Do Black Lives Matter?

Do Black lives matter?  

 Well, apparently not all black lives matter, because the same night that Alton Sterling was shot by police in Baton Rouge, LA and Philando Castille was shot in St. Paul, MN, there were twenty-one African-Americans shot by other African-Americans nationwide yet no Black Lives Matter protests were staged for these deaths.  There were no appearances by race baiters like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton and there was certainly no reporting by the mainstream media.  This is probably because these latter deaths did not fit the narrative that the cops are racists and kill African-Americans at the slightest pretense.

The media has bought onto that narrative at the expense of the truth and shame on them.  Probably the most egregious example is Ferguson, Mo, which produced the lie, “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” which the BLM movement is still proclaiming and the media reporting as if it were fact.  That there is a shaping of the story to fit an agenda is beyond dispute.

The facts are that only four percent of violent deaths suffered by Blacks are at the hands of the police.  The other ninety-six percent are the result of Black on Black crime.  The fact is that African-American cops are three times more likely to use deadly force against Blacks than White cops are, but every white cop now knows that the media will concentrate on them.  Who cares about facts, when you can have a good story on racial strife.

The BLM movement has come on the scene to fan the flame of that racial strife.  It is a hate mongering racist movement that chants, “What do we want?  Dead cops.  When do we want it? Now.”  We have seen the results of runaway emotions as lone-wolf African-Americans have murdered police officers all over the nation.

There are two solutions to the Black-Police conundrum.  The first is for the BLM leaders to undergo training scenarios where they have to make split second, life or death, decisions on whether to shoot or not shoot.  They will then find out the tremendous difficulties that police face on a daily basis. 

The second can be summed up in one word: compliance.  All African-Americans have to do when stopped, regardless of the reason, is to comply with the police officer’s instructions to the letter.  No resistance, no lip, just compliance.   There is no policeman alive who wakes up in the morning and decides that he is going to kill a Black man that day, but every policeman wants to go home to his family at the end of his shift. 

Since we are created by God, in His image, all lives matter.  Black lives, white lives and even the lives of the men in blue.  The sooner we learn that, the sooner the violence stops.