My Response

During the last month, we have witnessed the blatant destruction of property and pointless deaths and injuries of bystanders and police by rioters. Regrettably, this chaos started with the senseless and cruel death of a black man at the hands of the police. The entire nation was horrified, but that critical moment was soon lost as the protests were hijacked by looters and thugs and quickly turned to riots.

In the ensuing days, the Black Lives Matter movement gained power by quantum leaps. Their resentful and hate-filled rhetoric toward whites and the nation produced a humiliating response from white leaders across the country. We have seen whites kneeling and even lying prostrate and asking forgiveness. These acts of contrived remorse are supposed to demonstrate that those whites are sorry for the accumulated wrongs done to blacks. However, anyone sharing a different opinion than that of the Black Lives Matter movement is immediately condemned and marginalized as a racist.

I have stood against prejudice all my life, whether racial or class; it makes no difference; it is all sinful. Is there racial prejudice by police towards blacks? I think we can all be sure of that because we have seen evidence of it. We have also seen evidence of prejudice and hatred from blacks to whites and toward the police. We can all agree there is racial injustice; what we cannot agree on is the solution. We can all agree that there is privilege. It exists in every country and every culture. Stalin condemned the educated because they were more privileged. Hitler condemned the Jews because they were more prosperous. Condemning one whole race of people based on their skin color or ethnicity or privilege is reprehensible. Can we not remember the history that tells us this has been done over and over?  One group denounces an entire race as the cause of their pain and demands that they acknowledge the wrong. I mention just a few: Rwanda genocide, the Armenian genocide, the Jewish genocide, Stalin and the gulags, Mao Zedong and the Chinese, and how about the Native American and the list goes on and on. It always begins by pointing out how one race or group is at fault and needs to pay for their sins. There is almost always a cultural cleansing of unacceptable books, statues, historical monuments and property. Justified stealing from these people is encouraged. Remember, however, in all these attempts to rid the countries of injustice, they failed to deliver the utopias they promised.

I am amazed at how many businesses and individuals feel compelled to bow down before the Black Lives Matter movement and appease them, and it is Appeasement! There is this panic to prove to the bully that “I am not a racist.”

The truth is Black Lives Matter is not about race; it’s about taking over the power of this country. It’s about changing it from the bottom up. That is clear in the choice of historical monuments being destroyed. For example, several statues of Abraham Lincoln have been toppled while the statue of Stephen Douglas is allowed to stand. Lincoln gave his life to end slavery, and Douglas defended slavery. What we see in this country is subversive, and we are on the brink of anarchy. We need God’s help to keep our nation safe. However, it is time for people who love this country to take a stand. I want to deal with all inequality in a meaningful way, but I condemn demagoguery no matter who it is. Black Lives Matter is code for we want to destroy the country and start over with a Socialistic/Communistic system.  It’s time to take our country back from the hands of anarchists.

Anyone who has lived abroad and experienced world poverty and injustice knows that we may have problems here, but we are so far ahead of most of the world. There is a reason people keep coming to this country by the millions.