Father’s Day was upon us and wanting to send greetings to the Dads I know I went to Facebook.
Not wanting to merely post a text message I wanted to add a GIF from the selection offered.
Putting Father’s Day in the little GIF search bar I was presented with many different versions of a greeting.
Scrolling through the GIFs I was looking for one with real people and did not want an animated cartoon. I immediately noticed. The images with real people were 95% black. Many were just as appropriate as others, but what I did realize was the Facebook was not so subtly reacting to the current efforts of bending over backwards to join the chorus of racial pandering.
Search any of the major streaming services and you will find that black movies, series, documentaries are all promoted at the top of their cues. Again, there is nothing wrong with those offerings, but it is the obvious manner they are presented. You are are being stirred to that content as a preference to others.
Support of racial equality cannot be done at the expense of all others. Heavy handed methods, no matter how well disguised, will only create an opposition who feels under attack and becomes defensive and deaf to challenges. Surely, there are issues that have been super highlighted and have opened the collective psyche. However there has to be a balanced approach.
With draconian demands coming from the very vocal and active BLM organizers politicians of all stripes are falling over themselves to amplify the positions that are being taken. None of those piling on have done even the smallest bit of analysis or research to vet those positions to determine what a proper response would be. Kneeling in the halls of Congress with African adornments is not only embarrassing but clearly an attempt to gain bona fides with the black community. The fact that the apparel was of Asante origin was ironic because the Asante tribe dealt in the slave trade. Pandering of the highest order is prevalent across the country.
All manner of speeches, demonstrations, actions go unchallenged. When the activists shout for defunding police departments it didn’t take a hot minute for politicians to sign on to the idea. Some were more willing then others. A prime example, in my mind a perfect example, is NYCPD disbanding the Anti-Crime Units. Anti-Crime units wear street clothes and drive unmarked vehicles. They are charged to police violent prone locations. As a result, they are often involved in physical confrontations that result in many arrests and as a byproduct remove large quantities of illegal guns from the streets. The Anti-Crime Units were guilty of not being gentile. In only a few days after they were taken off the streets violent crime, shootings and murders have gone up in New York City.
If those developments were not enough to get your attention you should pay attention to the manipulation and eradication of history. More and more statues, monuments and now names on municipal buildings and installation are being covered by the demand for removal. Again, politicians were the first to capitulate. The portraits of four former US Congress Speakers of the House were removed by the sitting Speaker Nancy Pelosi. There are commissions being set up in many jurisdiction to identify statues, monuments and named facilities that should be destroyed, moved or changed. ISIS did similar things to eradicate history by demolishing important priceless antiquities in the city of Palmyra.
Corporate American couldn’t wait to publish melancholy statements chiming in with total unlimited psychological lock step with the BLM movement and protesters. Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben and even Eskimo Pies have been cast on the dust heap of time.
Here is the bedrock. BLM is a dangerous anti-American group with communist and socialist foundations. They follow many of the Rules for Radicals to advance their cause. Recall the origin of BLM. They created the “hands up, don’t shoot” slogan, which was utterly false, yet it is still espoused today to persuade the ignorant. Their early protests and riots were bolstered with chants and signs such as “F’#k the cops”, “Kill Cops”, “Roast the Pigs”, etc. BLM has not changed and are now reaping the windfall of misguided support, not to mention the millions of dollars being sent their way. They are now championing the “Defund Police” narrative. To which more than a few government officials agree. We can all agree in principle that everything can be improved, including police, but how in the world would defunding (which is code speak for abolish) be beneficial to the very communities where the protests started.
Those communities do not want or need less police. The residents of the toughest neighborhoods want more police not less. They face shootings, gangs, drugs, violence, crime of all kinds and a general lawless environment right outside their door and need to be protected. That cannot be done by replacing police with some other weak apparatus. An absurd suggestion is to send unarmed social workers to domestic disputes. Ask any police officer and they will tell you domestic disturbances are one of the most dangerous to respond to. As defund police is considered it should also be understood that money or the lack thereof is not an answer. To protect and serve police departments need to be fully equipped for every situation, manned is sufficient quantities to be effective, trained more in best practices and respected by the citizens.
Avoiding any responsibility for fostering an anti-police rhetoric and staying narrowly one sided will work for only so long and BLM knows it. That is why they are so aggressive and loud. They know their positions will become less palatable when people start to grasp what is being faust upon the country and relinquish their unquestioning support. When they have time to think rational people will see through the bulldozer methodology.
From their play book……Never waste a perfectly good crisis. Where have you heard that before?
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