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Black Lives Matter: Yes, they do. But so do white lives, and Asian lives, and all lives. The problem with the Black Lives Matter thing is that it places the emphasis on the physical life of the black person rather than on the life that should be lived by that person. Certainly the physical portion is important to the issue; as is the taking of that life whether just or unjust. But so are the practical day to day lives of the people.
This entire issue had its present origins in the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown, by police officer Darren Wilson, in Ferguson, Missouri. It is debated what actually took place that day. Some insist that Brown was an innocent victim of racial hatred. Others, that Brown was aggressive toward the officer, fighting with him and trying to get his gun. The thing that was deliberately overlooked by many in the black community was that Brown was a thief who had, immediately prior to the shooting, been brashly stealing from a nearby convenience store. He was also a bully who viciously shoved and menaced the store clerk who tried to stop him and who, by the way, was half his size. This is clearly seen in the video evidence.
Now, whether the shooting of Michael Brown was justified or not, whether, as many might say, he did not deserve to die merely because of his actions in the store, it cannot be denied that the portion of Brown’s life that mattered most was the sort of life he demonstrated in that store. Had it not been for his being a thief and a tyrant the shooting would, most likely, never have occurred. The officer who shot Brown was there because of a report of Brown’s crime and would, almost certainly, not have been at that precise point, to shoot Brown, apart from the crime.
It is evident, therefore, that Brown’s life, prior to the shooting, mattered a great deal for how one lives can, and does, greatly effect what they experience in life. It is a fact, for example, that if you are not involved in drugs you are much less likely to be a victim of drug related violence. Does this mean that anyone is immune from such violence merely because they are not involved? No. Could Brown have been shot by a truly racist police officer on that day, and in that same location, even if he were a model Black citizen and not a criminal? Yes. But the odds that this could transpire, as, when and where it did, are so very much against that.
What we see in this incident may well be racial hatred and police violence. It is a fact of life, in America, that some white people are racist just as it is a fact that some black people are racist. It is a fact that there are rogue cops who need to be fired and, perhaps, locked up. It is more likely, however, that what occurred had more to do with the deception that has been perpetrated among black people by people such as Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson and the so-called reverend, Al Sharpton, that the most important thing in the lives of African-Americans is their civil rights, entitlements and liberties. This has been stressed again and again but it has been emphasized to the exclusion of something perhaps even more important; the fact of civil responsibilities.
Black Lives, how a black or anyone lives their life, does indeed Matter. Had Michael Brown understood this he might be alive today!
This entire issue had its present origins in the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown, by police officer Darren Wilson, in Ferguson, Missouri. It is debated what actually took place that day. Some insist that Brown was an innocent victim of racial hatred. Others, that Brown was aggressive toward the officer, fighting with him and trying to get his gun. The thing that was deliberately overlooked by many in the black community was that Brown was a thief who had, immediately prior to the shooting, been brashly stealing from a nearby convenience store. He was also a bully who viciously shoved and menaced the store clerk who tried to stop him and who, by the way, was half his size. This is clearly seen in the video evidence.
Now, whether the shooting of Michael Brown was justified or not, whether, as many might say, he did not deserve to die merely because of his actions in the store, it cannot be denied that the portion of Brown’s life that mattered most was the sort of life he demonstrated in that store. Had it not been for his being a thief and a tyrant the shooting would, most likely, never have occurred. The officer who shot Brown was there because of a report of Brown’s crime and would, almost certainly, not have been at that precise point, to shoot Brown, apart from the crime.
It is evident, therefore, that Brown’s life, prior to the shooting, mattered a great deal for how one lives can, and does, greatly effect what they experience in life. It is a fact, for example, that if you are not involved in drugs you are much less likely to be a victim of drug related violence. Does this mean that anyone is immune from such violence merely because they are not involved? No. Could Brown have been shot by a truly racist police officer on that day, and in that same location, even if he were a model Black citizen and not a criminal? Yes. But the odds that this could transpire, as, when and where it did, are so very much against that.
What we see in this incident may well be racial hatred and police violence. It is a fact of life, in America, that some white people are racist just as it is a fact that some black people are racist. It is a fact that there are rogue cops who need to be fired and, perhaps, locked up. It is more likely, however, that what occurred had more to do with the deception that has been perpetrated among black people by people such as Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson and the so-called reverend, Al Sharpton, that the most important thing in the lives of African-Americans is their civil rights, entitlements and liberties. This has been stressed again and again but it has been emphasized to the exclusion of something perhaps even more important; the fact of civil responsibilities.
Black Lives, how a black or anyone lives their life, does indeed Matter. Had Michael Brown understood this he might be alive today!
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