Posted on 07/09/2016 11:39:44 AM PDT by BBell
Edited on 07/10/2016 10:44:12 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Thirty-one people were arrested Friday night (July 8) and early Saturday during a protest outside Baton Rouge police headquarters, Louisiana State Police said. The crowd protested what they believed to be police brutality demonstrated by this week's fatal shooting of Alton Sterling by a Baton Rouge officer.
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Probably not.
Take their EBT Cards. “Don’t shoot! Let ‘em starve!” To paraphrase a well known movie.
Maybe they should carry those "posters" in their cars or when they committing crimes.
They probably trade their EBT cards for drugs at 50¢ on the dollar.
Lynch is going to have a busy week attacking Police departments
In some parts of the country the cops are told “Don’t shot! Let them burn” as in burn everything down.
And the New Black Panthers are coming to Baton Rouge Sunday.
Here’s the Dallas “lone gunman” marching with the Panthers. He’s the guy with the banana clip SRS.
Holder’s people:
They are already there. Pictured at the store this AM
I honestly can’t comment on Baton Rouge but if the New Black Panthers were to come to the metro New Orleans area I don’t think it would end well.
A “black movement” began this. Maybe a “black movement” could result in ending it too. Sometimes I wish I could be a chameleon, go black and go do something to help. But I can’t. I am a paleface redneck.
It would take guts and moxie and no little amount of risk. And it might even take some time to raise up, whilst the madness continues to flare up around the land. The timing of God is perfect, however.
Do we have a black caucus on FR?
It's good to see it came to nothing but peaceful protest.
And I assume the reason the Black Panthers didn't show up there, as promised, is there's still a statue of Robert E. Lee in the center of town.
In 2016.
“A “black movement” began this. Maybe a “black movement” could result in ending it too.”
Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson (a black pastor) runs a Tea Party type movement in Los Angeles, CA. You’ve probably heard him on conservative talk radio, or seen him on Fox. He’s a frequent guest on both.
He’s dedicated his life to opening the eyes of black people who’ve been mentally enslaved by the hard left and the Democrat party. He’s made progress, but obviously it’s a task too big for one man or organization. Hopefully, he’ll inspire others to start their own crusades.
As to a black caucus on FR, there’s none that I know of, and there probably never will be, which is just fine. Real conservatives are color blind.
We can be too purist though, I fear.
A black caucus, should it come into being, would need to be treated carefully, as FR constantly attracts evil soreheads. Evil soreheads are what manage to keep the race wars going.
I attempted to write a conciliatory ditty years ago in my “Rednecks Built America (Rednecks Come In Many Colors)” but again I am almost tone deaf to what would fly in the black community — a caucus certainly could help inform such outreach attempts. I only picked up on the term “redneck” in this context because it was used by one of my black colleagues at a leading telecommunications firm decades ago. And redneck sort of carries a connotation of outcast (for that same reason I wrote another ditty illustrating Jesus’ life in “redneck” terms).
I just have a gut feeling that a white preacher like me is going to go over like a lead balloon by myself.
As the bible says, “I became all things unto all people so that some might be saved.”
I might not agree with the wisdom (in fact certainly would disagree in some areas) about the black community’s point of view. But at least I would want to understand what it is. Then I can reason concerning the wisdom. True wisdom ultimately is about embracing God into a picture, and God is the source of a cornucopia of blessings. Obama can talk about healing, but until a Healer is invited into the picture, alas such talk is only going to be vain.
Maybe I am a bleeding heart, but I only want my heart to bleed with the blood of God, not with the fallen blood of humanity. Do we dare think that God’s heart is not aching here.
“I might not agree with the wisdom (in fact certainly would disagree in some areas) about the black community’s point of view. But at least I would want to understand what it is. Then I can reason concerning the wisdom.”
There isn’t one ‘wisdom’ in the black community (such as it is today). That demographic isn’t nearly as monolithic as many outsiders assume it is. Viewpoints and considerations vary widely, though some are prevalent enough to be noticeable, such as political affiliation.
Talk to ten black people about the current state of affairs with the black ‘community’, and you’re liable to get ten different answers regarding causes and effects. It all depends on who you talk to, and what their socio-economic situation is.
Doubtless you are right. There are multiple threads of thought. I suspected the same even in BLM. There are some evil soreheads who see red wherever they go (the extreme case being the Dallas shooter), and then others who see yellow lights in certain places.
All I can offer, perhaps, is prayers, and maybe a kind word to those who are affected. And that’s not always easy. Our common enemy — I know you aren’t deep into theology but at least hear me out — isn’t even other people. It’s an incredibly evil angel who took it on himself at the beginning of history to defy God in whatever manner he possibly could. Different terms appear in the faith community and the bible: Old Scratch or the devil or Satan or the serpent or the Accuser (and many more bad things). The only total safety from that evil angel is in the arms of God who will forgive all in the work of reconciliation. God in wisdom allows some, but not all possible, evils to occur in order to highlight that we need to head for His embrace.
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