Model and B.L.M. activist Maya Echols says “all hell is gonna break loose” in Minneapolis should Derek Chauvin not be given some serious jail time. Buildings will burn, she assures us. While her statements may be merely a matter of fact, her loyalties and indeed the quality of her character [for those of you on the Left, that’s a moral term] are there for all to see in a recent video she posted on Tik Tok.
Living in what she suggests is a predominantly White neighborhood, she gets a kick, she says, from the reactions of White people, sometimes judgmental, sometimes worried, to her B.L.M. face mask which she apparently wears everywhere. “Like, it makes me laugh….I get so much pleasure out of seeing somebody upset because I’m saying my life matters.”
Is that why they’re upset, Maya? While I’m sure there are some racists among them, is it not eminently probable that most are concerned with the violence that has been plaguing the States for almost a year now courtesy of B.L.M. and Antifa? I don’t know how much the mainstream media has been covering it but it continues week after week from Oakland to Portland to Rochester to N.Y.C. and, more recently, in response to the death of Daunte Wright, Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. While the daily protests there have reportedly been more or less peaceful, I, like most today, have little faith in what I see on T.V. When Police Chief Tim Gannon referred to the events of Sun., April 11 as a “riot,” he was reprimanded by a reporter who had apparently not seen Gannon’s officers pelted with cans of frozen pop and concrete blocks. Whatever the facts in Brooklyn Center, in numerous other locales mobs have breached government buildings, assaulted cops, thrown rocks at passing cars and occupied, vandalized and often robbed commercial outlets, in some cases owned by the very Blacks they pretend to be supporting. Indeed in many places the latter have taken to putting signs on their store fronts declaring their race. There is substantial video evidence of all this online.
Courageously ignoring the fascist pressures of political correctness, Black Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke, in a 2016 interview on CNN, is utterly scornful of Don Lemon’s assertion that B.L.M. is “all about peace.” Maintaining that the police are not systemically racist, citing statistics on the multiple murders of both cops and other members of their own race by people of color, he insists Black on Black crime is by far the greatest threat to his people in America today, indeed ought to be the focus of any group genuinely concerned with Black lives. Thank goodness for the honesty of those such as Clarke, for we all know the tedious, predictable response from the media had a White person dared make such a statement.
On Sat., April 17, Maxine Waters, Black Rep. from California, addressed a Brooklyn Center crowd of B.L.M supporters, declaring: “We’ve got to get more confrontational…..We’ve got to make sure they know we mean business…..We’ve got to stay in the streets.” A few hours later, as National Guardsmen made their early morning rounds in Minneapolis in support of “neighborhood security,” they were fired upon by the occupant or occupants of a passing SUV. No one was killed but Republicans are suggesting a direct relationship between Waters’ rhetoric and such pointless acts of violence. Indeed those of us of a rational, moral perspective would suggest B.L.M. to be less concerned with anything that can be sanely defined as justice than with inciting racial strife so as to achieve those Neo-Marxist ends which its founders declared to be their goal from the very beginning. In this context Maxine Waters is more or less what Lenin described as a “useful idiot.” Sadly, White “liberals,” seemingly unaware of the repercussions of their “wokeness,” fall into the same category.
What better illustrates the questionable motives of B.L.M. than the late March arrest of its Boise, Idaho spokesperson, Terry Wilson, for desecrating a statue of Abraham Lincoln in February, apparently smearing it with paint and feces while leaving behind a text impugning his status as a champion of Black liberation. As I have said repeatedly, applying the highly arguable standards of 21st Century Egalitarianism to those who lived more than a hundred years ago is arrogant beyond belief. Given the context of his time, Lincoln was most assuredly a good man and the urge to vilify his accomplishments and the accomplishments of Western Civilization in general by invoking such transparently hate-inspired constructs as “critical race theory” is unworthy of anyone with even the slightest degree of intellectual integrity. But Hate is what Marxism and Racism have in common, each unable or unwilling to accept disparities in human achievement as valid expressions of the very real disparities, moral, intellectual and otherwise, clearly evident throughout our species.
Coincidentally, Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, killed last year as the police in Louisville engaged in a warranted, no-knock invasion of her apartment, recently posted on Facebook that B.L.M. is a “fraud” which seemed more interested in profiting from her daughter’s death than in doing much of anything for her family.
It would seem, therefore, that the reaction of her White neighbors to Maya Echols’ B.L.M. face mask might have little to do with Racism and much to do with concern for a movement intent on distorting the history and altering the very fabric of American society. Of course if you are a simple-minded, self-centered narcissist, as are most among the youthful “woke,” such an insight is no doubt beyond you.