Black Lives Matter: An Empty Slogan

The status of Black Lives Matter as a credibly alleged race-hustling fraud against the trust of the American people was reinforced during the past week, as reported in “Wilkes-Barre man charged with nearly striking officer, selling crack cocaine.”  A nearby crowd nonetheless took the suspect’s side during the confrontation: “a crowd gathered and began yelling, ‘Black Lives Matter’ and hurled expletives toward officers, according to court records.”

The police in question arrested this individual because Black lives matter.  Crack cocaine is just as capable of messing up the lives of a drug-dealer’s Black customers as it is of his Caucasian ones.  There are in fact roughly four drug overdose deaths for every homicide in the U.S. (100,000 versus fewer than 25,000), so police who care about all human lives will arrest those of any race who essentially poison their customers, again of any race, for money.

Felon Lives Matter, Black Lives Don’t

This is far from an isolated incident, as perhaps nine out of ten BLM protests, which often escalate to looting and rioting, are on behalf of criminals rather than victims of racially motivated and therefore unlawful abuse.  Wikipedia, for example, links a video of protests over the death of Ma’Khia Bryant, who was shot by a police officer when she menaced another Black woman with a knife.  The innocent Black woman’s life mattered to the officer, which is why he shot Bryant.  He tried verbal commands first because Bryant’s life also mattered, but, when Bryant forced him to choose between her and her intended victim, he had to use his sidearm.

They’re saying the names of would-be cop-killer Hakim Littleton and Michael Brown, who was shot when he tried to grab a police officer’s gun and possibly turn it against him.  They’re saying the name of Rayshard Brooks, who was shot when he disarmed a police officer of his Taser and turned it against him, but they’re not saying the name of Secoriea Turner who was shot during a BLM-related “demonstration” on Brooks’s behalf.  They’re saying the names of the Caucasians who were shot by Kyle Rittenhouse when they menaced him with violence, but not the name of Anmol Khindri, whose car dealership was trashed during the same riot.  BLM, in fact, libelously accuses Rittenhouse of murder.  They are not saying the names of the numerous business-owners of all races whose livelihoods were ruined because their insurance did not cover the full costs of riot and looting damage.

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