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Black Protest Has Lost Its Power
Wall Street Journal ^ | January 12, 2018 | Shelby Steele

Posted on 01/16/2018 12:03:43 PM PST by lowbridge

The NFL protests were not really about injustice. Instead such protests are usually genuflections to today’s victim-focused black identity. Protest is the action arm of this identity. It is not seeking a new and better world; it merely wants documentation that the old racist world still exists. It wants an excuse.

For any formerly oppressed group, there will be an expectation that the past will somehow be an excuse for difficulties in the present. This is the expectation behind the NFL protests and the many protests of groups like Black Lives Matter. The near-hysteria around the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray and others is also a hunger for the excuse of racial victimization, a determination to keep it alive. To a degree, black America’s self-esteem is invested in the illusion that we live under a cloud of continuing injustice.

When you don’t know how to go forward, you never just sit there; you go backward into what you know, into what is familiar and comfortable and, most of all, exonerating. You rebuild in your own mind the oppression that is fading from the world. And you feel this abstract, fabricated oppression as if it were your personal truth, the truth around which your character is formed. Watching the antics of Black Lives Matter is like watching people literally aspiring to black victimization, longing for it as for a consummation.

But the NFL protests may be a harbinger of change. They elicited considerable resentment. 

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: blacks; blm; football; mlkday; nfl; shelbysteele; sports
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To: rbg81

Yes, it’s pretty much a terrorist demand for cash —— or else.

St. Louis was having none of their nonsense. It was good to see.


21 posted on 01/16/2018 12:47:22 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Cats Pajamas

Mark for later


22 posted on 01/16/2018 12:58:36 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being rich or stupid!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

If they’d have protested police violence in general instead of only police violence against blacks, they could have made a real difference.

But they never wanted to make a difference. It started off as a Kaepernick contract negotiation tactic and ended up as nauseous virtue-signaling by morons who didn’t realize that it was all a fraud to begin with.


23 posted on 01/16/2018 1:01:24 PM PST by thoughtomator
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“1619 - 1865 = 336 years. (First slave ship landed in Virginia)”

Let the blacks talk to the Dutch, English, Spanish, etc. about the years between 1619 and 1776. I don’t want to hear it.

“1866 - 2018 = 152 years.”

Fake history.

“horribly abused blacks in the south during Reconstruction and then throughout the land until the 1960s.”

How many horrible things have to happen before historians are entitled to claim that blacks were “horribly abused” throughout an entire period?

One? More?

Lynching is the go-to gotcha for purveyors of leftard fake news when discussing this. Do you know how many white men were lynched during that same period?

Here’s some truth for you: blacks were a hell of a lot better off before the civil rights movement than they are now, and they’d be orders of magnitude better yet if the civil rights movement had never occurred.

Oh, and that “in the south” crap is more fake history. Southerners have always gotten along with blacks better than northerners.


24 posted on 01/16/2018 1:07:42 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: lowbridge
OMG, that article is positively brutal—and devastatingly incisive...
25 posted on 01/16/2018 1:12:07 PM PST by sargon ("If the President doesn't drain the Swamp, the Swamp will drain the President.")
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To: rbg81

“What is their goal, their motivation? What is the end result they hope to accomplish?

In a word: Reparations.”

Nothing will ever be enough.


26 posted on 01/16/2018 1:40:40 PM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: rbg81

“What is their goal, their motivation? What is the end result they hope to accomplish?

In a word: Reparations.”

With reparations come repatriations. I’ll pay for your plane ticket and a month of living expenses. When you get on the plane, just leave the passport at the gate.


27 posted on 01/16/2018 1:51:57 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Death of the MSM - "Because it is my show and I don't want to do that." Jake Tapper)
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To: Ciaphas Cain
What precisely DO these people want?

What is their goal, their motivation? What is the end result they hope to accomplish.

to gain the unearned, undeserved, and something for nothing like parasites

28 posted on 01/16/2018 1:55:37 PM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: lowbridge
Screw the NFL and Black protesters.

I.m done with both for the rest of my life.

I'm trying to figure out what Blacks will screw up next though.

29 posted on 01/16/2018 2:28:33 PM PST by blam
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To: bk1000

Nothing will ever be enough.


Correct. It will never end.


30 posted on 01/16/2018 2:46:17 PM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: ichabod1

Well... that doesn’t explain Africa.


31 posted on 01/16/2018 3:27:48 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
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To: jonno

Thank you.


32 posted on 01/16/2018 3:35:03 PM PST by tbw2
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To: SaveFerris

The slave population in the United States had grown to four million by the 1860 Census. Remember slavery was officially abolished in 1865. Actually, Twelve million Africans were shipped to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Of these, an estimated 645,000 were brought to what is now the United States.

How many slaves were brought to the Americas - Answers.com

www.answers.com/Q/How_many_slaves_were_brought_to_the_Americas

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Considering their offspring now number in the tens of millions, ‘suppression’ appears to be good for increasing the population. /s


33 posted on 01/16/2018 3:58:13 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: jonno
Didn't work for me.

ff

34 posted on 01/16/2018 5:16:31 PM PST by foreverfree
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