"Nothing's Changed" Is Another Untruth

In fact, the northeastern states were the birthplace of anti-slavery movements and the first ban on slavery anywhere in the world went into effect in Vermont, in 1777. The Constitution was, as Martin Luther King Jr. astutely noted, a “promissory note” that would eventually pay off with freedom for black America. Economic and social advancement for black Americans is not a myth. The Economic Policy Institute found that the difference in high school graduation rates between whites and blacks fell from 27 percent in 1962 to 5 percent in 2004. Last fall, the rate of black and Hispanic unemployment hit an all-time low. Since 1980, the percentage of black adults with college degrees has tripled. Life expectancy of white Americans exceeded that of black Americans by more than seven years as of 1970; that gap has been cut in half, to three and a half years. The percentage of black Americans earning more than $75,000 more than doubled (adjusting for inflation) between 1970 and 2014, according to Harvard professor William Julius Wilson, who studies upward mobility among black Americans.

Yet the progressive class that runs the media ignores all of this progress because the media’s business model is to sell ads off catastrophe. Nobody watches CNN on a slow news day, which is why CNN is always telling us things are falling apart. If a genuine horror takes place, such as the death of George Floyd, there is no effort whatsoever to remind us how statistically rare such incidents may be. Of all black homicide victims last year, only 0.2 percent of them were unarmed victims of police. In Chicago last year there were 492 homicides and only three of them involved police.

https://nypost.com/2020/06/13/in-defense-of-america-not-a-failed-experiment-but-an-always-improving-one/

As the Language Changes

Around the year 2003, I realized that the language was changing - the meaning of "racist" had shifted from describing a person that believed race described moral or intellectual superiority. People could be defined as racist by one thoughtless comment. The term also began to mean that the racist person had to be in the power demographic - in other words, a non-power demographic person could say terrible things based on race, but would not be termed a racist. I referred to a dictionary in 2004 or so and surprised even very educated people with the simple fact that even a person that dislikes others based on their race was, until recently, described as a bigot vice a racist. 

If I can make conscientious choices and show care and concern for every human I meet and still be a racist, then ... so what? How is the term any different than saying "you are an asshole"?

I wish there was a reason to believe these mutations of language were about creating a more just way of more good people living together in harmony. I fear that instead these changes are about creating a more centralized and more abusive federal government that will use all kinds of new reasons to create soul and economy crushing laws and turn us all into subjects vice citizens.

It is wrong to hurt a fellow human. It is wrong for a LE professional to hurt the people whom they are charged with protecting. It is wrong to hurt an LE professional. Excepting self defense or defense of others - do not hurt people. The concept is simple, how to actualize it in the world of human frailty is vexing.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/06/03/i-did-not-kill-george-floyd/

this is an effort to establish racial collective guilt for the murderous suffocation of George Floyd. There are two problems with this approach. The first is that collective guilt on the basis of racial origin is always a wicked ideology to pursue. Whether it’s Jews being held collectively guilty of the alleged excesses of ‘rich Jews’ or blacks being collectively punished for the offences of individual black people, such racial extrapolation always leads to prejudice and suffering. There is a twisted irony in the fact that so many commentators and activists who pose as anti-racist are promoting the ideology of collective racial guilt in response to the killing of George Floyd.