The
George Floyd’s death awakening! Now has become politicized!
The
context
Due to the powerful images that the
world witnessed, when a black man was asphyxiated by a sadistic cop while his
three colleagues seem quite unperturbed, America has come to protest in streets
up and down the country for a week or more now. People are saying it is just
one too many.
Let’s step back and review the real
issue here. The real issue is the way black America feels, and that they feel
that systemic racism has not been eliminated, despite there being a Black
American President for 8 years prior to Trump. Many whites, especially the
young feel that blacks must have a level playing field and are sympathetic to
that cause and are showing their disgust by demonstrating.
The
real situation, generally not mentioned
If one looks at the facts, the actual
number of killings of UNARMED blacks by trigger happy or use of undue force by
the Police, is miniscule. Not even 10 a year, while the number of Police
Officers dying from Gunshot injuries is many times that, though I don’t have
the breakdown of how many died from shots fired from Blacks as opposed to those
from whites, as white supremacism is of particular concern in the USA since the
election of President Trump nearly 4 years ago.
Furthermore due to the ghettoization of
blacks with the resulting drug culture and violence they seem to live under,
due to their circumstances in inner city neighborhoods, the black on black
crime is overwhelming with nearly 7,000 murders attributable to blacks killing
other blacks. It would be fair to state that poor blacks look the police, (made
up of all races) for safety and security in such neighborhoods where mothers
fear to take their children to school lest they fall in range of stray bullets
of turf battles of gangs.
White America avoid such inner city
ghettoes like the plague and for the most part have never set foot in those
areas as they are effectively no go areas.
So
have we forgotten the real issues here?
While there is overwhelming support in
the Country for some kind of gun control, especially limiting assault weapons
sales, it is the NRA a broadly white Republican supporting movement that is
preventing reform.
The other more important issue is not
the killings of blacks by cops, but the constant questioning and arrest of
blacks wherever they are due to racial profiling, which has been lost in this
divisive and polarized stance taken. In every instance they are treated more
harshly that whites due to their likelihood of being guilty, as a fact. Is that
correct to profile them, as even black cops are complicit.
So it is clear what is at stake, but the
right wing or despise the present protests, and who instead concentrate on the
looting and vandalism that a small minority of are guilty of, seem to endorse
the strong arm tactics of the President and fail to understand that he is
simply fanning the flames of discontent, instead of trying t find common ground
and unifying the nation.
Whose
fault is it anyway?
The debate has shifted away from where
it should be, to a police brutality argument, and that is why there is no common
ground in which to address the issue dispassionately. The fault lies with both
sides of the argument, as they have been unable to completely stamp out the
rogue elements in society that use the opportunity to loot on the one hand,
while the other side simply think that law and order has broken down in the USA
and the Second Amendment rights for peaceful protest are illegal as they are
without merit and are carried out by the liberal left, a moniker and a misnomer
if ever there was one.
Elder
Statesmen
Former President in commenting on this
matter, has been very vague, as he does not want to create a divisive line as
in the response by President Trump, and merely states that it is definitely an
opportunity to reset the debate on how racism is being handled in the USA, and
is a great time to improve it with procedures that should be implemented immediately
to satisfy this glaring inequity.
The
silver lining
Young White America who hitherto have
been very complacent in protesting about injustice, is on the streets in force.
So at least one can appreciate that this is a problem that needs further investigation,
and community participation.
So the violence, where ATMs being blown
up by dynamite, are merely opportunistic thugs trying to make a fast buck and
obfuscating the real purpose of the protests, MUST not be used as excuses (Arsonists,
Looters, Violent killings) It is unfortunately collateral damage that has
happened, and it is extremely disingenuous of Stations like Fox to highlight the
violence to deviate from the real purpose of the 95% peaceful demonstrations.
BLM
(Black Lives Matter)
The right wing is using an organization
that has emerged to safeguard the interests of the Blacks – BLM, as a criminal
organization set to fight the Police. Why are they so full of Bull Shit and
fake news? They are merely making it divisive. So when the Police are arresting
people for breaking curfew is merely inciting anger, if they are demonstrating
peacefully. It is unfortunate that the Police forces have not still learned
compromise. They are using the letter of the law to enforce harsh treatment
instead of engaging the protestors to get their supporters to move.
When NYPD union says aggressive things
like they are losing control of NYC, that is in itself a statement that is
giving the right wing a chance to gloat.
They don’t know how to allow crowd
control and but stop riot control and then use lame excuses to arrest peaceful
demonstrators instead of rioters.
The
reality is that the Police are arresting peaceful protestors and they are not
arresting the rioters, looters and arsonists!! What is going on?
The President’s use of National Guardsmen
and out of state Law Enforcement is adding fuel to the fire of protestors. The President’s
job should be to unify a divided nation. Instead he persists in making silly
photo ops, by tear gassing peaceful protestors, whether he knew it or not as
his AG Barr is the one who had issued the order to clear the crowd.
Why are not the first line of defense
the Police, incapable? Why is the second line of defense the National Guard
being used? Why is the President ready to use the third line of defense, the Military,
against their own citizens.
He is so ignorant that the rest of the
world are looking into his actions and now it is carte blanche for repressive
regimes to use the Military against their own citizens, citing the precedent of
the President of the United States, compromising the peaceful protests around
the world.
America instead of being the leader of
the Free World is now showing a dictatorial stance that will be used by the
rest of the world to eventually affect their own security or compromising
democracies the world over. What is the result of that? America will have to
increase its defences, its military, as the rest of the world, due to the American
precedent, of using the Military to control peaceful protests. The accusation
that the right wing are laying on the protesters is horrific. We know that
right wing agitators and opportunist thugs are using the protests to give ammunition
to the right wing media and President to continue to justify his sledgehammer
tactics. That is the state of the state.
the 5% of criminals seem to be the darlings of the right wing to bash the 95% of the public genuinely engaged in wanting a more unified nation. Unfortunately the President's goal is division as that is politically expedient to him just as it is for many countries in the world, mainly de facto dictatorships that are now being given the go ahead by Trump. God Help the Rest of the World, as the USA will be OK after all is said and done!