Black Lives Matter? Here’s What Doesn’t

The realities the media can't be bothered to cover.

“Black Lives Matter.” That’s their mantra, their battle cry, the idol erected by a gang of neo-Marxist, racist thugs who are trying to club us into submission to their vision. Democrat Congressmen get on their knees. Corporate America pays homage, as well as coin of the realm. If groveling reflected athletic ability, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell would be the starting quarterback for the New England Patriots

Statues are toppled and movies banned. I wonder when the book-burning will start.

At times it seems like nothing matters but some black lives. Regarding the rioting and mayhem that have swept the country since the horrific killing of George Floyd, here are a few things which apparently don’t matter to The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and the rest of the media conspiracy-- given the amount of attention they’ve received:

Police Lives – In a few days in late May and early June: 4 officers were shot in St. Louis; an officer was shot in the head in Las Vegas; two officers were shot in Richmond; an officer was run down in the Bronx, and another in Buffalo. Thanks to the rage generated by agitators, the media and Democratic politicians, the lives of cops – the people we depend on most to protect us and our families – are the most vulnerable.

The lives of 7,000 black Americans murdered each year by other black Americans. Last year, there were 492 homicides in Chicago. Overwhelmingly, the victims and perpetrators were black. Only three of these deaths involved the police. Black men killing black men? Business as usual. Police killing black men (whether or not the homicides are justified) – institutional racism!

Jewish lives – In rioting in Los Angeles and adjacent areas, synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses were looted and defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti, in a way reminiscent of Kristallnacht.  Black Lives Matter is virulently anti-Israel, calling Israel an “apartheid state,” claiming it commits “genocide” and demanding a total boycott. ANTIFA is also part of the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment movement. Neither group has ever demanded an end to Palestinian terrorism. Call it professional courtesy. 

The Real George Floyd -- the man, not the media-created myth of a “Gentle Giant” – The real George Floyd had a record stretching back over 25 years, including criminal trespass, aggravated assault, theft and various drug-related offenses. He was recently released from Texas State Prison, after serving a 5-year sentence for robbery. During a home invasion in 2007, the Gentle Giant pointed a gun at the stomach of a pregnant black woman while trying to rob her. When he died, Floyd had fentanyl and methamphetamines in his system. None of this, of course, justifies his death. But neither does it make him martyr material.

The absurdity of charges of institutional racism --  America has an $8 -billion a year equity, inclusion and diversity industry to overcome a non-existent problem. Almost 60% of blacks are in the middle or upper-middle class. They’re invisible to the media because they’re not rioting and looting. Do blacks represent a disproportionate share of arrests? How could it possibly be otherwise, with African Americans, who are 13% of the U.S. population, responsible for more than half of all murders and robberies?

The rate of fatherlessness in the black community fuels the rage. – In America, 57% of Black children grow up without their biological father, more than twice the rate among whites (20.7%). Most spend their childhood in a home with their mother and a succession of her boyfriends. This has a significant impact on the school-dropout rate, drug use and early sexual activity. Yet to talk about it, we are told, is being critical of black parenting, hence racist. So we simply ignore it and blame the pathologies in the black community on institutionalized racism.

The crime wave that accompanied the George Floyd protests – Marches and sermons at funerals make good visuals. The accompanying carnage and looting were largely unseen: burglaries up 220% in Minneapolis (May 26 to June 1) over the same period last year.  In Los Angeles, murders were up 250% (May 31-June 6). In Chicago, May 31st  was the city’s bloodiest day in almost 60 years – 18 dead (almost three times the body count of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre). Not to worry; none of them involved a white cop with his knee on the neck of a black man in custody, therefore all were irrelevant.

Black Lives Matter’s ideology – BLM doesn’t just want to get rid of the police, but prisons too. The group is anti-capitalist (“black people will never achieve liberation under the current global racialized capitalist system”) and anti-family (“We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.”) BLM is part black nationalism, part cultural Marxism and part Five-Year plans.

 The case for civilian gun ownership – Little wonder that the cities hit hardest by riots and looting – New York, Chicago and Los Angeles among them -- have made it practically impossible for ordinary people to legally possess firearms. Other than the police, practically the only ones who have them are criminals. Gun control advocates used to tell us: “You don’t need guns. If someone breaks into your home, call the police.” Would that be before or after law enforcement is defunded, or police budgets are slashed to the bone?

Again, given their invisibility, none of this matters. Democrats seek to harvest votes by pandering furiously. A deranged media want to use the chaos to defeat Trump. In the urban anarchy/nihilism now upon us, reality is the first casualty – but far from the last.

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Muhammad Ali Jr., 47, said his dad believed 'all lives matter' and would have branded protesters demanding an end to systemic racism as 'devils'

Muhammad Ali's son has said his famous father would have hated the 'racist' Black Lives Matter protests, as he claims the movement is 'pitting black people against everyone else' and insists George Floyd's killer 'was doing his job'.

Muhammad Ali Jr., 47, said his dad believed 'all lives matter' and would have branded protesters demanding an end to police brutality and systemic racism as 'devils', in an interview with the NY Post on the fourth anniversary of the boxing legend's death.

'My father would have said, "They ain't nothing but devils," Ali Jr. said. 'My father said, 'all lives matter.' I don't think he'd agree.'

Ali Jr. insisted his father would have thought the Black Lives Matter movement was 'racist' and would have been a Donald Trump supporter if he was alive today.

The shock claims come as Ali was a vocal civil rights campaigner who called for an end to racism, marched with the Black Panther Party and refused to sign up to the Vietnam War.

Ali's only biological son, who was estranged from the sports star when he died, said Black Lives Matter is just 'pitting black people against everyone else'.  

'I think it's racist. It's not just black lives matter, white lives matter, Chinese lives matter, all lives matter, everybody's life matters,' he told The Post. 'God loves everyone - he never singled anyone out. Killing is wrong no matter who it is.'

Ali Jr., who like is father is a practising Muslim, added that it is 'a racial statement.' 'It's pitting black people against everyone else. It starts racial things to happen; I hate that,' he said.

Ali Jr. added his dad would have condemned the way some protests have descended into violence if he were still alive today.  'Don't bust up s**t, don't trash the place. You can peacefully protest,' he told the Post.

Ali Jr. also defended the actions of Derek Chauvin, the white cop charged with murder after he knelt on black man Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes, saying he was wrong to kill him but that Floyd had 'resisted arrest' and the cop simply 'used the wrong tactic'.

'The officer was wrong with killing that person, but people don't realize there was more footage than what they showed,' he told the Post. 'The guy resisted arrest, the officer was doing his job, but he used the wrong tactic.'

He insisted that most cops are not 'crooked' and that he had 'never had a bad scene with a cop'.

'Police don't wake up and think, "I'm going to kill a n**r today or kill a white man,"' he said. 'They're just trying to make it back home to their family in one piece.'

He continued: 'Not all the police are bad, there's just a few. There's a handful of police that are crooked, they should be locked up.'

He also insisted he had never had a negative encounter with a cop because of his race. 'I never had a bad scene with a cop,' he said. 'They've always been nice and protect me. I don't have a problem with them.'

Ali Jr. went on to describe Trump as a 'good president' and agree with his claims that left-wing radical group Antifa has stoked violence during the ongoing civil unrest, urging that 'they need to kill everyone in that thing'.

'They're no different from Muslim terrorists. They should all get what they deserve,' he said.

'They're f**king up businesses, beating up innocent people in the neighborhood, smashing up police stations and shops. They're terrorists - they're terrorizing the community.

'I agree with the peaceful protests, but the Antifa, they need to kill everyone in that thing.' He added: 'Black Lives Matter is not a peaceful protest. Antifa never wanted it peaceful. I would take them all out.'

The 47-year-old father-of-two went as far as to say his boxing legend father would have been a Trump supporter and insisted the president is 'not a racist'.

'I think Trump's a good president. My father would have supported him. Trump's not a racist, he's for all the people. Democrats are the ones who are racist and not for everybody,' he said.

He then slammed Democrats for supporting Black Lives Matter when they're 'not even black'. 'These [Democrat politicians] saying Black Lives Matter, who the hell are you to say that? You're not even black,' he said.

'Democrats don't give a s**t about anybody. Hillary Clinton doesn't give a s**t; she's trying not to get locked up. Trump is much better than Clinton and Obama… The only one to do what he said he would do is Donald Trump.'

His show of support for Trump comes despite him speaking during a forum on the consequences of Trump's immigration policies in 2017 after he was stopped and detained twice by immigration officers at a Florida airport following Trump's travel ban on Muslim-majority nations.

At the time, he said he was singled out because he is Muslim and considered suing.

Ali Jr. is one of nine children and the fourth eldest the boxing legend fathered by four wives. His mother is Ali's first wife Belinda Boyd, who also converted to Islam and now goes by the name Khalilah Ali.

Ali Jr.'s relationship with his father broke down some time after 'The Greatest' married his fourth wife Lonnie Williams in 1986 and they were estranged when Ali died from Parkinson's disease at the age of 74 in 2016.

At the time of his father's death Ali Jr. had fallen on hard times living in a small two-bed flat in Chicago's crime-ridden South Side and he split from his wife soon after.

He has since moved to Hallandale Beach, Florida, where he works as a landscape gardener and construction worker.

He has previously said he gets just $1,000 a month in allowance from his father's estimated $60 million estate.

Boxing legend Ali was a key figure of the civil rights movement in the 1960s and 70s and marched with the Black Panther party, the African-American revolutionary organization formed in 1966.

At a Panther rally in San Francisco Ali made the famous speech: 'Those of you who are white…have many white leaders who can speak for you. You have many whites in power who have the billions and trillions of dollars to help you.

'But black people also need a spokesman.'

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African woman: I dared to question the aims of Black Lives Matter - and got the worst racist abuse I've ever suffered

When I first moved to the UK from Ghana with my family in my early teens, the country that welcomed me was one where multiculturalism flourished and neighbours were warm and unassuming.

Your achievements were not prefaced by the colour of your skin or your place on the totem pole of identity politics.

People from ethnic and racial minorities were not constantly looking over their shoulders and assuming that every social interaction was laced with disdain or racism. It was a Britain where confidence trumped victimhood.

But, much to my dismay, the tone has shifted entirely, and worryingly, over the past five years.

Now I, a 24-year-old black woman of West African heritage, am expected to be mortally offended if someone dares assume that my dark skin might signal heritage not native to the British Isles.

I am expected to voice loudly my approval of white liberals who inform me of my inherent oppression as a ‘woman of colour’.

Amid the demonstrations and tumult of recent weeks, I have grown increasingly concerned about the methods and the wider far-Left political agenda of the Black Lives Matter movement here in the UK.

I have been horrified to watch this ridiculous campaign of tearing down statues and relics of British heritage escalate. It is a campaign that has yet to make any progress in tangibly helping me as a black person. And in recent weeks I have been increasingly vocal on Twitter about my concerns. But in doing so I have become targeted by a wave of vile online abuse.

Earlier this month I tweeted: ‘Are Brits still allowed to be proud of their culture and heritage or is that racist now?’ I also said I was ‘fairly sick of all the protests’. Last week, I made clear that I do not support BLM, adding: ‘Never have. Never will. I don’t need to put a black square online or tie myself to that organisation to prove that I care about black people.’

Some of the comments on social media I have received following these tweets have been truly shocking. I have been targeted by a campaign of abuse, hate and false information aimed at tarnishing the reputation of a black woman. I wake up every day to horrible messages. Most of this abuse was seemingly coming from black supporters of Black Lives Matter, including a significant amount from African-Americans, although I have also been abused by white liberals. Some of the trolls have circulated a fake image, which they falsely suggest is me. It shows a black woman on her knees posing as the seemingly subservient cartoon dog Scooby-Doo and flanked by four white women. I have had racist language used against me that is as bad as the ‘N’ word.

I have had people tell me they hope I am barren.

What I have received this last week online has given me a glimpse into the darkest part of the human soul – the part that can muster up the most awful hatred. This will not, however, stop me from questioning the motives of this movement.

The slogan of this campaign is indisputable. Of course black lives matter. They matter in the same way that everyone’s life, by virtue of being human, matters. Every individual, of whatever skin colour, should have the right to pursue happiness and live free from prejudice. And where racial discrimination and injustice exists in this country, it should be stamped out.

But a simple glance at the ‘Who We Are’ section on its online fundraising page demonstrates that this organisation is about much more than ‘black lives’. The group’s GoFundMe page explains that it intends to be ‘guided by a commitment to dismantle imperialism, capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy and the state structures that disproportionately harm black people in Britain and around the world’.

What on earth does ‘defending black lives’ have to do with dismantling capitalism – a system that has lifted millions of people out of absolute poverty in just this century alone? How would the tearing down of wealth creation benefit black lives? I regard myself as a conservative (but not a Tory) and cannot sign up to the destruction of capitalism. In fact, I find such views abhorrent. Does that mean there is no place for me in this anti-racism movement?

There are also growing questions surrounding this organisation’s funding. BLM UK has raised over a million pounds in recent weeks and one can only assume that is a figure that is going to increase following the public show of support from Premier League football teams.

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Esther says: 'The slogan of this campaign is indisputable. Of course black lives matter. They matter in the same way that everyone’s life, by virtue of being human, matters'

The group, however, appears determined to spend the money on a string of Marxist initiatives, which according to its GoFundMe page, includes ‘developing and delivering training, police monitoring and strategies for the abolition of police’.

But how can you defend black people, or indeed anyone for that matter, if you are endorsing an agenda that seeks to abolish the police? How will soaring crime help black communities? If we abolish the police, what do we replace it with?

The group also says it will organise in ‘the Black radical tradition’ in a bid to secure ‘Black liberation’. But what on earth is the ‘black radical tradition’ and wouldn’t resources be better dedicated to free the Sub-Saharan Africans who are still enslaved in many North African and Middle Eastern regions of the world?

As someone who studied for a degree in Bristol for four years, I was stunned by the virtue signalling that drove protesters to tear down the statue of Edward Colston. Many of those in the mob, I must add, were white individuals who are likely descendants of direct beneficiaries of the slave trade. Oh, the irony!

I would like to know from the, largely anonymous, leaders of the BLM UK campaign whether they are protesting in solidarity with the US movement or because of the actions of our own mainly unarmed police force, whose ‘policing by consent’ model is envied around the world. Are the protesters shouting ‘don’t shoot’ at British police officers aware that the batons our officers routinely carry are incapable of doubling up as a deadly firearm?

The deeply unpleasant experience of being targeted online has shown me how toxic this debate is becoming. Why are people who claim to care for black people so uptight and defensive when someone says there is an agenda that is destructive to black people that is being ushered in on the back of this movement?

We need to wake up and see that people are trying to divide this country and are using minority groups to do it. First it was statues, then it was a potential ban on Swing Low, Sweet Chariot being sung at rugby matches. When will this end? This small faction of Left-wing activists will never stop trying to tear this country apart and shaming every aspect of British heritage. It is incumbent on us all to fight this through education, a fierce defence of free speech, and to call out the hypocrisy of individuals and organisations attempting to weaponise minority groups to their political ends.

My parents taught me the value of hard work, honesty, humility and standing up for the truth. I was taught to judge individuals on the content of their character, and I will never surrender to race baiters who try to bully me into submission. I will never be silent. And neither should you.

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Australian mother who criticised an event which saw drag queens read stories to children is baffled to learn she's facing legal action accused of discrimination

A mother is facing legal action accused of discrimination after criticising an event where drag queens read stories to children.

Katrina Tait shared a petition started by the Australian Christian Lobby on her Facebook opposing the Drag Queen Story Time event at a Brisbane library in January.

'I can't believe I have just had to sign a petition to try to stop drag queen story time happening at libraries in our country,' she posted.

'What happened to protecting children's innocence and letting them just be kids?'

That post has seen the mother-of-four investigated by the NSW Anti-Discrimination Boardwith after a complaint from activist Garry Burns.

She faces legal action and potential fines. 

The case caught the attention of One Nation's Mark Latham, who accused the Board of taking on a 'vexatious complaint' from 'the serial complainant Garry Burns'.

Mr Burns has previously taken actions agianst the likes of former radio braodcaster John Laws and controversial footy star Israel Folau. 

'Mr Burns has continued with his unhinged, vexatious and threatening messages in this and other matters, having been emboldened and empowered by the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board over the past seven years in hundreds of accepted and investigated complaints, including scores of investigations against people who do not even live in NSW,' Mr Latham said, as reported by The Daily Telegraph.

He labelled the complaint against Ms Tait, who lives in Queensland, an 'amazing waste of money' and 'abuse of process'.

Ms Tait is unsure why action has been taken against her.  'I really felt that what I had written was nothing more than any mother would write who was concerned about this type of public event,' she said.

Mr Burns, who has won 62 of 65 cases, denied being vexatious and said 'my case law speaks for itself'.

Protests at drag queen library reading sessions took a dark turn in January, when president of the University of Queensland's Liberal National Club Wilson Gavin was found dead in a suspected suicide after leading a divisive demonstration.

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