Posted on 06/03/2020 4:00:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
"No justice, no peace!" they shout. Then they break windows.
It makes me furious.
But then I watch the video of the Minneapolis cop kneeling on George Floyd's neck, while Floyd repeatedly says, "I can't breathe," and three other officers just watch.
Then I see the video of the woman in Central Park calling 911, claiming, "An African-American man is threatening me!" But that was a racist lie.
Christian Cooper just asked her to leash her dog. We're supposed to leash our dogs in that section of Central Park.
But Amy Cooper didn't leash her dog. She frantically called 911, claiming she was under threat. She knew that by telling the police "an African American man is threatening me," she'd probably get a more aggressive response.
The left-wing New Yorker (she donated to Democratic campaigns) was careful to use that pointless, yet politically correct, term for black. Even though she's a racist.
Watching things like that should help me sympathize with the people rioting last night.
So should my friend Fabian's experience. When Fabian was 20, he bought his first car, a luxury edition Infiniti J30 Sedan. He'd saved up for it working as an airplane technician, transporting U.S. soldiers to war zones around the world.
Then, while pumping gas back in NYC, police officers approached him, demanding his license and registration.
He produced the documents and showed them that the car was registered in his name. But Fabian is black, and the police would not believe that the car belonged to him. They arrested him and charged him with grand theft auto.
He sat in jail for two days.
Finally, a judge dismissed the case -- using the same documentation Fabian had showed the police. They released him -- without any apology.
The trauma still haunts him. Fabian says it evokes a sense of helplessness -- a fear that "anytime there's an encounter with law enforcement, getting arrested or even death could be the outcome."
Yet, as I watch protesters (even two lawyers were arrested) throwing Molotov cocktails at police officers, and I see opportunistic young people looting stores, and my privileged left-wing white friends say things like, "the looting of our society by unrestrained capitalism is worse!" I get even more furious.
This country, and capitalism, has done more good things for disadvantaged people of all races than any society, ever.
Fabian, despite his terrible experience, says that living as a black man in America is a gift. He came here as a teen from Jamaica. America, he says, gave him opportunity he would never have had elsewhere.
Now, he's a capitalist who owns things. He smiles as he says he sees "a cultural black renaissance: promotion of black education, ownership, and acquiring assets as a top priority."
America, he says, is the land of opportunity.
Even if some cops are racist bullies.
Yet, so much that is exceptional about America is drowned out by the loudest voices on the extremes.
On one side, we have an "unraveling" president, as George Will puts it, an angry bully "banging his spoon on his highchair..."
On the other side are the leftists who defend the violence and looting, like the masked antifa children who want to destroy capitalism.
On Twitter, I watched video of a group driving around in a Mercedes-Benz, passing out bricks (for protesters to throw). I applaud the young black woman who called them "stupid" and tossed the brick back into their car, yelling: "This white b---- giving a group of black men a brick to throw! You know that s--- could get them killed!"
It could. No one wins in these clashes.
I assume there is less racism in America than there once was, but there's no way to prove that. Even if there were, Malcolm X wrote, "If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress."
But I think that's the wrong way to think about it.
George Floyd's killer was arrested and other cops who abused their power were fired. In the past, police officers were never prosecuted.
For years in America, the percentage of interracial marriage has steadily increased. That suggests progress.
Burning police stations and looting stores won't speed that progress. It sets us back.
[On one side, we have an “unraveling” president, as George Will puts it, an angry bully “banging his spoon on his highchair...”]
Sure. Go ahead and quote George Will. Ass.
I hope you realize this is an op-ed, also John Stossel is a Libertarian.
George Will is an anti-trumper, period. Fox News continues to spiral down the toilet as they keep adding Libtards to their lineup. As for Fabian, it is a great injustice.
Yep.
Sorry, John - the too-clever-by-half fag in the park was threatening to poison her her dog - as far as she knew.
A lot of weak minded people think they sound wise by casting the narrative of “both sides are at fault”, a rhetorical device that allows them to be the “truly objective” person who sees both sides. They only succeed in sounding like the fools and morally bankrupt virtue signalling hypocrites they are.
Blah blah blah does black behaviors and criminality have anything to do with it? Are we supposed to ignore that? Our schools are largely a haven for encouragement of this type of behavior. ‘equal outcomes’ and ‘disparate impact’ and as a result have become largely unruly or worse. So is that where we are going with law enforcement or just in general too? That should work well.
The truth is, we don’t HAVE to live with them.
People (including Stossel) refuse to accept reality and sweep it under the rug. Admittedly it’s a very harsh reality.
No where in the world and never in history have whites and blacks been able to peacefully coexist. It’s a sad fact but a fact nonetheless.
The cause can be found in the “bell curve”.
Two groups of people with significantly different AVERAGE IQ and whose members can be easily identified as belonging to one or the other group will never be able to peacefully coexist together.
There are only four possible solution to such a problem.
1. Separation of the races so each can determine it’s own destiny. This could happen peacefully or through a racial war.
2. Miscegination, which basically means the wiping out of the white race
3. Use eugenics or genetics to elevate the average iq of blacks
4. Continue with the status quo and the gradual self subjugation of whites into a mass of guilt racked dysfunctional group of people willing to submit themselves to any demand by the blacks in order to assuage their guilt. In the process less and less will be expected of blacks since they are the victims.
5. What is your idea of a possible solution?
This is not to say that one race is better than another, but simply accepting the fact that our “average” makeup is such that it creates two many irreconcilable difference. And it doesn’t mean that carefully selected individual of the two races couldn’t live happily together. The problem is the GROUP AVERAGE.
It’s like insisting that randomly selected groups of cats and dogs must live harmoniously in the same cage.
Time to end this insanity.
[A lot of weak minded people think they sound wise by casting the narrative of “both sides are at fault”, a rhetorical device that allows them to be the “truly objective” person who sees both sides. They only succeed in sounding like the fools and morally bankrupt virtue signalling hypocrites they are.]
It’s tough racket, and a cushy sinecure at the same time. Tough racket because they need to stay within the bounds of the politically-acceptable to the liberal (is there any other kind?) media bosses, which changes randomly. Cushy sinecure because once you land that slot, you own it the way many union employees have a job for life, and all you have to do to keep it, is toe the line and provide anecdotes that reinforce the sacraments for your particular political slant/brand.
Thank you for the explanation. That is a choice they made which I presume they have made peace with.
In my naivety I don’t see being a kept person as much of a defense but perhaps I have been lucky. I’m not much for unions either...
Once you sell yourself what more do you have left to sell.
[Thank you for the explanation. That is a choice they made which I presume they have made peace with.
In my naivety I don’t see being a kept person as much of a defense but perhaps I have been lucky. I’m not much for unions either...
Once you sell yourself what more do you have left to sell.]
What are you going to do to pay your bills, at a time when your law school peers made partner long ago, and you’re not exactly welcome on corporate boards or many big companies because of your widely-publicized apostasy from the widely-accepted positions of the day. Look at what just happened to Steve King, who was primaried from his Iowa House seat because he suggested that white nationalists were no worse than black or other kinds of nationalists.
Bottom line is that right-wing media pundits have to walk a fine line. On black issues, don’t expect anything resembling candor, unless that pundit is a black conservative, and even then it’s not clear that they really have a blank check. But being non-black and on the wrong side of that line is a literal career killer.
There’s also the fact that if these right-wing pundits don’t play the inept foil to the left within the liberal media, others will gladly do so. Don’t think of them as thought leaders - think of them as designated villains in the typical Hollywood media production.
Tom Cruise routinely decks, with one punch, the nondescript but really tough-looking villains in his movie productions. These disposable bad guys are typically played by extremely competent people who double up as stuntmen. They probably taught Cruise how to pantomime every single move he makes in the movie. You don’t really think Cruise can actually knock out even *one* of these men, do you?
Conservative pundits syndicated in liberal media outlets are like these movie villains. They routinely concede points they shouldn’t have to, merely to stay employed. Imagine if a stuntman playing a movie villain decided to fight Tom Cruise for real, and knocked him out. That would make the stuntman unemployable in the industry.
I am not disputing the truth of what you say. I have lived my life, made my choices a different way. When a path emerged that would have compromised my integrity I did without. Another door always opens.
Don’t you think those men knew what they were selling when they took those jobs? There is usually a turning point where you know what you are getting into. The test of who you are occurs at that fork in the road.
I guess I have trouble with the idea that not only do you sell yourself you mislead the public by hiding the truth and supplying a plausible lie. That contributes to electing the leftists & globalists who all but destroyed our Country. These men misuse their positions and influence for a cushy life. In my vernacular that is evil.
Steve King made some ill considered statements, inartfully. He shot himself in the foot, probably should have retired to spend time with his family but he didn’t really understand that he was irreparably tainted.
I suppose I could make peace with the idea of them as designated villains. I’d even be less angry. I’ll have to develop a more detached viewpoint first. Truth is they won’t change and they are just a piece of the puzzle that I can’t alter..
[Don’t you think those men knew what they were selling when they took those jobs? There is usually a turning point where you know what you are getting into. The test of who you are occurs at that fork in the road.]
The fact is that the ideological changes that have taken place in the past several decades are head-spinning. I thought political correctness was bad in the 80’s. I’d give a lot to get back to 80’s-era political correctness today.
If I got my panties every time a black acted racist to me, I would not be able to walk.
Agreed.
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