These past several months we
have seen protests emanating from various urban communities about the perceived
inequities of policing. In the
vernacular of twitter this is summed up in #Blacklivesmatter. In fact, the organizers of this movement take
great umbrage if that hash tag is altered to #Alllivesmatter for they claim in
undermines their position. If you
consider this in the broader context the hypocrisy of this position is truly a
sad statement about the lack of consistency in the movement that claims to
fight for black lives.
If I understand the political ideology of the movement’s advocates correctly, I come away with the belief they are
principally urban, liberal, social progressives arguing against the police who
are portrayed as wolves within a society of innocents. I won’t debate the values or the dangers of
the police forces we have organized, trained and equipped, but I would like to
focus on the moral inconsistency of the theory that #Blacklivesmatter to the
urban, liberal and social progressive movement in America today.
Let’s start with the smallest
and most defenseless of #Blacklives.
Since 1973 approximately 13,000,000 African-American embryos/fetus/viable
infants have been aborted. African American
woman are roughly 13% of the American female population but account for about
36% of the abortions. In that same
period of time approximately 4.8 million African Americans died from other
causes including disease, accidents and violent crime.[1]
It is the urban, liberal, social progressives who argue so passionately for a
woman’s right to terminate her infants life -- so how much do #Blacklivesmatter
really?
If we foster a culture where
the lives of the most defenseless count for so little why are we surprised when
within that African American community the lives of the children and young
people are equally cheap? It appears
violence against children is slowing down, but finding a study from 2001 we had
a rate of 2.6/100,000 -- substantially higher than that of any other developed
country. The report noted “Rates
are substantially higher for African American juveniles.”[2]
In 2005 the Bureau of
Justice Statistics noted that African Americans accounted for nearly half of
all homicide victims and the majority of those murders were intraracial.[3] So again, what is the cause and effect? Is it based purely on poverty, social
density, and interpersonal friction, or have we pushed African Americans into a
culture where we encourage violence through the advocacy of choice?
If you wanted to find
a way to enslave a population and ensure they could never escape from that
enslavement what better way than to create policies where they will make
choices that lead to their own destruction.
It seems, in looking at the reality of our society, the vanguard of the
liberal-progressive movements have found a way accomplish that very thing. Under the guise of benevolent benefactors
they keep 15% of the population indebted to the government for their survival,
encourage them to limit their population through state sanctioned violence,
discourage the concepts of initiative and personal responsibility that would
lead to self-reliance, and then periodically inflame their passion against some
visible opponent. It strikes me
this is not so much different than what the Emperors did in Rome with the
Coliseum.
It is unfortunate that those
who do rise out of this enslavement to positions of authority are so
indoctrinated they become overseers themselves, seeking all the rewards of
those whose bidding they’ve done, while encouraging the continuation of
policies to ensure the masters remain in control.
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