Welsh female rugby captain, 18, is cleared of racially aggravated assault - "A female rugby player was today cleared of racially abusing and hitting a friend when they fell out over taking the knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Bryonie King, 18, was accused of calling Jasmine Rampton the N-word and leaving her in a 'crumpled heap' after punching her. Both teenagers were students at Hartpury College in Gloucestershire... Miss Rampton, 18, claimed King used extreme racist language after she challenged her for not taking the knee before a game. She told a jury she was punched seven or eight times by King, the current captain of the Welsh Women's Rugby League team... She said: 'I was asked why I hadn't taken the knee and I reiterated that all lives matter. She told me I should educate myself. 'She began to raise her voice and became angry with me. 'I feel that taking the knee has gone on for too long but people were still doing it for their own reasons."
Anti-racism means a white person can attack a mixed (?) person and use an otherwise forbidden word because the latter refuses to kowtow to woke theology
Meme - Michael O'Fallon - Sovereign Nations @SovMichael: "In the whole "Christ is King" (a true statement) and "Christ is Lord" (a true statement) integralist movement controversy, you really can't blame people that are noticing that there are some commonalities to the Black Lives Matter (a true statement) movement. I mean..."
"*Black background, white capital letters*: BLACK LIVES MATTER
*Black background, white capital letters*: CHRIST IS LORD"
There Will Be No George Floyd 2.0 - "Reed’s killing set into motion a familiar ritual. Community activists called for the scalps of the officers involved in the shooting. Left-wing activist groups and local legislators — including Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson — rushed to express their shock and outrage at the scourge of police brutality and systemic racism. Protests mobilized on the streets of Chicago, clashing with law enforcement and blocking an intersection outside a police station. (Reed’s brother was arrested at the protest.) Tearful family members recounted stories of Reed’s angelic innocence to a swarm of sympathetic journalists, and they appeared alongside local activists at a press conference, brandishing Justice for Dexter Reed! signs: The media, never one to miss the opportunity to fan the flames of racial hostility, went to great lengths to portray Reed as a faultless victim — another tragic casualty of a racist, unjust system... From the opening paragraphs of the Post report, one could be forgiven for thinking that Reed was mercilessly executed in cold blood... It wasn’t until the eighth paragraph of the piece that the Post saw fit to inform readers of the proximate cause of the shooting — i.e. that, according to the civilian oversight review, Reed belligerently refused to follow orders, drew a (unlawfully possessed) handgun, and began shooting at police. Of course, the widely repeated shibboleth about police brutality toward black men is, as an empirical matter, nonsense. According to the Washington Post’s own police shootings database, a total of 162 unarmed black men have been shot by police from 2015 through 2023 — an average of 18 a year, in a nation of more than 330 million. Well over 2,000 police officers were killed in the line of duty over the same time period, according to the National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund. But that hasn’t prevented the mass mobilization of left-wing forces, based on the fraudulent premise of systemic racism, in the past. Black Lives Matter in 2020 represented the largest protest movement in American history — and it achieved something akin to a revolutionary coup in many of the nation’s power centers. At numerous junctures, this was enabled by conservative complicity. When an orgy of violence, rioting, looting, and destruction broke out in the wake of George Floyd’s death, Republicans were dazed. Some, such as Sen. Tim Scott, took the opportunity to enthusiastically affirm the BLM narrative. Others, such as Sen. Mitt Romney, marched with BLM themselves. Across the country, Republican leaders watched silently as radicals marched through their institutions... The Left might pine for a George Floyd redux. (We’re only six months out from an election, after all; and these days, what’s an election year without a few good old-fashioned race riots?) But they shouldn’t hold their breath. The simple fact is that the conditions that enabled the rolling revolution of 2020 were specific and unique — and while they may have left a legacy that endures to this day, they are unlikely to fully resurface anytime soon. The most obvious of those novel conditions was the pandemic — and specifically, the fact that the spark that lit the wildfire came during the most draconian period of lockdowns, when large swaths of the country had been marinating in something akin to mass solitary confinement for months. Another factor was President Donald Trump, who invited a unique hatred from the left-wing base and an unprecedented hysteria from left-wing elites, and who served, in the minds of both demographics, as a constant, ever-present reminder of America’s white supremacist evil. (Once Democrats took back the White House, of course, the U.S. miraculously became a good and decent country again). But the most interesting difference lies in the disposition of the Right. For all its impotence, the conservative movement is unlikely to tolerate another summer of love on the scale of the George Floyd riots — or, at least, to tolerate it to the extent they did in 2020"
Nate Hochman on X - "This point hasn't been made enough: The fact that, in a nation of 330 million people, only 18 unarmed black men are shot by police per year is actually something of a miracle."
Wilfred Reilly on X - "It really is amazing what a complete lie the entire BLM narrative was."
NC Optimist on X - "Statistically, an unarmed black man has a better chance of being drafted into the NBA than being shot by the police."
Wilfred Reilly on X - "Interesting and - amazingly - accurate. The numbers in play are ~60 annually (minus 10-14 white Europeans) vs 18."
George Floyd Revisited: Derek Chauvin Was Wrongfully Convicted - " Dr. John Dunn contacted journalist Jack Cashill early on in this matter with his concerns about the information in the autopsy. Dunn had read the autopsy report and concluded that Floyd died of natural causes, most likely cardiac arrest from severe heart disease, exertion, and excitement. The methamphetamine in his system could have made his heart more irritable to add to the risk of cardiac arrest. The fentanyl in his system was not a factor, since the blood level of 11 nanograms was not lethal for a frequent user and he was not acting like a fentanyl overdose, which causes lethargy, unconsciousness and slowed breathing, then death from respiratory failure. Dunn was alarmed by Baker’s final autopsy report, released a week after the original. During that week, among other outrages, rioters set fire to the MPD Third Precinct house, totaling it. Baker could feel the heat and not just from the arson. An exhibit released later by Judge Peter Cahill memorialized a November 2020 meeting held by state prosecutors with Dr. Roger Mitchell, the District of Columbia medical examiner. In the meeting, Mitchell boasted of how he compelled Baker to change his initial autopsy report to include death from neck compression, a homicide. If Baker balked, Mitchell promised to denounce him in a Washington Post op-ed. Baker yielded. Under threat from Mitchell, he titled his revised autopsy report, “Cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression... Excited delirium, originally known as Bell’s Mania, had a more than 50 percent death rate before medications became available to sedate extremely agitated psychiatric patients. The deaths come from dehydration, hyperthermia, organ failure, and heart problems, including death from cardiac arrest. In 2008 the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) commissioned 18 physician experts to draft a monograph on excited delirium. It was well received in 2009 when released. In June 2021, the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates publicly condemned the excited delirium diagnosis in sudden death cases like Floyd’s because it might exonerate police officers. The action by the AMA was no surprise since the AMA Board of Trustees had already declared its support for critical race theory, DEI, and anti-police campaigns. Under pressure from social justice warriors in the medical community, ACEP removed the excited delirium monograph from its website. Sensing trouble to come, Dr. Dunn downloaded a copy before activists made it disappear. It is well known that panic/anxiety attacks cause a shortness of breath, often to the point of fainting. Mr. Floyd was noisy and talkative to the end. Although anxious, he was breathing well and not apparently short of breath. The prosecution’s medical experts claimed that the officers impaired Floyd’s breathing by putting pressure on his shoulder and neck, but they were silent on the obvious, namely that the muscle for breathing, the diaphragm, is inside the lower chest. It is protected by the ribs. That’s why the restraint is safe and not lethal. In June 2021 Dr. Dunn made a video, available on Rumble, testing the prosecution thesis. For ten minutes, a man roughly the weight of Derek Chauvin restrained a man roughly the weight of George Floyd using the same technique Chauvin used on Floyd. Dunn repeated the experiment two more times in December 2023 and January 2024. In these tests Dunn, slightly heavier than Chauvin, played Floyd’s role with a man about the same height and weight as Floyd, 6 feet 4 inches and 220 pounds, played the role of Chauvin. In all three demonstrations, the restraint proved harmless. The oxygen levels of the man restrained remained in the normal range — above 95 percent saturation — throughout the entire ten minute exercise. The proper conclusion on the cause of death was right there in the autopsy’s findings. The state prosecutors knew about Mitchell’s threats and Baker’s original impression of no homicide. Baker testified in the trial of April 2021 that no one coerced him. The prosecutors presented that testimony, knowing it to be false, and Judge Cahill allowed it."
Richard Hanania on X - "Home Depot fired an employee for writing “BLM” on his apron because they have a rule against political slogans on the job. The National Labor Relations Board just forced the company to rehire him with back pay. They want to make the world into a college campus."
Good luck if you write a right wing slogan
Meme - White Woman wearing "Vote Blue no matter who" T-shirt: "DEFUND THE POLICE! BLack Lives Matter!"
*punched in face by black man in hoodie
The Inauthenticity Behind Black Lives Matter - WSJ - " Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina gave a remarkable speech at this year’s Republican National Convention. Yes, here was a black man at a GOP event, so there was a whiff of identity politics. When we see color these days, we expect ideology to follow. But Mr. Scott’s charisma that night was simply that he spoke as a person, not a spokesperson for his color. Burgess Owens, Herschel Walker, Daniel Cameron and several others did the same. It was a parade of individuals. And in their speeches the human being stepped out from behind the identity, telling personal stories that reached for human connections with the American people—this rather than the usual posturing for leverage with tales of grievance. So they were all fresh and compelling... The old [racial order] began in what might be called America’s Great Confession. In passing the 1964 Civil Rights Act, America effectively confessed to a long and terrible collusion with the evil of racism. (President Kennedy was the first president to acknowledge that civil rights was a “moral issue.”) This triggered nothing less than a crisis of moral authority that threatened the very legitimacy of American democracy. Even today, almost 60 years beyond the Civil Rights Act, groups like Black Lives Matter, along with a vast grievance industry, use America’s insecure moral authority around race as an opportunity to assert themselves. Doesn’t BLM dwell in a space made for it by America’s racial self-doubt? In the culture, whites and American institutions are effectively mandated by this confession to prove their innocence of racism as a condition of moral legitimacy. Blacks, in turn, are mandated to honor their new freedom by developing into educational and economic parity with whites. If whites achieve racial innocence and blacks develop into parity with whites, then America will have overcome its original sin. Democracy will have become manifest. This was America’s post-confession bargain between the races—innocence on the white hand, development on the black. It defined the old order with which those convention speakers seemed to break. But there is a problem with these mandates: To achieve their ends, they both need blacks to be victims... This is a corruption because it makes black suffering into a moral power to be wielded, rather than a condition to be overcome... Yet there is an elephant in the room. It is simply that we blacks aren’t much victimized any more. Today we are free to build a life that won’t be stunted by racial persecution. Today we are far more likely to encounter racial preferences than racial discrimination. Moreover, we live in a society that generally shows us goodwill—a society that has isolated racism as its most unforgivable sin. This lack of victimization amounts to an “absence of malice” that profoundly threatens the victim-focused black identity. Who are we without the malice of racism? Can we be black without being victims? The great diminishment (not eradication) of racism since the ’60s means that our victim-focused identity has become an anachronism. Well suited for the past, it strains for relevance in the present. Thus, for many blacks today—especially the young—there is a feeling of inauthenticity, that one is only thinly black because one isn’t racially persecuted. “Systemic racism” is a term that tries to recover authenticity for a less and less convincing black identity. This racism is really more compensatory than systemic. It was invented to make up for the increasing absence of the real thing. This summer, in cities from Portland, Ore., to Baltimore, black protest seemed driven more by the angst of inauthenticity than by any real menace. The protests themselves came off as theater. There were costumes, masks and well-rehearsed mimes of confrontation and outrage. The violence was destructive, but only to a point. After all it was calibrated to go on for months. In the summer of 2020, self-consciousness replaced spontaneity as the essence of youthful protest in America—yet another sign that there is not enough real victimization to light the sort of fire that burned down Detroit in the ’60s. I doubt that any of the black speakers at the RNC would argue that racism has vanished from American life. What makes them harbingers of a new racial order is that they unpair victimization from identity. Victimization may be an experience we endure, but it should never be an identity that defines us. They all spoke as American citizens in a spirit of citizenship. This is the great challenge that always awaits the oppressed after freedom is achieved. If only out of loyalty to our past (all this suffering has to mean something), we will feel compelled to make victimization the centerpiece of our identity today. This will seem the authentic and honorable thing to do. But it will only further invest us in precisely the fruitless tangle of identity and woundedness that mires us in the past. We should never deny the past, but it should only inform and inspire. In the end, only one achievement will turn us from the old victim-focused racial order toward a new, nonracial order: the full and unqualified acceptance of our freedom. We don’t have to fight for freedom so much any more. We have to do something more difficult—fully accept that we are free."
From 2020
Recent protesters are more diverse, younger than Americans overall - "Black Americans account for 17% of those who say they attended a protest focused on race or racial equality in the last month, compared with their 11% share of all adults in the survey... 46% of those who said they attended a protest focused on race in the last month are white... When it comes to political party affiliation, about eight-in-ten (79%) of those who say they participated in a protest or rally focused on race or racial equality in the last month identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party, while just 17% say they are Republican or Republican-leaning."
From 2020. BLM reflects white liberal neuroses
Thread by @EricsElectrons on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I once dated a girl who works in admissions for one of the top 30 best colleges in the world. She one day stopped answering my texts out of nowhere. I was going to live & let live, but this time I wanted an explanation so I called her after not hearing from her for 2 weeks. She answered very calmly but measured as if she was getting interviewed or something. She also was acting as if everything was fine between us. After some small talk I straight up asked her, “Why did you ghost me and decide to talk today?” What she said was stupefying. This girl said with her whole chest, “I was exploring your social media pages and I just can’t stand by your views on black lives. I just think it’s anti-black and you don’t care about black lives lost to police violence.” I paused for a moment before responding. I sternly asked, “Do you really believe, as a self-described white woman, you care more about black lives more than me, what many would call a black man, just because I’m critical of Black Lives Matter as a movement?” She was at a loss for words for at least 5 seconds. Her tone changed to something that is reminiscent of a mother scolding her child and said, “It’s not that you are anti-black directly, but your views are and you’re aiding white supremacy whether you know it or not.” I was about ready to go off on her but then she also said, “I also didn’t like your comments about how universities discriminate against Asian applicants. I’m in admissions. That’s not happening. You wouldn’t know that because you’re not in admissions.” I cut in & said, “But you know more about BLM issues than me as a white woman?” She then said, “That’s different. I don’t know more than you but I do think you can be mislead.” I agreed & said, “I can but at least I’m aware of that. You’re not & you’re making an argument from authority. Are you even aware of the lawsuit against Harvard?” She says, “I don’t have to know. Every university has a slightly different admissions process. You can’t say we are all discriminating against Asian people.” I corrected her by saying I never said all are doing that. I just said that the top schools (including hers) are. She said, “It takes a special type of arrogance to think you know the admissions process.” I replied, “It takes a special type of arrogance & racism as a white leftist woman to think you can tell a black man that he doesn’t care about black people.” She lost it. “How DARE you call me a racist. I have done so much to amplify black voices and make sure they have an equitable process through admissions.” I replied, “So you can influence the admissions process with your political views? That right there puts my case to rest.” She then states the obvious that this won’t work out and how I just don’t get it and I interrupt her by saying, “Yea, I don’t do well with racists that disguise their left leaning racism as equity and inclusion.” The call ends because she hangs up on me. 😂 The end."
Black voices only matter when they push the left wing agenda
i/o on X - "Dexter, Michigan is one of the richest towns in the Midwest. Its schools emphasize antiracism and black history, are explicitly committed to BLM, post antiracist materials on walls, and "prioritiz[e] the safety of Black students." Only 1 out of every 500 residents is black."
iamyesyouareno on X - "White firefighter saves a black man’s life who was overdosing on drugs, the black man then shoots the firefighter when they asked if he had any firearms on him. Another attack that will get no media attention because it doesn’t fit the narrative."
Mitchell F. Lundgaard - National Fallen Firefighters Foundation - "Mitch was a 14-year veteran of the Appleton Fire Department when he tragically lost his life in the line of duty. It started as a routine medical call at the city’s transit center, when a man who had been revived after a drug overdose opened fire on police officers and firefighters who had just saved his life. Mitch died of a gunshot wound to the chest."
Appleton firefighter shooting: Name change allowed man to go free - "The shooter, Ruben Houston, died in a shootout with police... He said a judge reduced Houston's bail from the $5,000 requested by his office to $500 because neither the district attorney nor the court was aware Houston had a long criminal history... Houston simply added an "o" to the name Huston."
The left claim no one says "fuck the fire department". So they'll blame the police for his death
Meme - Luke Rudkowski @Lukewearechange: "TALK ABOUT BAD OPTICS!!! WOW
"The early Ashanti Empire economy depended on the gold trade in the 1700s, by the early 1800s it had become a major exporter of enslaved people. ""
"Kente Cloth was worn by the Ashanti Empire. Who became very rich selling slaves." *Democrats playing dress-up*
RPS board declares Black Lives Matter 'government speech - "The Rochester Public Schools board voted unanimously Tuesday evening to make several phrases and images, including "Black Lives Matter," government speech, meaning the school can't be held liable for allowing those views while not allowing opposing views... By declaring certain phrases involving the Black Lives Matter movement as government speech, the board is protecting itself from legal action because it is allowing one type of speech, but not any speech in opposition to those phrases. But it's not just "Black lives matter," in Rochester schools, speech concerning "Brown lives matter," "Indigenous lives matter, "Stop Asian hate", as well as the pride flag, are now all declared official government speech... Rumors circulated online suggesting RPS was asking teachers to remove "Black Lives Matter" messages from classrooms. That's why the board took action - passing the formal resolution."
We will still be told that they are the "Resistance", and that elite capture is not real, and that the government doesn't support BLM
Playing the Race Card on Larry Elder - "The self-described “Sage from South-Central” maintains that criminals, not the police, are the biggest threat in the black community. According to Elder, the false narrative about lethal police racism has only led to more black homicide deaths. “When you reduce the possibility of a bad guy getting caught, getting convicted and getting incarcerated, guess what? Crime goes up,” he said recently at a campaign event in Orange County. Elder also rejects the charge that white civilians are gunning down blacks, as LeBron James maintained in a tweet during the George Floyd riots: “We are literally hunted everyday, every time we step outside the comfort of our homes.” Elder has a different take. If a “young black man is eight times more likely to be killed by another young black man than [by] a young white man”... then “systemic racism is not the problem.” Such statements are anathema to the establishment Left, deeply invested as it is in the idea that blacks have little agency in the face of ubiquitous white racism. Few subjects are more taboo in elite discourse than the elevated rate of crime among blacks, as it suggests cultural pathologies that—at the very least—complicate the victim narrative. To the Left, black crime is little more than a racist fiction... Unfortunately for Elder’s critics, the statistics showing vastly disproportionate rates of black crime and victimization come from some of the Left’s favorite sources. CDC data... What about the claim that blacks don’t “disproportionately victimize whites”? In 2019, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics survey of criminal victimization, blacks committed 127,350 non-lethal violent crimes against whites, while whites committed 17,690 non-lethal violent crimes against blacks. In other words, blacks commit 88 percent of all interracial violence between blacks and whites. Crime apologists argue that such disproportions are inevitable because there are so many whites in the U.S. But in cities where racial ratios are more commensurate, the amount of white-on-black violence remains negligible. Occasionally videos and reports of interracial violence—flash mobs, knockout games, and brutal beatings and robberies—become public. If the races were reversed, there would be a national uproar lasting months; but such incidents get scant, if any, mainstream media coverage. They are the reason why the press has all but eliminated reporting on the race of crime suspects. Such voluntary action is not enough to ensure public cluelessness about the reality of crime, however. Governor Newsom recently signed a law prohibiting California’s police departments from posting mugshots of arrested criminals if their latest crime was “non-violent.” The San Francisco Police Department has stopped posting mugshots of all criminals. Police Chief Bill Scott explained that doing so “creates an illusory correlation for viewers that vastly overstates the propensity of Black and brown men to engage in criminal behavior.” Actually, mug shots document a real correlation. If the San Francisco Police Department could undercut that correlation by posting mugshots of white muggers, does anyone doubt that it would rush to do so?... Fifty police officers have been murdered this year as of August 25. In 2019, there were 697,195 sworn officers in the U.S. That employment count would be lower now, in light of the rush of officer retirements over the last year and a half and the inability of police departments to recruit replacements. Conservatively, using the 2019 number, however, those 50 officers represent a rate of approximately seven officers killed per 100,000 on the job. Four unarmed blacks have been fatally shot by police officers so far in 2021, according to the Washington Post. (“Unarmed” does not mean compliant; the Post’s category includes crime suspects who violently resist arrest, pummel officers after knocking them to the ground, and continue fighting after being tased.) Those four black victims represent .0000085 percent of the nearly 47 million self-identified blacks, or less than one one-hundredth of one person killed by the police per 100,000. A police officer is 875 times as likely to be killed on the job as an unarmed black is to be killed by a police officer. Historically, blacks have made up over 40 percent of cop killers nationwide—43 percent between 2005 and 2013—though they are, at most, 13 percent of the nation’s population... A police officer is 375 times as likely to be killed by a black suspect as an unarmed black is to be killed by a police officer. Elder is breaking the taboos about black crime in an effort to save black lives. Police activity must be understood in the context of crime, not simple population ratios, since policing today is data-driven. Cops go where people are most being victimized, and that is in black neighborhoods. The police cannot protect black victims without having a disparate impact on black criminals. But the lies directed against cops from the highest reaches of government have led the police to back off... Assaults on officers also rose in 2020. Since the George Floyd riots, officers in California have been shot at, assaulted with lethal projectiles, firebombed, and run over. In September 2020, long-time felon Deonte Murray walked up to the parked squad car of two Los Angeles County Sherriff’s deputies and shot them both in the head as they sat inside. Bystanders cheered; anticop protesters continued the celebration later at the hospital, as the deputies struggled on life support. Yet despite this open season on cops, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón declared in December 2020 that officers’ authority may be resisted with impunity and will not be prosecuted—a declaration that strikes at the heart of civilization itself, as Elder understands. Trying to ensure that blacks get the policing they need in order to stay alive would not seem to be the gesture of a white supremacist, black or white. If Elder were running as a Democrat, the press would be celebrating the possibility of California’s first black governor. Instead, we hear nothing about “shattering glass ceilings” or “diversifying” the ruling elite. The New York Times ran an entire front-page article on Elder’s candidacy without once mentioning that he was black. (The article did claim in passing that Elder was an affirmative-action admit to Brown University, an unthinkable charge regarding a black liberal.) A column by Paul Krugman two days later was equally colorblind regarding the Elder candidacy. Has the Times renounced identity politics? Only selectively. Adjacent to the August 25 front-page article was a story on New York’s new governor, headlined “Hochul Breaks a Barrier and Pledges a New Era.” The story opened with the observation that “Kathleen C. Hochul became the first woman to ascend to New York’s highest office on Tuesday.” Yet Hochul’s entry into the governor’s mansion in Albany does not even signify anything about gubernatorial voting patterns; she was not elected but slotted in after Andrew Cuomo’s resignation. Black governors have been much rarer than female ones. Elder would lead the nation’s largest state and be just the third black governor ever elected in the United States, following Douglas Wilder in Virginia and Deval Patrick in Massachusetts."
