This is one of the most disgusting political acts on a United States college campus in quite sometime. This particular week in the United States is Police Officer Memorial Week. In honor of Police Memorial Week, the Student Republicans at Dartmouth College made a bulletin board display honoring police officers killed in the line of duty.
Today the Black Lives Matter representatives at Dartmouth took it upon themselves, not to set up a counter-display - if they felt that was needed, but instead to tear down the Police Memorial Display then plaster the bulletin board with Black Lives Matter posters, and even more disgusting, with posters containing this statement:
You cannot co-opt the movement against state violence to memorialize its perpetrators. #blacklivesmatter
It is outrageous that one group, Black Lives Matter, believes it has the right to interfere with another group, the Republican Students, who have the same right to post opinions as do the Black Rights Matter thugs.
First of all, who is Black Lives Matter to take it upon themselves to assert that there is "state violence" against Blacks. This is not a "fact," instead it is a feeling or a belief that some people hold. Curiously, quite a few of those Black persons who were "victims" of "state violence" were actually killed while in the act of attacking police officers or other persons. "Unarmed persons" "murdered" by the police? One notorious "unarmed person" was killed while in the act of trying to steal a policeman's weapon AFTER beating the police officer to the point where the officer was in fear for his life. Remember Ferguson? Then there was the Black teen who was "murdered" by police in a park after the police department received frantic calls from people in a city park. These callers saw a teen alright, but the teen was armed with what appeared to the callers to be a military-type rifle. When police arrived, there was the "teen" holding the rifle. Police order him to drop the rifle; instead the teen pointed the rifle at the police who fired TO PROTECT THEMSELVES. ANYONE, not just the police, has the right to protect himself. I would have fired at a person who pointed a rifle at me! The youth was Black, the cops were White. Must have been racially motivated, right? State violence against Blacks? No, police officers protecting themselves from death or serious injury from criminals who happened to be Black.
Second, imagine the outrage that would have followed students tearing down a Black Lives Matter display at some college. Oh my God, the cries of racism! Why do Black Lives Matter groups have more "right" to protest than any other group? Why does Black Lives Matter have the right to put up their displays, even those that they put out in the middle of busy highways and interstates, and expect not to be have those displays and protests disrupted, but they then do not grant the same courtesy to opposing view points?
Particularly disgusting and outrageous to me is that these particular members of Black Lives Matter decided that they needed to desecrate a memorial to police officers during Police Memorial Week. This is akin to having the Ku Klux Klan spread posters of their own hate-mongering during a Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial celebration. Can you imagine the outrage, the news stories decrying this terrible thing? Yet this is exactly what went on at the Dartmouth campus. Were these students punished in any way? No. In fact, they were given their own bulletin board just down the hall to put even more racial baiting material disguised as true protest of a social wrong.
If Black Lives Matter bothered to educate its members, they would find that White persons are far more likely to get shot by police officers, and that White offenders are injured far more frequently than Black offenders. Not my "facts." Please check the FBI's annual reports on police-involved shootings and other injuries to civilians.
I do not believe anything will change because of what I have written here, but I will finish with this challenge, just the same. I challenge Black Lives Matter to give the same courtesy to other groups that people are extending to Black Lives Matter. I challenge Black Lives Matter to protest peacefully and to stop blocking streets and highways, stop intimidating people, stop appearing as thugs and start protesting in a way that brings credence and sympathy to their movement.
And one more thing you should know. There are people, Black, White, Brown, and any other color, who respect honest police officers for the difficult job they do. So when you, Black Lives Matter thugs, desecrate police memorials you are doing the equivalent of stepping on the Star-Spangled Banner. You will never gain public support with these kinds of actions. You are just undoing any good you could have done.
Please, Black Lives Matter, find some real case of police abuse of a Black person and protest that. Then, add some credibility to your cause. Find some WHITE person the police abused and protest THAT TOO. But, I know this will never happen, because the leadership of Black Lives Matter is only interested in promoting unrest and racial division. Unfortunately, many persons who "represent" Black Lives Matter are merely thugs covering their acts of crime and vandalism in the good name of social protest.
Black Lives Matter...that has become just another hate group. But...please hear this. ALL HUMAN LIVES MATTER. If you are Black, your life matters. If you are White, your life matters. If you are Hispanic, your life matters. If you are ANY RACE, your life matters. I am not lumping all members of Black Lives Matter into the "thug" category, but there are many who are. Wouldn't it be a great thing if the sincere protesters would separate themselves from the thugs and then address their concerns in a civilized manner?
Yes, I am sure my words will not change anything, and maybe these words will even upset someone. But I am upset, too. I am angered and outraged that Black Lives Matter is allowed to run amok, allowed to block public passage ways and highways, and yes, even allowed to disrupt students using the Dartmouth library, and face no punishment or consequence. Yes, Black Lives Matter, and yes they have their rights to protest in LEGAL ways. But MY LIFE MATTERS, too, and so does the life of every American, no matter what race. So too, the lives of all people in the world matter.
If someone violates the law, including assaulting me or anyone else, in the name of Black Lives Matter, that person is no longer a protester, but is a thug who needs to be arrested and punished.
Think about it...
And God Bless America
Today the Black Lives Matter representatives at Dartmouth took it upon themselves, not to set up a counter-display - if they felt that was needed, but instead to tear down the Police Memorial Display then plaster the bulletin board with Black Lives Matter posters, and even more disgusting, with posters containing this statement:
You cannot co-opt the movement against state violence to memorialize its perpetrators. #blacklivesmatter
It is outrageous that one group, Black Lives Matter, believes it has the right to interfere with another group, the Republican Students, who have the same right to post opinions as do the Black Rights Matter thugs.
First of all, who is Black Lives Matter to take it upon themselves to assert that there is "state violence" against Blacks. This is not a "fact," instead it is a feeling or a belief that some people hold. Curiously, quite a few of those Black persons who were "victims" of "state violence" were actually killed while in the act of attacking police officers or other persons. "Unarmed persons" "murdered" by the police? One notorious "unarmed person" was killed while in the act of trying to steal a policeman's weapon AFTER beating the police officer to the point where the officer was in fear for his life. Remember Ferguson? Then there was the Black teen who was "murdered" by police in a park after the police department received frantic calls from people in a city park. These callers saw a teen alright, but the teen was armed with what appeared to the callers to be a military-type rifle. When police arrived, there was the "teen" holding the rifle. Police order him to drop the rifle; instead the teen pointed the rifle at the police who fired TO PROTECT THEMSELVES. ANYONE, not just the police, has the right to protect himself. I would have fired at a person who pointed a rifle at me! The youth was Black, the cops were White. Must have been racially motivated, right? State violence against Blacks? No, police officers protecting themselves from death or serious injury from criminals who happened to be Black.
Second, imagine the outrage that would have followed students tearing down a Black Lives Matter display at some college. Oh my God, the cries of racism! Why do Black Lives Matter groups have more "right" to protest than any other group? Why does Black Lives Matter have the right to put up their displays, even those that they put out in the middle of busy highways and interstates, and expect not to be have those displays and protests disrupted, but they then do not grant the same courtesy to opposing view points?
Particularly disgusting and outrageous to me is that these particular members of Black Lives Matter decided that they needed to desecrate a memorial to police officers during Police Memorial Week. This is akin to having the Ku Klux Klan spread posters of their own hate-mongering during a Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial celebration. Can you imagine the outrage, the news stories decrying this terrible thing? Yet this is exactly what went on at the Dartmouth campus. Were these students punished in any way? No. In fact, they were given their own bulletin board just down the hall to put even more racial baiting material disguised as true protest of a social wrong.
If Black Lives Matter bothered to educate its members, they would find that White persons are far more likely to get shot by police officers, and that White offenders are injured far more frequently than Black offenders. Not my "facts." Please check the FBI's annual reports on police-involved shootings and other injuries to civilians.
I do not believe anything will change because of what I have written here, but I will finish with this challenge, just the same. I challenge Black Lives Matter to give the same courtesy to other groups that people are extending to Black Lives Matter. I challenge Black Lives Matter to protest peacefully and to stop blocking streets and highways, stop intimidating people, stop appearing as thugs and start protesting in a way that brings credence and sympathy to their movement.
And one more thing you should know. There are people, Black, White, Brown, and any other color, who respect honest police officers for the difficult job they do. So when you, Black Lives Matter thugs, desecrate police memorials you are doing the equivalent of stepping on the Star-Spangled Banner. You will never gain public support with these kinds of actions. You are just undoing any good you could have done.
Please, Black Lives Matter, find some real case of police abuse of a Black person and protest that. Then, add some credibility to your cause. Find some WHITE person the police abused and protest THAT TOO. But, I know this will never happen, because the leadership of Black Lives Matter is only interested in promoting unrest and racial division. Unfortunately, many persons who "represent" Black Lives Matter are merely thugs covering their acts of crime and vandalism in the good name of social protest.
Black Lives Matter...that has become just another hate group. But...please hear this. ALL HUMAN LIVES MATTER. If you are Black, your life matters. If you are White, your life matters. If you are Hispanic, your life matters. If you are ANY RACE, your life matters. I am not lumping all members of Black Lives Matter into the "thug" category, but there are many who are. Wouldn't it be a great thing if the sincere protesters would separate themselves from the thugs and then address their concerns in a civilized manner?
Yes, I am sure my words will not change anything, and maybe these words will even upset someone. But I am upset, too. I am angered and outraged that Black Lives Matter is allowed to run amok, allowed to block public passage ways and highways, and yes, even allowed to disrupt students using the Dartmouth library, and face no punishment or consequence. Yes, Black Lives Matter, and yes they have their rights to protest in LEGAL ways. But MY LIFE MATTERS, too, and so does the life of every American, no matter what race. So too, the lives of all people in the world matter.
If someone violates the law, including assaulting me or anyone else, in the name of Black Lives Matter, that person is no longer a protester, but is a thug who needs to be arrested and punished.
Think about it...
And God Bless America
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