Black Lives Don't Matter
By Daniel Greenfield
SultanKnish.Blogspot.com
The slogan of the wave of Ferguson protests is
“Black Lives Matter”. But progressives are far more
interested in toting around the corpse of Michael
Brown to their protests than in the living man he
was.
Trayvon
Martin, Michael Brown and countless others like them
grew up in broken families, their lives haunted by
fathers and stepfathers with gang ties. The only
masculine culture they had was that of the thug and
that culture eventually killed them.
Criminal culture is even more fatal to criminals
than it is to their victims. If you attack enough
people, eventually one of them will fight back.
Eventually one of them will kill you.
It wasn’t Darren Wilson who decided that black lives
don’t matter. Michael Brown did. He did not grow up
with a sense that his life was worth anything more
than violent posturing could make of it. Just like
Martin, that violent posturing eventually killed
him.
Rappers recorded a tribute song to Michael Brown
titled, “Don’t Shoot”. But Brown’s own songs had a
different theme with lyrics like “My favorite part
of killing people is when they hit the ground.”
Black criminals victimize other black people first.
The Ferguson looters went after businesses serving
the black community and businesses owned by black
people. That’s the way it always is.
Which black lives really matter in Missouri; the
lives of criminals shot by police officers or the
black lives taken by criminals?
Missouri has a black homicide rate that is nearly
double the nationwide homicide rate for black
people. And it’s nearly six times higher than the
overall murder rate in Missouri.
If the media were really outraged by lost black
lives, they would be outraged by those numbers. If
the protesters really wanted to say that black lives
matter, they would fight those murder rates instead
of contributing to them with their protests. The
story of Missouri’s murder rate is the story of the
left. From the beginning to the end of the 1960s,
murder rates doubled, rapes, robberies and car
thefts doubled, assaults tripled and thefts
quadrupled.
A decade in which America changed left a bloody
trail of death and misery in its wake. The victims
of the left’s transformation of America filled the
gutters, morgues, prisons and hospitals.
When Giuliani pointed out that the police were there
to protect black people, he was asserting that black
lives matter. And unlike every single one of his
self-righteous critics, he actually saved black
lives.
The decision of his Socialist successor, Bill de
Blasio, to move criminals back into housing projects
was a statement that they don’t. Housing projects in
the pre-Giuliani era belonged to drug dealers.
Getting criminals out of housing projects saved
black lives, especially those of children.
The “Black Lives Matter” protesters claim that
there’s a crisis of police shootings. There isn’t.
There is a crisis of young black men shooting each
other.
After the shooting of drug dealer Derrick Jones,
the NAACP breathlessly reported that 37 black people
were shot by police in Oakland over four years.
Meanwhile there were 1,594 shooting victims in
Oakland in one year.
The vast majority of the perpetrators were black.
The majority of murder victims were young black men.
So were their killers. The leading cause of death
for young black men is murder. The perpetrators are
other young black men.
If black lives really mattered, then the life of a
young black man shot down by a criminal would matter
at least as much as Michael Brown. But those black
lives don’t matter.
The progressive Ferguson protesters not only don’t
care about them, but they want to take more black
lives by empowering criminals and crippling the
police.
The gang is to the black community as the cartel is
to lawless parts of Mexico, except that the American
equivalents of the Narcocorrido, the songs
glamorizing cartel drug dealers, are distributed by
major music labels and their performers are invited
to the White House.
While Mexico tries to fight drug and gang music,
American progressives make it mainstream.
Gang culture in Black America, which is responsible
for most of the gun violence in the country, isn’t
the work of a few thugs in a burned out building;
it’s promoted by progressives in the entertainment
industry. The black lives taken by its glamorization
of drug dealing and violent killing also don’t
matter.
You don’t show that black lives matter by supporting
criminal control over entire black neighborhoods.
When you fight the criminals who are taking black
lives, when you roll back crime, then you show that
black lives really matter. When you help criminals
you are announcing that black lives don’t matter.
Despite its self-righteousness about black lives
mattering, the left isn’t any good at saving them.
It is however really good at taking them. Planned
Parenthood’s black outreach arm announced on Twitter
that it was joining the Ferguson protests because
#BlackLivesMatter.
More African-American lives were ended at abortion
clinics in the United States than anywhere else. But
those black lives also don’t matter.
The 6,000 black people murdered in one year don’t
matter. The 400,000 black babies killed in one year
don’t matter. Does a black man have to be killed by
a white cop for his life to matter to the left?
That’s the only conclusion that can be drawn from
Ferguson.
To the #BlackLivesMatter crowd, the furious white
hipsters crowding malls and staging die-ins, black
lives only matter when they feed their own political
agendas, their grudges and their own egos.
If black lives really mattered to the left, it would
not have built an entire industry, an entire culture
and an entire political movement around taking them.
Progressives
only care about black people when they’re using them
as weapons. For black lives to matter to them, they
have to be dead at the hands of a white man. For
black unemployment to matter to them, they have to
be able to blame it on Republicans. Black poverty,
black homelessness only matter to them when they can
cash in on a social justice solution that doesn’t
fix the problem.
The rest of the time they don’t pay attention and
don’t care.
Black people exist for the political convenience of
progressives. Black lives don’t matter to them
except when they can make use of them. The
master-slave relationship has shifted from the
plantation to the poll inflating the self-esteem and
power of the masters while destroying the lives of
their slaves.
The Ferguson protests are not about saving black
lives, but promoting the pro-crime politics that
take them. Its message is that all black people are
criminals and have to be protected from law
enforcement. By turning Michael Brown into the
ubiquitous black man, the left reveals how racist it
really is.
If black lives truly matter, then they matter when
the conditions of their misery can’t be blamed on
white people. If black lives truly mattered to the
protesters, they would fight crime instead of
supporting the criminals taking black lives.