Posted on 06/07/2020 8:52:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The sheeple these movements draw in support the movements due to their own personal feelings and intentions, but never, or seldom, realize many of the “movements” intentions and motives have nothing to do with those of the sheeple-person who ignorantly is drawn into joining them.
That was pretty much how the “Russian revolution” and Mao worked also.
Although Mao did have one advantage over his Russian peers. There was a true enough motive for the restoration of Chinese nationalism and national sovereignty against a long period of foreign “rights” (occupation) of Chinese territories. Mao was able to exploit that and hijack it to his own agenda.
Black Lives Matter won’t make black lives matter.
Black Lives Matter won’t make black lives matter.
..so what does this say about abortion clinics who would abort black babies?? And that’s just for starters.
Or Thomas Sowell. Alan Keyes, Ben Carson, etc, etc, etc
“Yet you say, ‘Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done what is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live."
"The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself."
The old testament, and perhaps the new, is replete with this idea that we're responsible for our actions not the misdeeds of generations past. I am from a post-civil rights act era. Slavery, Jim Crowe laws and so forth were discarded misadventures of history when I was in school and I am middle age. I've never understood this notion that what someone looks like determines how I should feel about them. At home and in private faith-based schooling I was taught a consistent message: it's the individual that matters.
Coming to the deep south from California it's been difficult for me to understand the racism that exists on both sides. For whites it's seems largely delineated on a generational basis which shows healthy progress, for too many blacks it's a perpetual grudge and crutch. It's frustrating to see them self-limit because of lies and half-truths they believe about themselves and white Americans. This is my experience living, working with, socializing with and dating a diverse group.
The Democrat party is dependent upon a permanent underclass for power. This was my great insight as a young adult that caused a radical shift in my political views. I began as a starry-eyed idealist on the left but a skeptic, I watched who did what. In the South & urban centers Democrats take advantage of blacks, in the West & Southwest they've done the same with Latinos.
Republicans want everyone to become financially independent and prosperous doing their own thing.
I'd never had a truly bad police encounter until my then significant other & I were stopped one night a few years ago here in Georgia. We were a mixed race couple and one young white cop was so sure it had to be a nefarious situation either drugs or prostitution. It broke the innate trust I had developed for the "boys in blue" over decades.
What's interesting to me is my career has included investigations of misconduct on the job, usually theft. Too often the investigation has lead to a student of criminal justice. I no longer find that coincidental.
No, only the ones they can exploit for their racist, anti-American agenda.
David Dorn’s life doesn’t matter to these hypocrites.
No. Only the ones the msm can spin into a hate crime.
Amen!
Two reasons for me.
1. Chicago
2. Planned parenthood.
>>So are you saying that there is a systemic problem with policing in this country?<<
Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying. I know it’s a tough job but that’s not an excuse for many of these deaths. Tony Timpa was already handcuffed and on the ground when police arrive, there was no need for several officers to sit on him and he lay there. Daniel Shaver was obeying what the police said while crying and begging them not to shoot him, Duncan Lemp was killed during a “no knock” raid when he posed no immediate threat to police.
There are things involving policing that must change. You could be next.
I agree completely. Much of what is being called for in the protests are changes to the system that would help all lives.
>I agree completely. Much of what is being called for in the protests are changes to the system that would help all lives.<
I could be with them on some of this stuff but they have to drop the racism crap. I’m not joining their cult.
>> 10. Apparently, not all black lives matter.
Exactly. You’ll never see a BLACK BABIES MATTER at a BLM rally.
Good article.
If you disagree that all lives matter, then you’re a racist. Period.
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