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Greenfield: Black Lives Don't Matter
Sultan Knish blog ^ | Thursday, December 04, 2014 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 12/05/2014 4:56:49 AM PST by Louis Foxwell

Thursday, December 04, 2014

Black Lives Don't Matter

Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog

The slogan of the wave of Ferguson protests is “Black Lives Matter”. But progressives are far more interested in toting around the corpse of Michael Brown to their protests than in the living man he was.

Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and countless others like them grew up in broken families, their lives haunted by fathers and stepfathers with gang ties. The only masculine culture they had was that of the thug and that culture eventually killed them.

Criminal culture is even more fatal to criminals than it is to their victims. If you attack enough people, eventually one of them will fight back. Eventually one of them will kill you.

It wasn’t Darren Wilson who decided that black lives don’t matter. Michael Brown did. He did not grow up with a sense that his life was worth anything more than violent posturing could make of it. Just like Martin, that violent posturing eventually killed him.

Rappers recorded a tribute song to Michael Brown titled, “Don’t Shoot”. But Brown’s own songs had a different theme with lyrics like “My favorite part of killing people is when they hit the ground.”

Black criminals victimize other black people first. The Ferguson looters went after businesses serving the black community and businesses owned by black people. That’s the way it always is.

Which black lives really matter in Missouri; the lives of criminals shot by police officers or the black lives taken by criminals?

Missouri has a black homicide rate that is nearly double the nationwide homicide rate for black people. And it’s nearly six times higher than the overall murder rate in Missouri.

If the media were really outraged by lost black lives, they would be outraged by those numbers. If the protesters really wanted to say that black lives matter, they would fight those murder rates instead of contributing to them with their protests. The story of Missouri’s murder rate is the story of the left. From the beginning to the end of the 1960s, murder rates doubled, rapes, robberies and car thefts doubled, assaults tripled and thefts quadrupled.

A decade in which America changed left a bloody trail of death and misery in its wake. The victims of the left’s transformation of America filled the gutters, morgues, prisons and hospitals.

When Giuliani pointed out that the police were there to protect black people, he was asserting that black lives matter. And unlike every single one of his self-righteous critics, he actually saved black lives.

The decision of his Socialist successor, Bill de Blasio, to move criminals back into housing projects was a statement that they don’t. Housing projects in the pre-Giuliani era belonged to drug dealers. Getting criminals out of housing projects saved black lives, especially those of children.

The “Black Lives Matter” protesters claim that there’s a crisis of police shootings. There isn’t. There is a crisis of young black men shooting each other.

After the shooting of drug dealer Derrick Jones, the NAACP breathlessly reported that 37 black people were shot by police in Oakland over four years. Meanwhile there were 1,594 shooting victims in Oakland in one year.

The vast majority of the perpetrators were black. The majority of murder victims were young black men. So were their killers. The leading cause of death for young black men is murder. The perpetrators are other young black men.

If black lives really mattered, then the life of a young black man shot down by a criminal would matter at least as much as Michael Brown. But those black lives don’t matter.

The progressive Ferguson protesters not only don’t care about them, but they want to take more black lives by empowering criminals and crippling the police.

The gang is to the black community as the cartel is to lawless parts of Mexico, except that the American equivalents of the Narcocorrido, the songs glamorizing cartel drug dealers, are distributed by major music labels and their performers are invited to the White House.

While Mexico tries to fight drug and gang music, American progressives make it mainstream.

Gang culture in Black America, which is responsible for most of the gun violence in the country, isn’t the work of a few thugs in a burned out building; it’s promoted by progressives in the entertainment industry. The black lives taken by its glamorization of drug dealing and violent killing also don’t matter.

You don’t show that black lives matter by supporting criminal control over entire black neighborhoods. When you fight the criminals who are taking black lives, when you roll back crime, then you show that black lives really matter. When you help criminals you are announcing that black lives don’t matter.

Despite its self-righteousness about black lives mattering, the left isn’t any good at saving them. It is however really good at taking them. Planned Parenthood’s black outreach arm announced on Twitter that it was joining the Ferguson protests because #BlackLivesMatter.

More African-American lives were ended at abortion clinics in the United States than anywhere else. But those black lives also don’t matter.

The 6,000 black people murdered in one year don’t matter. The 400,000 black babies killed in one year don’t matter. Does a black man have to be killed by a white cop for his life to matter to the left? That’s the only conclusion that can be drawn from Ferguson.

To the #BlackLivesMatter crowd, the furious white hipsters crowding malls and staging die-ins, black lives only matter when they feed their own political agendas, their grudges and their own egos.

If black lives really mattered to the left, it would not have built an entire industry, an entire culture and an entire political movement around taking them.

Progressives only care about black people when they’re using them as weapons. For black lives to matter to them, they have to be dead at the hands of a white man. For black unemployment to matter to them, they have to be able to blame it on Republicans. Black poverty, black homelessness only matter to them when they can cash in on a social justice solution that doesn’t fix the problem.

The rest of the time they don’t pay attention and don’t care.

Black people exist for the political convenience of progressives. Black lives don’t matter to them except when they can make use of them. The master-slave relationship has shifted from the plantation to the poll inflating the self-esteem and power of the masters while destroying the lives of their slaves.

The Ferguson protests are not about saving black lives, but promoting the pro-crime politics that take them. Its message is that all black people are criminals and have to be protected from law enforcement. By turning Michael Brown into the ubiquitous black man, the left reveals how racist it really is.

If black lives truly matter, then they matter when the conditions of their misery can’t be blamed on white people. If black lives truly mattered to the protesters, they would fight crime instead of supporting the criminals taking black lives.



TOPICS: Government; History; Politics; Religion
KEYWORDS: ferguson; greenfield; missouri; newyork; newyorkcity; sultanknish
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Look at the expression on the cop’s face......LOL.


21 posted on 12/05/2014 7:58:29 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

A++


22 posted on 12/05/2014 7:58:42 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Burn, baby, burn!

Er... Bump, baby, bump!

23 posted on 12/05/2014 9:31:13 AM PST by metesky (My investment program is holding steady @ $0.05 cents a can.)
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To: Old Sarge

Most whites marching either are anti-Americans or belong to groups who are promoting them....most have no idea why they are or the groups affiliated with...evidenced by interviews....nor do they really care as for them it’s just important to “feel” like one has a cause and a purpose from their otherwise dull and non-productive lives.

Dial a protester...the activists get them from colleges and otherwise unemployable people. And the activists know where to get them on a moments notice.

Bridge closing and targeted areas are set up by Commy activists who love to hi-jack any protest that looks to become a movement they can exploit for their own agendas’....which is the destruction of our nation.


24 posted on 12/05/2014 11:28:46 AM PST by caww
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To: Louis Foxwell
BUMP. Greenfield is it.
25 posted on 12/05/2014 3:12:03 PM PST by golux
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To: caww
Bridge closing and targeted areas are set up by Commy activists who love to hi-jack any protest that looks to become a movement they can exploit for their own agendas’....which is the destruction of our nation.

Saw this in the 60's in Boston where the ACP was footing bills for SDS and the war protest movement. That was my signal to head for higher ground.

26 posted on 12/05/2014 6:56:24 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: All

Black-on-black crime does matter.

One of my co-workers lost her nephew in a shooting. The victim had words with another guy about a girl in a club and as he was leaving the other guy shot him in the back.

The victim mattered a lot to his aunt, mom and other relatives, including twin toddler daughters. Apparently he was the sane one in the little girls’ lives. But he’s gone.

Another co-worker, also black, was telling me about which neighborhoods in town where you don’t stop, even for red lights, and how to avoid being a victim. This is a guy who just shakes his head when he talks about his dear departed hometown of Detroit. He also told me about defensive driving in Detroit — drive through yards if you have to, don’t stop.

These are good people who live with fear, loss and grief.

I am sure they are not the only ones.


27 posted on 12/05/2014 7:16:57 PM PST by Cloverfarm
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To: Louis Foxwell
Lisa Fithian is certainly earning her wages .....Civil disobedience training by none other than the professional manufacturer of crisis and radical self-proclaimed “anarchist” Marxist lesbo was on the grounds and active in Ferguson......she has worked with Obama and also Soros's organizations

The woman is no amateur and works Internationally as well...she's the first call when movements look like they can be piggybacked...and she's certainly active now, along with her string of cohorts.

Breitbart did a whole segment about her....she is violent and says herself that her missions are to create chaos....what we're seeing mushroom is a result of her work, which is anti-American.

It would pay for people to be aware of this woman and where she's operating...Tea Party people know who she is and warn about her

Here she is in Ferguson organizing activists to lead the people


28 posted on 12/05/2014 8:16:22 PM PST by caww
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To: caww
Soro's and Obama's 'call girl' Marxist.....street activist who loves to shut things down from streets to airports...whatever it takes she'll do including violence. The fires in Ferguson are directly related to her work there.


29 posted on 12/05/2014 8:21:50 PM PST by caww
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To: Louis Foxwell

Bkmk


30 posted on 12/05/2014 8:26:04 PM PST by uncitizen (IM MAD AS HELL AND IM NOT GONNA TAKE THIS ANYMORE)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Great article full of truth.


31 posted on 12/05/2014 8:32:13 PM PST by uncitizen (IM MAD AS HELL AND IM NOT GONNA TAKE THIS ANYMORE)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Daniel is hot, hot, hot.

That's just...


32 posted on 12/06/2014 9:05:44 AM PST by humblegunner (Why hello, Captain Trips.)
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To: humblegunner

We are all perfectly clear about he fact that you are more than a bit gay. You just can not let go of it.


33 posted on 12/06/2014 11:10:12 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

You’re the one calling another dude “hot”.

Own it. Be fabulous.


34 posted on 12/06/2014 11:12:56 AM PST by humblegunner (Why hello, Captain Trips.)
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To: humblegunner

You are the one who can not keep his head out of the toilet. Own it smutty.


35 posted on 12/06/2014 1:06:24 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

36 posted on 12/06/2014 1:16:26 PM PST by humblegunner (Why hello, Captain Trips.)
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