Saturday, September 12, 2020

Sorry, it's mostly a lie.

There was an article I read once, some years ago actually, entitled Black Lies Matter. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/black-lies-matter. You should read it. It was published in September 2016. Trump wasn't even elected yet. One thing it shows is the lie that this all started with Trump. For example, the murder/assassination of police as a result of the BLM movement was already ongoing. The riots in Baltimore and Missouri had already happened. 

The lies of this movement never end. 

Lie no. 1 and 2. George Zimmerman and Darren Wilson are murderers. If you go to BLM'S website (blacklivesmatter.com)'s about us page you'll see the first big lie, far as I know:

 "#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer."

And what a humdinger of a lie it is. Zimmerman is currently suing over claims over comments that Zimmerman was a murderer (not using his name) Sen. Warren and Mayor Buttigieg. He's also Trayvon's family and lawyer, for, he alleges, trying to frame him. I hope he wins against the pols, who were heinous in their comments (I expect that from Warren, shame on Buttigieg, who I hoped had some decency) and if what GZ says is true about the Martin family/lawyers, well, them too.   

But, they still maintain that his acquittal and the killing of Trayvon is a primary basis for BLM's movement. Racists organizations like BLM, and I include as racist anyone who calls Zimmerman a racist or murderer, because they either watched the trial, know what the testimony was and should know better, or, they are plain idiots, who just go along with what their side states, even calling someone about whom they know nothing, a murderer . Both Warren and Buttigieg did (they intimated). Joe Scarborough, who I remember calling Zimmerman a "thug" (one of the reasons I can no longer watch his show), is another. I give a semi-pass to Martin's family because their grief may obscure all rationality, but for their emotional anger, not any lies. In fact, if you actually watched the trial, the one thing the arrogant prosecutors who mocked him didn't try to say - at all - was that he was racist. No why? Because he was the opposite of one.

You should read the complaint filed by Zimmerman (found in - https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/19/21144670/george-zimmerman-lawsuit-warren-buttigieg-travyon-martin-defamation-tweets), which will tell you a lot of things that aren't usually said in the media. These are at this point, allegations, which are just what what the plaintiff (here Zimmerman) says, and allegations are sometimes proven, sometimes not. These, well, we will see. But, I'm betting they are based on truthful evidence, because the whole affair was a travesty and lie.

Are you even aware of the death threats against Zimmerman and his family? And they are real, unlike many death threats. One man has already tried to kill him and been given 20 years (Matthew Apperson). Do you know a $100,000 bounty was put on Zimmerman's head by a rapper in a song? Funny, right? Ha ha.

The same nonsense happened after Michael Brown was legitimately killed by a police officer, who had to resign and hide (I think he is still hidden), despite a federal investigation BY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION - not the Trump administration, which found many things wrong with the local police department, but also that Brown, who had just robbed a store, not only tried to get Officer Wilson's gun, but then attacked him in the street. Still, BLM puts their hands up and says "don't shoot" in honor of Brown, as if that made-up story is what happened. If they had truth on their side, why make that up? The scenario is frequently repeated. They don't care about the justice of it, or what the facts are, they care only that a black man was shot and therefore some white man or a police officer of any color must pay, guilty or not. Not that sometimes a black man isn't wrongly killed by the police. Of course, it happens and George Floyd is a good example. But, it is far more frequently a white man killed by police than a black man (not by the proportion in the population though). What I notice, is that when anyone, yes, even the demonic white people, see what happened to George Floyd, they are furious and call it murder. You see the few unjustified murders of blacks by police over and over again in the media and they try and convince you it is ever ongoing, frequent. No matter what the criminal did, if it ends up as a black's (usually male) death, there is only one possible judgment for them. That certainly isn't justice. It's social "justice."

Lie no. 3. We have to say "Black Lives Matter," because people don't know it.  

Not true. The overwhelming number of Americans realize that blacks and other groups underwent horrible and murderous oppression (still like that in much of the world). And we realize, most people anyway, that it has ramifications that last generations. When Jack Johnson won the world boxing championship in the early 1900s, he was ripped apart by the media (not least the NYTimes), framed for a crime and hated. That was then. Now, successful blacks, just like whites, are lionized. And when they die, people care. Did you see the outpouring of grief for Kobe Bryant? John Lewis? Ali? Mandela?

Lie no. 4. PEACEFUL? You call this "peaceful?" BLM pretends that it is peaceful. Hmmm. In the early days of this, in (I think) Baltimore, NYC in 2014, there were a string of police murders by individuals who stated they were inspired by the movement and thus killed officers in cold blood. Does anyone even remember that? Maybe not, as it was cops killed, most of the media can't be that interested (they were then). Those are far from the BLM advocates and followers who have killed people. And I'm not even talking about the arson, bullying, punching and other assorted viciousness.

In 2016, six - yes, six officers were killed at a BLM rally in Dallas. The killer invoked BLM. Peaceful?Obama then said that it wasn't the '60s, we were more united than that (Donald Trump, then just a candidate, said we were not united, and obviously, he was right). Obama called Micah Johnson, the killer demented and said he wasn't representative of anyone else, and he just used BLM as a way to express his anger. Hmmm. Okay. Seems like we have thousands doing that now - because since the George Floyd killing, there has been a whole lot of rioting, killing, arson . . . etc., in the name of BLM.  

Recently, the laughable study came out that 93 % of the rallies are peaceful since Floyd was killed. That left only 543 violent rallies in the roughly three months and they don't count individual or smaller acts of violence, such as out and out murder based on the movement - like with former officer David Dorn right at the beginning, or local outbursts, like bullies and scum in Rochester, NY who scared everyone out of a diner. If you watch many cable news channels or network news, you can't even realize what is going on. But, there have been increased shootings in the thousands and deaths at least increased in the many hundreds (could be a thousand by now - I'd have to study it) as a result of these rallies after Floyd's killing, particularly in NYC, once with an admirably low homicide rate. Chicago, Seattle, and other cities where the government, usually mayors, take the "protesters" (read - murderers, arsonists, etc.) side, at least until they show up at their house. Who do they blame? Trump, of course. Even though he has offered federal help, which they refuse; even though he is one of the few who regularly denounces the violence (yes, Biden, who at the same time, blamed Trump without an explanation, and said the feds weren't coming to help in his administration). Actually, if Biden is elected, I expect the D led cities will beg for federal help because it won't be Trump they are asking. They'd rather their citizens die, in my opinion, and cities made unlivable than help themselves if they think it will help Trump.

More lies? Any analysis of killings by police, including liberal outlets like the Washington Post, shows that there are few unjustified killings by police in this often violent country with 330,000,000 people. More police are killed by people than police kill anyone of any ethnic group. More whites are killed by police than blacks, despite the fact that the overwhelming number of suspected and convicted murderers are black. And they are mostly killing other black people or Hispanics. 

Lie no. 5. Their name. They sure don't act like they think it matters.   Black Lives Matter certainly doesn't care about black lives.The movement ignores the overwhelming deaths of people in the aftermath of Floyd's killing and call for more revolution (that's what they call it). Little children are shot down in cold blood and they don't seem to care at all.  A survey during the recent riots showed over 80% of blacks wanted the same or more police, not less, but the BLM movement calls for defunding police. Is George Floyd the only one whose life mattered? Another generation of black children will be taught they are victims and whites privileged, rather than be taught the value of education. The movement seeks to change education to make it about social justice rather than you know, things like math and history.

You know who could care less about black lives?  If you don't know who Davell Gardner, Jr. is or David Dorn (look them up) - two examples, but you know George Floyd's name well, it's because BLM and most of the media could care less about those who don't advance their crooked narrative. But, somehow, though partly responsible for anyone's death as a result of the movement, Al Sharpton eulogized that poor one year old. Gun violence, he blamed. Not BLM's inciting thousands of shootings and hundreds of additional deaths above normal since Floyd's killing by getting their supporters super-charged for violence,and making the streets super-unsafe while they are busy trying to defund and render useless the police against gangs.

Lie no. 6. But, Black Lives Matter is just the name of different non-profits, right? You can't blame BLM as a thing. Yes, it's decentralized, but their t-shirts, their slogans, their chants and speeches, their constant theme tells us its a decentralized movement. Still a movement. Even the media recognizes that. Decentralized works because it makes it harder to blame individuals.

Imagine if we applied that same rationale to the "mafia." Remember, "there's no mafia." Or applied to the many separate Klan groups or neo-Nazi groups or just White Supremacists. Can't blame them because there are different groups? "Don't be ridiculous," they'd say. And it would be ridiculous. Just like it is to say it about BLM. It's a movement and its deadly, mostly for blacks and other minorities.

7. Black lives are not given the same value as white ones. What? 

So, Critical Race Theory, according to Wikipedia -  "Critical race theory (CRT) is a theoretical framework in the social sciences that examines society and culture as they relate to categorizations of race, law, and power."  

Sounds, hmmm, like science. Of course, it's nothing of the sort. It's just racism put into fancy words. You think not. Get this, from the same article: 

"From the CRT perspective, the white skin that some Americans possess is akin to owning a piece of property, in that it grants privileges to the owner that a renter (in this case, a person of color) would not be afforded.[31] Cheryl I. Harris and Gloria Ladson-Billings describe this notion of whiteness as property, whereby whiteness is the ultimate property that whites alone can possess; valuable just like property. The property functions of whiteness – i.e., rights to disposition; rights to use and enjoyment, reputation, and status property; and the absolute right to exclude – make the American dream more likely and attainable for whites as citizens.

Believe it or not, some law schools in America teach this. Whiteness is a property right? Tell that to white people passed over for a job and literally told they are the wrong race. Do whites get extra points on SAT scores (known as adversity points)? Do white males get contracts set aside for them by the government? Are there quotas (or, factors, as they pretend) in colleges helping Asians or whites?  There are many other examples, of course. You can even argue there are good reasons for all of this. But, don't tell me that white skin is a property right. Maybe at one time. Not for a long time now. Well over a half-century and getting better all the time.

Lie no. 8. "No justice, no peace."  

Really, just another excuse to commit crimes, at the very least, disorderly conduct, at worst, murder. If they wanted justice, there would be no lies about Trayvon, Michael and Crystal, etc. Wait, you don't remember Crystal Mangum. She was the stripper who performed at a frat party at Duke University and then tried to destroy the lives of some white boys because she didn't get paid enough by claiming rape. And, with the help of idiots and vicious racists, black and white, she almost succeeded. Thankfully, in the end, it was the prosecutor who got disbarred and went to jail. He shouldn't have been the only one. She walked away scot-free even though she clearly committed a crime. Was that the justice they want? Actually, it is. She had black skin and that's what matters to racists, skin color. In real life, we often treat blacks better than we treat white people. It's consistent with studies showing that police are actually slower to shoot blacks they are arresting than whites. Read the Black Lies Matter article, I mentioned the top. And that was years ago.

What justice do they want? We know some want money, because we hear about reparations all the time, and not millions, not billions . . . trillions. Is the justice they want that the first 200 or so defendants tried after the violence at the Trump inauguration were acquitted. All of them. They gave up on the rest to save money. Well, that is the justice they want.

It's not justice - it's the opposite.

I could go on. What does it matter? Those with ears will hear. Others will shut their eyes, ears and mouths. You want to think this is racist, go ahead. It's the opposite of racist - 

Because all lives matter.


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