Black Lives Do Matter, Just Not To Democrat Politicians: 7 Part Series
This 7-part series demonstrates that although the Democrat party claims to care about Blacks and other minorities, their claims are far removed from the truth.
Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
This 7-part series demonstrates that although the Democrat party claims to care about Blacks and other minorities, their claims are far removed from the truth.
Do Black lives matter to the justice system? Disparate sentencing results between White and Black suspects might indicate otherwise.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley was appointed by former President Donald Trump in 2019 and remains in office under President Joe Biden. In a recently published excerpt from her forthcoming book, “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021,” New Yorker writer Susan Glasser recounts Milley’s service during the Trump …
Last Monday, Jayland Walker, 25, an unarmed black man, was fatally shot by Akron, Ohio, police officers during a vehicle and foot pursuit. After a medical examiner determined that Walker had sustained at least 60 bullet wounds, he became the latest “victim” of police brutality and protests quickly erupted. The shooting occurred after officers attempted …
Confucius was a pretty smart guy. His comment on revenge is spot on. We see it playing out now with the social justice movement. For many in Black Lives Matter (BLM) and other social justice organizations, the social justice movement is perhaps more about revenge than it is about justice.
Part 8 looks at the charge in the Hippocratic Oath, “first, do no harm”.
1619 seeks to re-write American history to show slavery is at the root of every institution in the US. CRT aims to show this as well as with the concepts of institutional racism, white supremacy, white privilege, and white fragility. Part 4 of the Maskirovka series covers these issues. The question is whether the Social Justice Warriors (SJW) employ these concepts to excise a cancer or to kill the current social structures and institutions. If they argue racism is permanently rooted in every social structure and institution in America, then they argue for a wholesale restructuring of American society and new institutions that are not tainted with slavery and racism.
This path does harm on several dimensions. Harm that may be far worse than the disease. There are many sites that provide arguments against CRT and 1619, so I will focus on the harm they cause, regardless of any merit they may possess.
Social Justice movements do not try to re-construct American history because they do not like it. They do it to break the historical path dependency and set a new future based on their ideology. The questions are:
Do they have the power to completely break the path?
Will other forces counter-act them?
The Huffington Post published an op-ed by Miriam Zintner, a black woman who “presents white.” Zintner explained that she’d been outside gardening recently when a neighbor walked by her home with his two dogs. She took a break “to give the dogs a really good scratching around their ears” when her neighbor asked: “Why do you …