{"id":39088,"date":"2020-06-12T13:21:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T17:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39088"},"modified":"2020-06-12T13:21:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T17:21:26","slug":"some-helpful-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39088","title":{"rendered":"Some Helpful Suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The City Journal<\/a> posted an article with the title:<\/p>\n

False Prophets<\/strong><\/h2>\n

If you really want to help black America, don\u2019t look to Black Lives Matter.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

Over the past two weeks, we have seen peaceful protests, but also looting, businesses torched, attacks on police, and the desecration of some of the nation\u2019s most revered memorials. All of this is numbing. Recently, I thought that I had finally turned the corner on my anger over the Floyd killing. (I\u2019m African-American myself.) \u201cWhere do we go from here?\u201d I wondered. \u201cHow do we get something positive out of this?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

But then the demands shifted. Cries for justice morphed into \u201cDefund the police.\u201d We started hearing calls from white Americans to do something to help ease the difficulties blacks are facing. On the surface, this seems good; the intentions definitely are<\/i> good. The problem is that, with no context or reference to what is needed in the black community, and often with few black friends or colleagues to consult, many Americans\u2014from those in corporate America to vocal social media consumers\u2014are throwing support and resources behind Black Lives Matter, without considering carefully what the group actually stands for.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Black Lives Matter was started in 2013 to shed light on mistreatment of and brutality against blacks by police, but it has become a radical leftist organization. The \u201cHerstory<\/a>\u201d section of its website, for example, reads: \u201cBlack Lives Matter is an ideological and political intervention in a world where Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise.\u201d This proclamation is demonstrably untrue: there is no evidence that anyone\u2014including the police and white supremacists\u2014is killing black people in a targeted campaign, nor are the numbers of such deaths significant compared with the number of blacks killed by other blacks. But beyond BLM\u2019s inflammatory and false rhetoric, there are important reasons to avoid the group.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article notes that defunding the police would hurt the people that BLM claims to want to help. It would create chaos in already dangerous neighborhoods. This would probably result in businesses and commercial enterprises leaving these neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

The article continues:<\/p>\n

BLM was started by three black women, but their stated goal\u2014to achieve equality for blacks\u2014masks a different agenda. In the \u201cWhat We Believe<\/a>\u201d section of the BLM site, they highlight the work they do to \u201cdismantle cisgender privilege\u201d and their desire to \u201cdisrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure\u201d\u2014a structure that many, including myself and Kanye West<\/a>, believe is key to rebuilding black communities. The mission statement mires a message that should be about black lives in a slew of buzzwords and Marxist psychobabble. Not all the sentiments are bad, but none will create positive change in the black community.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never known of a nonprofit organization more than two years old and with national name recognition that posts no financial report on its site and no glowing list of \u201cwins.\u201d Most charities get donations by pulling at your heartstrings, highlighting all the lives they have touched. The only thing remotely resembling action on the Black Lives Matter website is a timeline under \u201cGlobal Actions<\/a>,\u201d listing activism on behalf of illegal immigrants. Even this consists mostly of petitions and demonstrations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many well-intentioned people want to support the black community, especially now. We need to point them in the right direction. The most vulnerable blacks, and the ones most adversely affected by racism, are struggling financially. The best thing that we can do for them is lift them out of poverty. Defunding the police, dismantling the nuclear family, or focusing on immigration will not accomplish that goal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The two most important things we can do to help the black community are to encourage the formation of nuclear family and encourage better educational opportunities. Part of the problem in the black community is the culture, and the community itself needs to begin to change the culture. Those of us outside the community can help and encourage, but we can’t do it for them.<\/p>\n

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