The BLM is off the Rose

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This morning I saw a very interesting video that made me see BLM for what it is. 

Since I became aware of BLM, I've instinctively known that something was wrong with it. I knew they were violent, I knew they were taking people's stories and twisting them. I knew they were haters (of police, of "whites", of Jews and Israel, of people who disagree with them). But what I felt, what set off the alarms in my head, was that they particularly hated the people they claimed to be helping. 

The gentleman (and I use that term for several reasons -- 1) I generally use it as a term of respect and to keep emotionally charged language from giving my listeners and readers the opportunity to prejudge a person or a situation and 2) in this case, the star of this video deserves this reference both out of respect and because he seems to me to be a gentle man) in this video had wise parents -- they told him during the "talk" (that is the talk that parents of black people, mostly boys/men, have with their children on how to deal with the police) that he should treat the police with respect. That's right -- respect. 

Can you imagine how different things might have been if any of the "causes celebre" of BLM (George Floyd, Eric Garner or Michael Brown for example) had just done what police legally asked of them as this gentleman did there wouldn't have been an uproar or even a death. 

As a matter of fact, part of the reason there is a number of these sorts of deaths (police shooting and killing Black Men) is that BLM and their cohorts spread fear. People act one way if they are calm or only minorly agitated and another way altogether if they become convinced that they are in a situation where they are going to be killed or badly injured or attacked in some way. In the latter case, they fight as though it is for their life. And, because of this, they find themselves in a much more dangerous situation -- their adrenalin is pushing them to the "fight" part of "fight or flight" where the police believe these people are dangerous to them and to bystanders.  

So it seems to me that the BLMers and leftists in general are using the narrative of "systemic racism" to spread fear throughout the black community so that relatively minor incidents from the perspective of the police (protecting all Americans is what they signed up for and I thank them for that -- remember, Blue Lives Matter too) escalate and the perspective victims get killed because of the narrative not because  of any level of racism. Crime has no race. But victims do and a vast majority of victims are black. Victims' Lives Matter too, Black children, Black babies, Black mothers and fathers and grandmothers and grandfathers, Black families matter. 

We need to change the narrative to the truth -- 

1) BLM does NOT treat black people as though their lives matter. BLM treats people as though they are "untouchables", inferior to the superior Marxist, Socialist utopian society they are pushing. They treat them as means to an end, as in "let's use their deaths to spread Communism".
2) BLM is getting people killed by making them fear the police.
3) BLM does not care for any people -- they are interested in spreading fear and giving themselves an excuse for killing people. 
4) Every place in the world Marxism/Socialism/Communism have been tried, the results have been disastrous -- crime rampant, food and other commodities scarce and non-existent, people fear for themselves and their families, hunger and starvation and long lines are rampant. Why should we want this for ourselves?

As members of this current generation come out of schools, they push for Socialism because the school inculcations have brainwashed children and teens that they don't need to work, the government will take care of it all. The problem is that when the government does everything, nothing gets done. And, without people actually doing something, nothing gets done. 

So we need to spread the word, teach young people that important traits include courage, independence, hard work (meaning putting yourself into your work, picking something you enjoy and are good at -- it doesn't mean digging ditches, unless that's what you love doing) and collaboration. As a country, we need hard work, cooperation, and a strong market economy. The more of this we accomplish, the better off our country will be. The better off our country is, the better the world will be.