Ken Frank writes that the movement is based on a perception that refuses to acknowledge reality.
To the Editor:
Perception can be reality. However, reality trumps perception in the "Hands up... Black lives mater" movement. It was founded on a lie about the Michael Brown shooting case, and the people in the movement don't care.
Brown's hands were not in the air. They were on Officer Darren Wilson's gun. Deaths by police account for only about 1 percent of people killed in America. And out of that 1 percent, most were committing a crime at the time.
This is a policing problem? I'm not defending the police, because they don't need defending. However, our culture has become steeped in delusion where good is evil and evil is good. We are drifting in winds driven by the culture-of-change advocates. They are acting like petulant children, fired up by the press.
America, we are being bullied into thinking things that we really don't believe. Each time we come to our senses we remember the muzzle of political correctness that has been placed on our mouths and in our minds.
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A Texas sheriff's deputy being shot in the back and killed while gassing up his car is sheer wickedness. That is hate the devil wouldn't hold. We're expected to believe that flags motivate people to kill, but endless marching and shouting "Oink, oink, bang bang" - along with Internet hate - has no affect on behavior. That's intellectual dishonesty.
Moreover, most black people join with all reasonable, sane human beings who are not hoodwinked by the madness. "Lives matter" should be a poster outside an abortion clinic, not a point of discussion in a civilized society.
I heard that saying "All lives matter" makes me a racist. This is another perverted perception. How twisted have we become?
Ken Frank
Pitman
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