Black Lives Do Indeed Matter

If you aren't that interested in politics, but are a lovely, caring person, the headline seems fairly straightforward. There is racism within the predominately white Western societies, that at worst shows itself with incidents like the killing of George Floyd. It doesn't matter that he was an armed robber, his killing was almost casual.

But do think about it (and as I write this, I am thinking of white and black people). We don't know that the policeman killed Floyd because he was black. All we know is that the policeman is exactly the sort of person who shouldn't be a policeman and his basic immorality permitted him to kill someone.

But more than that, why is there an organisation called Black Lives Matter? And you not only don't hear 'All Lives Matter' it is a theme that is actively attacked if you try to use it. The essence of BLM is the inherent suggestion that someone thinks black lives don't matter. Don't get started, yes I'm sure some people are like that, but they are the ones to ignore, not those actually targeted by BLM.

I mean, some nit flew a banner over a football stadium (that's actual football, not modified rugby) saying 'white lives matter' which is also a statement of fact, but the professional outrage crowd went nuts. But it was playing into BLM's hands.

BLM is actually fairly unconcerned with racial issues, beyond their usefulness to ideology, being an organisation dedicated to Marxist principles and consequently seeking to destroy capitalism and the justice system, which all stand in their way.

Getting black people to riot and loot and burn on the streets, was specifically to say to other people (whites, similarly horrified blacks) that here were black people doing terrible things. We should oppose and clamp down on these people. Basically, promoting and perpetuating racial division, which would be largely non existent without their constant input.

Pushing victimhood makes you feel oppressed, even if you aren't. That there is racism is evident in the range of names for black people, that are designed to denigrate, yet I am not aware of a reciprocal repertoire against whites. Though interestingly, the equally disgusting 'coconut' is amazingly racist, yet of more recent invention (from the Left, naturally).

To accuse a person who's skin tone is darker, of being a white person within, is a particularly pernicious insult. Not really black, because they 'think' like a white person, also suggesting there is always something wrong with being white!

The Left believe that if they can destabilise society, particularly through violence, then that society is ripe for them to step in and take over. Corbyn was indifferent to election results because he never envisaged achieving real power that way.

So black people are told probably by the white, intolerant, illiberal liberals to take offence at every turn. Sticks and stones are for riots, but everyday words must be considered more harmful, causing injuries you cannot recover from. You must take to the streets, riot and loot. Only by this route can you find yourself governed by people who will show you what real and professional oppression is.

To the Left of course, a successful black person is a problem, they have got above their station. You are not supposed to benefit from capitalism, as it lifts more people out of poverty than any other political system ever has, and you will be abused for it. A traitor, indeed.

To me, I care nought for race, but support the idea that you measure a person by the content of their character, which is why ipso facto I detest Marxists for their nihilism. To me the biggest crime is to deny anyone, anyone at all, opportunity. The rest is up to you and the content of your character.

Pretty Girls In Fast Cars

I enjoy seeing a successful woman in an expensive car, be it Bentley or Porsche, I think it is highly appealing. My feelings are the exact opposite if the female is actually the wife of a rich man and does nothing with her day but fret about herself, book treatments and meet up with others in her air-head circle to talk about reality TV.

Basically, I have always been attracted to clever women. I am not threatened or intimidated by them, which is it seems, amazingly common with the male of the species. I like to think I am a fair judge, but can be ridiculously naïve at times. It has never occurred to me that men and women are anything other than different versions of the same thing. I never considered that they might be inherently inferior.

Likewise, meeting people who originate from places other than these shores who may have a different colour skin, I also just take them on the merit they present. Hell, when I was at school we saw that African people were darker skinned and that was as far as my thinking went; people lived in Africa too, but they had a darker skin.

I didn't make the 'intellectual' leap to conclude that this made me superior. Even when the distinct lack of any parallel with the societal developments in Europe was considered, when pushed all I would do is wonder why. Perhaps it was the heat?

So, if I met an 'African' I wasn't surprised by the colour of his skin. This means I am not Left wing. They shriek about it in perpetual surprise. Culture however, is something I am less forgiving about. God may have decided the colour of your skin, but you choose your culture.

If your culture is to treat women as inferior to men (because the men in question are fundamentally weak and resort to the tactics of the bully to gain and maintain ascendency), then I detest you. Or maybe your culture is to lie and cheat in order to gain advantage and power. This means you exhibit the fundamentals of Marxism. You see others as existing only for what you can get out of them.

Obama was elected because he was black and that is very wrong, both because his colour should be irrelevant, but also because black people should never have been deprived of opportunity, which would probably have meant a black President ages ago. But Obama was also a terrible President, not because he was black, but because he is a snake. Like our own Tony Blair, he was just out for himself.

Theresa May is terrible not because she is a woman or that she is white, but because she lacks principles. (And it seems, a spine). She has been told by the nation to take the UK out of the EU; she is a politician so she is bound, by Parliament's promise to obey that specific demand, but also because MP's are there to serve the public will. Additionally, she presented a party manifesto to get elected to power that emphatically restated that commitment.

Now, the wholly unsurprising attitude of the bureaucrats around her (that we should not leave the greatest agglomeration of bureaucrats the world has ever seen) is convincing her to do their bidding instead. Which is weak and unprincipled.

She keeps saying the opposite of what she does, but maybe I am wrong and will be surprised. Maybe she will say to the EU that she has tried to play nice but enough is enough, now stop being childish and sort things out properly. Maybe.

Newspeak

I know that I am just a straightforward, liberal minded person so completely out of touch with modern authoritarianism, but I still am amazed at how out of touch I am. Take the Greek athlete's tweet that saw her sent home. It was a racist tweet apparently. Here it is, tell me in what way it is racist.

'With so many Africans in Greece, at least the West Nile mosquitoes will eat home made food'.

I'm guessing that a Greek national is not allowed to have an objection to foreigners coming to her country, illegally or otherwise. She may see how their arrival in large numbers affects the finances of an already challenged country, more people chasing fewer jobs, more social benefits to pay out. Naturally, real world concerns such as these are outlawed and with good reason, as er, to believe in these things would er, probably mean resolving problems.

That can't be right. And anyway, how can the EU delete Greece as a nation state if the Greeks are proud of their country and their nationality? They really must stop seeing it as their country. You wouldn't catch a senior politician in Britain standing up for their country.

Maybe I'm wrong though. Maybe the racism is in mentioning mosquitoes, or that mosquitoes feed on blood? I don't know, the whole construct of objection is beyond me.

Always bear in mind though, that racism mainly exists in the minds of the race industry. They work very hard to ensure that you believe racism is rampant. I saw a woman on the television who was black (the universal phrase for any non-white person whatever their actual colour), who described her hair as 'Afro-Caribbean'. Listening to her, I would guess she was British, but her hair apparently has roots.

Clearly, if the logic the race industry insists on is followed, she should just say African, the belief being that all 'black' people must have come originally from Africa. Putting aside the current anthropological belief that we all came out of Africa, which kinda stunts the race industry's racism, it is a reasonable supposition. But the Caribbean bit is added as that was their most recent, historical location (even if they have no connection to the region) and they were only there of course due to slavery. White slavery.

Well, white slavery that took them there and imprisoned their lives. Their own people often sold them into slavery, or other blacks, or Arabs. But none of that is relevant; it doesn't contain the word 'white'.

Me, I don't care for the colour of skin, I care about the person. I am proud to be British and know we have many fine traditions of which we can be justly proud and anyone else who is British and believes likewise is fine by me. What I dislike is the person who comes here and orders me to bend to their will.

The Left of course use the race industry to sow discord, to undermine Western civilisation, it is just one front in their many fronted attacks upon the people who tolerate them.

I haven't ever traced my roots back through time, but I might start calling myself Norwegian British, or maybe just my hair.