Topic: Decline of the West
New York Times columnist and pundit Charles Blow has his knickers in a twist over the anti-police group, Black Lives Matter. No, he’s not upset about BLM’s incendiary rhetoric or its false portrayal of America’s police officers as racist stormtroopers. Blow’s is very worried that that killing of police officers might damage BLM’s image. “It is impossible to credibly make the case that Black Lives Matter as a movement is a hate group or that it advocates violence,” he huffed. “Demanding police fairness, oversight and accountability isn’t the same as promoting police hatred or harm.”
Mr. Blow thinks it terribly unfair that BLM’s rhetoric, such as the chant heard recently in Minneapolis, “Pigs in a blanket, fry ‘em like bacon,” is being publicized by the media. How to explain this? Racism, of course! It’s is just one more example, you see, of white America’s “discomfort with blackness itself.”
Well, my discomfort is not with blackness as such but with the group, Black Lives Matter, that Blow defends in his race-baiting screed. He writes as if the “pigs in a blanket” incident referred to above was an aberration, possibly a harmless joke—that BLM is a responsible protest group that would never, ever advocate the killing of police. In point of fact, though, multiple examples of BLM’s racist, anti-police, pro-violence ideology can be cited, for example:
Notice the slogan, “Assata Taught Me.” That’s Assata Shakur, aka Joanne Chesimard, a convicted cop killer who’s been living in exile in Cuba since the Seventies and still resides on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list. Joanne Chesimard is BLM’s inspiration and role model. “Assata Taught Me” hoodies and t-shirts are going fast. Get yours today!
Nor was the ‘pigs in a blanket” chant that Blow waved away an isolated incident. As a matter of fact it’s been heard all over the country, whenever a BLM protest occurs. And it echoes one Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who assassinated two New York City police officers last December “I'm putting wings on pigs today,” he wrote on Instagram. “They take 1 of ours ... let's take 2 of theirs. This may be my final post ... I'm putting pigs in a blanket.”
Surely Blow knows all this. So why didn’t he deign to mention it in his column? Well, because his column constituted a lame attempt to whitewash—oops, sorry about that!—to prettify a racist hate group that promotes the assassination of police officers in the name of racial justice. with prefect predictability, Blow plays the race card: “America has been engaged since its inception in a most gruesome enterprise: Like the mythological Cronus, it has been eating its children, the darker ones, and this movement demands—at least in one area, at least in one moment—that it atone for that abomination.”
Thanks, Chuck. I’ll pass that along to the family and friends of Deputy Darren H. Goforth.
