Over at the National Review, David French has a piece, Media, Tell the Truth: The Women’s March and Black Lives Matter Embrace Terrorists, rightfully pointing out that officials within Women’s March have repeatedly praised “revolutionary” murderer Assata Shakur, while Black Lives Matter officials have praised Fidel Castro for nobly protecting Shakur and other noble black revolutionary “heroes”/murderers, including Michael Finney, Ralph Goodwin, Charles Hill, and Huey Newton.
All that is true. Protest groups inevitably attract “veteran” misfits/“revolutionaries”/organizers who romanticize, fantasize, and identify with “heroic” figures whom most people have never heard of. These are the people who show up for all the meetings and write the agendas. Yet, when they write the agendas, strangely, we never see “revolutionary” plans, only marches and protests, with, inevitably, long speeches that no one ever listens to.
What, French wonders, would people think if people on the right talked this way? Well, we don’t have to wonder, do we? Doesn’t Donald Trump routinely praise murderers? You know, like Vladimir Putin? Or how about the beyond grotesque Filipino dictator Roderigo Duterte? Duterte’s police forces are estimated to have over murdered 7,000 people in Duterte’s “crusade” against drugs. In an April 29, 2017 phone call, Trump praised Duterte for the “unbelievable job” he was doing. Or is murder only a crime when the killer doesn’t wear a uniform?
If the shoe fits, Dave, wear it!
Afterwords
It is more than unfortunate that Black Lives Matter—its leadership, anyway—is sliding so heavily into mindless black nationalism, for the issues the organization has raised regarding oppressive, out of control, over policing are really essential. It seems that only the advent of smartphones video has allowed the truth about constant police brutality, directed (of course) against all races (but not all income classes), to receive a hearing. The best sources I know regarding the massive “Overpolicing of America” are the Washington Post’s Radley Balko and Reason magazine
