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- Are Black Lives Matter
protesters guilty of
selective outrage?
© 2016
Pick any urban city in America. If you watch that city’s local news, you can easily tell the number one problem facing black America. It’s Blacks killing Blacks. A close second is Blacks attempting to kill Blacks. This is happening in record numbers across the country. It’s as if we have our own civil war going on. But we aren’t killing each other in the name of a cause or a country. The only thing that comes close to what we’re doing to each other is what’s going on between Islam’s Sunnis and Shiites.
Yet, despite our urban reality, black America has been incredibly and amazingly indifferent about black-on-black violence. When a black person is killed by a white cop, there is no indifference about that. Suddenly the black community becomes animated, outraged, energized, and ready to protest. When white cops kills Blacks, protests are almost automatic now. Granted, in many situations, the protests are warranted. But the protests, along with the slogans and chants of “Black Lives Matter” are more than just a little bit disingenuous. The protests are disingenuous because all black lives should matter, but the only time we act like black lives matter is when a black person is killed by a white cop. Mama and papa always said, it’s not what you say that matters, it’s what you do.
To date, there have been about 10 major white cop killings of black males. Each one triggered massive, national protests. By contrast, 3,000 to 4,000 Blacks are killed every year by other Blacks. If black lives really do matter, why don’t we see protests over these stunning numbers? When thousands of Blacks are killed each year by Blacks compared to the 10 major white cop killings that captured the public’s attention, ask your rational mind, “Which is the more serious problem?” Do the math.
Lest we be misunderstood, protests against rogue cops are often justified. Certainly, when Blacks are killed under questionable circumstances by police officers, our community should respond and those police officers have to be held accountable. However, a bad trend is developing in the black nation, and we should be mindful.
Ask yourself, do we really want to turn people with long, shady criminal histories into martyrs or freedom fighters? What kind of example will this set? Meanwhile, while we’re making martyrs out of criminals, innocent Blacks, who are being carjacked and murdered by black crooks are too often forgotten.
When you think about it, black lives matter protesters have been “cherry picking” which black lives matter. They’ve focused exclusively on white cops who killed Blacks. Some of these protesters have even traveled to other cities to protest white cop shootings. But these same protesters will not protest in their own neighborhoods where there are rampant shootings, home invasions and carjackings.When was the last time you saw us protesting a brutal carjacking victim’s death chanting, “Black Lives Matter?” You never see it, and it reminds you of the old Marvin Gaye song, “Ain’t That Peculiar.”
Video of LaQuan McDonald’s killing in Chicago triggered black lives matter protests for weeks. At the same time, Chicago was recording nearly 30 homicides every weekend. One of those homicides really stood out. It involved a 9-year-old boy who was intentionally singled out and executed by a gang member. No one protested his execution. There were no marches, and no protesters were chanting, “No justice, no peace.” The family members were the only ones who seemed to care, just like all the other black-on-black killings in the city.
In Dearborn, MI, a suburb of Detroit, a black person was shot and killed after being chased by a white police officer. In response, the now... <<<<<< N.B from Jumbotweet: auto-truncated at 4K characters on index page - Click here or on the "view" link to see entire jumbotweet! http://www.jumbotweet.com/ltweets/view/140978 - Bernie Sanders:
Telling people what
they want to hear. © 2016
Bernie Sanders describes himself as a Socialist. He also says he’s not a Democrat, but he’s running for president on the Democratic ticket. The problem with Socialists is they don’t live in the real world. In their world, with pink elephants and orange skies, the government and business are the enemy. Yet, nearly every Socialist government on the planet, that isn’t an economic basket case, has embraced capitalism and business to progress, the very things Sanders has been railing against.
Socialists believe naively that the working poor and non-working poor are natural allies. Try telling that the Trump supporters and how they have more in common with Blacks than millionaires and billionaires. Socialists doctrine failed to property weigh the impact and the role of racism in their imaginary class struggle.
Sander’s appeal to younger Americans is somewhat understandable, because they do not have a grasp of history nor do they seem to care about much that happened before they were born.
Sanders, In a recent interview with the New York Daily News, came across as someone long on rhetoric but short on ways to turn his rhetoric into reality. For example, Sanders has touted a need to break up banks. The Daily News asked him how he would accomplish that as president.
Sanders replied, “How you go about doing it is having legislation passed, or giving the authority to the secretary of treasury to determine, under Dodd-Frank, that these banks are a danger to the economy over the problem of too-big-to-fail.”
He is delusional if he thinks a US Senate and House of Representatives, now mostly Republican led, will pass legislation that will break up banks. Even if the impossible became possible, Sanders revealed in the interview that he is clueless about the consequences of such a breakup and its impact on the economy. Banks employ hundreds of thousands of workers. What effect will their lost jobs have on the economy? Sanders never considered those consequences.
Sanders talks about free tuition. It’s a nice idea, but he doesn’t address how it will be paid for nor how it intends to accomplish it. He’s telling people what they want to hear. Like Trump and Cruz in the Republican Party, Sanders is moving the Democrats farther to the left. With extremes on the left and extremes on the right, this country is bound to face stalemate after stalemate. More immediately, a vote for Sanders would be a vote for Trump or Cruz.
- Bernie Sanders:
Telling people what
they want to hear. © 2016
Bernie Sanders describes himself as a Socialist. He also says he’s not a Democrat, but he’s running for president on the Democratic ticket. The problem with Socialists is they don’t live in the real world. In their world, with pink elephants and orange skies, the government and business are the enemy. Yet, nearly every Socialist government on the planet, that isn’t an economic basket case, has embraced capitalism and business to progress, the very things Sanders has been railing against.
Socialists believe naively that the working poor and non-working poor are natural allies. Try telling that the Trump supporters and how they have more in common with Blacks than millionaires and billionaires. Socialists doctrine failed to property weigh the impact and the role of racism in their imaginary class struggle.
Sander’s appeal to younger Americans is somewhat understandable, because they do not have a grasp of history nor do they seem to care about much that happened before they were born.
Sanders, In a recent interview with the New York Daily News, came across as someone long on rhetoric but short on ways to turn his rhetoric into reality. For example, Sanders has touted a need to break up banks. The Daily News asked him how he would accomplish that as president.
Sanders replied, “How you go about doing it is having legislation passed, or giving the authority to the secretary of treasury to determine, under Dodd-Frank, that these banks are a danger to the economy over the problem of too-big-to-fail.”
He is delusional if he thinks a US Senate and House of Representatives, now mostly Republican led, will pass legislation that will break up banks. Even if the impossible became possible, Sanders revealed in the interview that he is clueless about the consequences of such a breakup and its impact on the economy. Banks employ hundreds of thousands of workers. What effect will their lost jobs have on the economy? Sanders never considered those consequences.
Sanders talks about free tuition. It’s a nice idea, but he doesn’t address how it will be paid for nor how it intends to accomplish it. He’s telling people what they want to hear. Like Trump and Cruz in the Republican Party, Sanders is moving the Democrats farther to the left. With extremes on the left and extremes on the right, this country is bound to face stalemate after stalemate. More immediately, a vote for Sanders would be a vote for Trump or Cruz.