And they do that because they want to avoid the truly pertinent question: "Do black lives matter to black people?" The answer is just as obvious. Black people rob and murder each other at an appalling rate. Black people murder their own babies in sickening numbers. Clearly, black lives do not matter to black people. And that's the nauseating truth that nobody on the Left or the Right wants to deal with.
And so it continues on in one mad attempt after the next to avoid the terrible fact of African American self-loathing.
I see it this way: African Americans were brutalized and de-humanized for 250 years and so they suffer from a sort of collective Stockholm syndrome. African Americans - with honorable exception - internalized the slaveholder's worldview that only white people matter. African Americans tend strongly to see themselves as real - as a part of human history - only to the extent that their lives touch and concern the lives of white people. And that's why we get the weird phenomenon of African Americans celebrating the lives of thugs like George Floyd - his death at the hands of a white cop rendered his otherwise miserable, failed life meaningful. By dying at the hand of a white cop, George Floyd in that sense became part of white history, and so meaningful. And, by extension, most African Americans celebrate George Floyd's transfiguration - becoming a real person by dying at the hands of a white cop - in the hope that they will thereby gain some sort of meaning in their own lives. They will bask in the reflected light of George Floyd's Christ-like transfiguration into real human beings themselves.
Pasternak in Dr. Zhivago put it this way: "Man does not die in a ditch like a dog-but at home in history, while the work toward the conquest of death is in full swing; he dies sharing in this work."
African Americans don't see themselves as part of human history in and of themselves. They - again, with many exceptions - see themselves as part of human history only to the extent that their lives relate to the lives of white people.
In short, black lives simply to do matter - to black people. They actually matter more to the kindly white suburban women on psychiatric meds who see themselves as black folks' den mothers. But African Americans prove every day that their lives don't matter to themselves or to each other.
There, I said it. It's an ugly truth but avoiding it won't move us forward.
Here's the final horror - it is certainly the case that 250 years of relentless brutalization at the hands of white slaveholders is the root cause of 99% of the problems African Americans face it their communities today. But it is also the case that African Americans are the only ones who can do anything at all about it. And African Americans will be unable to do anything about it until they separate themselves from white society, for the reasons set forth above.
Ouch. I went ahead and said too much.
I had an economics professor who said the same thing. If a black kid has no job or future thinks about robbing something he looks at his future income and it is no big deal.
If a kid who has a future and is educated he will make another decision based on future economic loss.
The DNC wants the kid to have no economic future so he will vote for their welfare programs.
Utterly and completely false.
Before the "Great Society" welfare programs, blacks had very low illegitimacy rates, and black teens had low unemployment rates. It was Democrat programs that crippled their futures.