Black Perspectives on Justice Reflecting Political Polarization
"Although [George Floyd] wasn't perfect,his life had grea value and dignity to God and he should matter to all of us.""Those who try to leverage this tragedy for their political or financial gain -- like the founders of BLM & Maxine Waters -- are disrespecting the families who have lost loved ones to senseless violence.""Defunding the police is not the answer & it isn't what Black people want ...""Now is the time for leaders to work together to end violence & address the root issues that lead to crime & altercations."Bob Woodson, American civil rights movement veteran, founder, Woodson Center, Washington"One of the most encouraging things about the prosecution's case is that they focused on Chauvin's actions, not presumed racism.""Unfortunately, many people make honest productive conversations [about] policing impossible because racial strife benefits them more than actual change."Delano Squires, The Federalist"What's happening in America isn't necessarily hatred for police officers.:"And it's surely not about love for Black people.""Critical race theorists want to end liberal democracy to establish a postmodernist, Marxist, 'antiracist' system."Ghanian-Canadian blogger Samuel Sey
"We must all come together to help repair the tenuous relationship between law enforcement and Black and minority Americans.""To deny the progress we've made is just as damaging as not making progress at all."U.S.Senator Tim Scott
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Black intellectuals tend to be conservative by nature and inclination. They are not the least bit favoured by Western media; journalists tend to avoid them, their narrative runs counter all too often to the popular version of black trauma in America persisting in a black-white racial divide within a racially polarized nation. There is, on the other hand, a divide between liberal, liberal-progressive and conservative black commentators, academics and journalists (think Thomas Sowell).
Blacks have indeed made great strides in the last half-century not only in America but everywhere else, as they resoundingly prove their ability to rise to any challenge, in any profession, equal to that of their white and other-minority counterparts. When enough American citizens voted for a majority Democrat government -- twice -- led by a black American, that certainly proved something, as does the presence of black members of Congress, black justices, lawyers, physicians, artists, scientists, academics in every sphere of life, proving that -- yes, they can.
They recognize that within the black community there is a deep malaise that attracts all too many black men and women to relish themselves as victims of their stricken past extending into the present era of rampant racism, a very human character fault that they themselves practise. Black communities for which violence has become a way of life, extinguishing their own dignity as decent human beings when they are themselves the vectors of death targeting others in their own communities. Their over-representation in penal institutions reflects their over-representation in crimes of violence.
Black conservatives deplore all of this and see a desperate need for the black community to come to terms with its own failures. Their perspective is one that finds distinct disfavour from within the white-sympathetic-to-black-plight communities eager to demonstrate their 'wokedness', happy to grovel for dire misdeeds they did not themselves commit, as dark historical shame linked to the oppression and violence that blacks encountered in their role as America's slave-labour force.
Black conservative voices are those of disruption and inconvenient points of view as far as mainstream media is concerned, which turns a deliberately blind eye to their version of events; observing them from the perspective of right and wrong, not black and white. It is their considered opinion that the Derek Chauvin trial reliving the death by criminal misadventure of the Minneapolis police officer was skewed and oversimplified. Justice was done, but under false pretenses.
Post-trial, black conservative commentators have made no secret of their scorn for the institution of Black Lives Matter, securely ensconced within liberal value systems, a favoured movement wholly supported in all its exorbitant charges and motivations steeped in Marxist ideology destructive of the democratic ideal, which they reject with the scorn that it deserves as a divisive, violence-prone band of black social revolutionaries.
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| Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) joins demonstrators in a protest outside the Brooklyn Center police station in Minnesota. Photo: Stephen Maturen via Getty Images |
Labels: Black Conservatism, Black Lives Matter, Conservatism, History, Liberalism, Persecution, Racism
posted by Pieface @ Sunday, April 25, 2021
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