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BLM, All for Naught…
#BLM started up in response to the death of Trayvon Martin, a black teenager, at the hands of a mixed-race Democrat named George Zimmerman, back in 2012. At the time, Barack Obama was president and starting his second term.
It is now 2022. #BLM has had a full decade in which to make the lives of black Americans better.
All of you genuinely care about the state of black America. So, what has improved since 2012 due to the efforts of #BLM? In what ways is a black child born in 2022 better off, safer, happier, and his/her prospects brighter than those of a black child born in 2012?
By way of comparison: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was begun in 1957, with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as its first president. Within four years, interstate bus travel and been desegregated. Within five years, the Civil Rights Act passed, and within six years, the Voting Rights Act had passed in Congress.
Then there’s this:
The chart reflects age group – does it specify race or gender? I was thinking about this very topic recently because:
We’re temporarily renting in Panama City Beach and just had Spring Break. There were hordes of African Americans here the first couple weeks who went into a super Walmart and just ran through and pulled merchandise off the shelves – they had to close. There were many arrests and over 170 guns taken off the streets – and there was a shooting. Night after night, sirens, blue lights and helicopters until the late hours. I don’t think these were college kids on Spring Break. They were clogging up all the gas stations – dancing and leaving their vehicles in the stalls so no one could get gas. My sister in law waited in a long line to get gas after working a home health care nursing shift for 10 hours and was on empty and witnessed it. There was no concern for law and order or courtesy to anyone.
Supposedly, Miami and parts further South had to declare a state of emergency for the same reasons. There were also young white guys in these huge, jacked up in the front trucks everywhere zooming around and standing at every corner with their shirts off – we found out it was some sort of high school gay group – never heard of it. Where are the parents?
My sister in law who lives in same neighborhood we are in says this is all new. Spring Break is always crazy but this was scary.
https://www.fox13news.com/news/florida-deputies-arrest-over-160-in-panama-city-beach-during-dangerous-spring-break-weekend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PbYso5LcZk
Blacks are told by progressives that they are victims – and this whole BLM movement, CRT, etc. are taught to go disrupt where you can – they call this social justice. I even read a story about a black law student at Harvard who is promoting this. There is no slavery. Everyone has equal opportunity, and it seems other minorities look to succeed here. I’ve known many Hispanics in property management, and they are an example. The black community has embraced an agenda that will fail and I blame Obama and other black leaders who could have lifted African Americans up, but did the opposite. They’ve injected a toxic mindset that has nothing to do with race. It has to do with a socialistic, Marxist thought. The rotten fruits of their labor are playing out — and meditating in a safe space won’t fix it. The black culture is being deceived on a massive scale.
https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/the-dharma-of-racial-justice/
Sounds like you still think the solution is to not enforce many/most traffic laws, because they aren’t worth infuriating drivers or something. Would you prefer them just getting your license number and send you a fine in the mail, regardless of whether or not it was actually you driving? Those kinds of things seem to infuriate a lot of people too. And what about situations such as have been recounted by Doug Watt on these very pages, where enforcing a “nothing” traffic violation resulted in preventing a very big deal indeed? Would you be okay with those teenage girls being taken somewhere to “become models” because it’s not worth stopping people for a nothing like “speeding?”
If I thought the solution is to not enforce many/most traffic laws, that’s what I would say.
I’ve had multiple police interactions that were extremely negative. One where I got pulled over the and cop acted like a jerk, another where I had to interact with whomever was in charge at the police station when one of my kids had been arrested. It’s been 15 years and I’m still bitter. The rest where I witnessed cops behaving like jerks to my then children..
My children are not stupid, and neither am I. None of us believe that cops not doing their job is the answer. Nor do any of us ascribe to “defund the police”.
If you read my entire comment, I want every single person in this country to have it explained exactly how to behave during a traffic stop. And why you DO NOT under any circumstances resist arrest. And then I want to explain to every single cop that they will get a lot more cooperation and good will from the population if they stop acting like jerks. I’ve got one kid who got stopped so many times, while walking, it’s a miracle he doesn’t have a bad attitude.
I wholeheartedly agree. This ought to be taught in schools across the country, and especially in every driver’s ed class . . .
I don’t think there’s any such thing as drivers Ed (at least not where I live in SoCal). I had to sign my kids up for private classes. I’ve checked with a few of them and laws, how to respond to a cop was not covered.
I’d actually love a six week boot camp for all high schoolers covering things as basic as how to shake hands, to what to do when dealing with a cop.
IIRC, we had driver’s ed both through the school and private . . .
We had drivers Ed in high school in the 70s. None of my children did, nor my nieces and nephews (1995 to current). And to get your license you have to show proof of private lessons. Mom and dad and driving around the parking lot is not enough.
Granny – In case you missed this, it was in the news this morning where a campus group invited Col. Allen West to speak at their event and this is what happened. Read what West said about these kids seeing themselves as a victim in a country where they want their rights and speech protected but not for others. This echoes my comment and what happened here in our area during spring break.
This is what BLM teaches – Marxist tactics, not freedom for all:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/allen-west-buffalo-university-protest-woke-mob-students
Why aren’t school authorities protecting all students’ rights? She had to call 9/11!