There is a strange propensity of the human mind in which it is unable to process certain pieces of knowledge which fall outside the realm of presupposed truths. This cognitive dissonance keeps us from hearing what other people are saying because we are convinced that our cause is completely right, and we are without error in all that we have accepted as truth. It is for the other person to come to us completely, to accept all that we are saying as 100% true – case closed!

In my first part of this writing regarding the protests from NFL players, I attempted to show how this cognitive dissonance is at work in the minds of those who oppose the protest. In their thinking, our country is so Simon-pure that no protest against her should ever be lodged in the throats of her citizens. America is beyond reproach. All that she does is for the good of the world, for she alone has “Manifest Destiny,” the divine right to be the Leader of the Free World, and thus a force only for good. As I showed by several links to the atrocities committed by the United States, this is a fairy tale believed by flag-waving morons who refuse to face the truth of our sordid history. It is as if these thoughtless clowns cannot believe that 200 + years of slavery, oppression, lynchings, beatings, and restriction from full participation in the American dream would somehow have a serious blowback down the road.

Nonetheless, as justified as the Black Lives Matter movement is in their attempts to bring the national consciousness to bear on this insidious racism, they are not exempt from the same cognitive blindness in regards to the goals that they have set for themselves, as well as some serious errors in their thinking. I hope that I can, without being charged with racism, point out some of the more obvious problems in their protest which are keeping true consideration of their real grievances from taking place. Side by side with real problem of racism is the equally serious problem of the destruction of the black inner city community. Black leaders such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton refuse to address the real reasons that there are problems with the police, instead blaming only the police for confrontations which end in death.

1. The black family has been all but destroyed by Democrat policies which began with Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1964. The Great Society was the response to Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s Department of Labor report warning that ghetto family was in disarray.

More than most social scientists, Moynihan, steeped in history and anthropology, understood what families do. They “shape their children’s character and ability,” he wrote. “By and large, adult conduct in society is learned as a child.” What children learned in the “disorganized home[s]” of the ghetto, as he described through his forest of graphs, was that adults do not finish school, get jobs, or, in the case of men, take care of their children or obey the law. Marriage, on the other hand, provides a “stable home” for children to learn common virtues. Implicit in Moynihan’s analysis was that marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children’s prospects. Single mothers in the ghetto, on the other hand, tended to drift into pregnancy, often more than once and by more than one man, and to float through the chaos around them. Such mothers are unlikely to “shape their children’s character and ability” in ways that lead to upward mobility. Separate and unequal families, in other words, meant that blacks would have their liberty, but that they would be strangers to equality. Hence Moynihan’s conclusion: “a national effort towards the problems of Negro Americans must be directed towards the question of family structure.” 

By virtue of their visibility in the media and the the idol-worship their athletic success provides, black athletes are in a position to positively influence young men. NFL players concerned about the treatment of their fellow black citizens can be a force to turn around the devastation of the inner cities by providing wholesome role models to young black men, a daunting task in the face of a society which from every media outlet glorifies fornication as a right and violence as the means by which all problems are solved. Black leaders need to take an honest look at the scientific correlation between the 70% illegitimacy rate of the ghetto community and the poverty and violence that is prevalent in these communities. How are black football players helping repair this mess when they are shacking up with their girlfriends and having babies out of wedlock? What role models are they giving when they beat up their girlfriends and are arrested for bad behavior?

2.  The media in this country has done the black community no favors in promoting the “thug life” by means of rap music and BET television programs. BET television glorifies fornication, guns, gang membership, and violence in the videos it plays. Rap music portrays women as sluts and the thug life as normal, yet no one will take a stand against this and say, “Enough!” because BET makes money, and we worship money in this country. The NFL could take a strong and positive role in such communities by using NFL players in advertisements which teach respect for women, and the truth that real men do not get young girls pregnant as a proof of their masculinity. It would also be a help to get rid of the bumping, grinding, almost naked cheerleaders. Men are visual creatures, stimulated by what they see. The soft porn of nearly naked women is no help to chaste thinking. You want to protest something – start with BET and the liberal media who glorify anti-family themes that have destroyed the black family.

3. Conservative leaders have rightly asked where is your outrage at an average of thirty black deaths a weekend in Chicago at the hands of other blacks. It seems more than a tad hypocritical to many people to turn your back on this terrible reality and only concentrate on white-on-black violence.  Chicago is merely the most visible symptom of a very sick society in which life has come to have no value. Going back to point number two, if the unborn child is of no value, then what makes you think that any other human being will be respected?

4. Black community leaders need to stand together in support of successful black men, no matter what their political affiliation. Instead of towing the Democrat line against men such as Justice Clarence Thomas, the black community should have been outraged when Democrat politicians mercilessly attacked this man. He should have been lifted up as an role model to young black men, someone who overcame great obstacles, instead of being  torn down because the Democrats didn’t like him.

5. Speaking of Democrats, the black community needs to take a critical look at the policies of the Democrat Party, starting with the history of support of racism and violence against blacks by the Democrat Party. They need to call to account black Democrat toadies such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and realize that these men are nothing more than self-serving race-baiters who profit from racial unrest. Neither of these men has offered anything of a substantial answer to the problems which plague the ghetto community, other than to beg for more welfare funding. While the Republican Party is no prize package in itself, and needs its own reformation so they stop being whores for the rich, the Democrat Party policies, including the support of abortion which kills an unprecedented number of black babies every year, are a disaster for the black community. Fifty years of Great Society policies, with over four trillion dollars spent in the “War on Poverty,” has done nothing to improve the lives of black people. They are, in real fact, considerably worse today. Why do you keep voting Democrat when it is obvious to any thinking person that the Democrat Party is using you?

6.  Black leaders need to stop the use of the word “racism” to describe every single event which takes place in which a white person disagrees with a black person. If I disagree with Maxine Waters, it is not because I am a racist. It is because the woman is a flamin’ idiot!! I don’t like Barack Obama because he supports the killing of infants in the womb, gay “marriage,” and the persecution of Christians who refused to participate in such “marriage ceremonies” by not baking a cake for them. It had nothing to do with his skin pigmentation. There are millions of us who don’t like certain black people because they are immoral and despicable people, not because they are black. The use of the word “racism” in every situation of black/white disagreement kills off any possibility of productive conversation.

7.  Do I have to say this? Stop blaming all white people for every act of racism, either true or imagined. Some of us are sympathetic to your concerns. We watch YouTube with horror as police react in violence which is far beyond what is required to bring a situation under control. We are angered when we see a young black man get 25 years in prison for selling marijuana, while the white-collar criminals who caused the 2008 financial meltdown are not only walking free, but received astonishing financial bonus packages from the very companies they almost destroyed. The whole corrupt federal government system – judicial, executive, and representative – drives us to fits of outrage, but you will not keep us on your side by accusing us of being complicit with the degenerates and side-show freaks who are running this country.

8. In regards to the police, the black community needs to take a long, hard look at the kind of people that the police are having trouble with on a regular basis. Michael Brown was not the doe-eyed angel that the media has made him out to be. While there have been police-caused deaths which can in no way be justified, not every single black man who is killed by a white cop is innocent. You seem to not want to admit that there is a serious criminal problem that the police face in the inner cities.

Put yourself in the place of the policeman who is apprehending someone. His life is as precious to him as yours is to you, yet he is entering a highly volatile, unknown situation where he is aware that in the next minute, all hell can break loose. His adrenaline is flowing, tension is high, and then some smart-ass young punk either makes a sudden move to his clothes or starts to mouth off. Try to honestly put yourself into that situation rather than acting as if the police are always wrong, no matter what goes down. It is not going to help the conversation one bit to take the position that in every shooting racism was present and the police are always wrong.

9. STOP kissing up to Communists!  Do you not realize that these people do not have your best interests at heart? Are you not aware of the 100 million deaths that can be laid directly at the feet of Communism in the last century? Stalin was no hero – he murdered his countrymen at a horrendous rate, even ordering the killing 3,000 of the generals in his army, an act which historians agree almost cost him the war with Hitler. Che Guevara was a murderous thug, not some hero. Stop wearing his shirts at your rally. Do you honestly think these people, if you were to somehow overturn the Constitutional government of the United States for Communism, would be your friends and put you in high places.

Antifa, the Communist Party in America, and the assorted miscreants who have created the riots in Baltimore, Washington, and Ferguson, are not your friends. White people see this violence and immediately lose any sympathy they might have for your cause. Learn from Dr. Martin Luther King and Ghandi, both of whom brought about major societal changes without the use of violence. Associating yourself with people who use violence will not only be detrimental to the goals you are trying to achieve, they may very well turn that violence on you if you win.

10. Finally, the most serious question I can ask of those who are taking a knee at the games – what are YOU doing to straighten out the mess? Have you used the millions of dollars you are paid to help clean up neighborhoods and establish places where young people can have alternatives to playing where drugs are dealt? Or is your money just to buy  more “bling” in the shape of mansions, expensive cars, and other expensive toys? I know that many NFL players have done a great deal of good with their money. This question is pointed specifically to those men are protesting yet have done nothing of the sort. You have the right to protest – you have the duty to do something about it the situations you are protesting. Protesting is easy, anyone can do it. Rolling up your sleeves and expending your time and effort is hard.

I hope that by now, my two articles have it clear that I see guilt on both sides of this argument. Neither one can claim complete purity of thought and/or actions. What I have written is only my thought on the issue. Perhaps they are of some value, or perhaps I am dead wrong. I am sure that those who might read this will let me know.

Do I have an answer myself? I see the problem as a result of the fact that our country never has been a “Christian Nation,” as some foolishly aver. If and when the Gospel of Jesus Christ takes root in the hearts of Americans, there will be no place for racism and hatred in the hearts of people. If the Gospel takes root in America, when people see a picture such as the one we see above, they will not shrug their shoulders and turn the TV channel looking for entertainment. Our priorities will be people, not amusement. The Gospel of Christ unites rather than divides. It is love rather than hatred. It brings out the best in mankind because we are united in love around the Person of Jesus Christ. I see this as the answer because receiving the love of God in Christ some fifty years ago greatly changed me for the better.

It can do the same for anyone – black or white.