Almost all of the people killed by police and embraced by Black Lives Matter have been criminals. They did not deserve to be killed by police without a trial, but they were the dregs of society. Most were convicted or accused criminals, high on drugs, who had beaten their wives and abused their children. They resisted arrest when the police tried to arrest them, which causes the police to react physically whether the person resisting is white or black. Many of them had significant mental problems.
Black Lives Matter needs to find some exemplary black people
to embrace, rather than painting criminals like George Floyd on buildings. George Floyd did not deserved to be killed,
but he should not be held up as a model for black children. He was an awful man. Blacks need better role models, starting with
Barak Obama, and people like Colin Powell, George Washington Carver, Thurgood
Marshall, Booker T. Washington, or Oprah Winfrey. None of the current heroes of
the Black Lives Matter movement are in the league of those people.
In general, Black Lives Matter reviles their ancestors
rather than honoring them. The New York
Times today has an article about an Omaha diner being closed down because it
called its biscuit and gravy breakfast “the Robert e. Lee.” This ignores that fact that if he had them,
Robert E. Lee’s biscuits and gravy were prepared by a black cook, cooking food
that black people liked. Southern
cooking is largely black cooking, and it has a significant African influence in
its ingredients and preparation. So,
should blacks be upset that Robert E. Lee liked food cooked by blacks? Slaves
built the White House and Capitol; is that reason to tear them down or another
reason to respect them. They are still
standing; why do blacks disparage their slave ancestors who built them.
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