The Tragically Stupid

No group is more reactionary towards President Trump than American black folks—The media has fought like tigers to make it so. They are particularly adept at twisting Mr. Trump’s ham-fisted way of communicating to remove all context, painting him a bigot. American black folks have been carefully weaned on a diet of rejecting conservatism and Republicans in general—None more so than Mr. Trump. This is so despite the fact Black folks are by nature very conservative.

The narrative advanced by the left and the leftwing dominated mainstream media, really anyone in opposition to President Trump, is he is easily influenced—The last person who speaks to him on a subject, is a predictor of the way he will go on an issue. This in fact may be true. If so and you have an agenda you want advanced, wouldn’t it make good sense to desire being in a position to bend his ear?

Progressivism as it has grown in the United States is a disease first infecting the idle and moneyed within society—the so-called “Parlor Pinks.” Folks sold on the idea of their native superiority, bent on controlling the masses. They spread their virulent philosophies, exposing any they can manipulate by stoking the red hot coals of “Social Injustice” and victimhood.

Once infected, the new carriers become immune to reason—feelings take primacy over rationale and nothing ever really changes—which is precisely what their enlightened handlers want, a constituency of victims with whom to offer ethereal largesse in exchange for power...forever.

A prime example of this is the modern professional athlete. One fellow makes an empty gesture, kneeling on the field before a football game during the national anthem—What the NFL has to do with perceived heightened police violence against blacks is elusive. Nevertheless and without regard for a clearly stated agenda behind the action, the media anoints him a conscious and brave hero and others soon follow suit.

The progressives promote such actions because they are hollow and it keeps the very rich and influential athletes from the truly screwy idea of putting their resources to actual good use on the ground. The sort of work true heroes like Hall of Fame Football star Jim Brown has been engaged in for decades. Literally yanking young men out of gang life in California and other areas.

In 2016, Jim Brown along with fellow gridiron legend Ray Lewis, Rapper Kanye West and Pastor Darrell Scott met with President Elect Trump at his election headquarters to discuss ways his impending administration could address issues important to the black community. Mr. Brown said regarding the meeting:

“We couldn’t have had a better meeting.” He continued: “The graciousness, the intelligence, the reception we got was fantastic. He’s amenable to listening to people who didn’t vote for him.”

Mr. Lewis stated: “black or white is irrelevant” when trying to help people out of poverty and improve people’s lot. “Urban development and job creation are everything,” Lewis said. “What we believe with the Trump administration is if we can combine these two powers of coming together – forget black or white. Black or white is irrelevant. The bottom line is job creation and economic development in these urban areas to change the whole scheme of what our kids see.”

Mr. Brown went on: “I can’t speak for the pastor [Scott], but I fell in love with him, because he really talks about helping African-American, black people and, uh, that’s why I’m here.”

“You fell in love with Donald Trump?” asked CNN’s Brooke Baldwin.

“It isn’t really about Donald Trump,” Brown replied. “It’s about him and the position he occupies. When he goes through what he went through to become the president, he got my admiration. They called him names … he reached back and brought them along with him. He held no grudges.”

The Trump administration, In just over 500 days, has orchestrated record highs in black employment and record lows in overall unemployment. It’s being reported, reluctantly by the mainstream media, we actually have more available jobs than people to fill them.

Mr. Trump met with 100 of the Historical Black Colleges and University Presidents last year—Most black folks have no idea. The HBCUs had a very contentious relationship with the previous  Obama administration—Whether President Trump’s continuing support for the HBCUs is merely political oneupmanship or not, the net effect is positive for the black community.

Sylvester Stallone, along with ex-heavyweight Champion Lennox Lewis, met with President Trump to advocate pardoning the first black Heavyweight Champion, Jack Johnson who was unjustly convicted under the Mann Act in 1913–a vindictive action motivated solely by bigotry. A bill passed in the House requesting a pardon for Johnson from President George W. Bush, but died in the senate controlled by 35 Democrat seats.

A bi-partisan group in 2016 lead by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and former senator Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), along with Congressmen Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) and Gregory W. Meeks (D-N.Y.), requested a pardon for Jack Johnson from President Obama, he and Atty. Gen., Holder rejected the idea. Despite these previous ineffective efforts, a talk with Mr. Trump secured the pardon in short order.

Most recently, reality TV star, Kim Kardashian West met with President Trump in the Oval Office  to argue for the release of 63 year old Great Grandmother, Alice Johnson, convicted 22 years ago for her role in a cocaine distribution ring, a nonviolent drug offense—Mr. Trump commuted Johnson’s sentence and she is now free. 

I have seen black folks irrationally down play the move, arguing the President didn’t pardon Ms. Johnson, “...like he did for his boys.”

Alice Johnson, unlike Jack Johnson before her, was not the victim of an unjust conviction —She was guilty of her crime, the life sentence plus 25 years she received, the result of mandatory sentencing installed during the President Bill Clinton administration for a non-violent crime, was unjust, so the sentence was commuted.

Whatever Mr. Trump’s motivations, if you are a cynic and believe it all to be just political pandering, or opportunism—If you have a cause worth fighting for and meaningful goals can be met, why would you squander your opportunities. The Philadelphia Eagles players, LeBron James, Steph Curry... all these mushy headed, privileged and entitled rich, pseudo activist athletes, refusing to visit the White House with Mr. Trump in residence, get your collective heads out of your butts.

You have the chance to meet and perhaps chat with arguably the most powerful man in the world. A man with the resources and authority to actually make things happen. It would be tragically stupid to squander it—If you have a worthy cause, or a grievance with the man, take whatever opportunities presented you to lay them out before him... Or you can stick to your high-minded, but shallow, empty gestures.

‘Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.“ James 4:2

Digital Publius

Dumbest Meme Ever

“I need every black man in the country to go out tomorrow and buy an AR-15 assault weapon. They’ll be banned by Tuesday.”

Thus read the dumbest meme I’ve read since the Parkland, Florida shooting—Made doubly stupid by it originating with an LGBT activist white male and posted on a black male friend’s FB page. It speaks to a sort of backhanded racism rife in the contemporary and completely self unaware American left.

The meme brings up questions obvious to the thinking, yet elusive to the folks inclined towards posting such utter nonsense. Do you believe American government is so systemically racist it would make the meme true? Do you buy into the idea law enforcement is so systemically racist it makes it policy to kill as many unarmed black men as is possible to get away with? Do Black lives indeed matter?

If you answer yes to any of the above queries and subscribe to the idea of banning AR-15s or any other high-capacity, commercially available semi-automatic firearm the question begging for an answer? Why would you cede your personal protection to the same racist government and law enforcement you fear undermines the importance of your black life? Government and law enforcement, have real assault weapons capable of full automatic fire which will go nowhere after they ban your semi-automatic rifle.

If they are as problematical as you fear, wouldn’t it further empower a system already hostile to LGBT and black folks?

The idea so many black folks in America (That is black folks not tied into criminality.) buy into the leftist idea of banning and removing semi-automatic rifles, speaks directly to the effectiveness of our handlers conditioning. The first restrictions on our 2nd enumerated right came about specifically to keep freshly emancipated slaves unarmed. The 1893 Florida Gun Control Act as explained by Supreme Court Justice Rivers Buford was “Never intended to be applied to the white population.”

In the 1960s when Riots began to break out in Los Angeles, Newark and Chicago, Congress passed the 1968 Gun Control Act. The Act, authored by Democratic Senator Thomas Dodd and signed by President Johnson was literally copied from the gun act passed by the Nazis in 1938 Germany. The Dodd act was pushed by the public outcry following the assassinations of DR. King and Bobby Kennedy, but it specifically targeted a specific group, black folks. The left uses every opportunity to use the same Hegelian principals which inspired the Nazis—Like Rahm  Emanuel stated: “You never let a good crisis go to waste.”

The contemporary liberal says the 2nd Amendment is archaic and governmental tyranny can and will never rear its ugly head in the United States. Yet, it was in fact state and local municipalities all over the nation, in our not too distant past acting to curtail our inalienable rights. Further, the tyranny inflicted by the United State’s criminal culture is no less oppressive than can be brought to bear by government. Real tyranny played out daily as the law abiding are preyed upon.

Decades of cleverly devised and implemented messaging in all American media created and controlled by the left has worked to vilify firearms instead of villains. I see men, I mean grown men, husbands and fathers saying “I can’t understand why anyone wants or needs to own a gun.” How do you look at your loved ones and not see a reason to procure the most effective means of defending them?

Growing up as one of the last members of the Baby Boom, I did not personally know a father who did not own a firearm to protect his family. My dad owned a surplus M1 carbine just like the one seen in the famous (By any means necessary) Malcolm X photo, equipped with what he used to call banana clips. These were 30 round magazines in a rifle, though not all black like a scary looking modern AR-15, had the equivalent rate of fire. In the 1970s a surplus M1 was dirt cheap, as was the surplus ammo—Dad liked the M1 carbine because it was what he learned to use in the Navy. In other words, the M1 is an actual military rifle issued to GIs during WWII and up to it being replaced by the M-16.

By virtue of the M1 carbine being only capable of semi-automatic fire, it is not designated an Assault Weapon, hence the need for an actual American Assault Weapon resulting in the M-16 which is capable of full automatic fire. The commercially available AR-15 is a copy of the M-16 without the full auto “Assault” function. Just like  dear old dad’s M1 carbine.

My dad also had a Smith and Wesson .38. He taught my sister and I how to operate both firearms. In fact, the M1 was the first firearm I ever fired. The carbine is a very effective home defense weapon precisely because it is so easy to operate and has such little felt recoil, a ten year old boy can do it. Just like a modern AR-15.

He taught me to field strip it and clean it—he removed all mystery from the firearms in our home, preparing us to defend ourselves when he was out. We did not touch them without his supervision, though they were easily accessible at all times. However, an intruder was equally at risk whether or not my dad was home.

I see men say silly things like: “I have a baseball bat, swords, knives, martial arts training…” If your home is assaulted while you and your family are home by thugs with guns and you are standing there with a sword, you are unarmed. You may get lucky and cut the first guy, but the next one will not be surprised. It’s the reason cops and soldiers don’t carry swords in the field.

Not quite sure how leaving your personal defense to others is somehow noble—In my opinion it speaks to a sad naïveté, or tragic stupidity at best and cowardice at worst. We’ve all heard the cliché by now: When every second counts, the police are minutes away.

I’m not saying a bad guy can’t get the drop on me, even if I’m armed locked and loaded—Nevertheless, call it a character flaw if you must, I’d rather be prepared.

One of the heroes of the so-called “Woke” black community, the aforementioned Malcolm X habitually called on the black community to buy not pistols, not swords and knives, but rifles and shotguns. Going so far as to admonish black folks to organize rifle clubs. This was before “After School Specials,” social justice propaganda indoctrinated teachers and liberal media made owning a firearm for protection akin to mental disorder, especially in the problematic black community.

The left continues its soft assault on the black community, it’s better for us to choose killing our children in the womb, keep our children in failing urban schools instead of vouchers and look to the democratic teat for succor. Black Lives Matter… but not enough to own a gun so you can protect yourself, we got you, don’t worry.

Diane Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters and Bernie Sanders are fine with you and our school children being defenseless as they seek “Common Sense” gun laws. They expect you to ignore the fact they may not be armed personally, they still have serious and resolute men armed to the teeth ready to do violence on their privileged behalf.

Guns have always been plentiful in the United States, 40, 60 or 100 years ago there was no paucity of firearms of any kind, yet our youth weren’t shooting up their schoolmates. Firearms are even more ubiquitous in countries like Switzerland where families have generations of military rifles in their homes. After service in the Swiss Army, you take your weapon home with you. Yet we do not see this happening in Switzerland or in our own past. What is the difference here and now?  What has so dramatically changed since the 80s?

The left wing rush to promote secularism in The USA has removed the societal reinforcement of the principals formally taught in our homes and churches. When you remove the Immutable Source for morality, what you end up with is not morality at all, but rather fashion. Absent a fear of the Creator God holding us responsible for our actions in our children, is it any wonder for some students it is fashionable to become a “Professional School Shooter?”

As always I am reminded of Holy Scripture, specifically the Lord preparing his disciples for the days to come Luke 22:31-38

“And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing. Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end. And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.”

Digital Publius