Posted on 09/13/2015 1:19:05 PM PDT by Kaslin
Not so much newsy as just something nice to share on a Sunday afternoon. Yesterday a massive number of folks showed up to continue to honor the memory of Deputy Darren Goforth, and perhaps equally to celebrate the lives of his fellow officers who remain on watch now that his has ended. The Police Lives Matter gathering was probably seen by some activists as a poke in the eye to the Black Lives Matter movement, but from the looks of things there wasn’t anyone in a mood to apologize for it. (Story summary after the video from USA Today.)
HOUSTON, Texas — Community members hosted a march Saturday in memory of Deputy Darren Goforth, who was gunned down at a gas station last month.
Community organizers said the message of the march is that “Police Lives Matter.”
Marchers wore blue shirts and carried a banner that read, “Police Lives Matter” and “Undivided we march” with Goforth’s image on the front.
Goforth, 47, was in uniform when he was killed while putting fuel in his patrol car. A 30-year-old Houston man is charged with capital murder. Investigators are still trying to determine a motive.
I particularly liked the “undivided we march” message since it really does highlight the difference between the two groups under discussion. As long as we have so called social justice movements which focus more on dividing the nation along demographic lines rather than bringing people together, progress is unlikely at best. But our first responders have to protect everyone and they come in all colors of the rainbow, as well as genders, religions and everything else. The loss of Darren Goforth was terrible but this weekend we saw a lot of folks who want to make sure that his life and his service were not given in vain.
Meanwhile, in another part of the nation, presidential hopeful Ben Carson decided to dip at least a tentative toe in the same waters. (CBS News)
Ben Carson thinks that Black Lives Matter bullies people and that the unarmed black teen who was killed by a white police officer, Michael Brown, was a “bad actor.”
In an interview Friday with CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett, Carson on the one hand had words of praise for the movement that came out of the protests over the death of Brown at the hands of a white police officer.
“I think its a good example of what can happen when people actually care, and when they do begin that dialogue,” he said.
But Carson, the only black presidential candidate running as either a Democrat or Republican, went on to say that it was “very different than, let’s say, the Black Lives Matter movement, where it’s foisting yourself on people – rather than engaging in dialogue – and bullying people. I never liked the idea of bullying on behalf of anybody.”
That’s going to enrage the usual list of suspects, but Carson is running as a Republican and, as such, was never going to have any built in base of support among black voters. This is, under all the bluster and advertising, a partisan, political discussion, not a social one. Black Lives Matter to the Democrats, who count the vast majority of the black community among their numbers, but not if they are Republicans. At that point Carson just becomes another part of the war on women or whatever other slogan is occupying their attention this week.
Cop lives matter. Lives of street savages don’t.
BTTT
Police lives matter. Dead thugs lives don’t. God Bless the men in blue!
Ben Carson thinks that Black Lives Matter bullies people and that the unarmed black teen who was killed by a white police officer, Michael Brown, was a "bad actor."and
Blackliesmatter needs to read a Ghandi biography.
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