The New Racists

We are living in an era when America is consciously attempting to erase the painful memories of its past. And as in often the case, the past needs to be let go of. It is impossible to climb further up a ladder until we remove our feet from the rung we are on.

However, as human beings often do, we overreact and the solution becomes more painful, harmful and damaging than what we trying to forget.

But we all know, and we usually try to incorporate into our life experiences, the importance of learning lessons from our past. We all do it. We try not to repeat the same mistakes in relationships or business dealings, for example, as we did in the past. We don’t set out to destroy the past but to learn from it. It is what mature adults do. Human progress depends upon it.

But what we are seeing now, as America endeavors to erase the ties we have to our past, especially to those steeped in racism, bigotry and prejudice, is an overreaction, if not overkill.

Rarely a day goes by that I do not see where someone has hand painted on their car window, “Black Lives Matter.” No one disputes that ideal, for in reality all lives matter. But that is not the message BLM supporters are sending.

While everyone has heard of George Floyd, few has heard of Jessica Doty Whitiker, an Indianapolis woman and mother of 24, and a home care nurse, who was a part of a group of people that when confronted by another group of people along the canal, lost her life for her ideal.

Tensions arose between the two groups when someone reportedly used a version of the N-word, offending members of the second group. When one person said, “Black Lives Matter,” either Jessica or someone in Jessica’s group returned the declaration with the affirmation, “All Lives Matter.”

The groups separated without incident but moments later, as Jessica and her fiancé walked under a bridge, shots rang out and Jessica was hit and was declared dead at the hospital. Where was the crime, saying “All Lives Matter?” Should not all lives indeed matter?

Actress Kate Beckinsale criticized someone who had posted “All Lives Matter” in response to Kate’s post about Breonna Taylor who was shot by police in her bed. Kate called it “mean-spirited” as she tried to negate the idea that all lives should matter equally. She explained that "for some people, black lives don’t matter at all,” presuming that because someone choses to remind us that all lives matter, they mean Black lives do not. Are not the lives of Blacks included in the inclusive term “all”? So why get offended, because to some, Blacks and only Blacks, should get top billing now.

The Black Lives Matter Movement has gained traction and some say it has been hijacked by radicals and domestic terrorists. But when you go to the official BLM website, there is very little spoken of racial equality, though one would expect that to be declared as its main goal. In its attempt to to be all inclusive, it makes a special point to lift up the LBGT community and to reject violence inflicted on the Black community “by the state.”

Their “About” section states, “We are guided by the fact that all Black lives matter, regardless of actual or perceived sexual identity, gender identity, gender expression, economic status, ability, disability, religious beliefs or disbeliefs, immigration status, or location. We make space for transgender brothers and sisters to participate and lead.

We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift Black trans folk, especially Black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence.”

BLM has become a platform to promote equality for “transgender brothers and sisters” although this motive is not publicized along with “racial equality.” As they put it, “We foster a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise).”

It further states, “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.”

The BLM Movement is apparently also determined to “disrupt” the “nuclear family structure” in favor of the “It takes a village” ideology, ignoring the importance of the family unit in creating both a unified and healthy community and nation. In reality, the Black community aborts more babies than any other race, so their declaration to support the “comfort” of Black parents seems disingenuous at best, hypocritical at worst.

Racial equality seems to take a back seat to the ideology presented here. If any hijacking has been done, it has been done by organizers of BLM themselves under a false pretense of eliminating racism.

We have seen statues of Christopher Columbus, Juan Ponce de Leon, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, General Robert E. Lee, Frederick Douglas, Jefferson Davis and numerous Confederate soldier statues have been vandalized, decapitated or torn down.

When BLM protestors, or more accurately vandals, target Abraham Lincoln, who freed the slaves, and Frederick Douglas, himself a Black man, abolitionist, activist and a former slave himself who dedicated his life to removing slavery from the American landscape, it is evidence that this is more about erasing our history than it is about social or racial justice.

The BLM Movement is more than a grassroots movement, but is backed by large corporations. Companies like Amazon, who gave $10 million, Microsoft donated $250,000, Unilever gave $350,000, Fitbit, the Atlantic and Warner records and many more have given all totaling millions given to the BLM cause.

Other businesses have pledged to stand with BLM and backed that commitment with donations, Doordash has pledged half a million dollars as has Deckers, Airbnb, Nabisco, Dropbox, and Gatorade.

Once we understand that BLM is as racist an entity as any they are pretending to erase, we see the hypocrisy. It exists for the purpose of promoting Blacks over all others, the very definition of racism, and it is done in radical ways, supported by those, well-meaning or not, who fund their destruction of America, its past and its present.

For all its attempts to erase racism from America’s past, it has dedicated itself to promoting a new form of racism. With the aid of American companies, who claim to have bought into the vison of a new, racist-free America, and are giving their support in the seemingly virtuous attempts to remove racism, they have become devout racists themselves.

A Method to the Madness

I understand that many try and steer away from politics because it tends to be a volatile issue. But with the screwy things that are happening in America today, it is time to take a stand.

We are seeing the Left getting student-aged millennials and young people fired up about the “evils” of the Confederacy, the historical importance notwithstanding. So, the destruction or removal of statues of Confederate soldiers and leaders was guaranteed to follow.

The Confederate Flag has always been a popular target but has grown even more so as of late. Even the state of Mississippi is under fire because a corner of their state flag displays a small version of that flag.

But the drive for “ending racism” did not stop there. Statues of Abraham Lincoln has been vandalized, even though he “freed” the slaves. A statute of Teddy Roosevelt is being targeted now because it shows him on horseback with an Indian standing on one side and a Black man standing on the other side. So, how is this racist?

The statue of Ulysses S. Grant, the General who won the Civil War for the North, has been torn down. Should he not have been seen as a hero? Not by those bent on destruction and ignorant people with no working knowledge of our history.

Even George Washington’s statue did not escape their lunacy and one of the statues of Christopher Columbus has been decapitated and toppled. The statue of Francis Scott Key, who penned the words to the National Anthem, is seen as an undesirable now and they demand it be removed.

What was promoted as an end to displays of racism has devolved into sheer thirst for destruction. Or perhaps it has actually evolved into what it was designed to be from the start, an orchestrated attempt at destroying the history of America by those who hate this country.

We have seen the unprecedented rise of “Democratic Socialism,” whatever that is supposed to be, and we had Democrat Party presidential candidates run on that platform. While their campaign did not run the course, the idea has not died.

The Black Lives Matter movement has also always devolved from the idea of social equality and racial justice to an excuse to loot, burn and destroy America and the assaulting of Whites just because they are White (which is the very definition of racism itself) and into a reason to assault police officers.

Suddenly, every police officer in America is somehow to be responsible and held accountable for the actions of a small handful. By that logic, every Black person should be held accountable for every crime committed by a Black individual. Does that sound logical? Of course not, but logic for BLM is nonexistent.

The Left and BLM are joined at the hip and the erasing of “inconvenient history” or the symbols of law and order has replaced any demand for justice with brutality, savagery and anarchy. The idea of justice for George Floyd, a Black career criminal who was incarcerated nine times on drug, thief and gun charges, who once held a loaded gun on the belly of a pregnant Black woman while his five friends robbed her house, and who was raised to the level of hero and martyr by the Democrats and BLM, has long disappeared.

There is a method to their madness and it involves chaos and civil disobedience carried to the extreme. It is to collapse the economy, overrun society with confusion and turmoil, open the door to whatever “solution” the Left says they represent, and currently to install protestors as a protected class of people and even giving over portions of cities like Seattle to them for their nonsense to be carried out without interference by police, the influence and power they are demanding be stripped from the community.

In Denver, the police have been removed from city schools because the logic of the city council says that this move will make students, especially “students of color” feel safer. How does that work? I guess the possibility of another mass school shootings does not bother them as much as their child seeing a uniformed police officer protecting them does.

State governors have issued warnings to everyday citizens to “remain in their homes unless you are protesting.” After being told for months that the Coronavirus was deadly and we must isolate ourselves to restrict the possibility of spreading it, protestors are allowed to gather by the thousands with no repercussions, further illustrating the fact that responses to this “virus crisis” is guided by politics, not medicine, science or even commonsense.

Both the Covid-19 responses by Democrat governors and the BLM movement have the same goal, the elimination of what we know America to be. It won’t stop any time soon because those governors that are enabling the protestors, and backing off even when their cities are being burned, are Leftists with the same inherent desire, to see America “fundamentally changed” just as Obama promised to do when he was elected. They are carrying on his efforts that he left unfinished.

We will likely never fully understand the extent that the responses to this pandemic will have on America and its population. Apart from the economic impact, where they shut down over 50% of all retain store spaces in the country and cost the economy trillions of dollars, we are seeing a spike in suicides as their fear promoting has driven some past the place where they could see that life is worth living.

And another side of the coin has been the assault on Christianity. Christians and Jews were told by New York City mayor Di Blasio, for example, to remain at home and if they were to reopen their churches and places of worship, they would be arrested, while at the same time, he patted himself on the back for having fed “hundreds of thousands” of Muslims (by his own estimate) during Ramadan.

So, what we are seeing is an assault on America, its heritage, it’s traditions, its history and its future, all in the name of tolerance and civility even though their methods are anything but tolerant and civil.

America is at a crossroads and where we end up will determine which fork we take. Will we demand a return to peaceful communities and the honoring of America’s past and present, even while attempting to make it a better place to live, or we take the path that will cause us to see the destruction of this great American experiment complete?

The time for not taking a stand and for avoiding politics, as nasty and as messy as it can get, is past. We have seen what the promotion of fear and hysteria has done to us and our willful obedience has made us complicit in the result. We will either be an influence in what happens to America from this day forward, or we will find ourselves one day scratching our heads and wondering, “What happened to America I once knew?”

Glen Spicer