What Black Lives Matter Means to Me

Black Lives Matter (BLM) is not about anyone else’s life not mattering.  It is just a long overdue recognition that black lives matter.

Let’s take a look at the American example regarding black lives.  From the very beginning of the United States of America (USA), black lives didn’t matter the same as all other lives.  Even the original Constitution counted a black life as three-fifths of a life and the voting rights to the three-fifths of a life were given to slave owners rather than the person being counted.

Move forward to the 1960s, more than 184 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, when Congress finally began to recognize the disparity through legislation such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.  More recently in the early half of 2020, almost 244 years after the Declaration of Independence, a policeman murders George Floyd in front of hundreds of onlookers as though George’s life didn’t matter.

In America, the Land of the Free and the Melting Pot that was to serve as an example to the rest of the world, We the People of the USA are still struggling to find what our Country is all about.  White lives have always mattered more than any other life in America.  Non-white lives that weren’t black lives were always treated by law better than black lives.  Very few people who support BLM are saying other lives don’t matter.  They are just saying it’s time for the world to recognize that black lives matter just as much as anyone else.

Freedom and Equality for All of We the People of the United States of America

 

#JuneTeenth2021 Today saw mainstream recognition of a day long celebrated as the end of the darkest part of the #AmericanJourney and the beginning of the continuing struggle to create an America that is truly equal in its freedoms. #FreedomDayForAllWtP of the United States!

2021 continues strong as our Year Of Hope!

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Last Stand in Trump's War Against America?

On January 6, 2021, more than 74 million registered voters in the United States of America violently stormed the heart of democracy, the United States Capitol, while the Constitutional ceremony of counting Electoral College votes for the next President was underway in full accordance with the Constitution.  The objective of the attackers was to overthrow that very Constitution that forms the foundation for the legitimate Government of the United States.  The treasonous attempt to destroy the democratic processes was designed to keep in place the now unconstitutional Government that had been rejected by more than 81 million registered voters on November 3, 2020.

For those few who have paid any attention to my own personal descriptions of this current Civil War that began nearly eleven years ago, this assault on the seat of our democracy was the expected ending to the failed Presidency of Donald J. Trump.  The signs had been there for many months now, if not years, including a trove of pervasive indicators provided by what Trumpers have come to religiously refer to as Fake News.  For any Trumper (the 74 million) that was shocked by the events of this past week, take a look at the history that has unfolded over the past six months, to include minute-by-minute commentary from millions of sources, and you will see the obvious predictability of the events that took place in Washington, DC on January 6.

Like the Confederate soldiers from the Civil War of the 1860s, there are more than 74 million Americans (Trumpers) who cannot duck their responsibility for Wednesday’s escalation of the Civil War of 2010 that is now raging at a much greater intensity because of the millions of gallons of fuel added to the fire by the Trumpers and their supreme leader.  When soldiers in gray attacked Union Soldiers in the 1860s, it was the entirety of the Confederacy that bore responsibility for the deaths and destruction that occurred, not just those particular individuals who fired the shots.  Similarly, all 74 million plus voters who voted for Trump on November 3, 2020 bear the responsibility for the lives that were lost and the damage that was done at the Capitol on January 6.

I’d like to offer my personal thank you to all Trumpers for desecrating the pride I had in my support and defense of the Constitution of the United States of America since July 26, 1986.  It has especially saddened me to realize that millions of my brothers and sisters who had also taken the oath to support and defend the Constitution have failed to uphold their oath.  To all Trumpers, I ask you this, “How great is America now because of the leadership of the past four years?”  In typical Trumpian fashion, I expect those who don’t feel great will place all the blame on the Democratic Party.