Tag Archives: Black Lives Matter

There’s a Method to the Political Correct (PC) Madness

Posted on May 13, 2017 by David E Smith

Many years ago, I witnessed what happens when people who prevent others from speaking are not dealt with promptly. During a “Firing Line” taping with William F. Buckley at Bard College in New York State on the topic of “Resolved: The ACLU is full of baloney” (the short answer is “yes”), two female activists stood up and started chanting “women of color have no voice.”

Posted in Education | Tagged 82nd Avenue of Roses Parade, ACLU, Angelo M. Codevilla, Ann Coulter, Bard College, Berkeley, Black Lives Matter, Charles Murray, Claremont McKenna College, Donald Trump, Firing Line, Heather MacDonald, Michael Kinsley, Middlebury College, Milo Yiannopoulos, Nadine Strossen, The Wellesley News, University of California, Vladimir Lenin, William F. Buckley | Comments Off

Six Ways Christians Can Respond to the Growing Police Dilemma

Posted on July 22, 2016 by David E Smith

When we heard about the shootings last week, my wife and I were heartsick. Seven people died in what feels like an escalating national crisis. Two people died at the hands of police officers, while five officers died at the hands of a single suspect. The tension and distrust between African Americans and police officers is at the highest level in my lifetime. As my son Jimmy (a third-generation police officer himself) flew as a member of the Honor Guard to represent our agency at five officer funerals in Dallas this week, I began to gather my thoughts about how we, as Christians, might respond to the growing dilemma.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged baton rouge, Black Lives Matter, community policing, dallas, Police, police brutality, racial tension | Comments Off

Islam, Revolution, and Black Lives Matter

Posted on July 21, 2016 by David E Smith

In a speech delivered to the Annual MAS-ICNA (Muslim American Society and Islamic Circle of North America) Convention in December 2015, Nihad Awad, the Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), urged Muslim Americans to take up the cause of Black Lives Matter. “Black Lives Matter is our matter,” he said; “Black Lives Matter is our campaign.”

Posted in Islam & Sharia | Tagged Barack Obama, Black Lives Matter, CAIR, David Gaubatz, Ibrahim Hooper, ISIS, Islam, Jeff Hood, Khalilah Sabra, Louis Farrakhan, Muslim Brotherhood, North American Islamic Trust, Paul Sperry, Saul Alinsky, The Nation of Islam, Wallace Fard Muhammad | Comments Off

Black and Blue America

Posted on July 19, 2016 by David E Smith

It seems that America is now locked in an endless loop of tension and violence. Many disaffected Americans are railing out at a government they see as being abusive and vindictive. Movements like “Black Lives Matter” have pitted some African-American (and other) citizens against police officers, in a vicious cycle of street demonstrations and police force.

In some ways, these tensions are not new, and can be traced all the way to the American Civil War, through segregation, the Civil Rights Movement up to today. Americans have always been deeply divided on issues of race, and equal rights.

Now, police …

Posted in Faith | Tagged Black Lives Matter, Charles Darwin, Civil Rights, eugenics, On Origin of Species, Police, racism | Comments Off

Black Lives Matter, the Chicago Urban League, and Suffering Children

Posted on July 18, 2016 by altha-admin

Recently, ABC 7 Eyewitness News anchor Terrell Brown interviewed Shari Runner, the president and CEO of the Chicago Urban League on the problems of black-on-black violence and the Black Lives Matter movement. Her predictable responses sound like she just returned from a White Privilege Conference and illuminate why “progressives” exacerbate rather than ameliorate inner city violence.

Brown: “Gun violence is still a big problem in the city, and it’s often gang-on-gang and it’s black- on-black crime….What do you do to stop it?”

Runner: “Well, I think the root cause is…jobs for kids who are disengaged. We have …

Posted in Education, Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged Black Lives Matter, Chicago Urban League, Shari Runner, Stanley S. Taylor, Terrell Brown, White Privilege | Comments Off

Loony Leftist Leader of Dallas Protest

Posted on July 11, 2016 by David E Smith

What the tragic events of last week did not need was the distraction posed by one of the organizers of the Dallas protest, Dr. Jeff Hood, the 32-year-old bearded, bespectacled white man who is effective at one thing: self-promotion. While Selma had Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., an eloquent, dignified, and committed follower of Christ, Dallas had Dr. Hood, a narcissist committed to self-aggrandizement, sexual deviance, and syncretism.

Posted in Faith, Islam & Sharia, Sexuality | Tagged Black Lives Matter, Charles Moore, Dallas Observer, Jeff Hood, Jeremiah Wright, Martin Luther King Jr., Megyn Kelly | Comments Off

Exposing Black Lives Matter — Part II

Posted on January 12, 2016 by David E Smith

One of the dangers of BLM is that it pulls on the heartstrings of those who really care about life—both blacks and whites. Ironically, those who claim concern for black lives ignore the abortion of black babies and the killing of black boys by other black boys in gang violence. While focusing almost exclusively on race as the source of injustice and harm, BLM engage in the politics of racial grievance.

Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter, Booker T. Washington, Eric Wallace, Louis Farrakhan, Million Man March, Uncle Tom | Comments Off

Exposing Black Lives Matter

Posted on December 28, 2015 by David E Smith

In my lifetime I have seen a number of organizations and movements pull at the heartstrings of the African American community. In 1995 it was the Million Man March calling on black men to atone for their failings. Today, it is the Black Lives Matter movement that draws our attention and concern.

Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged #BlackLivesMatter, Alicia Garza, Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, Black Lives Matter, Black Panthers, Civil Rights Movement, Eric Wallace, Laquan McDonald, Margret Sanger, Marxism, Michael Brown, Million Man March, Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors, Planned Parenthood, Trayvon Martin, Tyshawn Lee | Comments Off