Black Lives Matter is a racist hate group. The media works almost as hard to cover up the fact as BLM's stars work to broadcast it.
A radical anti-police activist was charged Monday with the attempted murder of Louisville, Ky., mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg. The activist, Quintez Brown, was apprehended shortly after he allegedly entered Greenberg's campaign headquarters and fired multiple shots with a handgun.
Brown, 21, pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and four counts of wanton endangerment. No one was injured during the attack, but a bullet reportedly grazed the back of Greenberg's sweater. The mayoral candidate, a Democrat, said the suspect walked into his office where he and four other staffers were meeting Monday morning. "When we greeted him, he pulled out a gun, aimed directly at me, and began shooting," Greenberg told reporters. "The individual closest to the door managed to bravely get the door closed, which we barricaded and the shooter fled the scene."
Police said Greenberg, who is Jewish, appeared to have been targeted in the shooting. Authorities did not identify a motive for the crime and said they believe Brown acted alone. The alleged attack occurred two months after Brown announced his candidacy for Louisville Metro Council. Among his stated policy goals were "freedom, reparations," and "full employment."
Brown had been a student at the University of Louisville, where he was an MLK scholar studying philosophy and Pan-Africanism , a controversial ideological movement whose advocates include Malcolm X, Robert Mugabe, and Muammar Gaddafi. His social media bios called for "the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism."
Brown also served as opinion editor for the student newspaper, the Cardinal , and was a former intern and biweekly columnist for the Louisville Courier Journal , where he wrote extensively about how law enforcement and other "institutions in society work together to maintain the status quo of the spectacular Black death."
An active participant in the so-called racial justice protests of 2020, Brown's journalistic output and social media posts reflect a radicalized individual who was skeptical of representative democracy and believed Marxist revolution was the most viable path to achieving racial justice.
Days before the alleged attack, Brown urged his followers to join the Lion of Judah Armed Forces, a black supremacist militia whose ideas are aligned with those of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement. Adherents of the latter group were charged in the 2019 murders of four Jewish people at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, N.J., which authorities described as a "targeted attack."
Years earlier, Brown was embraced by mainstream journalists and Democratic Party leaders. He appeared alongside Joy Reid during an MSNBC panel in 2018, in which he called for "common-sense gun reform." He posed for photos with Rev. Al Sharpton, a notorious anti-Semite . The Obama Foundation recognized him as a "rising face" as part of the former president's "My Brother's Keeper" program, and he was one of 22 students selected to attend the inaugural MBK Rising! Summit in 2019.
A local bail fund linked to Black Lives Matter Louisville plans to post bond for Quintez Brown, the anti-police activist charged with the attempted murder of mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg.
On Monday, police charged Brown with attempted murder and four counts of wanton endangerment after he allegedly entered Greenberg's campaign office, pulled a gun, and began shooting. A district judge set Brown's bond at $100,000, which the Louisville Community Bail Fund plans to post . The group was cofounded by Black Lives Matter Louisville organizer Chanelle Helm and has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars freeing heinous criminals arrested for murder, rape, domestic violence, and other violent crimes.
According to police, Greenberg, who is Jewish, appears to have been targeted in the shooting. The mayoral hopeful's positions on public safety and policing are at odds with Brown. Greenberg, a Democrat, has centered his campaign around a plan to root out violent crime—which he called the "city's biggest challenge"—by hiring more police officers. Brown, meanwhile, wrote columns for the Louisville Courier Journal that accused law enforcement and other "institutions in society" of "work[ing] together to maintain the status quo of the spectacular Black death."
A Louisville Community Bail Fund member submitted the $100,000 cashier's check to release Brown late Wednesday afternoon, WHAS political reporter Rachel Droze revealed. The group's representative sported a "Free Angela" T-shirt in a reference to Angela Davis, the former Communist Party USA leader and avowed Marxist whose guns were used in a California terrorist attack carried out by the Black Panthers that killed four people.
In addition to posting Brown's bond, the Louisville Community Bail Fund group said it will provide "mental health resources" for the activist upon his release from prison. Brown's allies have called it "disgusting" and "irresponsible" to associate the activist's "connection to Black Lives Matter" with the shooting.
Mainstream journalists and Democratic Party leaders have long embraced Brown . He appeared on a 2018 MSNBC panel with Joy Reid to call for "common-sense gun reform" and participated in the Obama Foundation's "My Brother's Keeper" program, which recognized him as a "rising face."
Nonprofit groups like the Louisville Community Bail Fund have raised millions of dollars in donations since George Floyd's death in 2020. The significant financial windfall comes thanks in part to top Democratic officials. Vice President Kamala Harris, for example, urged her followers in June 2020 to donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund—in September, the group freed an alleged domestic abuser who was arrested for murder just weeks later.
The Louisville Community Bail Fund has also faced criticism over whom it agrees to bail out. In November 2020, the group posted $30,000 to release Andre Clayton, charged in a double shooting, who went on to break his bail terms by posting images on social media with drugs, cash, and guns. The Louisville Community Bail Fund admitted that it did not talk to Clayton or his attorney prior to posting his bond nor did it check his criminal history.
Kentucky Republicans last month introduced a bill that would make charitable bail illegal in the state.
Black Lives Matter is racist against blacks
By Paul Heinz
I've seen an argument on right-leaning sites pointing out that BLM is racist against white people. While BLM is certainly guilty of that, the movement is actually racist in the old-fashioned, Ku Klux Klan way, as mentored through a century of life by Old Mr. Jim Crow himself. It's racist, in other words, not so much to white people, but to the black people it claims to champion.
It takes as a first position a concept of the African-American male as without agency. He is without impulse control, without self-restraint, with tendencies toward violence, rape, murder, and inability to conceive of consequences. No old seg could have phrased it better.
That being the case, it implies that the police must be prepared to accept such behavior as the norm. Thus, when confronted by a clearly under-the-influence perpetrator like George Floyd, it is incumbent on them not to confront and restrain as part of the process, but to give him room and time to act out. He can't help himself; they can.
In their ideal world, the police officers withdraw across the street and observe as Floyd rants and raves and carries on while zephyrs of fentanyl drive him into deep tantrum at the unfairness of it all. Eventually, he will tire himself out, come down, begin to recover his self-awareness. At that point, a non-white officer should approach him, request his acquiescence on the legal issue, and escort him peacefully and uncuffed to the station.
That should make everyone happy, except those whose police calls went unanswered while the blues were handling Floyd with BLM-Rx TLC, and all the victims of all the young men who see the cops acting like both nannies and ninnies and decide, there being no downside, that crime is a good career move.
But what's truly radical isn't its implicit racism, vile as that might be. Rather, it signifies a demand to change the perdurable model of American social assistance. We've seen this model before — too often. Perhaps it worked in the late 1940s, where under our severe influence, both Japan and Germany rebuilt themselves in our image, to our specifications, and became prosperous, democratic, and timid. But both had in place systems of social discipline, mutual respect, and solid hierarchy that gave us a foundation upon which to build.
That has not been the case in 70 years, as failures in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and the Middle East have shown. They — communists, radical Islamists, whatever — didn't want to become like us — educated, largely middle-class, democratic, high-trust — but to stay as they were. They wanted to stay who they were.
Such a direction seems also the goal sought by BLM. They don't want to assimilate into society; they want society to assimilate to the ghetto. They proudly demand the right to enjoy the stereotype. They don't want to be saved; they want to be celebrated as is, au naturel . They want to be untethered from judgment, enforcement, and consequence.
The new norm has to include the right and the space and the time for black males to act out. It has to include fatherless families, social incoherence, gang influence, tendencies to violence. A tolerance must be built, seems to be their secret message, to accept all such features, to define deviance away. Welcome to one possible future.
Image : Johnny Silvercloud via Flickr (cropped).
Six Weeks, Six Cities, 600 Murders Kevin McCullough
The single most important domestic issue of our time is not the rising number of new people testing positive for COVID-19. Deaths have hit all-time lows.
The single most important domestic issue of our time is not even the continued economic hardship of a nation that was artificially shut down and sent spiraling into a faux recession. Millions of jobs have been added over the past 60 days and the skyrocketing unemployment has turned around to nearly where it was percent wise in most of the Obama early years (11.1 vs 9.9.)
Nope!
The single most important issue, affecting some of the largest swaths of populations in America, is the scandal the media ignores even as it explodes in our faces.
In only six weeks, city after city operated by entrenched Democrats have seen a massive expansion in lawlessness, violence, and murder. Stunningly, many news outlets seem gobsmacked and mystified at how or why such an explosion of lawlessness has occurred.
For the sake of brevity, let’s sample six of the nation’s largest cities, including all of the top three.
New York:
The Democratic mayor has long been understood as anti-police. His wife recently imagined the city as “Nirvana” if the NYPD were eliminated altogether.
Thus far in 2020, homicides are up 21 percent. Shootings are up by 46 percent. The Democratic mayor’s agenda included emptying the prison known as Rikers Island, bail reform letting perps walk before the paperwork is completed, and the effort to #DefundPolice that took 600 anti-crime units out of commission.
Los Angeles:
June saw disturbing trends. An increase in the month’s first week by 250 percent of homicides, and a 56 percent increase in shootings. Following the death of George Floyd in May the LAPD received a $150 million cut.
Chicago:
Year-to-date shootings have eclipsed 1,508 for 2020, putting them 350 ahead of 2019. To date homicides sit at 254, placing them ahead of 2019. Important to note that the Cook County board voted in favor of defunding police. Eleven city alderman raced to the fore to demand that not a single penny of $333 million in federal dollars not go to police, and various proposals are being considered to cut current funding by more than $30 million in current spending.
Washington, D.C.
Year-to-date homicide numbers are 13 percent higher than this time a year ago. Nevertheless, the District PD is slated to be defunded by more than $15 million.
Philadelphia:
Shootings are up 67 percent. Victims of armed violence are up 29 percent. Homicides are up 25 percent. So of course it makes sense to defund the Philadelphia PD by $19 million.
Baltimore:
As consistently one of the most dangerous cities in America with a five-year streak of more than 300 murders, last year Baltimore set a new record at 348 homicides. Yet in 2020 they outpace last year’s record and will see defunding to the effect of $22 million.
As I said there are many more that I could highlight for you.
So why did all of these cities take such violent turns? Is it because their leadership capitulated to the anger of the mobs as opposed to thinking clearly and strategically about an effective response?
Or do these Democrat-run towns literally operate with denial in good and evil?
How else can you explain that in the city of Minneapolis (where a nation watched in horror and subsequently responded to the murder of an innocent man) that within 30 days they would record 1,600 shots fired? But then respond by voting to dismantle its police operations all together?
The single most important threat to our nation at this moment are Democrats who are voting in favor of eliminating law enforcement and who are by extension responsible for the greater and greater increase in the loss of life.
They are allowing Marxists and Anarchists to create complete chaos and disorder. They also seem utterly unconcerned about any lives mattering, black or white.
They appear to be holding on to an idea that they are not impacted by the scum and villainy at play under their jurisdiction.
They even perhaps believe that this is all worth it, if it will allow them to have electoral success in the fall.
If so, they need to brace themselves for three basic truths.
It’s time they learn the truth
It’s time they be held accountable.
VIDEO: Woman Mugged by Knife-Wielding Suspect in NYC Subway
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A woman was mugged by a person wielding a knife as she waited for a train inside an Upper Manhattan subway station, law enforcement said Monday.
The incident took place at approximately 6:00 p.m. on Thursday at the West 163rd Street location in Washington Heights. The suspect flashed a knife and tried to snatch the woman’s phone, according to police, the New York Post reported .
Following a struggle, the alleged mugger fled the scene with her purse and it was eventually found empty, authorities noted.
“An unknown amount of money was taken, police said. The woman was uninjured,” the Post report added.
Surveillance footage of the incident showed the suspect, wearing a black coat and white shoes, run off with the maroon colored bag and push his way through a turnstile.
In January, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) and New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) announced an increase in police officer presence in the subways as crime wrecked the city.
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However, during a recent interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe , Adams said morale among officers was low and “it’s challenging to have someone commit a crime repeatedly, and you see them out on the next day, carry a gun, then they’re out the next day. That impacts your morale.”
A large number of arrest criminal suspects freed from jail due to New York’s “bail reform” law that wiped out bail for numerous crimes, were eventually rearrested over additional criminal charges, according to state records, Breitbart News reported.
Adams has urged the state’s lawmakers and Gov. Hochul to change the law “so that criminal court judges have more discretion over setting bail for suspects that they believe will go on to commit more crimes,” the outlet said.
However, state Democrats and Hochul have turned a blind eye to Adams’ request, according to the report.
Hendry and Laseski are not alone in their sentiments. Another alum expressed his concerns more starkly: “So, after 6 burglaries, 3 car thefts, multiple illegal trespasses, an ongoing cocaine and alcohol addiction, committing 2 violent home invasions, 3 armed robberies, dealing Fentanyl and Meth, passing counterfeit money, beating 4 victims senseless and being arrested 23 times since 1998, they wish to honor him?,” queried another friend who heard the news about the George Floyd scholarship. “This is now the standard of an honorable person? A roll model? Are these the qualities the recipient will be required to have?”
University of Minnesota Alums Protest Scholarship in George Floyd’s Honor “He was not a hero, but a drug addict and criminal.”
Tue Feb 8, 2022 To mark the one-year anniversary of his death, the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota announced that they are endowing a new scholarship to honor George Perry Floyd Jr.—the drug addict and criminal who became famous through his death at the hands of police officer Derek Chauvin.
“This is an important step for our community,” said Carlson School Dean Sri Zaheer, who added that the scholarship “will enhance the diversity of the student body and has a preference for black and African-American students as well as those who have financial need or are victims of police violence, for as long as they are underrepresented at the Carlson school.”
Dean Zaheer noted that at George Floyd’s memorial service, “Universities nationwide were called upon to create scholarships in his honor to help create a more just and equitable world,” and called Carlson’s scholarship a “clear message” of their intentions to promote racial justice. But does George Floyd—repeat criminal, drug addict, and unwitting martyr for a movement—deserve the immense honor of a scholarship in his name?
Bruce Hendry, a prominent alumnus of the University of Minnesota, is one of many who object to the honor their alma mater has bestowed on Floyd. Hendry has devoted significant time and resources to the betterment of the University, both serving on the Carlson Board of Overseers for 10 years and joining the university’s “Century Club” which consists of those who gave more than $100,000 to the University more than twenty-five years ago.
Hendry wrote to Dean Zaheer and University of Minnesota President Joan Gabel to express his concerns about the George Floyd scholarship. “I want to add my name to what must be a chorus of protest for establishing a scholarship for a despicable person like George Floyd. He was not a hero, but a drug addict and criminal,” Hendry wrote. “The University in general has gotten off tract to their mission and it saddens me greatly.”
When Dean Zaheer responded that the scholarship was funded by private donations, Hendry found that a poor excuse. “If I were to ask you to establish a scholarship to honor the Ku Klux Klan for deserving students, all with private money, would you do it?,” he queried. “The George Floyd scholarship may be funded by private money, but it is a black mark on the Carlson School and the University of Minnesota and will remain a black mark as long as you support it. My guess is that if you continue embracing the scholarship, it will eventually cost CSOM millions of dollars in withheld donations to the school.”
“My advice to you is to send back the money to the donors, or at least change the name of the scholarship to something less offensive,” he concluded.
Another alumnus, Wes Laseski, also wrote to express his objections to naming the scholarship for Floyd. “While I support diversity and inclusion for all,” he wrote, “I do not believe that Carlson establishing a George Floyd scholarship is the best way to accomplish this objective. What about establishing scholarships recognizing great Americans or great student accomplishments in the name of bringing our country together” Let's build around positives rather than negatives.”
Laseski went on to note that George Floyd’s personal history should make him starkly ineligible for the namesake of a scholarship: “Combining his terrible personal history, including imprisonment, drug abuse, and physical assault with the absence of any commitment such as fatherhood, makes me question how Carlson can establish a scholarship in his honor.”
“The message that Carlson should convey to incoming students is that America is great and with an education you can improve your lives while making our country even greater,” Laseski concluded. “The establishment of the George Floyd scholarship does not convey this message.” Hendry and Laseski are not alone in their sentiments. Another alum expressed his concerns more starkly: “So, after 6 burglaries, 3 car thefts, multiple illegal trespasses, an ongoing cocaine and alcohol addiction, committing 2 violent home invasions, 3 armed robberies, dealing Fentanyl and Meth, passing counterfeit money, beating 4 victims senseless and being arrested 23 times since 1998, they wish to honor him?,” queried another friend who heard the news about the George Floyd scholarship. “This is now the standard of an honorable person? A roll model? Are these the qualities the recipient will be required to have?”
George Floyd’s death was a travesty and Officer Derek Chauvin has paid the price. But honoring Floyd—the unwitting and clearly undeserving martyr for a movement—taints the ideals espoused by the University of Minnesota and other institutions of higher education. Scholarships should be named for individuals or institutions who embody the highest ethical and moral standards. George Floyd is not among them.
Tony school in D.C. forces 5 year-olds to parade around chanting 'Black Lives Matter' for the cameras
What is it about radical leftists and getting their hands on people's kids?
Libs of Tik Tok (Hat tip: Daily Wire and We Love Trump ) found this one , posted on the ritzy Lowell School's site, showing very small schoolchildren, all around age 5, marching in their masks, with signs chanting "Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter..." I suppose we're supposed to say 'aww, aren't they cute,' but the normal response is: Who is forcing them to do that against their will?
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A school in DC forced kindergarteners to march around with BLM signs and chant “Black Lives Matter” <a href="https://t.co/wGiuBY13Yg">pic.twitter.com/wGiuBY13Yg</a></p>— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1489709114489925632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I remember singing 'ring around the rosies' at that particular age.
What's more, as a five-year-old in the '60s, I remember seeing Black Panther and Symbionese Liberation Army violence, riots, and gun-waving parade-arounds, Charles Manson and his leftist fangirls , and hippies spitting at troops in airports, on the television set as a kid. I recall viewing those things as vile, hateful, threatening, something never to get involved with. More to the point, it would have been unthinkable to force any five-year-old at that time to go around chanting for those causes as they are for today's similar ones. It simply would not have been done.
But here we are today, with near-toddlers being forced to march and parade around for the cameras chanting for an organization that is characterized by its cause and effects-- violence, burning cities, dead police officers, police defunding, zero response to 9/11 calls and big death spikes in the black community based on unchecked violent crime, corporate kowtowing to the crocodile, and humongous piles of money engulfed in colossal corruption.
Sound like a cause anyone should force a five-year-old to chant for? Not to normal people.
The radicals at the cossetted tony, $40,000 a year school, so insulated from normal people, think otherwise - here's some dreck the Daily Wire located from their website.
We firmly believe that we cannot expect children to engage in fluent conversations around identity, equity, and inclusion if these topics are, in any way, “off limits” for young children. Instead, we believe that if we normalize difference and teach children how to share and appreciate difference, the groundwork for equity and inclusion conversations will be that much more firmly laid. …
Part of helping children develop a strong sense of self includes showing them that they each have a voice and they can use that voice in service of a cause they are passionate about. This lays the groundwork for teachers to begin addressing issues of “fairness” and ways that children can make a difference in the world. …
How is this 'education'? Are these children learning to read and write? This is the kind of garbage that goes on in the Cuban Castro regime, every word delivered in education a word of propaganda for the vile and detested regime. Children are pawns in this scheme, deprived of real education in favor of fist-waving, with the idea that they stay radical activists for life.
Why are they such targets now? Because leftists know they can't persuade the larger public anymore. Only innocent little children who know nothing of politics have become a palimpsest upon which to engrave their hostile, hateful, useless, ideas. Black Lives Matter has fallen into total discredit with the public, according to polls .
It's sad because it's not just this ritzy school that is trying to turn five-year-olds into angry, radical leftists. Bari Weiss has investigated wokesterism in all kinds of tony, elite private schools around the country, getting her information from anonymous parents who are afraid of being bullied, blacklisted, doxxed or labeled, and who also fear that leftists will take their hate out on their children. She's written about that here .
There is little parents can do, other than pull their kids from the ritzy private schools and lose the old boy's network that such institutions offer. Most won't do it, and those who object might write it off as acceptable since everyone thinks black and all lives matter. On the surface, it might be O.K.
But kids grow up. Some may stay radical as their indoctrination and warm memories of naps and milk and cookies stays with them. But others will discern the gaslighting about critical race theory, which tells white kids who never did anything racist that they are oppressors, and black kids that despite that $40,000 their parents laid down for that fancy education, that they are victims. What happens when such kids get older and learn the actual history of Black Lives Matter, either through the ruinous effects of its 'defund the police' advocacy, or its corrupt money dealings? It's a recipe for cynicism.
The bottom line here is that children do not have choices in this matter and shouldn't be forced to participate in activism for any cause, really. Would leftists like it if their kids were forced to march against abortion at some other tony private school? Kids should be should be learning to read and write and do math and sing children's songs together as normal children do.
The fact that this particular cause is highly discredited at this point as Democrats scramble to 'refund' the police, and in disfavor by the majority of the American people makes the whole thing even worse.
These people are indoctrinators, and they've got America's elite kids under their thumb, so they're going to force-feed them leftwingery of a very destructive type. What a sorry specter this is. It's time to defund these destructive establishments, both federally and through parents. Education shouldn't be this bad. This is not Cuba.
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