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Greenfield: Black Lives Don't Matter
Sultan Knish blog ^ | Thursday, December 04, 2014 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 12/05/2014 4:56:49 AM PST by Louis Foxwell

Thursday, December 04, 2014

Black Lives Don't Matter

Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog

The slogan of the wave of Ferguson protests is “Black Lives Matter”. But progressives are far more interested in toting around the corpse of Michael Brown to their protests than in the living man he was.

Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and countless others like them grew up in broken families, their lives haunted by fathers and stepfathers with gang ties. The only masculine culture they had was that of the thug and that culture eventually killed them.

Criminal culture is even more fatal to criminals than it is to their victims. If you attack enough people, eventually one of them will fight back. Eventually one of them will kill you.

It wasn’t Darren Wilson who decided that black lives don’t matter. Michael Brown did. He did not grow up with a sense that his life was worth anything more than violent posturing could make of it. Just like Martin, that violent posturing eventually killed him.

Rappers recorded a tribute song to Michael Brown titled, “Don’t Shoot”. But Brown’s own songs had a different theme with lyrics like “My favorite part of killing people is when they hit the ground.”

Black criminals victimize other black people first. The Ferguson looters went after businesses serving the black community and businesses owned by black people. That’s the way it always is.

Which black lives really matter in Missouri; the lives of criminals shot by police officers or the black lives taken by criminals?

Missouri has a black homicide rate that is nearly double the nationwide homicide rate for black people. And it’s nearly six times higher than the overall murder rate in Missouri.

If the media were really outraged by lost black lives, they would be outraged by those numbers. If the protesters really wanted to say that black lives matter, they would fight those murder rates instead of contributing to them with their protests. The story of Missouri’s murder rate is the story of the left. From the beginning to the end of the 1960s, murder rates doubled, rapes, robberies and car thefts doubled, assaults tripled and thefts quadrupled.

A decade in which America changed left a bloody trail of death and misery in its wake. The victims of the left’s transformation of America filled the gutters, morgues, prisons and hospitals.

When Giuliani pointed out that the police were there to protect black people, he was asserting that black lives matter. And unlike every single one of his self-righteous critics, he actually saved black lives.

The decision of his Socialist successor, Bill de Blasio, to move criminals back into housing projects was a statement that they don’t. Housing projects in the pre-Giuliani era belonged to drug dealers. Getting criminals out of housing projects saved black lives, especially those of children.

The “Black Lives Matter” protesters claim that there’s a crisis of police shootings. There isn’t. There is a crisis of young black men shooting each other.

After the shooting of drug dealer Derrick Jones, the NAACP breathlessly reported that 37 black people were shot by police in Oakland over four years. Meanwhile there were 1,594 shooting victims in Oakland in one year.

The vast majority of the perpetrators were black. The majority of murder victims were young black men. So were their killers. The leading cause of death for young black men is murder. The perpetrators are other young black men.

If black lives really mattered, then the life of a young black man shot down by a criminal would matter at least as much as Michael Brown. But those black lives don’t matter.

The progressive Ferguson protesters not only don’t care about them, but they want to take more black lives by empowering criminals and crippling the police.

The gang is to the black community as the cartel is to lawless parts of Mexico, except that the American equivalents of the Narcocorrido, the songs glamorizing cartel drug dealers, are distributed by major music labels and their performers are invited to the White House.

While Mexico tries to fight drug and gang music, American progressives make it mainstream.

Gang culture in Black America, which is responsible for most of the gun violence in the country, isn’t the work of a few thugs in a burned out building; it’s promoted by progressives in the entertainment industry. The black lives taken by its glamorization of drug dealing and violent killing also don’t matter.

You don’t show that black lives matter by supporting criminal control over entire black neighborhoods. When you fight the criminals who are taking black lives, when you roll back crime, then you show that black lives really matter. When you help criminals you are announcing that black lives don’t matter.

Despite its self-righteousness about black lives mattering, the left isn’t any good at saving them. It is however really good at taking them. Planned Parenthood’s black outreach arm announced on Twitter that it was joining the Ferguson protests because #BlackLivesMatter.

More African-American lives were ended at abortion clinics in the United States than anywhere else. But those black lives also don’t matter.

The 6,000 black people murdered in one year don’t matter. The 400,000 black babies killed in one year don’t matter. Does a black man have to be killed by a white cop for his life to matter to the left? That’s the only conclusion that can be drawn from Ferguson.

To the #BlackLivesMatter crowd, the furious white hipsters crowding malls and staging die-ins, black lives only matter when they feed their own political agendas, their grudges and their own egos.

If black lives really mattered to the left, it would not have built an entire industry, an entire culture and an entire political movement around taking them.

Progressives only care about black people when they’re using them as weapons. For black lives to matter to them, they have to be dead at the hands of a white man. For black unemployment to matter to them, they have to be able to blame it on Republicans. Black poverty, black homelessness only matter to them when they can cash in on a social justice solution that doesn’t fix the problem.

The rest of the time they don’t pay attention and don’t care.

Black people exist for the political convenience of progressives. Black lives don’t matter to them except when they can make use of them. The master-slave relationship has shifted from the plantation to the poll inflating the self-esteem and power of the masters while destroying the lives of their slaves.

The Ferguson protests are not about saving black lives, but promoting the pro-crime politics that take them. Its message is that all black people are criminals and have to be protected from law enforcement. By turning Michael Brown into the ubiquitous black man, the left reveals how racist it really is.

If black lives truly matter, then they matter when the conditions of their misery can’t be blamed on white people. If black lives truly mattered to the protesters, they would fight crime instead of supporting the criminals taking black lives.



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1 posted on 12/05/2014 4:56:49 AM PST by Louis Foxwell
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Black people exist for the political convenience of progressives. Black lives don’t matter to them except when they can make use of them. The master-slave relationship has shifted from the plantation to the poll inflating the self-esteem and power of the masters while destroying the lives of their slaves.

Daniel is hot, hot, hot. Obama and all his legions pumped up Michael Brown with dope and gangsta thuggery that got him killed.

This is an enormously important article. It clarifies the evil that is progressivism and lays the blame for black crime and poverty squarely on the heads of liberalism in all its vile manifestations.

2 posted on 12/05/2014 5:05:29 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

It is not lost on me that it’s only rich white chicks in those images.

Wonder what they’d be doing if it was THEIR neighborhoods in flames, instead of the urban kraals?


3 posted on 12/05/2014 5:11:18 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Black lives don’t matter to democrats, because they still vote democrat at the very same proportion after their dead as they did when they were alive...


4 posted on 12/05/2014 5:12:08 AM PST by apillar
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To: Louis Foxwell

Black Lives don’t matter to me. It’s a fact. No reason for me to have anything to do with them.


5 posted on 12/05/2014 5:12:12 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (We need to fundamentally transform RATs lives for their lies.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

“About 90% of interracial violent crime in our nation is committed by blacks against whites. The black-on-white murder rate in the U.S. exceeds the white-on-black rate by about 2.5-to-1. The black-on-white assault and battery rate exceeds the corresponding white-on-black rate in this country by at least 10-to-1. “

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-viewpoint/082613-668778-epidemic-of-white-on-black-violence-is-a-fraud.htm


6 posted on 12/05/2014 5:20:11 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: apillar

Booker T Washington saw this coming, except I suspect that it is worse than he thought it would be.


7 posted on 12/05/2014 5:20:13 AM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: ConservativeInPA

The trend has been encouraged by the president WH occupant.
It’s going to get worse...


8 posted on 12/05/2014 5:22:23 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: TurboZamboni

“It’s Bush’s Fault And You’re A Racist!”


9 posted on 12/05/2014 5:26:37 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Golly, if I ever get severely beaten or, God forbid, shot and killed for actions I may or may not have taken, I sincerely hope at least 2 Lesbians protest to the injustice that may or may not have happened...as long as the Lesbian agenda is promoted in the protest.

The USA is "broken". Will Fedzilla fix it?


10 posted on 12/05/2014 5:27:37 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

The major components of the current racist agenda were put in place by LBJ as his fix for civil rights legislation. The War on Poverty in his words was a chain around the neck of the black community that would keep them in slavery for 100 years. 50 and counting.
The WOP evicted black fathers from black homes. The sexual revolution slaughtered millions of black babies. Both are the principle dynamics of the black community today. Welfare entitlement and abortion are the two heads of a ravenous dragon bent on devouring blacks in this country.


11 posted on 12/05/2014 6:02:01 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Bookmarked. Mr Greenfield has put into words the horror and the naked truth behind the communist agenda that is behind every shred of these protests. Cloward-Piven drips from this push to lionize Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin, while neutering every law enforcement officer in the nation.
12 posted on 12/05/2014 6:15:54 AM PST by Darnright (No, We Love Yeshua (Jesus).)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Since black lives do not appear to matter to blacks, given the level of black on black murder, why should the rest of us be concerned? < /rhetoric >


13 posted on 12/05/2014 6:17:20 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

They may be lesbians but my money says that both of them have a Queen of Spades tattoo somewhere on their bodies.


14 posted on 12/05/2014 7:06:01 AM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.d)
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To: Louis Foxwell
The master-slave relationship has shifted from the plantation to the poll inflating the self-esteem and power of the masters while destroying the lives of their slaves.

Recall that both before and after said shift the "master" in the scenario is the Democrat party.

15 posted on 12/05/2014 7:09:48 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Gotta wonder what’s going through the mind of the policeman in the background.


16 posted on 12/05/2014 7:10:59 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Lurker
They may be lesbians but my money says that both of them have a Queen of Spades tattoo somewhere on their bodies.
Or they may have some interracial fetish.
17 posted on 12/05/2014 7:32:32 AM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Google up “Queen of Spades”


18 posted on 12/05/2014 7:36:59 AM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.d)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Some brave person should march alongside those protesters with a sign marked:

ONE HUNDRED BLACK PERPS KILLED BY COPS EVERY YEAR

SEVEN THOUSAND BLACK MALES KILLED BY OTHER BLACK MALES EVERY YEAR

THREE HUNDRED BLACK CHILDREN KILLED BY BLACK MALES EVERY YEAR

19 posted on 12/05/2014 7:46:51 AM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
The 6,000 black people murdered {blacks killing blacks}in one year don’t matter. The 400,000 black babies killed in one year don’t matter. Does a black man have to be killed by a white cop for his life to matter to the left? That’s the only conclusion that can be drawn from Ferguson.

Amazing how Greenfield weaves facts together creating patterns of understandable truth ...

20 posted on 12/05/2014 7:48:20 AM PST by GOPJ (Stephanopoulos's a snake in the grass and a dem operative. Wilson should never have trusted him.)
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