I’m willing to give the NFL players a little bit of slack on these National Anthem protests. Think back to your 20s – how well educated on current events were you beyond the headlines? And their career path is a lot different than most of ours – if you want to stay employed at the professional level you’ve got to truly apply yourself and immerse yourself at the craft. I’m hoping that doesn’t come off like I’m applying the term “dumb jock” or using it as an excuse for bad behavior, and I’m only giving that as some justification when this first started. If you’re a player still taking part in this stupidity, it’s time to get the facts straight on the issue you’re claiming to champion. But I’m willing to indulge, so let’s look at some important elements of what this “National Discussion on Race” these protests are supposed to initiate.
Black Americans have some very real grievances with how they have been treated based on their race, so let’s start addressing them by looking at a few recent examples. First, let’s look at education. We all know that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is a racist, because every Leftist tells us that he is. But forget the alleged heresy from decades ago, how about Sessions’ recent efforts to deny black children their right to an education? Yes, you read that right, our nation’s Attorney General sought to block minority children from leaving failing schools in the name of… diversity. Even worse, there a number of bigots who feel that nonwhite students aren’t smart enough to be held to the same academic standards as white students.
Just as damaging is Sessions’ efforts to make it even more difficult for those students who he traps in failing schools to get any kind of education by giving kids who disrupt their classes a pass
based on… race. Yes, seriously. After learning of a higher proportion of children in classrooms being disciplined were non-white, Sessions gave a directive that students those being punished show a more equitable racial representation. Predictably, the troublemakers knew they had a free pass to cause trouble and took full advantage. By this logic, I personally look forward to the day when there’s a call against the over-representation of men in rape convictions until we achieve a 50 percent split to better match the population and end gender discrimination.
But enough about education – how about inner city violence? It’s bad enough that Republican run inner cities have become dangerous Hell-holes, but now White Supremacist groups have been lying to residents of inner city black neighborhoods, telling them that law enforcement is a far bigger threat to them than the criminals in their own neighborhoods despite data telling otherwise. And sadly, many gullible and emotionally needy people have bought into this narrative, despite the fact this the entire movement of these racial supremacists is based on a lie. And it gets worse.
These racists have gone into predominantly black neighborhoods to incite riots that would destroy the very neighborhoods of the people they claim to want to help. Worse still, during the Milwaukee riots that racial sell-out Sheriff David Clarke, instead of doing his duty to protect the residents, decided to give these agitators “space to destroy.” To add insult to injury, the man generally seen as a leader of these alt-right bigots, Richard Spencer, has been a guest of the White House on more than one occasion. Yes, the same Richard Spencer who leads that hate group that marched in the streets calling for the murder of IRS agents after the Lois Lerner scandals. And despite this incitement being successful, Session still won’t label them as a Domestic Terror group.
There are many other examples of bigotry that we’ve seen by the party of racism:
- Despite unemployment being much higher among black Americans than their white counterparts, many racists want to hurt the job prospects of their most unskilled by flooding the country with additional unskilled workers.
- Although black communities also see much higher rates of abortion than outside of them, when one racist NFL coach called against this violence he was condemned by bigots for defending black children. When asked by one social media bigot what he thought of the “over flowing of unwanted black children”, he made the cold, hateful suggestion of working to change the culture to “Get the men to stand up and help make those children wanted.”
- To further reinforce the victimhood mentality, dishonest academics have given us fuel for the self-destructive notion of victimhood status known a “implicit bias”. There’s just one problem with this anti-scientific assertion that “The fact that we can’t find proof of racism is proof of racism” turned out to be false.
This isn’t to say that there aren’t legitimate grievances in the black community – the discrepancy in sentencing between white vs. black drug offenders needs to be examined. And while I know that anecdotes don’t equate research, I do know that getting pulled over in one’s car for “driving while black” is still a thing in the South. These would probably be more constructive than calling for removing police protection from the highest crime neighborhoods. But if there’s going to be a serious discussion on race in America, the issues cited earlier in this post this would be a good start.
In a year, the Dallas Cowboys have gone from wanting to wear helmet stickers for honoring slain police officers to protesting against cops.
— Razor (@hale_razor) September 26, 2017
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