Posted on 08/13/2020 6:04:41 AM PDT by karpov
In the wake of mob violence and mass looting of upscale stores on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, Jesse Jackson declared, “This act of pillaging, robbing, and looting was humiliating, embarrassing, and morally wrong. It must not be associated with our quest for social justice and equality.”
Jackson should be commended for taking a stand, but he is a lone voice and a late voice. For three months, our country has been ravaged by Black Lives Matter and the minions of a race-grievance movement that, under the guise of crusaders for justice, have steadily escalated their agenda with an ultimate goal of undermining the foundation of our nation's values and principles and bringing it to ruin.
As peaceful protests have been commandeered by the perpetrators of violence, in cities throughout the nation, the most vulnerable, low-income neighborhoods suffered the brunt of destruction and have been left smoldering in devastation as the protesters moved on to their next target. Even more disastrous was the impact of the rioters’ demand to defund the police and the demonization of law enforcement as a wing of “institutional racism.” As a result, police have stood back, and in lawless inner cities throughout the country, homicides and street violence have soared — with scores of victims who were just children and toddlers. Just last weekend, a mass shooting at a neighborhood block party in Washington, D.C., left 21 people wounded and one dead.
Jackson was right to decry the opportunist thugs in Chicago’s upscale retail district, but the burning question is this: Where are the voices of purported spokespersons of the black community? And where have they been when the lives, livelihoods, and neighborhoods of the poor and defenseless have been lost and devastated? Where is the NAACP, the National Urban League, and the Congressional Black Caucus?
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I remember decades ago Jesse Jackson would rightly assert that abortion was “genocide against the black race”.
Offering him a constant pipeline to graft and corruption the Dem Party proceeded to get his mind right.
Jesse is about Jesse’s bank account. Not what happens to black people in the hood.
Wasn’t it Jesse who said something to the effect that if he were walking down a dark street alone and heard footsteps behind him, he hoped for the person to be white?
He set out to do good and ended up doing well.
I think that was him.
My major beef with the “black community” is that in the name of solidarity decent black people turn a blind eye to bad acts committed by evil black people. They’re morally hamstrung by their supposed need to stick together.
Local BLM leader Ariel Atkins isn't being silent at all. She's screaming from the rooftops that looting is reparations.
There are almost no black leaders. Blacks in positions of authority follow the orders of the plantation masters. They are truly black followers
The silence doesn’t surprise me at all. Sadly, whites as a group don’t even begin to understand the depths of blm jealousy/envy.
Yes it was.
As for the “Black Leaders”, they’re happy with the mid-level management positions they’ve been given through all of this. They’re nothing more than the Assistant Section Supervisor, who gets introduced to the CEO at the company Christmas party, but is only allowed to shake their hand and say nothing more than, “It’s a pleasure to meet you, sir/mam”, before they’re are quickly escorted away.....never to return.
They’re not even Capo’s in this scheme.
Watch the tv show, The Wire, that accurately delves into the Baltimore drug machine. These people are nothing more than the most senior guy on the corner. Nothing more.
“blm jealousy/envy” has become the cudgel that Communists are using to beat all Americans over the head.
The American minorities who don’t agree with that agenda need to step up to the plate and save themselves
This is America... want something?...want to CHANGE something?....all you need is a vote... and that is how it’s done.
No one here wanted 8 years of “O”bozo, but we waited our turn, we got our politics together and voted Trump into the WH... THAT is how you get what you want and how you make changes
Where was the bunker Jackson made that pronouncement from???
This is their “Intifada”. They are not speaking out because they are relishing
Implicit approval
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