Wednesday, July 15, 2020

IS 'SYSTEMIC RACISM' ONLY A MYTH? WHO ARE MORE RACIST, VIOLENT, ANTI-SEMTIC, AND HOMOPHOBIC THAN BLACKS? WANT TO TALK ABOUT VIOLENCE? WHAT ARE THE WEEKEND BLACK ON BLACK MURDER RATES IN CHICAGO?

IF AMERICA IS SO 'RACIST' HOW DID BARACK OBAMA GET ELECTED TWICE AND OPRAH BECOME A BILLIONAIRE?



Systemic racism is an excuse to fundamentally change our country


The favorite phrase used by our self-appointed "elites" to state the cause of all the problems blacks face is "systemic racism."  There is no analysis to describe what this means and how it now causes the problems.  What does it mean?  How does it work?
The premise of "systemic racism" is that our institutions treat blacks worse than they treat whites.  By institutions, they mean employers, the education system, and the criminal justice system.
There is no dispute that in the past, these institutions treated blacks worse.  But what are these institutions doing in 2020?
Since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which many congressional Democrats opposed, and similar statutes by every state and city, it is factually difficult to argue that institutions discriminate against blacks.  To the contrary, every major institution takes steps to insure against such discrimination.
For example, every major employer has a human resources (H.R.) office, and many have "diversity officers" that practice affirmative action to recruit and promote black employees.  Employers rightly fear employment discrimination suits and take steps to avoid discriminatory practices.
Every college, law school, medical school, and other grad school has affirmative action and "diversity" officers.  The same applies to government entities such as the federal, state, and local government units.
There are individual cases alleging discrimination filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and their counterparts in the state and cities, and then with the federal courts, that address these specific cases.  But can any of these so-called elites name a college that refuses to admit blacks or an employer that refuses to hire blacks?
As Professor Thomas Sowell said of "systemic racism": "It really has no meaning that can be specified and tested in the way that one tests hypotheses[.]"
The recent riots and protests since the death of George Floyd have raised the question of systemic racism in the police forces.  There is no excuse for the Floyd killing, but that is not the result of systemic racism.  That is the result of a bad, out-of-control officer who has rightly been charged with murder and fired from the police force.
If there were discriminatory practices and protocols in police departments in major cities such as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, etc., all cities run by Democrat mayors, with many having black chiefs of police and many black officers, you would think these mayors and chiefs would have removed the discriminatory protocols.  For example, Chicago, the poster child for out-of-control black-on-black violence, has had Democratic mayors since 1931.
Moreover, police departments do not have protocols for arrests and investigation that differ for whites and blacks.
The usual "facts" to support "systemic racism" are the differences in income and wealth between blacks and whites.  The proponents of this approach then condemn our present economic system and call for reparations and "rejecting the present economic model."  This means replacing our free enterprise system with an authoritarian socialist model.  For example, see Jared Bernstein, chief economist for the ex-V.P., Joe Biden:
Truly repairing the system obviously goes far beyond rejecting and replacing the economic model.  Doing so is necessary, but not sufficient.
Coming off July 14, Bastille Day, to commemorate the French destruction of that nation's institutions, "systemic racism" is a phrase used as an excuse by the Bernie Robespierre Sanders and AOC Danton Democrats to attack our institutions as racist and evil for political purposes to fundamentally change our country.


This evidence is pretty compelling in suggesting that the BLM movement presents itself as a Marxist philosophy pushing organization with characteristics of a terrorist entity.  This seems like such a strange way to strengthen race relations and advocate for the human and legal rights of U.S. citizens.


ViacomCBS Severs Ties with Nick Cannon After Antisemitic Remarks

BERLIN, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 16: Actor Nick Cannon attends the 'Chi-Raq' press conference during the 66th Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin at Grand Hyatt Hotel on February 16, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
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ViacomCBS severed ties with rapper and TV personality Nick Cannon on Tuesday after he refused to apologize for antisemitic remarks the Masked Singer host made last month.
During a June episode of his Cannon’s Class podcast, Cannon told former Public Enemy member Richard “Professor Griff” Griffin that “the Semitic people are Black people.”
“You can’t be anti-Semitic when we are the Semitic people,” Nick Cannon claimed. “When we are the same people they want to be. That’s our birthright,” he then said, before he added that African-Americans are the “true Hebrews.”
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Cannon also alleged that “African Americans and the people of the Jewish community have partnered to create some of the best, most revolutionary work we know today.”
“While we support ongoing education and dialogue in the fight against bigotry, we are deeply troubled that Nick has failed to acknowledge or apologize for perpetuating anti-Semitism, and we are terminating our relationship with him,” ViacomCBS said in a statement.
Cannon was named chairman of Nickelodeon’s TeenNick cable channel at 26-years-old.
Cannon also made derogatory statements about Caucasians and praised the notorious antisemite and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
“The people that don’t have [melanin] are a little less,” Cannon said, adding that “when they were sent to the mountains of Caucasus … The sun then started to deteriorate them so then, they’re acting out of fear, they’re acting out of low self-esteem, they’re acting out of a deficiency.”
“So, therefore, the only way that they can act is evil. They have to rob, steal, rape, kill in order to survive. So then, these people that didn’t have what we have — and when I say we, I speak of the melanated people — they had to be savages … They’re acting as animals so they’re the ones that are actually closer to animals. They’re the ones that are actually the true savages,” Cannon added.
The MTV’s Wild ‘n Out host’s comments sparked a massive backlash, prompting him to address his matter in a social media post.
“Anyone who knows me knows that I have no hate in my heart nor malice intentions,” Cannon wrote on Facebook. “I do not condone hate speech nor the spread of hateful rhetoric. We are living in a time when it is more important than ever to promote unity and understanding.”
Yet, Cannon refused to apologize: “To me apologies are empty … What we need is healing. What we need is discussion. Correct me. I don’t tell my children to say, ‘I’m sorry.’ I want them to understand where they need to be corrected. And then that’s how we grow.”


This evidence is pretty compelling in suggesting that the BLM movement presents itself as a Marxist philosophy pushing organization with characteristics of a terrorist entity. 

What the Black Lives Matter movement really is

Based on the research I've conducted, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization/movement is likely not what most people think it is.  Here are a few verified ideas to consider.
One may think of the BLM movement as a "grassroots" movement.  According to the BLM website, BLM is a "global organization active in US, UK, and Canada."  The website, Influence Watch, points out that George Soros, a Hungarian-born liberal with a net worth of $25.2 billion, is a major contributor to BLM, having donated "at least $33 million."  The same website states that since 2013, groups associated with the BLM movement have taken in $133 million.
On another point, it appears that BLM is rooted in Marxist philosophy.  From the New York Post (06/25/20), Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors describes herself and her co-organizer of BLM as "a trained Marxist."  The article goes on to say Cullors was a protégé of Eric Mann and that she "spent years" with him "absorbing the Marxist-Leninist ideology that shaped her worldview."
Consider what this might mean for the USA if BLM pushes its agenda and platform.  According to Investopedia, Marxism argues for a worker revolution to overturn capitalism in favor of communism.  Furthermore, Marxism is against the nuclear family in that it teaches a hierarchical system and keeps money within groups (families), opposed to distributed wealth.  The website ReviseSociology explains, "Marxists argue that the nuclear family performs ideological functions for Capitalism — the family acts as a unit of consumption and teaches passive acceptance of hierarchy.  It is also the institution through which the wealthy pass down their private property to their children, thus reproducing class inequality."  Furthermore, the website Brainscape points out, "[Marxists] dispute the idea that the way families are organized benefits everyone.  The website goes on to say, "[R]ather [Marxism] argue[s] that the family like many other institutions in capitalist societies, serves to maintain the power of those with wealth and preserve the existing economic system."
BLM is anti–nuclear family.   The following quote was taken directly from the BLM website: "We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and 'villages' that collectively care for one another[.]"  More Marxist philosophy from the BLM Platform itself: BLM argues for a reformed tax code "at the local, state, and federal level to ensure a radical and substantial redistribution of wealth."
The U.S. Code of Federal Regulations defines terrorism as "the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives" (28 C.F.R. Section 0.85).  The New York Post (06/25/20) reported that Hawk Newsome, president of Greater New York Black Lives Matter (BLM website denies this title), stated, "If this country doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it.  All right?  And I could be speaking figuratively.  I could be speaking literally.  It's a matter of interpretation."  Also stated by Newsome, "I just want black liberation, and black sovereignty.  By any means necessary."
This evidence is pretty compelling in suggesting that the BLM movement presents itself as a Marxist philosophy pushing organization with characteristics of a terrorist entity.  This seems like such a strange way to strengthen race relations and advocate for the human and legal rights of U.S. citizens.
Image: Johnny Silvercloud via Flickr (cropped).

Did saying 'all lives matter' to a group of blacks get a mother of a young child shot and killed?


The demonization of the commonsense expression "all lives matter" has reached the point of lethal violence against those who utter it, if an eyewitness account of a murder in Indianapolis is true.  This deeply distressing story of an incident on Independence Day weekend had received zero coverage in the mainstream media until Fox News picked it up a few hours ago.  Bradford Betz writes for Fox:
An Indiana woman was fatally shot earlier this month following an alleged argument between her family and a group of Black Lives Matter supporters, her family says.
The woman, 24-year-old Jessica Doty Whitaker, was walking along Indianapolis Canal Walk with her fiancé, Jose Ramirez, and two other people around 3 a.m. on July 5 when someone in their group used a racial slur, Fox 59 reported.
A group of nearby strangers overheard the comment and confronted Whitaker's group, according to the station.
Ramirez alleged that the group shouted "Black Lives Matter," to which either Whitaker or someone else in their group reportedly responded with, "All Lives Matter."
A brief argument ensued until both sides separated after realizing the other was armed, Fox 59 reported. Ramirez claimed that both sides managed to resolve the argument before separating.
But minutes later, someone reportedly opened fire from a nearby bridge, striking Whitaker, before running away, the station said.
"It was squashed, and they went up the hill and left we thought, but they were sitting on St. Clair waiting for us to come under the bridge and that's when she got shot," Ramirez said.
Ramirez admitted to returning fire but did not hit anyone. He told Fox 59 that he has had to explain what happened to Whitaker's 3-year-old son.

Jessica Doty Whitaker (photo via GoFundMe).
Early accounts of the incident in local Indianapolis media did not mention the expression "all lives matter" as a trigger, but then Cassandra Fairbanks of Gateway Pundit reported on Saturday:
Her father, Robert Doty, told the Gateway Pundit that the BLM supporters had walked by her and her fiance and said "Black Lives Matter," to which Jessica responded that "All Lives Matter"….
The U.S. conservative blogosphere started to pick up on the story, followed by the U.K. Sun and then the Daily Mail, and now Fox News.  The story has already gained enough traction that a GoFundMe account established for Jessica's family has already raised more than five times the goal of $10,000, with the story now breaking wider on a Monday morning.
If anything good can be salvaged from this awful killing, it would be a pushback against the demonization of "all lives matter."  Claims that those three words are racist are self-evidently ridiculous.  If it is untrue that all lives matter because "black lives matter" is trendy and being pushed heavily, then some lives logically do not matter.  Because of race.  That position is abhorrent.  And it may have led to murder.


How BLM supports cop killers


Black Lives Matter has just learned the hard way that police bodycams are there not just to protect civilians and suspects from bad cops, they are there to protect good cops from suspects and their supporters, including BLM, who falsely accuse cops of excessive use of force. Hakim Littleton was recently shot dead an instant before he could make a "pig" "oink his last," and BLM is apparently sorry that the cop is not dead in Hakim's place. The video on this Detroit News page shows clearly that Littleton pulled a handgun from his left pocket, aimed at a cop's head, and fired the weapon at close range. Littleton was fortunately a bad shot or we would now have "end of watch" for another police officer.
A prosecutor would have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the cop's use of deadly force was unlawful to convict him of murder or manslaughter. The bodycam video proves instead that the shooting was justified, and also that the police department should investigate further to determine whether the shooter should be commended for saving another officer's life. This did not stop numerous protesters, and the Detroit News picture gallery shows many in BLM attire, from chanting "Justice for Hakim Littleton! Fire and jail the killer cop!" Another video on the Detroit News page shows a mob yelling "Black Lives Matter" along with "No justice, no peace" while throwing bottles and bricks at the police. One demonstrator yells the N word, apparently at a black law enforcement officer, while another menaces a reporter. The Black Lives Matter movement comes in loud and clear; Hakim Littleton had the right to kill an officer and the "pig" and his partner did not even have the right of self-defense as prescribed by Michigan state law and common sense.
The Blaze meanwhile reported that two police officers, whose Hispanic lives clearly do not matter to Black Lives Matter, were ambushed and murdered on July 11. The daughter of one of the fallen officers posted a tribute to her father which the BLM community greeted with remarks like "Well at least your pops is a good cop now, 6 feet in the dirt where he cant hurt nobody" and"Rip to ur daddy!!! But one cop down many more to go," along with the all-time favorite ACAB (All Cops Are Bastards).
We Deserve Better than BLM and We Can Do Better
There can be zero tolerance in a civilized society for a movement that says it is okay to aim a firearm at a police officer's head and the officer (or his partner) does not have the basic human right of self-defense. It is past time to demand that the Democratic Party, corporate enablers like Starbucks, and universities repudiate their support for this repugnant movement. The best way to send BLM the way of those Confederate statues is to offer the country something a lot better, and I have done my best with a computer artwork program. Please feel free to copy and distribute or improve on my admittedly amateur work.
Civis Americanus is the pen name of an American Thinker contributor who remembers the lessons of history and wants to ensure that our country never needs to learn those lessons again the hard way.




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