The All Lives Matter movement — and other murderous stupidities from the White Establishment — Jonathan Bachman’s Reuters photograph sums the American condition

11 July 2016

One would not expect slave-holding genes to exhibit signs of astute moral judgment

And they don’t.

Black Lives Matter and President Obama are again being blamed by the White Establishment for somehow encouraging Micah Johnson’s murder of five police people in Dallas.

In these fact-avoiding minds, centuries of white on black homicide pales beside one African-American loon’s morally and strategically insane execution of blameless law enforcement personnel.

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani — with his all lives matter perspective — was eloquently obtuse on this racial issue a few days ago. His performance sadly serves as a checklist for Bigoted Perspective in Action. Giuliani is a superb example of institutionalized racism’s self-justification.

Perhaps Mayor Giuliani’s most vacuous line of argument followed his statement that blacks murder each other in worrisome numbers, so police go into their neighborhoods to save lives:

The reason there’s a target on police officers’ backs is because of groups like Black Lives Matter. They make it seem like all police are against blacks. They’re not. They’re the ones saving black lives. Black Lives Matter is not saving any black lives. It’s the police officers that are doing it.

Notice the perversely ignorant rationale underlying Giuliani’s statements

Blacks (he says) kill each other a lot. The police go to their neighborhoods to calm things down. Black Lives Matter does not calm things down and doesn’t save any lives.

When cops do kill someone who should not have been killed, this fact pales beside all the black lives that they saved. And when Black Lives Matter amps up an unfortunate cop-inflicted wrongful killing, its speech just encourages crazies to kill good police officers. Thus, Mayor Giuliani would have us infer, we would all be better off if Black Lives Matter quietly stayed home.

Pared to its essentials, Giuliani’s reasoning argues that all the African American lives that police allegedly save outweigh the proportionately “few” that they murder.

Indicatively, with regard to police-originated wrongful killings

The former mayor implicitly recommended that, “Let’s let the criminal justice system sort this out.” (at 10:53 in the clip)

Evidently, Rudy has no idea that it is the centuries of oppressive bigotry displayed by our criminal justice system that have so many people legitimately worked up. He dismissively indicates that people concerned about unequally dispensed justice are “racial agitators.”

I was struck by Giuliani’s substitution of a handful of detail-lacking anecdotes for statistically insightful data

The man’s ego appears to be so solid that, if he did not witness or interpret it, it cannot possibly be true.

The moral? — I see few signs of intelligent life in the White Establishment

According to the crew that runs things, Black Lives Matter is divisive. Yet its own institutionalized oppression and murdering of Black People for 400 years is not. We are thus encouraged to believe that African-Americans deserve no opportunity to stand up for their worth.

From one arguable perspective, American Caucasians are, as a generic historical group, the Devil’s deadliest recruits. If someone “of color” wants to wipe us out, I cannot reasonably quarrel with his and her instinct for self-preservation.

On a more inspiring note, from Baton Rouge, there is Jonathan Bachman’s (Reuters) photograph of Ieshia Evans‘ soulful strength in the face of militaristic policing. See it here.

Bachman’s picture sums the American condition.

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The All Lives Matter movement — and other murderous stupidities from the White Establishment — Jonathan Bachman’s Reuters photograph sums the American condition