During an anti-Trump protest in Seattle this weekend, an activist associated with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement took to the megaphone to voice her support for, among other things, “killing people,” and “killing the White House.”
She also says, “White people, give your (effing) money, your (effing) house, your (effing) property, we need it (effing) all,” as another protester responds “reparations!”
The BLM Activist shouting these things is reportedly a schoolteacher.
The violence on the Democratic Left is only going to escalate. It took them about a week to go from “Is it OK to punch Nazis” to “It’s OK to beat the crap out of someone if you call them a Nazi.” And the leadership of the Democrat Party is cheering them on.
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more of the famous liberal civility.
I bet there were white boy beta progressives cheering her on.
And of course, our resident trolls would find nothing at all wrong with what this effing beyotch said. SMH…
Regards,
Peter H.
The proper response to her is, “…get off my lawn!”
Followed by a short tenure review,
and her immediate dismissal with prejudice.
Just to be a wet dish rag —
This represents the end of culture. The country people come up with traditions which eventually become refined (by the city folk) into a continuum replete with meaning, style and protocols. Some traditions soar and are celebrated in morality plays and core national values and some remain essentially funky and regional.
Try to unwind what this alleged teacher is saying. Better yet, try to create the manifesto this alleged teacher is teaching. Try not to include nihilism and discover it is impossible.
Nietzsche said: “People don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” So, I ask you, what is this woman’s illusions? Ask Kafka: “one morning, upon awaking from agitated dreams, Gregor Sams found himself, in his bed, transformed into a monstrous vermin.”
This alleged teacher is our national vermin; Kafka’s cockroach. She has no responsibilities attached to her outrageous demands. She is a physically mature adult emerging from her cocoon and she wants psychological comfort through appeasement of her cockroach side.
The conflict for us is whether this cockroach can be lured back to her humanity. Society eventually will decide for the cockroach by judging her viability and humanity for her. She is a burden to the culture and the social order. Eventually, it is most probable, even likely, that the cockroach will have to be neutered unless she can find within herself the power of metamorphosis to further transform herself into a productive member of the greater public square. The cockroach is purposeless, random, irrational, chaotic and absurd. She is gratifying herself, but she is beyond our capacity to understand her cause. She wants it all because she is black. She also expects her irrational and chaotic, dark mind to be accommodated, assimilated and appreciated.
What culture celebrates and enshrines chaos and irrationality as its end goal?
Do all white people owe reparations to all black people? What about white people whose ancestors never owned slaves? (Slavery was legal in some states, but illegal in others. And, even in states where it was legal, 90% of the citizens did not own slaves.)
And what about African immigrants who voluntarily came here (or whose ancestors voluntarily came here) after slavery was abolished? Do they get reparations?
And what about free blacks who owned slaves? Do their descendants get reparations, or do they owe reparations?
And what about African and Arab slave traders? Do their descendants owe reparations?
And why do I get the feeling that the Hollywood glitterati will have tax shelters and loopholes, while farmers, plumbers, linemen, and nurses will pay taxes for the reparations?
@ Tom: That’s where the idea of paying reparations for slavery breaks down: it assumes collective guilt on the part of whites, and collective innocence on the part of blacks. I.e., whites are guilty of the sin of slave-holding by virtue of their whiteness.
anybody heard from the great civil rights leader jon lewis?
Does this means we can recover all the moment the US taxpayers have spent on civil rights programs?
Don’t see why people who never owned slaves should pay money to people who never were slaves.
BTW: My grandfather’s grandfather fought in a war to free slaves — something that slaves who were freed probably appreciated (even if some of their descendants don’t).
It wasn’t only eeeevilll whiteys that owned slaves. There were free blacks that owned slaves. Negro slaves were held by the Five Civilized Tribes (and brought to Indian Territory).
Is it impolitic for me to wonder how it is, after trillions spent since the 60s, affirmative action, set-asides, “self-esteem” education, and the diligent efforts of community organizers like Al Sharpton and Barack Obama – blacks lag behind in so much?
Do you suppose we need to start looking at other factors if we really want to figure out how to improve things? What would this “educator” say if asked WTF can’t you do anything for yourself?
I know one thing: problems in the black “community” are quite lucrative for some people. But I’m sure they’d give the money up in an instant if it meant helping the “community”.
I used “community” because, seeing so much black-on-black predation, it’s hard to see a real community.
You can make a comparison with the Japanese-Americans who were interned by the Franklin Roosevelt administration. Many lost their homes, lost their businesses, young people had their educations interrupted and some never did go back to finish high school or college, and all this happened a lot more recently than slavery. And yet the black community lags behind the Japanese-American community. Are there perhaps cultural factors that could account for this?
There was less than a 45-year gap between when the internment of Japanese-Americans ended and the reparations bill was signed by President Reagan. Many survivors of internment were still alive at the time, as well as their children (George Takai and former judge Lance Ito, were just two of the children). Memories were quite fresh and it was quite clear what the damage was and who the victims were.
Contrast that to slaves in the US, who were freed in 1863 and still there were many who didn’t find out until years later. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed a century later and several generations had passed since the Emancipation Proclamation. No victims were alive then, even if the concept of reparations was more widely known. It wasn’t until the Black Power movement of the 70s that a concept of compensation was talked about within the communities affected. Who receives compensation? How do you prove lineage to a slave? Do slaves that died before 1863 get more or less compensation than those who were alive at the time? It doesn’t take a futurist to see that this would become akin to the “one drop” policy of governmental attitudes towards the Native American population. (Blacks who think reparations would be fine should read up on the history of the government’s treatment towards its native citizens.
So the reparations movement has become not a remedy to a centuries-long problem nor a solution to current ills, but yet another “gimme” benefit designed to provoke the maximum amount of white guilt among the gullible. Just as my ancestors (who emigrated to the US in the 1860s & later) had nothing to do with slavery, someone like your average Black college student would be hard pressed to determine their lineage, even with modern DNA techniques.
There’s plenty of injustice in the world. It’s not up to current generations to make good on errors perpetrated centuries ago; it’s only their responsibility to make sure no errors happen in the future.