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oh wow, ahead of him. did she at least honor him at all?
unlike leftist msm and daily black on white murder, blm child murder, cops being murdered, you know, being totally ignored and criminal george floyd being made a national icon/hero?
you mean like that stuff?
What one side does wrong does not make the other side right. You know that. I stand firmly by what I said about the rioters and Melania, but here goes. I am going to talk about BLM, because as most of you deny, most Biden voters don’t really feel that comfortable with BLM.
The problem with BLM is that it focuses on one thing and one thing only: law enforcement and there are a million other things that need focusing on. In focusing on that one thing, it throws the entire law enforcement community under the bus (or at least that is their perception, and perception is reality in my view). We need law enforcement badly. Only idiots would deny that, and the underclass Black community absolutely needs it most (not meaning to include more prosperous middle class Black communities, although my guess is that they need law enforcement pretty badly too.)
Here’s what I said to a Black friend of mine.
Yes, many Police Departments need reform and bad apples needed to be weeded out. But we need to constantly remind ourselves how a healthy society needs law enforcement and needs to SUPPORT our law enforcement officers.
I would have way less objection to BLM if it
did not ONLY focus on law enforcement. That ONLY part is what makes law enforcement officers feel totally disrespected, when there are so many other things to focus on too.
What if there were an umbrella organization BLM with a number of subdivisions including:
Black Lives Matter in Policing: focused on Police Department Reform and Community Policing
Black Lives Matter in Entrepreneurshp: focused on keeping money within the Black community
Black Lives Matter in Black on Black Crime (the elephant in the room. This is exactly why law enforcement is so desperately needed in these communities)
Black Lives Matter in Unemployment: focused on job fairs, interviewing, tax strategies for bringing employers into the community.
Those are the views of a Centrist. But on Twitter (and this Board), you would never know that there were any Centrists in America. I cannot tell you the exact mix of “progressives” versus “moderates” within the Democratic Party, but all I can say is there are LOTS of people I know who feel like I do.