IF AMERICA IS SO 'RACIST' THEN HOW DID BARACK OBAMA, A MAN WHO NEVER DID ANYTHING FOR BLACK AMERICA, GET ELECTED TWICE? HOW DID OPRAH WINFREY BECOME A BILLIONAIRE?
BLACKS DROP OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO READ OR WRITE THEIR NAME. THEN THEY PICK UP A FELONY OR TWO AND THEREFORE CAN'T BE EMPLOYED.
BLAME WHITEY?
ACCORDING TO THE F.B.I. ONE-THIRD OF ALL CRIME IN THE U.S. IS COMMITED BE BLACK MALES YOUNGER THAN AGE 26. WHAT IS THE COST TO US OF THE BLACK CRIME TIDAL WAVE?
BLAME BLACK LIVES MATTER!
IF AMERICA IS SO 'RACIST' THEN HOW DID BARACK OBAMA, A MAN WHO NEVER DID ANYTHING FOR BLACK AMERICA, GET ELECTED TWICE? HOW DID OPRAH WINFREY BECOME A BILLIONAIRE?
BLACKS DROP OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO READ OR WRITE THEIR NAME. THEN THEY PICK UP A FELONY OR TWO AND THEREFORE CAN'T BE EMPLOYED.
BLAME WHITEY?
ACCORDING TO THE F.B.I. ONE-THIRD OF ALL CRIME IN THE U.S. IS COMMITED BE BLACK MALES YOUNGER THAN AGE 26. WHAT IS THE COST TO US OF THE BLACK CRIME TIDAL WAVE?
BLAME BLACK LIVES MATTER!
BLACKS DROP OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO READ OR WRITE THEIR NAME. THEN THEY PICK UP A FELONY OR TWO AND THEREFORE CAN'T BE EMPLOYED.
BLAME WHITEY?
ACCORDING TO THE F.B.I. ONE-THIRD OF ALL CRIME IN THE U.S. IS COMMITED BE BLACK MALES YOUNGER THAN AGE 26. WHAT IS THE COST TO US OF THE BLACK CRIME TIDAL WAVE?
BLAME BLACK LIVES MATTER!
A viral video reveals the black lives that Black Lives Matter destroyed
Hollywood actors reflexively lean left. Those that are college-educated do so because they’ve been brainwashed in college. Those that are not college-educated do so because they have an inferiority complex and believe that, if they act like college grads, people won’t realize that they never got the diploma. For this reason, they hate Trump without knowing or caring what he actually says and does, and they blindly support anything that the Democrat party tells them is good and proper.
When the Black Lives Matter protests began, Hollywood leftists were prepared. They shouted their support for the protests from the rooftops, promised to pay bail and legal fees for the protesters and looters that the police were able to capture. and eventually created a nausea-inducing video in which a few knowns and a bunch of unknowns looked serious and intoned “I take responsibility.”
Living in their lily-white, affluent, sycophantic gated world, do these people have any idea at all what they’re talking about? I don’t think so. They’re certainly not taking responsibility for this woman trying to find food for her children in stores ransacked by the same protesters they funded:
To all of you tolerant liberals who displayed your wokeness by justifying rioting while sitting on your fat comfortable asses totally insulated from the damage, this is what you supported. This is on you. Congratulations you despicable monsters.
5,576 people are talking about this
The unnamed woman narrating the video says that every grocery store she’s gone to looks like the one in her video. To the extent there’s food left, it’s some random produce (which did not attract the marauders). All the other food – whether fresh, refrigerated, frozen, or boxed – has been hurled to the floor and trampled. The non-food aisles have also been ransacked. Walking through aisle after aisle, she implores the person viewing the video to “look at this.”
And then, in a broken, tearful voice, she says what’s really going on, and it’s heartbreaking:
Can’t even get no f**in’ food for my kids, G. Look at this. Came in the store to try to buy something because I’m not a thief. Look at this. In my hood, can’t even get no food for my kids. Babies need milk. Can’t even get nothing for my kids, Bro.
I feel like an animal – and black people made me feel like an animal. Y’all did this to us.
[snip.]
But this is what we’re fighting for. This is honoring George Floyd. People who already couldn’t feed their kids, now they really can’t feed their kids.
I am so devastated right now. I am so devastated right now, G. This is not okay. For us to have live like this.
We do stupid sh*t like this all the time, and we so ‘black proud,’ we so black and proud that we ain’t gonna never be honest and be real about what’s really going on.
Y’all are so wrong for this. You came in your neighborhood and f*cked up your sh*t.
I’m not a thief. I’m not coming in this store stealing nothing. Ain’t nobody going to turn me into no animal or make me feel like a thief.
Y’all let the white folk send you off once again.
[snip]
Everything’s on the floor. Tissue! We couldn’t even find tissue less than two months ago, and now it’s on the floor!
For a jarring contrast, now watch the “I take responsibility” video in which these well-paid leftist fakers pretend emotion:
Those vapid actors should be deeply ashamed of themselves. Rather than foisting their vile “public service announcements” on America, they need to see this video. They need to see it day and night until they finally get it through their skulls that the political party to which they’re so devoted is completely destructive. This woman and her children deserve better, but with the Democrat party having a lock on education, news, and entertainment, the rioting and virtue-signaling run rampant, while she and her children starve.
The 'Ferguson Effect' is Back
Hollywood actors reflexively lean left. Those that are college-educated do so because they’ve been brainwashed in college. Those that are not college-educated do so because they have an inferiority complex and believe that, if they act like college grads, people won’t realize that they never got the diploma. For this reason, they hate Trump without knowing or caring what he actually says and does, and they blindly support anything that the Democrat party tells them is good and proper.
When the Black Lives Matter protests began, Hollywood leftists were prepared. They shouted their support for the protests from the rooftops, promised to pay bail and legal fees for the protesters and looters that the police were able to capture. and eventually created a nausea-inducing video in which a few knowns and a bunch of unknowns looked serious and intoned “I take responsibility.”
Living in their lily-white, affluent, sycophantic gated world, do these people have any idea at all what they’re talking about? I don’t think so. They’re certainly not taking responsibility for this woman trying to find food for her children in stores ransacked by the same protesters they funded:
To all of you tolerant liberals who displayed your wokeness by justifying rioting while sitting on your fat comfortable asses totally insulated from the damage, this is what you supported. This is on you. Congratulations you despicable monsters.
5,576 people are talking about this
The unnamed woman narrating the video says that every grocery store she’s gone to looks like the one in her video. To the extent there’s food left, it’s some random produce (which did not attract the marauders). All the other food – whether fresh, refrigerated, frozen, or boxed – has been hurled to the floor and trampled. The non-food aisles have also been ransacked. Walking through aisle after aisle, she implores the person viewing the video to “look at this.”
And then, in a broken, tearful voice, she says what’s really going on, and it’s heartbreaking:
Can’t even get no f**in’ food for my kids, G. Look at this. Came in the store to try to buy something because I’m not a thief. Look at this. In my hood, can’t even get no food for my kids. Babies need milk. Can’t even get nothing for my kids, Bro.I feel like an animal – and black people made me feel like an animal. Y’all did this to us.[snip.]But this is what we’re fighting for. This is honoring George Floyd. People who already couldn’t feed their kids, now they really can’t feed their kids.I am so devastated right now. I am so devastated right now, G. This is not okay. For us to have live like this.We do stupid sh*t like this all the time, and we so ‘black proud,’ we so black and proud that we ain’t gonna never be honest and be real about what’s really going on.Y’all are so wrong for this. You came in your neighborhood and f*cked up your sh*t.I’m not a thief. I’m not coming in this store stealing nothing. Ain’t nobody going to turn me into no animal or make me feel like a thief.Y’all let the white folk send you off once again.[snip]Everything’s on the floor. Tissue! We couldn’t even find tissue less than two months ago, and now it’s on the floor!
For a jarring contrast, now watch the “I take responsibility” video in which these well-paid leftist fakers pretend emotion:
Those vapid actors should be deeply ashamed of themselves. Rather than foisting their vile “public service announcements” on America, they need to see this video. They need to see it day and night until they finally get it through their skulls that the political party to which they’re so devoted is completely destructive. This woman and her children deserve better, but with the Democrat party having a lock on education, news, and entertainment, the rioting and virtue-signaling run rampant, while she and her children starve.
The 'Ferguson Effect' is Back
The riots and police-hating rhetoric are killing black people, again.
Predictably, Friday's police shooting of a black man in Atlanta has already begun to amplify the police-hating rhetoric of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and its allies. And that rhetoric, coupled with widespread demands for the defunding of police departments nationwide, will most definitely result in a massive increase in violent crime throughout urban America over the course of the next year or more. You can bet your life on that. How do we know this? We know it, with full certainty, because of the very clear and obvious precedent that was set just a few years back, under similar circumstances.
Between 2013 and 2015, a number of black criminal suspects who died in the course of highly publicized altercations with police officers joined the late Trayvon Martin as the latest martyred icons of the BLM movement. Prominent among these were Eric Garner (New York), Michael Brown (Ferguson, Missouri), Tamir Rice (Cleveland), Timothy Russell (Cleveland), Malissa Williams (Cleveland), and Freddie Gray (Baltimore). High-profile political leaders such as President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and the mayors of the cities where the aforementioned deaths took place, routinely depicted race as a major underlying factor in those deaths.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, for instance – explicitly exhorting New Yorkers to remember that “black lives matter” – lamented the “centuries of racism” whose legacy was, in his view, still influencing the actions of too many police officers. And in the aftermath of Freddie Gray’s death in April 2015, Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, citing her desire “to reform my [police] department,” willfully “gave those [rioters] who wished to destroy, space to do that.”
In New York, Baltimore, and elsewhere in urban America, law-enforcement officers responded to the anti-police climate by becoming less proactive in apprehending criminals, particularly for low-level offenses. The Washington Post, for one, reported that by late 2015: “Arrests, summonses and pedestrian stops were dropping in many cities.... Arrests in St. Louis City and County, for example, fell by a third after the shooting of Michael Brown. Misdemeanor drug arrests fell by two-thirds in Baltimore.”
First-hand accounts by police officers told the same story. As one officer in South Central Los Angeles explained, his colleagues were routinely “saying to each other: ‘If you get out of your [police] car, you’re crazy, unless there’s a radio call.’” And in Chicago, then-mayor Rahm Emanuel lamented that the members of his police force had gone “fetal.” “They have pulled back from the ability to interdict,” he said. “They don’t want to be a news story themselves, they don’t want their career ended early, and it’s having an impact.”
A 97-page Pew Research Center report titled “Behind the Badge” – which tabulated the results of a questionnaire that had been sent to nearly 8,000 officers in more than 100 police departments nationwide – confirmed the fact that police officers had become extremely reluctant to engage criminals except where absolutely necessary. For instance, the survey found that 95 percent of officers in large police departments, and 88 percent of those in smaller ones, were more worried about being harmed in the course of duty than they had been in the past; 85 percent of officers in large departments, and 63 percent of those in smaller ones, had become more reluctant to use force against criminal suspects when appropriate; and 86 percent of officers in large departments, and 54 percent of those in smaller ones, had become less likely to stop and question people who seemed suspicious.
These changes in policing practices led directly to a dramatic spike in urban violence – a phenomenon that Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald dubbed “The Ferguson Effect,” whose name derived from the August 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Some real-world examples of the Ferguson Effect included the following:
Between 2013 and 2015, a number of black criminal suspects who died in the course of highly publicized altercations with police officers joined the late Trayvon Martin as the latest martyred icons of the BLM movement. Prominent among these were Eric Garner (New York), Michael Brown (Ferguson, Missouri), Tamir Rice (Cleveland), Timothy Russell (Cleveland), Malissa Williams (Cleveland), and Freddie Gray (Baltimore). High-profile political leaders such as President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and the mayors of the cities where the aforementioned deaths took place, routinely depicted race as a major underlying factor in those deaths.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, for instance – explicitly exhorting New Yorkers to remember that “black lives matter” – lamented the “centuries of racism” whose legacy was, in his view, still influencing the actions of too many police officers. And in the aftermath of Freddie Gray’s death in April 2015, Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, citing her desire “to reform my [police] department,” willfully “gave those [rioters] who wished to destroy, space to do that.”
In New York, Baltimore, and elsewhere in urban America, law-enforcement officers responded to the anti-police climate by becoming less proactive in apprehending criminals, particularly for low-level offenses. The Washington Post, for one, reported that by late 2015: “Arrests, summonses and pedestrian stops were dropping in many cities.... Arrests in St. Louis City and County, for example, fell by a third after the shooting of Michael Brown. Misdemeanor drug arrests fell by two-thirds in Baltimore.”
First-hand accounts by police officers told the same story. As one officer in South Central Los Angeles explained, his colleagues were routinely “saying to each other: ‘If you get out of your [police] car, you’re crazy, unless there’s a radio call.’” And in Chicago, then-mayor Rahm Emanuel lamented that the members of his police force had gone “fetal.” “They have pulled back from the ability to interdict,” he said. “They don’t want to be a news story themselves, they don’t want their career ended early, and it’s having an impact.”
A 97-page Pew Research Center report titled “Behind the Badge” – which tabulated the results of a questionnaire that had been sent to nearly 8,000 officers in more than 100 police departments nationwide – confirmed the fact that police officers had become extremely reluctant to engage criminals except where absolutely necessary. For instance, the survey found that 95 percent of officers in large police departments, and 88 percent of those in smaller ones, were more worried about being harmed in the course of duty than they had been in the past; 85 percent of officers in large departments, and 63 percent of those in smaller ones, had become more reluctant to use force against criminal suspects when appropriate; and 86 percent of officers in large departments, and 54 percent of those in smaller ones, had become less likely to stop and question people who seemed suspicious.
These changes in policing practices led directly to a dramatic spike in urban violence – a phenomenon that Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald dubbed “The Ferguson Effect,” whose name derived from the August 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Some real-world examples of the Ferguson Effect included the following:
- During the three months that immediately followed August 2014, homicides in St. Louis city, located just 12 miles from Ferguson, rose by 47%. Robberies in St. Louis County, meanwhile, increased by 82%.
- From January through May of 2015 in New York City, the incidence of murder was 20% higher than it had been during the first five months of 2014, and shooting incidents were up 9% as well. During those same five months in Milwaukee, homicides were up 180% compared to the same period in 2014. The corresponding figures for Los Angeles were a 23% rise in shootings and a 25% upturn in other violent crimes. And in Chicago, shootings were up 25% and homicides were up 18%.
- From January through March of 2015 in Houston, murders were up nearly 100% compared to the same period in 2014.
- Following the protests and riots sparked by the April 12, 2015 death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, shootings in that city increased by more than 60% compared to the same period a year earlier. In May 2015, Baltimore recorded 43 murders—the most in any month since August 1972.
In 2015 overall, America’s 56 largest cities experienced a 17% rise in homicides. Twelve cities with large black populations saw their murder totals rise still more dramatically – e.g., by 54% in D.C., 60% in Newark, 72% in Milwaukee, 83% in Nashville, and 90% in Cleveland. “Robberies also surged in the 81 largest cities in the 12 months after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson,” reported the Washington Post. A report for the Justice Department characterized these broad trends as “nearly unprecedented.”
The nationwide spike in urban violence continued into 2016. During the first quarter of that year, homicides in America's 63 largest cities increased by 9%, while nonfatal shootings were up 21%. The situation in Chicago was particularly bad: From January through March of 2016, stops by police were down nearly 90% from a comparable time period in 2015, while shootings by civilians were up 50% over 2015, and up 87% compared with 2014. By the end of 2016, civilian-committed homicides had increased in 16 of the nation's 20 largest police departments, and most of the victims of those homicides were black.
After an 8-year period during which annual homicide totals for the U.S. as a whole had declined steeply and steadily from 17,309 in 2006 to 14,164 in 2014, the total suddenly skyrocketed to 15,883 in 2015 and 17,413 in 2016 – a 23% increase in just two years.
And now, as a result of the riots that have struck so many U.S. cities over the past two weeks – coupled with the relentless, incendiary denunciations directed toward police officers – we are already seeing exactly the same ominous trends in cities across America. As pastor Michael Pfleger observed in Chicago last Monday: “On Saturday and particularly Sunday, I heard people saying all over, ‘Hey, there’s no police anywhere, police ain’t doing nothing.’ I sat and watched a store looted for over an hour. No police came. I got in my car and drove around to some other places getting looted [and] didn’t see police anywhere.” On another recent day, Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot lamented: “The number of sites that have been up and run over by looters today is in the hundreds. Hundreds.... I’ve been on calls and text messages with people all day today who fought hard to bring economic development to areas of the city only to see the Walgreens, the CVS, the grocery store, everything vanished in an eyeblink.… It’s going to take a herculean effort to convince businesses not to disappear.”
On Sunday, May 31, the Chicago Police Department responded to 18 separate homicides, breaking the city's previous one-day record of 13, set 29 years ago. According to an ABC News report: “Between 6 p.m. on May 29 and 11:59 p.m. on May 31, Chicago police responded to at least 73 incidents in which 92 people were shot, including 27 who were killed.”
Similarly, in St. Louis during the weekend of June 6-7, no fewer than 21 people were shot, six fatally. Meanwhile, during the first week of June, homicides in Los Angeles were up 250% compared to the previous week, and the total number of gunshot victims was up 56%. And in New York City, there were 13 murders from June 1 through June 7 – as compared to just 5 during that same week last year.
As was the case when we saw the Ferguson Effect take its deadly toll on America's cities in 2015-16, a very large percentage of the current victims of ramped-up urban violence are, once again, black people. In other words, the very same people in whose name Black Lives Matter claims to be acting, are the ones who typically pay with their lives. This leaves us with only one very obvious conclusion: Black Lives Matter doesn't give a damn about black lives; it only cares about advancing its America-hating, revolutionary Marxist agenda. Period.
Here Are the Heroes Whose Statues Black Lives Matter Has Attacked
Here Are the Heroes Whose Statues Black Lives Matter Has Attacked
War heroes, Founding Fathers, explorers, abolitionists, and a Scottish king.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
The statue of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, stands at the corner of Fairfax and Beverly in Los Angeles. When the racist mobs swept through the area, looting Jewish stores and defacing synagogues with "BLM" and "Free Palestine" graffiti, the statue of a man who risked his life to resist fascism and bigotry was one of their targets.
The racists and leftists vandalizing statues across the world claim that they’re fighting hate, but their targets have often been the men and women who courageously stood up to racism and hatred.
When the statue of Churchill was vandalized in London, the thugs who did it went after the one man who had done the most to wake up the world to the threat of fascism. In Philadelphia, the thugs scrawled “murderer” and “colonizer” on a statue of Philadelphia abolitionist Matthias Baldwin and in Boston, they vandalized the ‘Glory’ monument of the African-American 54th Regiment.
In Washington D.C., the Lincoln Memorial and the National WW2 Memorial were both defaced.
This is not the work of anti-racists, but of racists. It’s not the work of anti-fascists, but of fascists.
While the media has upheld the racist narrative justifying the Taliban campaign against America by focusing on confederate memorials, the vandalism has been extensive, targeting both sides in the Civil War, and spilling over to vandalize statues that have absolutely no relevance to contemporary politics.
In Louisville, the statue of Louis XVI lost a hand and then was graffitied. Despite the French monarch having absolutely nothing to do with Floyd’s death, the statue was spray painted with "BLM", "We Will Win", and "George Floyde". If the ghost of the executed king had been hanging around Louisville, he would have been outraged and confused at being blamed for a dead man in Minneapolis.
But nobody ever accused Black Lives Matter of knowing any history beyond the 1619 Project.
In Scotland, a statue of Robert the Bruce was vandalized with the epithets “Racist King”, “BLM”, and “Robert was a racist bring down the statue”. Robert lived in the 13th century. He no doubt was very racist toward the Saxons, but It is unlikely that he had ever met a black person in Medieval Scotland.
Even more randomly, the ‘Waiting’ Statue in Harrisburg of a man reading a newspaper while waiting for a bus was covered in the red paint that the racist and leftist mobs have been using on statues. Apart from being a depiction of a fictional white man, it’s not at all clear what the statue did to deserve that.
Much like Nile Kinnick, the 1939 Heisman Trophy winner, who died in WW2, but was still vandalized.
Even minority statues didn't get a pass.
A memorial to three lynched black men was defaced in Duluth, Minnesota, to the outrage of the NAACP.
Statues of Gandhi were vandalized in New York City, Washington D.C., and London, in Bristol, England, a statue of a Jamaican playwright was covered in bleach, and in El Paso, Texas, a statue of Don Juan de Onate, a Spanish conquistador, was defaced with the message, "Your god is not my god."
The El Paso vandalism was one of a number of defacements that appeared to be motivated by religious bigotry which led to the targeting of primarily Catholic churches and Orthodox Jewish synagogues.
That included at least one statue.
In Wasco, California, St. John the Evangelist church, a mostly Latino congregation, announced on Facebook that, "Sadly somebody destroyed the statue of Sacred Heart last night."
The statue had been beheaded and had its arms chopped off.
The BLM attacks on the statues were not about fighting hate, but spreading it, defacing and defiling the values and memories that people hold dear in order to force them to kneel to its racial supremacism.
In Birmingham, Alabama, the racist thugs didn’t just go after confederate memorials, but the WW1 Doughboy memorial to the Birmingham boys who had gone off to fight in the fields of France and never returned which had been dedicated by the city’s Greek-American community. Another statue commemorating the American soldiers who had fought in the Spanish-American War was also defaced.
A statue honoring Thomas Jefferson was set on fire as the radical mob hooted and held up smartphones, but while a flame burned at the base, the great man appeared to be untouched.
In Missoula, Montana, a statue of a WW1 Doughboy was vandalized. In Pittsburgh, a WW1 memorial was defaced with a hammer and sickle to commemorate the deaths of Communist terrorists. The choice of message strongly suggests that this particular memorial vandalism had been carried out by Antifa.
Griffin's Veteran Memorial Park monuments in Atlanta were vandalized with "BLM" and "People over Property" slogans, and the Colorado Soldiers Monument was defaced in Denver.
Christopher Columbus, the bold explorer who paved the way for the settlement of the New World, was a particular target with statues of the great man vandalized in cities across the United States.
In Houston, a Columbus statue donated by the Federation of Italian-American Organizations of Greater Houston to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America had a hand chopped off, a noose placed around its neck, and the message, "Rip the head from your oppressor" taped to it.
In Miami, statues of Columbus and Ponce De Leon were defaced with "BLM", "George Floyd" and the hammer and sickle. Columbus statues were beheaded in Boston, spray painted in Pittsburgh, thrown into a lake in Richmond, and torn down in St. Paul. Camden and Wilmington, among other Democrat cities, took down statues of the great explorer on their own. Boston is likely to follow suit.
Wilmington also took down a statue of Caesar Rodney, one of the Founding Fathers and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. A statue of General Philip Schuyler, a member of the Continental Congress, the father-in-law of Alexander Hamilton, was removed by Albany's Democrat mayor.
The monument to General Kosciuszko, a Polish national hero who had served as a colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, was vandalized with BLM graffiti in Washington D.C.
The statue of General Casimir Pulaski, who had fought for American independence, was also defaced.
In Boston, a statue of Abigail Adams, the wife of John Adams, was vandalized. Abigail had been a fervent opponent of slavery.
But it’s not just the American heroes of the past whom the un-American radicals and racists hate.
In Dover, Delaware, a memorial to fallen law enforcement officers was viciously vandalized. The statue of an officer kneeling before the list of the names of the fallen was attacked with an axe, and the state flags flying over their names were soaked in urine.
Memorials to fallen police officers were vandalized in Richmond, Virginia Beach, and Fort Worth.
"F__ the Police" was spray-painted on the California Peace Officers’ Memorial in Sacramento.
A memorial to Officer Robert Kozminski in Grand Rapids, Michigan who was killed while responding to a domestic dispute was defaced with the word, "Pig". And in Pittsburgh, a police memorial was defiled. The memorial is commemorated with the poem, "He answered the call, of himself he gave all, and a part of America died."
As every statue falls, is defiled, and disgraced, a part of America dies. When Democrats and even Republicans collude in the desecration and stand aside for the mob, a part of America dies.
The soul of a nation lies with its heroes. The radicals and racists tearing down our statues are out to destroy that soul. They want our heroes to be Karl Marx and Angela Davis, they want terrorists, totalitarians and criminals celebrated, and heroes, explorers, founders, officers and soldiers condemned.
They aren’t just coming for the “controversial” statues as the media likes to tell us.
They are coming for all the statues, for our entire history, for every great man and woman who sacrificed, strove, and struggled to move the course of human history forward by even one inch.
They are coming for America. And they intend to destroy it, one statue and one city after another.
When the history of this period is written, we will learn whether we had any heroes in our time.
Photo: PA Wire
The Four Horsemen Of America’s Apocalypse
The Four Horsemen Of America’s Apocalypse
Roots of evil guaranteed to destroy a civilization.
It takes a lot to build a civilization, and though it is much easier to destroy a civilization, it takes a lot to do that, too.
But now we have four roots of evil that are guaranteed to do so.
No. 1: Victimhood.
The first is victimhood. The more people who regard themselves as victims — as individuals or as a group — the more likely they are to commit evil. People who think of themselves as victims feel that, having been victimized, they are no longer bound by normal moral conventions — especially the moral conventions of their alleged or real oppressors.
Everyone knows this is true. But few confront this truth. Every parent, for example, knows that the child who thinks of him or herself as a perpetual victim is the child most likely to cause and get into trouble. And criminologists report that nearly every murderer in prison thinks of himself as a victim.
On a societal scale, the same holds true — and being on such a larger scale, the chances of real evil ensuing are exponentially increased. One of the most obvious examples is Germany after World War I. Most Germans regarded themselves as victims — of the Treaty of Versailles; of a “stab in the back” German government; of the British, Americans and French; and, of course, of the Jews. This sense of victimhood was one of the most important factors in the popularity of the Nazis, who promised to restore German dignity.
That millions of black Americans regard themselves as victims — probably more so today than at any time in the past 50 years — can only lead to disaster for America generally and for blacks specifically. While victims generally feel free to lash out at others, they also go through life angry and unhappy.
No. 2: Demonization.
The second of the four ingredients of this civilization-destroying witches’ brew is demonization — demonizing a group as inherently evil.
That is being done now with regard to the white people of America. All — again, all — whites are declared racist. The only difference among them is that some admit it and some deny it. The notion that whites are inherently evil has long been associated with Louis Farrakhan. But it has apparently migrated out from his relatively small following to many blacks, even those who might consider Farrakhan a kook. Former President Barack Obama, hardly a Farrakhan follower, described America as having racism in its DNA. That is as close to inherently and irredeemably evil as it gets; you cannot change your DNA.
In that sense, not only are whites demonized, but America is, too. Unlike traditional liberals, the left regards America as a moral cesspool — not only racist but, according to The New York Times, founded to be so. The New York Times has created a history of America that declares its founding not in 1776 but in 1619, when the first black slaves arrived. The American Revolution was fought, according to this malign narrative, not merely for American independence but in order to preserve slavery, a practice the British would have interfered with. This “history” will now be taught in thousands of American schools.
The combination of victimhood and demonization alone is dangerous enough. But there are still two more horsemen galloping toward the looming apocalypse.
No. 3: A Cause To Believe In.
Most Americans throughout American history found great meaning in being American and in being religious — usually Christian. Since World War II, we have lived in a post-Christian, post-nationalist age. Until very recently, Americans would have found the expression “for God and country” deeply meaningful; that term today, on the left, is risible and execrable.
But people need something to believe in. The need for meaning is the greatest human need after the need for food. Leftism, with all its offshoots — feminism, environmentalism, Black Lives Matter, antifa — has filled that vacuum. In Europe, communism, fascism and Nazism filled the hole left by the demise of nationalism and Christianity. Here it is leftism and its offshoots.
No. 4: Lies.
The fourth and most important ingredient necessary for evil is lies. Lies are the root of evil. Ironically, slavery itself was made possible only because of the lie that the black was inferior to the white. Nazism was made possible thanks to the lie that Jews were not fully human. And communism was built on lies. Lenin, the father of Soviet Communism, named the Soviet communist newspaper “Truth” (“Pravda”) because truth was what the Communist Party said it was.
The New York Times, CNN and the rest of the mainstream “news” media are becoming our version of Pravda.
Objective truth doesn’t exist on the left. The universities have already declared “objective truth” as essentially an expression of “white privilege.” See what happens to a student who says in class, for example, that “men cannot give birth.”
The public self-debasement demanded of anyone who differs with the left — like New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees just did when he said not standing for the national anthem desecrated the flag and those who have died for it — happens almost daily. The only difference between this and what dissidents underwent during Mao’s Cultural Revolution is that the self-debasement here is voluntary — thus far.
Last week, when this Jew saw a store in Santa Monica with a sign reading “black-owned business” so as to avoid being destroyed, it evoked chilling memories.
That’s how bad it is in America today.
The Left’s Premature Revolution
There an evergreen adage in the world of business, politics and entertainment: “Timing is Everything.” It’s a truism that is lost on the now fully radicalized American left and their militant cohorts in their mad dash to exploit the tragic death of George Floyd.
During the Obama presidency, the death of Michael Brown and the subsequent acquittal of Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, as well as the death of Freddie Gray in police custody in Baltimore, engendered riots, looting and violence in those cities. These events demonstrated to the left that the Marxian tactic of exploiting class animosity to foment revolution, which has not succeeded in an essentially egalitarian United States, should be replaced by the fomenting of racial animosity and the exploitation of egregious law enforcement events, which could be the catalyst to launch the fundamental transformation of the nation. These occurrences can trigger, not just local, but national upheaval that can be used to browbeat the citizenry. Particularly as their militant wing greatly expanded with the creation of the organization, Black Lives Matter, after the Ferguson riots.
Taking a page from many 20th Century despots, Black Lives Matter utilized the facade of branding their militant Marxist entity with a sentiment few would take issue with, as black lives do matter. Hence, they were able to intimidate major corporations into making massive financial contributions and engendering positive media coverage while advocating Marxist ideology and Fascist tactics alongside their fellow travelers in Antifa.
Thus, with the growth of the overall movement, their manipulation of an acquiescent Democrat party and the mainstream media as well as unabashedly exploiting the substantial plurality of liberal white elites in the thrall of “White Guilt” and gullibly believing the country is systemically racist, the radicalized American left was perhaps within a few years of being in the position of effectively exercising unchallenged and overwhelming coercion and extortion in order to fundamentally transform America.
The key to triggering this transformation was to be a spark in the form of another white police killing of an unarmed black man and the unleashing of the dogs of violence and intimidation throughout the country, culminating in the subsequent acquiescing by the ruling class to virtually all demands of the radical left in order to ensure peace. But the tragedy that befell George Floyd came too soon, as the timing and circumstances were not yet in place for this master plan to succeed.
1. Over the previous three months the nation has been racked with the economic and societal fallout of a lockdown indiscriminately and oftentimes incoherently enforced by various Democrat, thus left-wing, governors and mayors. All sectors of the citizenry have been adversely affected, but those living in red states have been extraordinarily victimized. Thus, an ever-growing percentage of the populace is being made aware of not only the mindset of left-wing politicians but the true-life consequences of their guiding philosophy. After experiencing the devastating economic and societal costs of the lockdown, the bulk of the citizenry is not reacting well to the demands of the left and their militant army as they fan the flames of destruction and beat the drum of obligatory Marxist based fundamental transformation as the only means of curing so-called systemic racism.
2. Prior to the Wuhan Virus pandemic, the nation, under the leadership of Donald Trump, was recording unprecedented economic growth and more importantly minorities, in particular African Americans, were experiencing the lowest unemployment rates ever documented. This same African American citizenry has been polled showing President Trump with unprecedented high approval ratings for a Republican president. Not coincidentally, minority small business formation was also setting historical records. Yet, it is these businesses that are being looted and firebombed in the riots fomented by Black Lives Matter and Antifa as resentment and anger builds within the Black community towards these instigators and their grand scheme.
3. The nation has been subjected to over three years of government abuse and illegalities in the Establishment’s unceasing efforts to destroy, impeach and/or derail Donald Trump. Almost every day another revelation exposing the corruption of the so-called deep state is exposed in what is without a doubt the most egregious political scandal in the nation’s history. Consequently, an ever-growing percentage of the population is becoming more aware of the pitfalls of the all-powerful central government which the left demands.
4. Revealing an inability to control themselves, the radical left is overtly demanding the de facto elimination of police and law enforcement. This is an issue that has virtually no support among the populace as in a recent poll 72% of likely voters (including 51% of Blacks) have a favorable view of their local police. Further, those who would live in the chaos that would ensue in a community with no police are extraordinarily aware of the consequences.
5. The majority of Americans believe this is an exceptional country and not systemically or irredeemably racist. If it were, then the overwhelming success of the civil rights movement in the 1960’s and 70’s that succeeded in abolishing ALL institutional racism (the institutionalization of racial discrimination and segregation by means of laws, regulations and customs) that I witnessed and participated in would never have happened, much less have happened in less than 20 years, an astoundingly short period of time in the annals for a social transformation of any nation on earth. The tactic of relying solely on racial animosity to foment a revolution is increasingly falling on deaf ears as the reality of every-day lives of all Americans reveal more racial harmony than ever. Additionally, President Trump’s policies and overtures to a previously politically monolithic African American community has reinforced this reality.
In their mad dash to exploit the tragic death of George Floyd, the left and their militant cohorts ignored the advice of their forefathers, Marx and Lenin, who admonished that revolutions take time and patience. Perhaps if they had waited until Donald Trump was no longer in office, there was no recent pandemic lockdown and the occupant of the White House was virtually any Democrat or the typical Republican composite of John McCain, Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski, the radical left would have been far more successful in wringing out dramatic concessions that would move the country markedly left. But, thanks to their lack of patience, the American people now know who these people are and what they stand for which is prompting a brewing albeit silent backlash.
Writing in The Epoch Times Roger L. Simon posited the following:
A new silent majority is about to emerge, one far more sophisticated than the old Nixonian version and more sophisticated, too, than BLM/Antifa follow travelers in the Democratic Party and media.
It is almost a certainty that the left, BLM and Antifa will continue their “protests” as long as the media favorably covers them, but the damage to their movement is and continues to be irreparable. Thanks to not understanding that timing is everything.
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