Most religious folks agree on certain basic concepts, like the Golden Rule. One sees versions of the Golden Rule in all religions I am personally aware of.
But does Black Lives Matter accept the Golden Rule? I don’t think so. The people running this thing don’t seem to just reject traditional morality, but morality outright. This is what Marxist Satanists do. Rather than seek to live under a law of any sort, they reject laws outright, codes outright, and make of anger and destruction themselves virtues.
The destruction being done by BLM to the black community is incalculable. They are destroying black buildings and black businesses; destroying the economies of the cities where they are rioting; alienating the police that people need to keep the peace, with accompanying huge increases in all sorts of crime in black neighborhoods; and destroying–along with the lockdowns being pushed first and foremost and hardest by Democrats–the TAX BASE which is used to fund all social programs.
And it seems likely to me that they are breeding tacit but very real racism, in that many employers, now, are going to be hesitant to hire angry black people. If they can get away with racist hiring, they will.
And it is unlikely any useful changes to policing will be made. After all the anger, arson, theft and death, the police departments will be doing well to return to the status quo ante, where they return to patrolling the streets and arresting the same drug dealers and gang bangers they used to, and who they are letting run rampant right now.
All this is for nothing. It is a stage play, enacted on the theme of “Democrat good; Republican bad”, but it is far from clear that the black communities–who are suffering much, much, much more from the riots than from police brutality–will draw the conclusion that is being shoved so aggressively and viciously down their throats. They may just say “I want a job, a good school for my kids, and safe streets”. No Democrat is positioning him or herself to deliver those. Not in this election. You need Republicans for that.
Obviously, some people just want a free ride. They want to live without working. Those people deserve what they get, which are scraps from the table of life. That is not living, though. There can be no self respect in that world. I personally am not racist enough to believe that describes more than a small segment of the black community. And there are plenty of poor whites like that too. The worst abuses I personally have heard of were from white families, actually.
This ad is truly outstanding. This spirit has long been needed. I will openly hope this is the year the Democrats finally, truly, and OBVIOUSLY went much, much too far.