Posted on 06/02/2015 3:50:14 AM PDT by Biggirl
“Black Lives Matter.” At first blush, it seems difficult to imagine anyone taking issue with the obvious, self-evident truth articulated by those three simple words. But when we peel away the veneer of deception, we find that Black Lives Matter (BLM) is in fact one of the most destructive, hateful, racist movements in living memory. Founded by a core group of revolutionaries who detest the United States and revere the nation’s most devoted radical enemies, BLM is, at its essence, an ideological reincarnation of the Black Panther movement that flourished in the Sixties.
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Haven’t you heard? Black people can’t be racist!
More like hypocrisy, because if it were for real, there would be an uproar over the black people shot and killed in Chicago and Baltimore.
Actually, they've got a point here. According to the (incomplete) compilation from Tuskegeee Institute, 3,445 black people were lynched, most of them in the South, between 1882 and 1968.
That a rate of 40/year. Black people are killed by cops at a rate considerably higher than that. Probably well over 100/year, though, like the lynching statistics, the compilation is incomplete.
Of course, this doesn't take into account the population growth over the period.
If you get that your life matters, then you will act in accord with that belief. You will walk the walk . A person who thinks that his life matters will act with dignity and integrity on a consistent basis. A person whose life matters acts with self-discipline and self-control. He pursues a course of productivity and responsibility. He rarely gives in to base and destructive behavior.
A person whose life matters accepts responsibility for his circumstances, his actions and where he is in life. Responsibility goes hand in hand with power. To whom you give responsibility for your life is to whom you grant power. People whose lives matter take power over their lives by accepting responsibility for those lives. A life that matters does not blame others.
A life that matters is a life that lives in appreciation and gratitude rather than resentment, hostility and ingratitude. A life that matters chooses to be productive and is committed to improving itself, its family and the world around it. The person who thinks that his life matters is on a path of growth and improvement. If your life matters, then you will not waste it. You will not waste your time and energy on the nonproductive or destructive, the low and the dark.
A life that matters acts with honor, dignity and respect. Self-respect and respect of others. All lives matter. But all too few actually accept that their life does matters.
Sounds like Dingy’s BLM under his disciple Kornze.
The idea that cops are just roaming around, looking for innocent blacks to shoot is, like the idea that whites rampage across the countryside, pulling blacks from their homes to hang, a slanderous myth.
What a shameful and absolutely ridiculous statement!
The only ones we can be sure were guilty of crimes were the members of the lynch mobs themselves: collectively, they committed murder and deprived their victims of due process.
Lynch mobs did not represent the face of justice in any way, shape, or form.
Get a grip and think about what you're saying.
The idea that cops are just roaming around, looking for innocent blacks to shoot is, like the idea that whites rampage across the countryside, pulling blacks from their homes to hang, a slanderous myth.
Trying to conflate those two situations is absurd.
There absolutely were cases of whites doing exactly that to blacks. Not in the last several decades, but, prior to that, it was no myth, at least not in my home state of Florida. See The Rosewood Massacre and associated information, for instance. In fact, plenty of the perpetrators were so proud of their work that they took photographs as mementos.
The vast majority of Americans are far, far beyond the racism which race-baiters attempt to raise the spectre of. Such pervasive bigotry simply doesn't exist anymore, except in the minds of the race-hustlers.
But to claim that there was no historical problem with lynchings of blacks in the South is to be in total denial of historical reality. Murderous vigilantism was, unfortunately, a real phenomenon through the early part of the twentieth century.
As for cops looking for innocent blacks to shoot, that is, of course, utterly false; because cops are equal opportunity on that issue. They'll shoot a white person just as readily as a black one, IMHO.
There was a time when mobs of whites did rampage and hang random blacks, as an incentive to others to stay “in their place.” Prior to WWII race riots consisted (mostly) of whites attacking blacks for the crime of being black.
That time is long past. During the 40s and the 50s race riots were reasonably even-handed. Some mobs were black, some white.
In the 60s and since, race riots have almost exclusively consisted of black mobs attacking non-blacks for the crime of being white or Asian. Or, more often, burning down their own neighborhoods, goal unknown.
The reason more whites and Asians haven’t been killed is they weren’t around.
Author should have mentioned the college president who was forced to abjectly apologize for saying, in a piece otherwise pandering, that “All lives matter.”
Black Lives Matter is the new Occupy Wall Street.
Wow, that is great.
I had to look up something actually written to that effect, and I found this:
https://revdrswift.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/why-black-people-cant-be-racist/
It is full of obvious delusional fallacious crap.
“White people control the government” - really? Do you not see the “disproportionate representation” of black people in positions of governmental authority?
In non-accountable positions of power to wield authority over other people’s property, businesses, and lives?
What about Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago, etc?
“Only white people can turn their feelings towards blacks into action” - really? Heard of Eric Holder’s anti-white jihad? Heard of “the knockout game”?
“Schools, run by white people, fail blacks disproportionately” - so do schools run totally by blacks. And why do blacks fail in school disproportionately when other minorities do not?
“The police, run by white people, arrest and imprison blacks disproportionately” - “stop breaking the law, a$$h073!”
And this has to be my favorite:
“Banks, run by white people, force black people into taking loans they can’t afford keeping them perpetually indebted to crackers” - no, the government FORCED the banks to loan to people that had no possibility of keeping up with the payments.
Accusations of “white privilege” are the 21st century incarnation of anti-semitism.
well, in exactly what way do the lives of multiple repeat criminals with records beginning at age 12 that have no means of support other than criminal activity matter.
Is society not better off if they are dead? Is the fact that such a subhuman is black make any difference?
Thank you. I appreciate the feedback.
I thought BLM was Bureau of Land Management.
Absolutely correct.
The act of lynching was/is a deliberate extra-legal act of vigilantism that circumvented the judicial system. If there was enough time and opportunity to lynch a person for an alleged crime there was enough time and opportunity to arrest him, restrain him and bring him in for the courts to handle.
(and this is in no way stating that the court proceedings were fair; they weren’t)
Quite difficult to equate subduing and capturing an alleged criminal (let alone someone random) restraining him, finding a tree, finding a rope and then stringing that person up ... with an officer like Darren Wilson using his service weapon to put down a much larger and enraged suspect who happens to be charging at him.
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