By Kylee Zempel
In a misleading video Tuesday urging Americans to vote for former Vice President Joe Biden, Michelle Obama continued the left’s false narrative about Black Lives Matter, saying the movement is based on “racial solidarity” and has been “mostly peaceful.”
Concerning the riots that overtook many of America’s cities beginning at the end of May, Obama said President Donald Trump has pinned the violence “on what’s been an overwhelmingly peaceful movement for racial solidarity. It’s true,” the former first lady said in the video, fraught with divisive language and hyperbole. “Research backs it up. Only a tiny fraction of demonstrations have had any violence at all.”
While most of the protests remained peaceful during the day, many evolved into lawlessness after the sun went down, despite the mainstream media sticking with the “mostly peaceful” protest line while buildings burned behind their on-the-ground reporters. Obama failed to mention, however, that when it came to the violence, of which there was no shortage, most of it was linked to Black Lives Matter, a movement spurred by a Marxist organization. Biden has failed to specifically denounce Black Lives Matter activists for their leading role in the violence.
As The Federalist’s Joy Pullmann reported, one study revealed as much as 95 percent of the summer rioting was connected to Black Lives Matter demonstrators. According to the same study, more than 1 in 20 so-called protests included looting, rioting, and other violence, resulting in 47 deaths — a far cry from Obama’s portrayal of the summer’s events.
Arsonists burned churches, rioters lethally shot police officers, looters decimated small businesses, and vandals defaced historical statues and private property. Yet Obama blamed Trump. “What the president is doing is, once again, patently false, it’s morally wrong, and, yes, it is racist,” she said.
.@MichelleObama on BLM riots: Trump is “pinning [violence] on what’s been an overwhelmingly peaceful movement for racial solidarity; it’s true, research backs it up; only a tiny fraction of demonstrations have had any violence at all … What the president is doing is … racist.” pic.twitter.com/7wBsmACiCQ
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 6, 2020
Continuing her attack on Trump, Obama said, “The one thing this president is really, really good at is using fear and confusion and spreading lies to win.” This line from the former first lady was quite a twist of irony, considering her own use of race as a weapon in this video, as well as recent developments regarding the president’s battle with the Wuhan virus and the left’s subsequent meltdown over Trump’s victorious optimism.
After COVID-19-positive Trump announced he would be leaving the hospital, he fired off a hopeful tweet, urging Americans, “Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life.” This is contrary to Obama’s depiction of Trump that he weaponizes fear.
No, employing fear was the job of the media, Democrats, and leftists on Twitter:
Michael has a penis. She is a tranny. And, next to her gay husband, perhaps one of the most disgusting persons in this country. President Trump is ten times the person this pile of shit is.
What is “racial solidarity”? That sounds kind of “racist”. Sounds like people of one race banding together to exclude and assert their superiority other races. No, these aren’t “Aryans”.
But Trump is racist because he… because he… hey; just what DID he do that was racist?
When I worked in a woodshop, the idea was not to “fear” a table saw, a piece of machinery that can do terrific damage to the human body, including death. If you fear it, you can’t get your job done. What you are supposed to do is RESPECT it and what it is capable of. The same is true of jointers, drill presses, planers, sanders and routers. This was Trump’s message. Don’t be debilitated by fear of COVID19, but show it the proper respect. We’ll be OK and we will overcome it.
Democrats, for political purposes, want people to live in fear and look to them for their protection and survival.