Thursday, August 27, 2020

Do ANY Lives Matter to "Black Lives Matter"?

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I'm a big  Mets fan and oftentimes, when things aren't going well in my life watching the Mets (or other teams that I root for)  makes me feel better, feel that I have a brother/sisterhood that I can cheer with or commiserate with. But this entire year, when I've needed it most, my Mets and baseball in general are falling short of my expectations and my needs. 

Let's be honest, nobody watches baseball or any other sport because it is required. We watch sports because we enjoy it. But this season (what little of it there is) has been so heavily politicized that even the very few games being played and the even fewer that the Mets are winning just don't feel like they have in the past. 

First, the politicizing of the Corona Virus, locking us (and mocking us) in our homes for so long (wasn't it supposed to be for 2 weeks originally?). When this mock-down started, I was finally getting out of the house after my Mom's death at the nursing home, visiting my Dad once a week or so in his nursing home. So the mock-down began and I was barred from visiting my Dad. He died after our governor decided that the best place to put corona patients was where they could infect and kill the most vulnerable. My Dad died gasping for breath unnecessarily. We had a "Zoom" goodbye with him. 

So now I have been largely confined to my house since a year ago February (I was caring for my Mom before she was in the nursing home and I rarely went out.) I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to find a job for over a year. And I don't even have baseball to to make me feel better. Sports in general have lionized Colin Kaepernick and his disrespect of our nation, our country, our president, our liberty. 

"Black Lives Matter" which uses a name that will make any non-racist (most Americans) feel guilty if they don't support the movement or allow them to get away with rioting, stealing, killing. But no lives matter to BLM. They tell us it's "racist" to claim that ALL LIVES MATTER. It's not. 

But by calling themselves "Black Lives Matter" they are claiming the following:

1) They care about Black Lives. They clearly don't since they don't even mention the children (and adults) being murdered by the rioters. 
2) Only by joining with Them can we prove to them and the world that we are not racist. 
3) Only Black Lives Matter  To suggest otherwise brands you as a racist in their twisted world.
4) Blacks are the only minority group that have been persecuted or enslaved. This is patently false and by turning us all against each other, whether African American, Latino, Native American, Native of India, East Asian or Jewish. We all need to work together -- including "Whites". When we start claiming all the suffering for ourselves, we do an injustice to ourselves and our fellow humans. That includes blacks. To allow anyone (including blacks) to wallow in victim-hood rather than to work with them to get past their persecutions is to do them a disservice. 

Those who use the BLM propaganda to cow others, to make any people believe that "systemic racism" (which is prevalent in many other countries such as tribal African countries and racist Muslim terrorist regimes but NOT in the US) exists are using emotions to override logic. They are using emotional appeals that lie, that make us believe that these evil people (the leaders of BLM who are using non-existent racism to fool people into voting for socialism, voting against our own best interests) are our friends. Don't be fooled. 

1 comment:

  1. Good post. Too bad there is not much honestly in movements such as BLM which is a tool for something else. It's disregard for other lives has made it an ugly caricature of its original purpose. Now it is a Marxist tool of anarchy with values few blacks care about but with carrots on sticks like reparations. A joke and a bad one.

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