BLACK LIVES MATTER

You forgot to tell me what you wanted me to do about it.

I agree with you. If you'd like to talk to me, feel free to send me an email. I'm willing to talk, rather than just mill around making noise and blocking traffic.

Black Lives Matter more than that.

Of course, nobody has to listen - either way.

The truth is, North America is a white society. That's why black people in it are called a minority. You may not like it; you may not agree with it; you may not even believe it, but that's the way it is. We used to have two societies, one black and one white. It was called segregation. Enough black people didn't like it that we got rid of it. There are still little black societies all over the USA, mostly in big cities. They are called ghettos. Live in one of them if you like. But if you want the whole country to be black, you gotta move to someplace in Africa, or maybe in the Caribbean, 'cause it just ain't gonna happen here.

You don't have to be white to live in a white society any more than you have to be Christian to live in a Christian society, if there is such a thing. But every society has customs and unwritten rules of conduct that mark its members as part of the group and those who don't comply as being different and alien. In a white society, one mark of membership is obviously being white, but that is only a very small part of membership identification in the mostly white United States. If the only difference between you and most of the other people around you is the color of your skin, few people will give it a second thought. But if you make yourself conspicuous by dressing, grooming, talking and doing everything else differently than most other people, especially if it annoys them, they're going to think you don't belong and treat you that way, and they'll be right!

There are legal and effective ways to change what you don't like in this Country, but you aren't using a single one of them. That's why you're having so much trouble getting the respect you want. You're doing it wrong!

I'm about two and half times as old as the average black person, and almost twice as old as the average whitey. I know from experience that you're making the same mistakes as the "By Any Means Necessary" movement, the "I Am A Man" movement, the "Burn, Baby, Burn" movement, the "Black is Beautiful" movement, the "Freedom Now" movement, the "We Shall Overcome" movement, the "Power to the People" movement, the "I Have a Dream" movement, and the "Black Power" movement. They didn't accomplish anything lasting, either. Marching to Selma just gets you to Selma. I've been there. Trust me, it ain't worth the trip!

Now it's the "Black Lives Matter" movement. What's it going to be next month?

You keep making the same mistakes over and over again, and you keep getting the same results, the same as ISIS. Expecting a different outcome is called insanity!

You know about ISIS. Those people are real badasses. They don't just shoot a cop here and there or just kill somebody and take a picture or wipe their asses with somebody else's flag. They take over whole cities! They line people up and cut off their heads and post videos of it on international television!

You're all Americans. When did Americans ever let a bunch of unwashed morally bankrupt thugs make us do things?

ISIS is losing people, land and credibility because they're dumb as low grade rocks. They think they can win a war against Americans, just like the Japs. Just like the Nazis.

ISIS has rifles and machine guns and rocket launchers and even a few old rusty tanks and artillery pieces. We have brand new weapons and factories and international industry and aircraft and bombs and artillery and tear gas and nuclear weapons and the smartest people in the whole world!

Right now we're letting Iraq and Syria deal with ISIS because ISIS is not even a minor annoyance here. Those people who claim they're fighting for ISIS here are just common thugs. Their lives don't even matter to each other. I say shoot the sons of bitches dead and be done with them! If we ever decide the real ISIS people are irritating enough that we have to do something about them, we'll squash them like the cockroaches they are!

Their lives don't matter at all - even to themselves!

There's an old movie called "Gone With The Wind" about the US Civil War. You may have seen it, the slave owners thought they could win a war with nothing more than demonstration and noise. They were stupid.

Just like some people today!

I grew up with people called "mobsters." They built a criminal empire that exists to this very day. They built Las Vegas out of a crossroads saloon.

The reason they were so successful is because they were smart. One of the smartest things they did was never, ever shoot cops!

Some people don't agree with them. Those people are just not very smart! A lot of 'em are dead as well!

Black Lives Matter more than that!

About one out of every eight people who live in the United States calls himself "black." Yet almost half of all prison inmates are "black."

Almost half of all convicts sentenced to death are "black." Very nearly half of all murder victims are "black." Why?

One of the reasons is that too many black people like to commit crimes. Driving around with midnight black window tints and broken tail lights and screeching your tires while you blast through a red light is bound to attract attention from the cops. If you let them catch you doing anything illegal, even jaywalking, loitering on private property, or driving without a license or registration or proof of insurance, they have the right to stop you, search you and arrest you and take you to jail.

And if you run or fight with them, or have anything illegal on you or in the car you're driving, you just committed a felony! That's prison time, bro! "That ain't mine!" doesn't mean a damned thing as far as the law is concerned. Neither does "They disrespected me" or "They picked on me because I'm black!" Ask any good lawyer! (By the way, there are good black lawyers, but being black doesn't make them necessarily good. Choose wisely!)

Black lives matter more than that!

Another reason there are so many black convicts is that black criminals make themselves ridiculously easy to catch. They stay near the crime scene and brag about what they did. They even do it on Facebook and Twitter, sometimes even before they commit the crime. Then one of their own friends or neighbors calls the police, they pick him up, and he gets convicted with his own evidence. Could anybody be more stupid than that?

It would be nice if their loved ones worked as hard at producing information that would help exonerate them as they do to get them arrested or convicted. For example, Rakeyia Scott's cellphone video of the police encounter with her husband Keith that resulted in his death includes multiple pictures of the police cars, trees, rocks, grass, pavement, and cops. Unfortunately, there isn't a single frame that shows Mr. Scott holding the book that was not found at the scene of the tragedy or of him not holding the gun that all the cops were ordering him to drop and fitted neatly into the ankle holster he was wearing.

Mrs. Scott can also be heard several times yelling, "Don't you do it, Keith," creating in any reasonable juror's mind the logical question about whether she was pleading with him not to shoot somebody with the gun with his DNA and fingerprints on it shown next to his body moments after a black officer shot him dead - and was considered to have been "justified!" Mrs. Scott's video didn't show anything that might have led to an indictment of anyone except her husband.

Black Lives Matter more than that!

White racism doesn't even come close to the damage that black people are doing to each other. The "Black Lives Matter movement" is pissing off everyone who might otherwise be inclined to agree with or help them. If you don't give a damn what whitey thinks, whom are you trying to convince? He can't possibly do more harm to you than you are doing to yourselves - right now!

People, you have to stop murdering each other! You just have to! A recent nation-wide study revealed that non-Hispanic black men were over 10 times as likely to be murdered as their white counterparts, even though they were only 40% as likely to die by suicide. This is in addition to spouses killing each other; parents murdering their kids; siblings slaughtering siblings; leaving children to die in hot cars; eliminating babies after kidnapping them! It's just SICKENING! Who needs people who do things like that? Blaming whitey or racism or poverty or slavery or who the President is or poor community relations or oppression or anything else is a failed, cowardly excuse! Sure, those are factors in the injustices done upon you, but they are factors over which you have little, if any, control. What you DO have control over is killing each other. Just STOP! If you think you have to have a gun to do something, DON'T DO THAT!

And while I'm on the subject of things you shouldn't do, you shouldn't abandon your emotionally challenged brothers or let excuses take the place of your duty to take care of each other, especially your family! There are far too many people getting killed by cops because they "had a psychotic episode," or "they were just high." Those are excuses, and it doesn't matter how good they are if that's why somebody is arrested... or dead! If they were prone to psychotic episides, why were they running around loose scaring people half to death instead of being cared for by somebody who loved them? Where did the people who were "high" get the drugs? Why weren't they at home being sobered up instead of out in public fighing with the police and getting shot? Who is going to take care of your brother or sister and keep him or her safe and alive and out of jail if you don't do that? Whitey?

It might be a good idea also to consider whether establishing the "legitimacy of your blackness," (whatever the hell that means) is worth the catastrophic price of social rejection, discrimination, segregation and enslavement you and all of your descendants have to pay for it.

What part of "Black Lives Matter" don't you understand?

Committing crimes just isn't smart! Creating evidence about committing crimes isn't smart! Getting caught for committing any crime isn't smart! Getting caught for committing murder isn't smart! Getting convicted for committing murder isn't smart! Getting yourself murdered isn't smart, especially if you're "black."

Black Lives Matter more than that!

The "Black Lives Matter movement" isn't doing a thing about police brutality except promoting and giving the police more and more reasons to do it to you! Black people are getting killed by police in ever increasing numbers. Something ain't right here!

One of the things that "ain't right" is segregation. Ever since the end of slavery, dedicated citizens, black and white, worked to get rid of segregation so that everybody would be equal before the law.

Some of them may have been your own parents and grandparents! One of them was me.

Thanks to real black leaders like the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior and Malcolm X, their goal was achieved in 1968. The passage of the Fair Housing Act essentially ended legal segregation.

Black Lives Mattered!

For some reason, black people just turned around and reimposed segregation on their own selves. They called it Black Pride, thus demonstrating conclusively why pride has been recognized throughout history as a deadly sin! "Black" gangs, neighborhoods, music, speech, mannerisms, clothing and grooming styles, religions and even first names sprang up all over like noxious weeds!

The perniciousness of this form of segregation has perhaps been most effectually demonstrated by the recent establishment of the National Museum of African American History and Culture of the Smithsonian Institution, designed by David Adjaye, a Ghanaian British (non-American) architect. It's between 14th and 15th Streets NW, on Constitution Avenue. It opened on September 24, 2016, in a ceremony led by President Barack Obama.

To many black people, this museum represents a certification that Black Lives Matter, like the tee shirts otherwise jobless people hawk outside it, but its very existence is just one more demonstration of the manic determination of too many black Americans to be separate, (African) rather than equal (American). People are even bitching about somebody leaving "symbols of oppression and slavery" in a museum dedicated to "symbols of oppression and slavery!" What the hell?

There is a good reason that there are no German American, French American, Polish American, Chinese American, Vietnamese American or other "something American" museums. Those other people don't want them. They are all represented by the Museum of American History. They aren't marching around protesting that their lives matter, either, because everybody already recognizes that from what they have all contributed to our society!

Whatever else that museum is, as long as it stands it remains a reminder that African Americans like being unequal to other Americans. Those who think this is a good thing need to take a look around!

Black Lives Matter!

By the way, there is also a National Museum of the American Indian. They're not doing so well segregated, either.

And speaking of history, at this very moment workers are removing the last of four statues in New Orleans to Confederate war heroes who collectively represent black history, what the ancestors of black Americans overcame!

Black history matters more than that!

The deadliness of the sin of racial pride is obvious, as Michelle Obama herself pointed out. For segregated people, their life is not good. They are divided into a community that is just downright mean. They are guided by fear. They've become a society of cynics, sloths, and complacents, a population of struggling folks who are barely making it every day. They're just jammed up, and it's gotten worse over her lifetime - her words.

"Black" people can be identified not only by the color of their skin, but by the way they talk and how they wear their pants and what their names are on job applications and over the phone. It's worse now than when the Supreme Court declared "separate" as being "unequal" in 1954, almost ten years before Mrs. Obama was even born!

Now people who haven't ever seen them know they're "black!" Blind bigots can hate them, too! A recent study in Seattle and Boston found that Uber and Lyft drivers were more likely to cancel rides for people with "African American" sounding names. Is this discrimination? Sure! Whose fault is it? How did they get those strange names, anyway? Why?

How's that working out? Does it make anyone richer? More successful? More respected? Happier? What's wrong with American names, like James, John, Robert, Michael, Mary, Patricia, Jennifer or Elizabeth? Children of German, French, Polish, Chinese, and Vietnamese parents have 'em, and they don't have an ounce less of "racial pride" than you! My parents were French and German Americans, and my name is "John," not "Jacques" or "Johan," or "Guillaume" or "Wolfgang!"

Back in the days in those states where "persons of color" were not allowed to marry "white" the rule allegedly applied if you had "one drop of Negro blood." It didn't seem to matter that every person living on the earth at the time had "all black" African ancestors in prehistory. Legally "colored people" could sometimes get around the law if they were white enough to "pass" for Caucasians. Nowadays, it's the "white" people who are "passin'" for "black," even if they are indistinguishable from pure, 100% northern Europeans, One wonders what they have to gain. My wife was 1/8 Cherokee and 1/8 Blackfoot Native American. She never expressed any remorse that I know of that people "disrespected her because they didn't treat her like an Indian!"

It seems to me that if people are so proud of what they actually are, they wouldn't be into things that are so obviously fake! Fake hair, fake eyelashes, fake jewelry, fake teeth, padding and butt augmentation and hair colors and straighteners and cheap, offensive tattoos! What's wrong with the real you? Why?

It's getting worse and worse every day, even though we had a black President for eight years, without a trace of "fake!" Did things really change for the better? Check out the news!

Now, when a black-as-they-come cop in Milwaukee shoots an armed black burglar with loot still in his possession, thousands of rioters go ape shit and burn down businesses that have absolutely nothing to do with what happened.

Meanwhile, when a black mother in Houston deliberately drowns her two little (black) kids, she's described as a real nice person!

And when Philando Castile's so-called "girlfriend" Diamond Reynolds complains on her smart phone about police brutality while he lays dying beside her, nobody even suggests that he might still be alive if she had given him first aid, or called an ambulance or done anything, anything at all, to save his black life!

Why?

Is it Black Lives that matter, or just the lives of black lawbreakers? Do other lives matter, too? Do you want police to let dangerous criminals to go free as long as they're black? What's your position? What are you saying? Who's listening, do you suppose? (Besides me, of course!)

What are you doing about it? What is happening as a result? Is that really what you wanted?

One of the things you wanted is for more police body cameras. You got your wish! Now, juries can see criminals assaulting police from multiple angles, and the police get to decide what does and what does not get recorded. How many police have been convicted from body camera images? How many black suspects? Is this really a good idea?

Don't Black Lives Matter more than that?

And when somebody gets assaulted in a neighborhood where somebody else shot at a cop, the police take their time to show up, if at all. Then they arrive in force with fingers on the triggers - ready to shoot dead anybody who even looks like a cop killer!

Congratulations! How's that working out for you?

Maybe the dumbest thing ever done in the name of "Black Lives Matter" is shooting cops. Successful criminals never do that. That's why they're successful!

"Justice" has nothing to do with shooting a cop because he's white, or because some other cop he didn't even know hundreds of miles away was involved in the death of a black kid. If anybody thinks it does, he's just plain wrong - and even more stupid! That's revenge! That's racism!

Plus, the people who do that end up dead!

They shouldn't be dead! Black Lives Matter!

War with the police is a losing battle. That "no peace no justice" thing works both ways, and so far, it's working against you! Police have the law on their side - cops and judges and juries and jailers and prison wardens and executioners. They have police radios and swat teams and fast cars and helicopters with night vision and armored vehicles and tear gas and grenades and bomb-carrying robots and bulletproof vests and guns of all kinds.

They also have the legal right to kill you! That's why they have the guns! You may not like it, but that's the way it is!

Nobody I know wants to have his hard-earned tax money spent on somebody else who shoots other people, especially if those other people are police officers doing their job. Everybody wins if he loses the gunfight. Shot dead - problem solved! Next case!

Tramping around and irritating people and setting things on fire isn't going to change that. It's only going to make it worse, and guess who the losers will be! Most people like the idea that their police can kill threats to their own safety. People want them to do that. Most people's lives matter more to them than somebody else's does. You definitely aren't going to change their minds by pissing them off!

Yeah, it's probably fun to drive down a busy street, maybe near a hotel or hospital, with your windows rolled down so you can rattle whitey's rib cage with your super loud stereo, but is that going to make him respect you? Will it make him more likely to like you? Trust you? Hire you? Do business where you work? Not report you to your employer or the police if you make a mistake or goof off a little? Is pissing him off really worth what it costs you and your brothers? Really? Why?

Alicia Garza thinks there should be "police-free communities." I happen to agree with her. I would suggest that Ms. Garza consider moving to Somalia, where black people are a vast majority, law enforcement is sporadic at best, the things black people get arrested for here are considered just good ole' boys having fun there, and police there never shoot people just because they're black.

It works well here in Native American communities, where state law doesn't apply and federal law allows residents to govern themselves. It should work in African American communities as long as they stay there. Unfortunately, rabble-rousing criminals don't do that. That's the problem, they travel all over the country, stirring up trouble where other people live. That's why I want effective police presence in my neighborhood. I'm OK with the criminals getting killed if they threaten me or mine. It saves the cost of a trial, too!

For example, if the little bastard who did tens of thousands of dollars of damage shooting at our neighborhood cars and windows with his BB gun manages hopefully to get himself shot dead by somebody who claims it looked like he had a real gun, only his momma will probably be sad. Everyone else I know, including likely jurors at the shooter's trial, will consider it "good riddance." I certainly will!

And if the police kill somebody, they go to jail only if it is proved, proved mind you, that they (1) shouldn't have done it, and (2) did it with malicious intent.

Regardless of whether they should have killed him or not, if the person who got killed threatened the cops, it's not malicious intent. If he resisted arrest, it's not malicious intent. If he didn't obey the orders of the police officer, it's not malicious intent. If he displayed something that might have been a weapon, it's not malicious intent. If it looked like he was reaching for a weapon, even if the window turned out to be closed, it's not malicious intent.

If somebody called 911 and claimed that he had a weapon, or was acting hostile, it's not malicious intent. If he was a credible threat to other people, regardless of which way he was running, it's not malicious intent.

Those cases have already been decided - over and over again!

That evidence alone is enough to keep the cops who killed him from being convicted of anything, regardless of how much his life mattered.

If you're a black parent, you might want to pass this information on to your kid if he or she is carrying a gun around. Juveniles who show their guns to the cops tend to get themselves shot dead!

Regardless of their age, Black Lives Matter!

(My kids weren't allowed to have guns, but other parents think differently, even if they're actually toys that just look like real guns. I don't know why! I also don't know why they are so surprised when their kids get in trouble - or shot dead!)

And regardless of the evidence against them, killer cops don't get convicted by an inadequate quitter prosecuting attorney who was appointed because she's a black woman. Yeah, I'm talking about that inept prosecutor Marilyn Mosby and her incompetent mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.

What happens is that she loses three cases and then just quits! Then she blames somebody else - and the suspects go free to get their jobs back with back pay, and Freddie Gray is not one bit less dead.

Shouldn't his Black Life Matter more than that?

And what about all those black chiefs of police making excuses on TV about their cops shooting black people. Why are their departments having so much trouble? How did they get the job, anyway? Why?

If you appoint a mayor, or a police chief, or a prosecutor, or any other leader because they're black instead of because they're competent, you get black leadership instead of competent leadership.

There's nothing wrong with black leadership, of course; hell, we had a black President! It's just not a substitute for ability. Fortunately, President Obama had lots of that. I'll let you decide about other "black leaders."

Unfortunately, too many of President Obama's supporters pissed off the American electorate so much they managed to torpedo the candidacy of his Secretary of State (and former Senator, "the most qualified Presidential candidate in history") and elect the totally unqualified racist, egomaniacial asshole bully who followed him! How's that working out for you guys, by the way?

Black Lives Matter more than that!

According to Wikipedia, over the past two years, Two hundred seven law enforcement officers, including Border Patrol and FBI agents, black and white, died in the line of duty.

During the same period, over 800 people in the US, black and white, were killed by police or died in police custody. You can check out the statistics here. This is what they will tell you:

Forty two people were killed trying to hit police with vehicles. Eighteen police officers died by vehicular assault or by being struck by a vehicle.

Eleven more suspects were killed committing other assaults on police. Four police officers died from them.

Accidents, usually involving police cars, accounted for fifty one deaths. Forty five officers died in automobile accidents, six in motorcycle accidents, and two in aircraft accidents.

Six people in custody died while trying to escape. Seven officers died in vehicle pursuits, and one in a foot pursuit.

One hundred sixty three suspects were killed resisting arrest. Twenty six officers had heart attacks while on duty.

Seven people in custody died from previous injuries or medical conditions. Two officers died from duty related illnesses, and three more from lingering 9/11 related medical problems

Another seven victims, including officers, were involved in suicides. Two officers drowned.

An additional twenty two suspects were killed during a standoff, often involving hostages. Six officers were killed by bombs.

Officers were charged in nineteen other homicides. Twenty four others are still under investigation. Two deaths, of unidentified people, remain undetermined.

One hundred thirty two people were killed because they shot at police. Officers killed three hundred eight people who just displayed weapons, including real guns, knives, swords and fake weapons that just looked real. An additional fifteen people were killed because the police believed that they were armed. Ninety one officers were killed by gunfire.

Then your life won't matter at all - ever again!

Just so you know, the bullseye on the targets those police marksmen shoot at is over the heart! That's what they aim at when they shoot you!

Another thing everybody should know is that putting your "hands up" has never meant "don't shoot." "Hands up" with palms out is a promise of surrender! Anything you do afterward that even implies that you are breaking that promise, such as not following police instructions, or running away or getting back into your car, gives whoever you made it to the legal and moral authority to use deadly force whether or not you had a weapon!

As an example, Keenan Anderson was accused by the alledged victim of causing a traffic accident while trying to steal a car and "being in a very paranoid state," he did everything he possibly could, with his hands up, palms out, to resist arrest. This included running through traffic, disobeying police instructions, and shouting, "They're trying to George Floyd me!" I watched the police body cameras, and it appeared to my baby blue eyes that Keenan was absolutely terrified and trying his best to get away. One has to wonder if "being black," or having all that marijuana and cocaine that was found in his body, contributed to his, um, exceptionally unwise behavior at the scene of a very real traffic accident.

People who don't believe in complying with police instructions tend to end up dead! Black Lives Matter more than that!

And everybody should know the difference between police and EMTs. The police officer is not your momma or your doctor. He's there to arrest you, not soothe your hurts! If you have a "medical condition" that makes it dangerous for you to resist arrest, don't resist arrest! DUH!

Something else these tables tell you is how dangerous it is to be a criminal and where. During this time in Wyoming, for example, police killed three suspects. That's not very many, but there aren't that many people in Wyoming.

The death rate for lawbreakers in Wyoming was the third highest of any state, one for every 195,369 people living there. If you're going to commit a crime, don't plan to do it in Wyoming! They're more likely than almost anyone else to kill you!

It's about twice as safe to be a criminal in Georgia. Twenty six lawbreakers were killed in the act during this time, but there are more than seventeen times as many people in Georgia as in Wyoming so you're only half as likely to get killed committing a crime there.

On the other hand, in the last two years, twenty six people did get killed committing crimes in Georgia. Plus, Georgia is one of the foremost death penalty jurisdictions in the world! Murderers who survive a police shootout are still likely to die in prison, like Troy Davis.

Their lives don't matter anymore. They're gone!

Police in Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Vermont, American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands didn't kill anybody during this time. I wonder why! There don't seem to have been any "Black Lives Matter" demonstrations there.

They don't seem to have much crime in those places either. Why do you suppose that is?

The second table below tells you how many suspects got killed in the cities with more than one incident each. If you're planning to commit a crime, you'd best avoid Los Angeles, or Chicago, or San Francisco, or New York City, or Houston, or Phoenix, or those other well-policed places.

If you believe your life matters, don't commit crimes in the places at the top of the lists. Their police don't mess around!

I'd like to see more Black Lives Matter people trying to be nice for a change! I'd like to see them "come together as a community" instead of demanding that the community come together with them while they're stirring things up!

Instead of annoying innocent bystanders that can't help them accomplish anything they're trying to do, I'd like to see them do something worthwhile for themselves instead of trying to make whitey do it!

Instead of spending their money on signs and banners and trips here and there, I'd like to see the Black Lives Matter Movement conduct a real class in a real school using a real lawyer and a real cop who can really tell the kids how they should really behave with real police in real situations. "The talk" just isn't doing that!

Instead of all those Black Lives Matter Movement people marching around pissing people off, I'd like to see them organize a job fair for people who can't find work.

Instead of making motorists late for work and keeping working moms from picking up their kids on time, I'd like to see the Black Lives Matter Movement operate a shelter and kitchen for homeless people.

Instead of leaving trash all over, I'd like to see the Black Lives Movement build an inner city park, maybe with a zoo and an arboretum and maybe an aquarium, so that inner city kids could play someplace safe and learn about nature.

I'd like to see Black Lives Matter volunteers teach reading and spelling and math to school kids who are having trouble with those things, helping old people keep up their yards, or helping sick people get to the doctor.

And I'd really like to see some of these brain-damaged multimillionaires who play games for a living instead of doing something useful use some of their enormous wealth to help their struggling brothers and sisters instead of disrespecting the National Anthem and bitching about how tough it is to be black!

Frankly, I'd like to see more Meghan Markles and Neil deGrasse Tysons and fewer Sandra Blands and Troy Davises!

But most of all, I'd like to see black people stop killing each other! You know why? It's because I believe that Black Lives Matter!

John Lindorfer