retired police officer David Dorn was shot dead when he
tried to fend off the mob from his friend’s pawn shop. Dorn had five children
and 10 grandchildren. Mainstream media virtually ignored his cold-blooded
murder, and the many other victims of the nationwide rampage. They were too
busy cheering on the rioters while covering up their many atrocities.
“That
ain’t a riot,” msnbc’s Joy
Reid said as Minneapolis went up in flames. Her colleague, Ali Velshi, was live
on location describing the riot as mostly a
peaceful protest—as a raging inferno dominated the background on screen. Over
and again, we were told the rioting was “mostly peaceful.” It was “caring and
concerned” citizens taking to the streets, one commentator insisted. Speaker of
the House Nancy Pelosi described the protests as “heartwarming” and said they
were “bringing people together.”
Those
who did acknowledge the violence justified it. They minimized the number of
people committing violence, and said their rage was understandable. We were
told: No one listened when they
protested peacefully, so they had to riot.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones argued that the looting
in New York wasn’t really violence and that theft was more like a “symbolic
taking.” At cnn, Chris
Cuomo said, “Show me where it says the protesters are supposed to be polite and
peaceful.” His colleague Don Lemon actually compared the rioters to America’s
Founding Fathers.
The Founding Fathers.
‘Brokenness’
As
thousands of people incite and commit destruction in their streets, what are
many of the more law-abiding Americans doing? What are many of the law-enforcement Americans doing?
Taking
a knee.
In
recent years, disrespect for the American flag, the American nation, the
American people and especially American
history has increasingly been expressed by kneeling when asked to stand. A
former professional football player popularized it. Now protesters are doing
it, and stridently demanding that authorities do it as well. And the
authorities are complying. Mayors are doing it, members of Congress are doing
it, National Guard members are doing it, soldiers are doing it, police officers
are doing it.
Several videos showed blm disciples being aggressive and intimidating in bringing
people to their knees. One was posted by a prankster who told a random white
woman on the street, “I work for Black Lives Matter. … My ceo has told me to come
out today and to bring you on your knees because you have white privilege.” The
woman deferentially dropped to both knees.
Some are going even further in self-abasement. At a cult-like
gathering in Bethesda, Maryland, hundreds of mostly white demonstrators sat on
the ground and raised their hands as if in surrender, while repeating en masse
the words of a blm leader
in a promise to speak out “about racism, anti-blackness or violence,” and “do
everything in my power to educate my community.” The police chief of Webster,
Massachusetts, joined a throng of protesters in prostrating himself face-down on
the ground for eight minutes.
Mayor Frey took a knee in front of George Floyd’s casket at the
funeral, buried his face in his hand, and sobbed for more than a minute. He
later appeared at a Black Lives Matter rally in Minneapolis and confessed to
the crowd through a face mask over the public address system that he, as a
white man, was “coming to grips with my own brokenness.” He then lashed out at the
Minneapolis Police Department, saying the “systemic and racist system needs to
be revamped.”
This miserable man made extraordinary efforts to exhibit his
solidarity with blm. He
undoubtedly assumed this display would earn some measure of their appreciation
and goodwill. Wrong. That is a fundamental
misconception about this movement—a gross error that is
motivating most of
the apologies and confessions. It is the ignorant notion that this
movement can actually
be appeased and satisfied. It cannot.
Having publicly impugned his city’s entire police department as
a “racist system,” Mayor Frey faced a rude awakening: The crowd was
unimpressed. A woman with a microphone demanded: “Yes or no? Will you commit to defunding the Minneapolis Police
Department? We don’t
want no more police!” When the mayor couldn’t bring himself to
unequivocally support abolishing
the police, the crowd erupted. “Get the [expletive] out of
here!” the woman shouted as the mob began chanting, “Go home, Jacob, go home!” The
insufficiently subservient mayor slunk away in shame.
Brokenness is the right word. In fact, it well
describes the status of any kind
of resistance or pushback by the authorities in this country against this
aggressive, clamorous, extremist movement. Instead it is full-scale retreat,
evacuate, capitulate and appease. And brokenness is
also what this movement is leaving in its wake when anyone even hints at anything
different.
‘Silence Is Violence’
In Washington, D.C., prior to a large Black Lives Matter
demonstration on June 6, Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered city street
crews to paint in 50-foot, bright-yellow letters “Black Lives Matter” across
three city blocks on 16th Street, leading to the White House. A town square was
renamed “Black Lives Matter Plaza.”
For Black Lives Matter D.C., this was not good enough. “This is
to appease white liberals while ignoring our demands,” they tweeted. “Black
Lives Matter means defund the police.” That is
what blm stands
for: No law enforcement—end the
whole racist system!
The next day, blm protesters added their demand next to the original
signage, in the same bright-yellow paint: “Defund the Police.”
In New York, a black activist who writes for the New York Times advised
readers to tell loved ones they will refuse to visit them or answer their calls
unless they support “black lives either through protest or financial
contributions.” Get behind
this Marxist revolution or you are disowned, says the
newspaper of record. “Silence is violence,” the protesters chant. If you do not
heartily endorse (and send money), you risk becoming the target of the mob.
In response to a blm tweet, a professional basketball announcer and radio show
host made the mistake of posting “all lives matter” on social media. He was
forced out of both jobs for being “insensitive” and disrespecting Black Lives
Matter.
A professional soccer player’s wife made the mistake of
criticizing looters who
were destroying Minneapolis. The athlete was made to denounce his wife’s social media
post and endorse blm. Yet
after groveling before the mob, he was still fired.
On June 3, nfl quarterback Drew Brees said, “I will never agree with
anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America.” The leftists
attacked. Other superstar athletes and celebrities seized the opportunity to
accuse him of racism. People sent death threats. Then, as we’ve tragically come
to expect, his “never agree” statement turned into a meek apology within less
than 24 hours—followed by another apology, then another.
The list of high-profile figures forced out of their jobs for
the faintest of infractions against this severe new code grows by the
day: New York Times opinion
editor James Bennet for publishing an editorial by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton;
CrossFit ceo Greg
Glassman for criticizing the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
calling racism a public health issue. Police chiefs, fire chiefs, mayors,
company presidents, writers, reporters and others have faced immediate
termination for a tweet, a comment, a single “transgression.” In most every
case, the person has expressed profound regret for all the anguish and pain
they caused by their insensitivity.
But apologies do not matter to Black Lives Matter. Once you have
exhibited any deviation from unqualified devotion to the cause, you are canceled. There
is no forgiveness, no redemption.
Never Satisfied
blm is
on the offensive. blm is
on the attack. blm is
in war mode. Those who do not grasp this fact continue to behave as though
acceding to its demands will advance this nation toward greater equality, more
fairness, deeper racial understanding, amity and peace. It will not!
Firstly, those demands will
not bring the promised results. Dismantling the police will
escalate crime, not eliminate it. Collectivism will impoverish people, not enrich
them. Disrupting the family structure will intensify social disorder, not tame
it. Redistributing political and economic power based on skin color will
aggravate racial tension, not resolve it. These are simply terrible ideas. They
are radical mutations of concepts that history has repeatedly proved are
disasters. And they are being pushed pell-mell by people who hate what
makes America unique and want to transform it entirely. Virtually every one of these
propositions, to whatever degree it is adopted, will immediately begin creating
problems. And when that happens, its proponents will insist that the reason is racism, and
their terrible idea simply needs to be implemented with greater force.
On top of that, no
matter how
many of these policies are enacted, their advocates will never absolve and
forgive America for the sin of racism. Having become convinced this nation is
institutionally, systemically racist, they will always be
able to unearth evidence that, in their minds, proves this beyond doubt. Never will America—or
any nation on Earth—meet the illusory standard of racial and social justice
these radicals harbor in their minds. Even if the nation “progressed” to the
point of enforced
equality on all educational, financial and occupational outcomes
for all races, it would only take one
person in a bustling, messy nation of 330 million to do
something heinous to a black man—and the fury would erupt just as violently as
it is now, and worse. See?
It keeps happening! Four hundred years of this! We can’t breathe!
That was all it took in Minneapolis: one person, who may well
have been influenced by a demon to commit that evil act—and the ugliest of
racial hatreds instantly reignited nationwide. Police killing 28 unarmed people
out of 44 million black Americans feels like genocide. What evidence could change the mind of someone
who believes that?
We are watching as windows are bashed, businesses looted, cars
scorched, police attacked, cities decimated, mayhem escalated, people
killed—and a great many people are feeling not horror, but pride. They think
this is a good thing. And if you say, No—we
must be able to address problems without burning our civilization to the
ground, they will curse at you and say you are the problem.
This
mindset cannot be appeased. The proof multiplies daily. The
more “space to destroy” this movement is given, the more it destroys. The more
people pander and apologize, the more strident the mob becomes, the more
radical the demands grow.
Why is this?
The Supreme Racist
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this
world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places” (Ephesians 6:12).
This is just one passage among dozens, perhaps hundreds, throughout
the Bible revealing the active presence of evil spirits in our world. Satan the
devil is “the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in
the children of disobedience” (Ephesians 2:2). Yes, Satan is real, and, as you can
see, the evil he inspires is real. He influences attitudes, motivations and
actions of human beings of all backgrounds, ideologies and races (2 Corinthians
4:4; Revelation 12:9). He is the author of human nature, which creates
prejudice, jealousy and envy, competition and strife, resentment of authority,
vanity, lust, greed—evils that always end up leading to violence.
God made human beings of all races in His image, after His likeness (Genesis
1:26). “God that made the world and all things therein … hath made of one blood all nations of men for
to dwell on all the face of the earth …” (Acts 17:24, 26). Satan the devil is
the supreme racist—he
hates all races
and passionately aims to destroy the human race! To attain his goal, he is stirring racial hatreds
in the nations today.
This angry, radical movement that is suddenly possessing
America—a movement that hurls outrageous accusations; twists facts to spin
isolated problems into “systemic corruption”; sees only America’s faults and
none of its virtues; seeks to defund and disband law and order; applauds
destruction; celebrates lawlessness; wants to disrupt the traditional family;
foments fury; feeds on intimidation, coercion and fear; demands total
unthinking conformity—this
movement is not of God
Yours for a
Socialist-Free America!
Bruce ‘the Poor Man’
Postscripts…
By the way, as a quick aside,
and something else the press won’t touch: COVID-19 is a coronavirus, and we
have ALL been exposed to MANY coronaviruses during our lives on earth (like the
common cold). Guess what? Scientists are now showing evidence that up to 81% of
us can mount a strong response to COVID-19 without ever having been exposed to
it before.
Why do voters
reelect the same inept Dems into office? Do they enjoy living in ghettos like
Chicago, Baltimore, LA, etc.
Without new support,
recipients face a substantial loss of income – particularly devastating for
those like the Ramirez family who worked in hard-hit sectors like hospitality
where new jobs are scarce. During high unemployment and a still-raging
pandemic, the end of enhanced jobless benefits could drag on consumer spending,
set off a wave of missed rent and mortgage payments and translate to a slower
recovery, economists said.
Antifa plans to make a mockery of Independence Day by hosting
flag-burnings and anti-American demonstrations…
.
That’s right – Antifa wants to host a flag-burning ceremony
at Gettysburg National
Cemetery.
Despite President Trump working tirelessly to keep Americans
safe and healthy during the coronavirus outbreak, the Fake News media is
pinning blame on him for the outbreak – ALL in an effort to tip
the scales towards Joe Biden in November.
And their efforts are working… Even while ONLY sitting in his basement, Biden is raising tens of millions of dollars and a new Fox News poll even shows Biden BEATING Trump by 9 points on election day!
We know the media will lie and manipulate the American people every step of the way to see Trump lose – we went through this in 2016
And their efforts are working… Even while ONLY sitting in his basement, Biden is raising tens of millions of dollars and a new Fox News poll even shows Biden BEATING Trump by 9 points on election day!
We know the media will lie and manipulate the American people every step of the way to see Trump lose – we went through this in 2016
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2 comments:
Why are so many of these radicals trying to convert the USA into a communist nation-just leave already.
King [BLM] & other two-faced 'progressives are raking in millions from gov't bailout programs & a shakedown of businesses-this is a scam political movement & has nothing to do w/ saving lives-one look at Chicago will tell anyone that.
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