Don's Tuesday Column

                  THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson  Red Bluff Daily News   12/13/2016

              Fake racial news behind BLM

A defense of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement appeared recently on this page. I’ll have no uncharitable things to say about anyone of youthful experience and limited ability or willingness to delve any deeper into such an issue than what is bandied about by college professors or the loud, slanted advocacy of campus leftists.

Tens of thousands of words from every source at my disposal—together with decades of my life among both the best and the worst of America’s black population—I can summarize BLM with brevity. The BLM movement is a racist, violent, anti-cop and white-hating outgrowth of what was—prior to Barack Obama’s unpresidential efforts to stoke, rather than calm, racial grievance—a radical splinter of the commendable mainstream groups seeking to further the well being of African-Americans by removing barriers based on race.

The hypocrisy of the anti-cop element arises from the gritty facts of urban life for many poorer segments of the population. They have no recourse (unlike their more-well-off fellow citizens of any race) to pick up and move away from the scourge of gangs, crime and drugs afflicting their neighborhoods. Their only salvation lies in the assertive, even aggressive, policing that recognizes this simple fact of inner city life: The overwhelming perpetrators of crime and violence are young, black men and boys while the overwhelming victims are innocent black moms, dads, children and the sense of safety without which no community can thrive.

The deterioration of the sense of safety for law-abiding citizens to find jobs, start and maintain businesses, or attend schools, churches and outdoor events, exists for the lower classes of all races. Those of any race that engage law enforcement with intent to resist, harm or flee lawful apprehension suffer the predictable outcomes that accompany such actions. Those officers have every reason to place a priority on returning safely to their families at the same time as they seek to ferret out the truly bad actors who prey on the innocent.

Any black mom, whose son has come under suspicion or had the rare but usually earned physical repercussions of violently resisting—including getting shot—has every right to bemoan the injustice (in her view) imposed on said son. The rest of us have every right to withhold conclusions until the facts can be fully examined. It is the factual circumstances that, when it comes to the BLM crowd, fail to support their one-sided narrative. To wit, there never was a “hands up, don’t shoot” moment for Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO. On and on, the same protesters, who often enable if not create riot conditions, cite made up facts and scenarios. Actual FBI statistics show white suspects are more likely to get shot than black suspects; cops are more likely to get shot or attacked by black suspects than white suspects.

Powerlineblog.com’s “Ammo Grrll” pithily writes: “What the grievance peddlers are left with is a wholesale attack on ‘whiteness’ itself. This might work with a few intimidated college students and guilty liberals, but it is not going to be a winning strategy for the vast majority of white people who will say: You want success? Here’s the secret to our white ‘privilege’:

“Do what we did—stay in school, work for fifty years, don’t do or sell drugs, don’t commit crime, don’t have babies you have no ability to support, and get married. Speaking on behalf of all white people—since virtually every angry black person feels qualified to speak on behalf of all black people—unless you do those simple, ‘common-sense’ things, we are really no longer interested in anything you have to say. The black people who HAVE done these things are doing fine.” I would extend the same rational argument to apologists for any racial group.

On the subject of made up facts and scenarios, the news media and Democrats (a redundancy) have “jumped the shark” over both the hysteria of “fake news” and Russian “meddling” in the election. I’m shocked, I tell you, that the internet informational sewer has trolled and duped naïve email recipients about assisting an African prince or businessman in bringing some huge sum of money into America (with a generous cut to the dupe). That same internet delivers some bizarre story not previously covered in any news source—because it is completely made up by someone who knows it is made up—and some fool gets outraged into taking action over the made up outrage.

The irony just oozes, even screams, when the news media act as if they haven’t, as a group, participated in promulgating untruths, half-truths and otherwise fallacious stories that fall apart upon determined examination by those outside the coastal, beltway, elite liberal bubble.

Think of Dan Rather’s “fake-but-accurate” documents that supposedly cast doubt on George W. Bush’s Texas Air National Guard service. Think of the multitude of lies (over 150 by one count) spread about Sarah Palin, even on this page, many of which were reported as “news” and infamously turned into Saturday Night Live skits; some voters actually thought Palin said she “could see Russia from my house.”

The examples of one-sided, often fallacious reporting, which always made Republicans look bad, could fill a book. Look up “Russian ‘Meddling’ in Election: Most Overblown Story Ever?” (Powerlineblog.com, by John Hinderaker). The very Washington Post story causing all the hyperventilation admits: 1) it wasn’t the Russian government, 2) they quote no one by name and, 3) there are no facts, documents or testimony to support the allegations. Never stopped Dems before, as we saw in the “seriousness of the (phony) charges” that G.H.W. Bush met in Paris with Iranians to arrange for the release of hostages after Ronald Reagan became president. More to come.

"Another_Bob" is Bob Mulholland using fake name to slime his foes