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A brilliant post, Jim.
Thank you. What a darling, merry little boy. We should all grieve with his family.
How many Davell Gardners are there each year? Perhaps they get older, maybe seven or twelve? This is a beautiful and moving tribute, but how many times must it be done each year?
JimG,
We are all “in the way” of the psychotic left-wing that wants to destroy Western Civilization. They must be stopped too. May the forces of sanity and justice take back control. With Gd’s patient assistance let freedom ring and the blessings of liberty be bestowed upon us all.
Regards,
Jim
Even if he
justgrew up to be a regular person with a regular life, he should not have died. I read so many wonderful remembrances on Ricochet of family. Often theyjustled lives that would not be labeled celebrated or historical or “important.” But oh they are so important. Davell Gardner, Jr. you will be missed in ways we do not know and we as Americans and your fellow human beings are poorer for it. God bless you and comfort your family.All black lives matter:
–Victims of bad police;
–Victims of crime;
–Victims of abortion.
“…his name was Davell Gardner, Jr…”
The combination of the adorable picture and the past tense is simply heartbreaking.
The non-reverend Al Sharpton blames “gun violence,” and the state AG sees another opportunity to push racism.
https://nypost.com/2020/07/27/funeral-held-for-1-year-old-shooting-victim-davell-gardner/
Has New York’s top LE official been asked to clarify what she means about “black lives” being most important?
I object to calling humans animals. Humans do evil things because they’re evil. Evil in a way that animals cannot be evil. Dehumanizing criminals is just another evil.
Point taken. Until very recently, even after a probably-longer-than-healthy career as a Trial Lawyer, I was very reticent about calling anyone a liar, as in my Dad’s time that would involve more than a trigger warning and a cup of cocoa, and I repeatedly reminded myself that, as a Christian, I was taught not to “hate” another person. The recent years have brought changes in both of those ideas, as we seem to be living in a veritable sea of lies and hatred. I used the word “animal” to describe these street thugs because we see on the nightly news every single night lately scenes of “people” who have the appearance in dress and manner of human beings, but who are conducting themselves in a manner very similar to packs of wolves or other predators on the prowl for their next victim. I am not, and do not pretend to be, any kind of theologian, but in my lay observation, some of these predators have lost all semblance of whatever humanity they once knew. While I greatly respect your view, and all views here on Ricochet, anyone who shoots a young mother with her small child in a playground to death because she said she thought all lives mattered lost any right to be called a human being. That was the act of an “animal.” Full stop.
Thanks for your note,
Sincerely, Jim
What you say makes sense if Black Lives Matter was actually about Black lives. BLM is actually about Marxism and racially based oikophobia. This cannot be repeated enough.
Marxists have a playbook when it comes to getting support among groups that have been treated unfairly.
My ‘favorite’ example of this is that they named a predominantly homosexual community in San Francisco named their street Castro after Fidel Castro. Castro’s Cuba literally sent gays into gulags but the Marxists were so effective at pushing their agenda this was ignored by homosexual-Americans.
A light of this world extinguished in the most brutally heartbreaking way. Instead of the clownish slogans they are going to put on their jerseys, the NBA players should put this little boy’s name on their backs. He deserves his name to be spoken.
Amen.
Jenna,
So very true. The first time I became aware of this strange phenomenon of the huge number of black deaths from crime was during the Travon Martin trial. Obama was politicizing the heck out of it. I forget where or how but I became aware of a website that literally covered the body count every weekend in Chicago. I think it was the July 4th weekend that summer when there was a record number of dead in Chicago. There was a 5-year-old child. His mother had taken him to a park at lunchtime. He was riding on the swing set. Drive-by gangbangers shot up the neighborhood. A stray bullet killed this innocent 5-year-old boy. Meanwhile, as it became clear that Travon Martin was anything but innocent and Obama was going to milk this for political gain anyway, all I could think about was the 5-year-old.
Madness.
Regards,
Jim