Black Lives and BLM

At a time when politicians, corporate CEOs,  and just about everyone in the traditional are falling all over themselves pledging allegiance, loyalty, fealty, and money  to the Black Lives Matter organization, and when ostracism, firing, and fake forced apologies are demanded for or from people who deviate  even slightly from the approved line, we are told it is important to take a stand.  It probably is. The country is not falling apart, but there are bad things happening. 

I am opposed to BLM and think it is bad for the country. Its stated basic premise is wrong.  The fact that the lives of black people matter is not controversial.  Virtually everyone agrees that they do.  The claim that their organization and its actions are needed to drive that point home to the millions of simian white dullards and bigots who think black lives do not matter is dangerously false as a cynical political point  and downright paranoid in anyone who really believes it. The enemy they claim to be fighting does not exist in any meaningful way. 

That is not the only place in which BLM is  careless with the truth.  The police in this country are not running an extermination operation against black men.  Some cops abuse their authority and commit crimes, but claims of that being a general practice are contrary to the known facts and statistics.  A cabal or conspiracy of cops did not kill George Floyd. One man did.

Then there are the false charges of white privilege and systemic racism. It is not 1920 in the Jim Crow south.  The fact is that in law and government  this country had had explicit black privilege for a number of decades in the form of affirmative action quotas, lower admission standards, set asides, and so on.  As to systemic racism, one has to wonder what system they have in mind. Most people working for a government , a corporation, or anywhere else in the public eye for the last many years who may have had bigoted notions, must surely have known that they voice or display them at their own peril.  Racism and bigotry aside,  references to plain facts and data contradicting politically correct assumptions can get a person in serious trouble.  Blacks are a protected group, and that protection is enforced. There is a party line. Mild, totally non-bigoted dissent from that party line can lead  to big trouble, as poor, weak Drew Brees found out recently.

In many ways BLM is really just a  leftist advocacy and agitprop group masquerading as a civil rights organization  and trying to create a sense of racial guilt among white people - most of whom have nothing to feel guilty about -  and then leverage that guilt for political gain.  It is a centuries old tactic, and it has worked well at many times and in many places. If you can make a person feel guilty and worthless, particularly if he has done nothing to be guilty for, often you’ve got him.  It is a vile practice, which its targets should reject emphatically.  It  also makes up a big part of BLM’s whole act and tactical agenda. People in BLM have allied  themselves with the fascist thugs of Antifa   and done little or nothing serious about opposing  the looters and arsonists or even separating themselves from them. They are a bad bunch, and the corporate weasels who kowtow to them are being very short sighted.  Black lives matter, but BLM should not. Black Americans deserve better. The country deserves better.