So we went into town for a meal and to walk around the “entertainment” district on Friday night.

Planning a small meal and maybe some ice cream on a beautiful Friday evening. Temps were in the 70’s with a  mild breeze. A perfect evening to be out, especially since the restaurants are still dealing with the (poorly thought out) restrictions due to the supposed Covid-19 “crisis”.

Anyway, the wait time  was about 50 minutes for the pizzas we had ordered, so we walked a few blocks to the ice cream parlor…we are adults, so we can eat our dessert first…and we did. As we walked, we observed a whole passel of “Black Lives Matter” folks staging a protest on the town square. Maybe 50 people. Peaceful, but still.

“Staging”. I said. And “Staging” I meant….I use that word deliberately, as it was quite obvious that there was a set play being executed. The chants were all in unison, and they changed regularly and on cue….The protesters….or actors, if one were to be truthful, did their chants, and then did their “I Can’t Breathe” pantomime (and then the chant that followed)…… then the whole bit where they lay on their stomachs and clasped their hands behind their backs for 8 minutes…..

It was theater, and not terribly good theater at that. It impressed no one but the participants. Most of the passers-by were amused, and not swayed by the theater. Police were present, but stayed away and were watchful and not looming nor intimidating. (the cops here are pretty decent in the main). There was more support for the police than support for the (mostly white and young) protesters.

Strangely, for a “Protest”, once the script was over, the participants peacefully left the area. It just ended. Like it was staged. A performance where the participants cast left after their part was finished. Weird.

The question I have is…who wrote the playbook? The entire protest was, as I said, obviously scripted. Few people could miss that. The only people that were impressed were the protesters. But it was obviously a set piece…performance art, as it were. Someone wrote the script that the protesters were following. Someone saw to it that the script was distributed to at least a few people in the crowd. Who wrote the script? Who set the others in the crowd to lead the rest? Almost as if the entire cast had practiced beforehand…

This was not a spontaneous thing. It was a set piece. Well executed (if not particularly well written) theater.

I wanna know…..who wrote the script?

By the way, the pizza, cooked in a  wood fired stone oven, was frikkin’ delicious, as was the evening and the setting in which we dined.

Or, rewriting it, anyway.

First there was the (once) failed attempt to banish all “Confederate” statues. (even though many of them are mis-targeted) that was reanimated in the current riots protests.

Second there was the attempt to ban Gone with the Wind.

Are they gonna demand that we get rid of all UnaApproved literature? 

Books, films. are they gonna demand the destruction of every copy of  every film that depicts slavery, or reinforces the stereotypes of the black culture and the (sometimes poor) treatment of black people by whites?

How about the parodies? “I’m Gonna Get you Sucka”? “Blazing Saddles”? The entire “Foxy Brown” genre? Lots and lots of printed books? (Not that much of the Mob has bothered to even READ a book) that make FUN of the stereotypes.

Thing is, the Mob had destroyed or defaced confederate era statues and monuments…even when those monuments were of abolitionist or in memorial of black regiments that fought against slavery. Unmindful hatred led these fools to destroy ALL monuments that were from that era, no matter who they honored. (Not that the Confederacy and their war against the North was entirely about slavery,  moreso an economic war, but don’t ever let history get in the way of uneducated hatred, after all….). Many of the monuments that were defaced had nothing to do with slavery, yet defaced they were, in blind, unfocused hatred.

I doubt that the Mob will be able to understand the concept of satire in movies, if they even care.

The Mob has now even gone after the band “Lady Antebellum” because they have the word in their name that (some) people associate with slavery.

How much history are they gonna rewrite or outright edit out? How much will it take to appease the uneducated?

So far this year, the death toll is nearly 200 black people killed.
In Chicago. That’s just in the City of Chicago.
94 percent by other black people.

Similar results in every large city.  Black people killed in job lots by other black people. (202 is not a aberration, every year is similar in most large cities)

If “Black Lives Matter” so much, then…..why are black people killing each other? At a rate that is nearly 20-1 over other people (including cops) of all other races combined?

Odd, innit, that they are all upset about the 6% of black people killed by races other than African, but they completely ignore the rest….Nearly 94%….. that are killed by BLACK PEOPLE.


Where are the marches, the vandalism, the LOOTING in protest for those folks…the ones that are killed by other black people?

Seriously, isn’t it a bit disingenuous to protest the very small percentage of people killed by police, and other races and TOTALLY ignore the fact that most deaths of black people are at the hands of  other people with more melanin than the average Amish dude?

Address that, and then maybe you can get my attention for the rest of your message.

Chicago bans all “large outdoor gatherings” like Taste of Chicago and the Air and Water show, claiming Public Health issues related to Covid-19. (which, statistically, is not that terribly contagious),

Yet, oddly, Mayor Lightfoot and many other city leaders encouraged the Black Lives Matter George Floyd protest crowds. Which put just as many people in just as close (if not closer) proximity to strangers as the crowds at Taste of Chicago, and certainly closer than the crowd at the Air and Water Show.

It is almost as if these leftist Democrat mayors and governors are trying to damage the municipalities and states they are supposed to be leading.

Coincidentally (or not) the economic damage leads well into the below referenced “Rules for Radicals” strategy that many leftists like Mayor Lightfoot and Governor Pritzker and may others were steeped in during their college years.

If you like tinfoil as a material for a chapeau, then you might think that there is something to their mishandling of the “Covid Crisis” during “these Uncertain Times”….and that the results they are getting are no accident. 

But you gotta ask yourself:

Who paid for all the expenses at the funeral for Mr. Floyd?

A REALLY nice casket.

An extremely large church.

New (and oddly matching) clothing for a whole bunch of the folks attending…

And all those families (who also had men who died while being subdued before arrest by the police) were able to find the money and the time to fly in from all parts of the country to attend the funeral of a man they had never met.

All the rest of those trappings for the funeral? The horse drawn coach for the trip to the final gravesite?

And, of course, Rev. Al Sharpton doesn’t generally work for free.

Not counting Rev. Al, I would be that the cost exceeded $125K

You gotta ask yourself where the cash for all of that came from.

Someone paid for the “theater”.

Funny how the protests against the continued “Lockdown” a few weeks ago were a terrible thing and were going to be a sure way to spread the Covid and gonna cause an uptick in cases and you might bring it home to grandmas….

But the current protests against the death while being subdued for arrest of a career criminal this last week or so were folks fighting for justice and there is no backlash for gathering in protest…in fact, those (peaceful) Protesters are heroes .

Funny how when one is pushing back against one kind of fascist-like power structure you are a terrible person but if you push back for a politically correct protest against a (perceived) fascist-like power structure then that is a safe thing to do. 

Or is anyone else seeing that the whole George Floyd thing has morphed into a how-to from Rules for Radicals?

I mean, they tried with the protests several times during the Barry Obama administration, but couldn’t get the momentum to succeed.

Not so today though. Seems that there are enough crazy people in power that they might get another step forward.

How the message has changed from

 “Justice for George Floyd”

To

“Defund the police”

Interesting.

I think these folks might not like the result if the Police were “defunded” and there was no police presence in their home neighborhoods.
Especially in the areas where the anger among the denizens is the greatest.

(I hope this doesn’t make my blog go the way of the WRSA..!)

Saw this seven times yesterday on the television. All white spokespeople giving us the message about white racism and/or racist cops. “We need to face the issue of racism before we can fix it”

They are correct. These are issues that need to be addressed. Police accountability and “Qualified Immunity” are a big issue.
But no one, not one person, is pointing out the fact that there is another issue:

Black crime.

Wanna stop  of greatly reduce the issue? Fully half of the issue is that a segment of our black population refuses to follow the laws. Are unwilling to behave according to the rules of society. Not bad people, perhaps, by their own moral standard, but still, can’t follow the rules of society. And that just plays up to the stereotype that many have about black people. Some (white) folks just can’t see past the extra melanin. But the high crime, the fact that any excuse to loot amongst many inner city people….  that doesn’t help either. Stereotypes exist for a reason, you know. Black people kill each other at a much higher rate than whites kill them. And cops arrest them when they break the law.

Does white racism exist? Absolutely. And yes, we need to do something to stop it. Lots of work to be done there.

Do we also get to do something ,….face the other issue….about thievery, robbery, and the fact that black people commit crimes (both major and minor) at a rate 4 or more times higher than their fellow races? Let’s face that fact as well, and fix that too. (and, lets face it, it isn’t ALL black people, but only a small subset that is the issue…and that group has the issues with police interactions). Fact is that most people interacting with the police have interacted with them more than once in the past, be they white or black or another race.

Could that fact have something to do with the perceived racism of cops? Of white people? The fact that (some) black people won’t obey the rules of society? (there is a small portion of whites and Hispanics and other races that have the same issue with police…and oddly, they get treated the same way…and killed when they resist)

Do we get to simply face and deal with the fact that a significant portion of the black population (more than most people are comfortable to admit) especially men, can’t seem to obey the law? And therefore, since cops are supposed to enforce the law, this brings them into conflict.
Forget the fact that cops cause the deaths of significantly more white criminals than black criminals (by overall number)….The perception is that cops kill more blacks than whites…which is simply not true.

But the best way to get killed by a cop is to start with the interaction with them:
First rule: don’t break the law.
Second rule: When confronted for a crime you have committed, don’t be an asshole.
Third rule: When yer gonna be arrested, do’t fight back, or things might get somewhat kinetic.
Fourth rule, when given a ticket or a fine, deal with it, don’t ignore it…deal with it. Pay the fine, show up for court…..otherwise, when the cops run your file, yer gonna get….arrested…..Which puts you in the hot seat….which leads to rules two and three (especially three)

But stop being criminals. (Note: I am NOT saying all black people are criminals…but a higher percentage are. I know many folks who are not criminals, are, in fact, decent law abiding citizens,  wonderful human beings…and they abhor the issues with their race and culture as much as I do)
Mr Floyd had a long criminal record…which led to his  last interaction with the police. He was intoxicated with meth and fentanyl at the time of his attempted arrest and subsequent death…he had been charged with and convicted of both robbery and theft in the past….He’d been in jail several times…..not unknown to the police… He was not the paragon of virtue as we were told he was by the media. Hardly a choirboy, as it were….

Lets face that issue as well…Black Crime…..While we are facing the issue of racism.
Both need to be fixed.

Lay in the popcorn supplies, this ought to be entertaining….

If I lived in Minneapolis, I think I’d move as soon as possible.

The Minneapolis City Council on Sunday voted to disband its police department and invest in community-based public safety programs

In an ideal world, we would not need police.

Sadly, we don’t live in a perfect world.

Some areas are less perfect than others.