Posted on 06/28/2020 6:08:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
In the span of just over one month, a plethora of changes have occurred in the United States and throughout the world, all to appease the politically correct guardians who now monitor every aspect of our society. After the brutal killing of African American George Floyd by a vicious white Minneapolis police officer, the entire world has changed. Even though the main officer involved was immediately fired, then charged with crimes and imprisoned, calls have arisen that police departments are racist.
Nationally, in 2019, according to a Washington Post analysis, police killed 40 unarmed people, 15 of them were black and 25 were white. While this statistic is a higher percentage than the 13 percent of the national population that African Americans comprise, it does not reflect a war on African American citizens.
Compared to the number killed by police, many more African Americans are killed by individuals of their own race. According to Barry Latzer of the National Review, “In 2018, where the homicide victim was black, the suspected killer also was 88 percent of the time. And this is not an exceptional situation. From 1976 to 2005, 94 percent of black victims were killed by other African Americans.”
Despite the true statistics, the narrative is being promoted by activists, politicians, corporate leaders, and the media that black Americans are being targeted and killed by police officers in great numbers throughout the country. In fact, it is being stated that African Americans should be fearful of police, even though in many urban areas, a significant majority of police officers are black.
The truth does not matter to the radical left. While there have been some peaceful protests, there have been way too many criminals who have used the occasion to engage in rioting and looting. Across the nation, numerous businesses, many owned by African Americans, have been targeted by these destructive hooligans.
Mobs of criminals have also destroyed statues and monuments dedicated to Christopher Columbus, our Founding Fathers, both Union and Confederate generals, former Presidents, and religious leaders.
Even churches have not escaped the wrath of the mob. Shaun King, one of the leaders of Black Lives Matters, declared that statues of “white Jesus” must be destroyed. He tweeted, “Yes, I think the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down. They are a form of white supremacy. Always have been.”
It should surprise no one during this American cultural revolution that old movies such as Gone with the Wind would be targeted for removal, popular shows praising police officers would be canceled, and even the Splash Mountain ride at Disney World would undergo changes demanded by outraged activists.
The music world has also been impacted. The country group Lady Antebellum has changed their name to Lady A. Now, the Dixie Chicks have changed their name to just the Chicks.
In this new era, the word “Dixie” is no longer allowed. On Friday, New Orleans Saints and Dixie Beer owner Gayle Benson announced that her product would undergo a name change. Dixie Beer was established in 1907 and returned to New Orleans with much fanfare in 2017, but the celebration lasted only three years.
According to Benson, “Our nation and community are currently engaged in critical conversations about racism and systemic social issues that have caused immeasurable pain and oppression of our black and brown communities…We look forward to listening, learning and making sure that our brewery fulfills its promise of uniting, inspiring and leading all in our community.”
Benson will choose a new name based on community input, even though many outraged Dixie Beer drinkers are now vowing to never buy her product again. Yet, it is not only Dixie Beer that is changing. There are many other products that are undergoing mob enforced transformations as well.
Thus, we can say goodbye to Eskimo Pies, Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben’s, and Mrs. Butterworth. The packaging and imaging for products such as Land O’ Lakes butter and Cream of Wheat will also undergo massive changes.
All of this is being done to improve sensitivity considering the George Floyd incident. The reality is that these actions are nothing but preposterous window dressing to make liberals look like they care. This virtue signaling is part of the new corporate America that will support Black Lives Matter, even though their leaders admit to “Marxist training,” and demand that if they don’t get what they want they “will burn down this system and replace it.”
Obviously, they want to replace our constitutional republic with Marxism, a system that has killed tens of millions of people around the globe. In fact, the leader of an anti-monument group in New Orleans is an avowed Marxist who has targeted dozens of street names and monuments for destruction throughout the city.
Sadly, our country is in the process of giving these radicals complete control of our corporations, our culture and soon our political and economic systems. If Joe Biden is elected president, we can expect him to allow the extreme left to control his administration and move toward the absolute devastation of our capitalist economy.
This November, the American way of life is at stake, including our economic survival. If Americans allow it, the revolution that has shaken our culture and our economy will destroy our political system as well. Thus, this upcoming election is not only important, it means everything.
And UTAH is pissed!
It’s always been the case... BLM only when killed by a white person. Black on Black murder doesn’t matter.
I’m also sick of the African-American, Black-American BS as well as any other XXXXX-American references.
I’m not defined as European-American or White-American I’m American.
“After the brutal killing of African American George Floyd by a vicious white Minneapolis police officer...”
Yes, one of the biggest changes is to get those who are normally right of center to repeat and propagate the left-wing narrative as if it is fact written in stone. The police officer in question has not been tried, the facts surrounding the death of Floyd are very much in question. Has anyone presented any evidence that the policeman in question was “vicious”? No, yet everyone, it seems, has jumped on the bandwagon proclaiming him both “vicious” and “guilty”.
“I’m not defined as European-American or White-American I’m American”
You may not be interested in war - but war is interested in you - Leon Trotsky.
The brutal killing of African American George Floyd by a vicious white Minneapolis police officer was not the beginning from Ground Zero of the widespread rioting and looting. That was a vast apparatus already put in place, just looking for a trigger moment, which was supplied in recorded form and widely disseminated over the nation and the world.
Derek Chauvin was merely the focus point for a riot that was poised to go all over the US, unleashing the full fury of both Antifa and BLM (Bureau of Land Management? I stumbled on that one for a while).
As it turns out, the Black Lives Matter coalition is only concerned with SOME black lives, those that would help their cause, which is to make the capitalist system here in the US grind to a halt.
And for a whole, a large monkey wrench had been thrown into the inner workings of the capitalist system, but still the various parts were largely intact. The BLM and Antifa got their signal to go ahead with torching and looting the most vulnerable parts of that infrastructure, composed of small businesses and the organized municipal police forces throughout the nation. With tacit help from Democrat mayors and state governors, their depredations became bolder and much more frequent, turning many large cities into scattered fortresses separated by ungovernable “No-go”” zones.
Kristallnacht comes to America, not just for one night, but going on for weeks, or what may become months, before anybody puts a handle on it.
In newspeak 2020, Black means sufficiently Marxist.
You can be “Black” (doubleplusgood)if you’re white as long as you’re a true believer.
You can be “White” if you’re black and believe in Free Markets, individualism, and inalienable rights (thought Crimes)
This isn’t just a USA situation. Folks from World Economic Forum believe this is an “opportunity.” To reset capitalism. The Great Reset
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset
Virtue signaling Dixie Beer.....was
“Nationally, in 2019, according to a Washington Post analysis, police killed 40 unarmed people, 15 of them were black and 25 were white. While this statistic is a higher percentage than the 13 percent of the national population that African Americans comprise, it does not reflect a war on African American citizens.”
You can’t relate police activity to the general population. Most blacks don’t have contact with police where lethal force is used. Arrests for violent crime is a better ratio and there the proportion is equal or it was in 2017. The other thing is the definition of “unarmed”. A black arrestee pounding the head of a female officer with his hands was listed as unarmed.
Soon to go...White Lily flour.
This article has tremendous inaccuracies.
George Floyd died because of Cardio Failure from having OD’ed on illegal drugs in his system.
The Police did exactly what they were suppose to do and they used a technique right from the PD Training manual.
If anyone was vicious....? It was George Floyd breaking the Law(s) and resisting arrest. Higher than a Kite .
Every week in 2016, black people killed 50 black people (FBI data below). Let’s assume it was the same in 2019 even though it is probably much worse.
So, in a typical week, black people murdered over three times more black people than the police killed in an ENTIRE YEAR. Of those people killed by police, probably close to 100% were violently resisting arrest, seriously threatening the life of the officer, or fleeing.
Glad I got my dixie national forest shirt.
I’m good with war... been there done that and self sufficient as needed.
Nothing like ignoring the rule of law and due process.
Much exculpatory evidence is being withheld.
Here is a summation of what might be presented by the officers.
Couple of the “unarmed” were trying to run over the cops with their cars!!!
>> After the brutal killing of African American George Floyd by a vicious white Minneapolis police officer, the entire world has changed. Even though the main officer involved was immediately fired, then charged with crimes and imprisoned, calls have arisen that police departments are racist.
A white guy died at the knee of a police office by the same tactics 3 years ago and the suppressed bodycam footage cam to light last year.
The media didn’t think it important enough to question the police tactic when the evidence was there before them as officers stood around mocking the dying victim.
Meanwhile Keith Ellison is withholding the bodycam footage in the George Floyd case.
The only evidence of racism is in the media’s disregard for some dead black people and all dead white people.
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