The times, they are a changin'....
...with apologies to Bob Dylan.
I've seen a lot of protests, in the four decades I've been alive. The Rodney King riots were the first ones to stick in my mind.
Since then I've seen them come and go. And most had their day, and maybe some good came of them, here and there, but for the most part nothing really much changed. The big picture remained the same.
This feels different.
This one... this one has potential. Has SERIOUS potential.
It helps that the cause is righteous and unambiguous. Bad cops and white supremacists are murdering black people, and they are escaping just punishment for their crimes.
This needs to stop.
It IS that simple. There are no shades of gray.
Society wants this to stop.
Black lives do matter.
Because if they don't, then no lives matter.
And it is a horrible fate, to not matter to anyone. I wouldn't wish that on my enemies.
Well.
That's my take on it. You are free to believe as you like. I don't preach, I'm no good at it, and I don't have any special wisdom that you couldn't get off a Saturday morning cartoon with a very special message.
But just... eh, if you want my Saturday-morning wisdom, then I'd recommend you look at the big picture.
And feel the energy of it. Things are gonna change.
History's going to remember this.
It might do well for people who get involved to make sure they end up on the right side of it.
Peace, out.
I've seen a lot of protests, in the four decades I've been alive. The Rodney King riots were the first ones to stick in my mind.
Since then I've seen them come and go. And most had their day, and maybe some good came of them, here and there, but for the most part nothing really much changed. The big picture remained the same.
This feels different.
This one... this one has potential. Has SERIOUS potential.
It helps that the cause is righteous and unambiguous. Bad cops and white supremacists are murdering black people, and they are escaping just punishment for their crimes.
This needs to stop.
It IS that simple. There are no shades of gray.
Society wants this to stop.
Black lives do matter.
Because if they don't, then no lives matter.
And it is a horrible fate, to not matter to anyone. I wouldn't wish that on my enemies.
Well.
That's my take on it. You are free to believe as you like. I don't preach, I'm no good at it, and I don't have any special wisdom that you couldn't get off a Saturday morning cartoon with a very special message.
But just... eh, if you want my Saturday-morning wisdom, then I'd recommend you look at the big picture.
And feel the energy of it. Things are gonna change.
History's going to remember this.
It might do well for people who get involved to make sure they end up on the right side of it.
Peace, out.
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In the midst of these "peaceful protests," millions of dollars in property damage have been done. Businesses lay looted and burned, people lay dead. "Protesters" conquer an area in a city, their guards unloading entire magazines of into an SUV with two black kids in it. A "protestor" runs up and shoots someone in a car driving nearby a protest. A woman is gunned down for saying "all lives matter," leaving behind a three year-old son.
Meanwhile, the media spins anything that happens. The rioters can do anything they want, so long as it is done in the name of "black lives matter." A 16 year-old gunned down in an SUV, just another shooting. Person shot in their car by a "protestor," white supremacist tried to ram a peaceful protest. A white women gunned down for saying an opposing phrase, just another casualty in the rising crime numbers. A man ambushed police officers, gunning them down in the street. Yet the media tells us not about BLM protests against police causing a madman to go on a rampage. They say this is the work of a white supremacist.
Our politicians are starting to repeal anti-segregation laws. Social media companies cull their sites of ANY dissenting opinions. Moderates, conservatives, and libertarians are not welcome in these places. Progressives and the alt-left are the only ones who are welcome. No conversation can happen, there is no free speech.
Where will this end? When all the statues are torn down? When our history is rewritten? When the constitution is burned? When whites are second class citizens? The way forward was with small adjustments to make sure our culture lines up with our laws. Granted some of the laws need to be changed. Instead the protestors and rioters want to burn everything down. From the ashes of the old world, they hope for a better world. Never realizing how good they have it compared to other countries.
Look at the wider picture. This will not end with a more equal country. The best case scenario is that whites become the new marginalized race. The worst case scenario is that big brother celebrates the establishment of the party, and the deaths of all of the oppressors and race traitors.
I shudder to think of the days when the current thought police are given the authority to decide who lives and who dies.
A great man once said:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, that one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers."
I hope, that one day, this will be true.