Nothing to do with race. To me I don’t like any people of the criminal class. Criminal lives don’t matter to me. CLDM.
A little presumptive in the opening sentence to call it “murder”.
Boilined down to it’s essence, this battle over “racism” and “social justice” is nothing more than a power game where one group is trying to wrest power from another group by the means of “guilting”, by accusing the group with power of such heinous behavior that that group will self-guilt itself into its own submission.
And guess what, it’s working.
Whites have nothing to feel guilty about that other groups haven’t done worse of, instead whites have much to be proud about given all the contributions they have made to the world and civilization.
Reject your guilt complex and proudly hold your head high.
The entire white race is painted with a broad brush as racist.
That is racist itself.
I have always wondered how people gravitate back to the Dem voting pattern when things happen to them that clearly proves black racism exists.
In other words, they don’t blame all black people for the actions of some, but people blame all whites for any action of one (as the cop with the mishandled arrest death of George Floyd).
One small example: Young son of a coworker was one of dozens who had to pay a protection money fee (his lunch money or part of allowance) to be allowed by a black student to get past the door into the boy’s rest room at school every day.
His experience when he tried telling the principal: “We know about this already. Just put up with it. We can’t afford to have a racial incident here. It would ruin our school’s reputation. I’m sorry I can’t help you.”
Okay. But when he turned voting age years later, his mother assured me he was voting Dem every time. How can people like that think the continued Dem policies of hypocrisy are acceptable? They don’t help any blacks, the urban areas are all Dem led crime infested declining places. They just gather power from them on every election day and forget them again in the morning.
“The horrific murder of...”
Stopped reading right there!
Sick of EVERY prior incident of anyone being accused of a crime being “Alleged” no matter how clear their guilt, but THIS time there is no need of sorting facts or a trial.
I have not done an exact statistical count but it seems at least 85% of all articles use some variation of “Murder” when talking about this incident.
Journalism was already deeply injured before this (”Fake but accurate”) but with the advent of (Anti-) Social Media it is not just dead, the corpse is putrid and stinking up the room!
Very well presented. Our church group is studying “whiteness” this evening and I plan to offer this column as balance.
As a born again White Christian, I hope what the article calls the “Preservation Narrative” prevails.
These quotes from the article sway me:
“The basic message of the Preservation Narrative is far more truthful in regards to human nature and far more empowering. Even if you face difficult challenges, you are not defined or limited by those challenges. As a human being, made in God’s image, you can make choices, and those choices matter in shaping your life, your community, and future history.
Beyond this, the Bible makes it abundantly clear that there is no class of innocent victims or guilty oppressors. All of us are fallen sinners, more than capable of doing the most heinous evil.
The Bible teaches that, regardless of skin color, all of us deserve punishment from a righteous God. All of us are in desperate need of God’s grace and forgiveness.
Our greatest enemy is not people with different skin color, but the evil inside our hearts. Ultimately, the solution to our deepest problems is the Gospel—the hope of inward regeneration and reconciliation with God made available through the cross of Jesus Christ. “