Not if you are Grant Napear, the play-by-play announcer of the Sacramento Kings for over 30 years. He was forced to resign after stating that all human life matters. The reaction against him was immediate and vitriolic. One might almost think he was a closet pro-lifer. Or Drew Brees, whose patriotism can be cancelled by a snowflake’s hurt feelings.
A tale of two lives
Compare the hideous murders of George Floyd and Captain David Dorn. Both were black men. The last moments of both were recorded and available on the Internet. The murderers of each could face prosecution under civil-rights laws (which do not apply to us.) Yet one is celebrated worldwide and the other only made it to brief regional news coverage. There is one important difference. One died upholding the rule of law during a riot; the other after an alleged criminal offense. So clearly the world is mourning and protesting the murder of Captain Dorn. And obviously St Louis will be renaming Market Street Captain Dorn Boulevard. And Reverend Sharpton will speak at his memorial service, along with the new ”non-political” Mizzou football coach.
Back to Animal Farm
No??? Then are we not back to the Orwellian world of war is peace in which all lives are equal, just some more equal than others?. Most equal are the lost lives that can be used to support the narrative of systemic police racism and the pandemic of murders of innocent, unarmed black men, like Mike Brown. A black life is important in proportion to its usefulness in supporting these long debunked theories of institutional racism. (Unless we are talking about higher education’s institutional racism and Asians.) The highest value occurs when a murder can lead to street protests, ripe for hijacking by radicals and race hustlers. Preying on white guilt and decades of race-shame turned into political correctness, the racialists will use the riots to extort tribute from liberal and bien-pensant politicos of both parties, whose greatest fear is the threat of (a false accusation of) racism. The radicals will still dream of storming the Winter Palace on Pennsylvania Avenue, but, confident their escalating demands will always be rewarded, will compromise with racial tribute delivered by humbly repentant kneeling useful idiots. There will always be a next time.
A betrayal of the promise of equal treatment from the 1950s and 1960s
To this troglodyte there is nothing peaceful about these “peaceful protests.” They were always designed to intimdate with an implicit threat. If scores or hundreds of screaming people are coming in my direction demanding their version of justice, I would feel rather intimidated. Just like Bogdan Vechirko, the truck driver happening upon a group of “protesters” blocking I-35 in Minneapolis. He was dragged out, beaten, arrested, and taken to jail. (Shades of the Rodney King trucker.) His truck hit no one, yet he was charged, unlike those who beat him. It takes very little for a “peaceful” protest to turn into a lynch mob. I am a dissenter from the false narrative they intend to orce us to hear, assent to, and genuflect before. My counter-narrative does not figure in the “dialogue” they and my friends in higher education wish to impose. Our country can only be unified in their way, not only by defunding police or abolishing ICE, but by muzzling blind wretches like me. Or you.
Equal treatment under the law means as individuals, not as members of a favored or disfavored group. All lives matter, as does truth
It’s not relevant, but I personally mourn every loss of human life, including at the execution of vicious criminals, children killed in the womb, or of those like George Floyd, Captain Dorn, and the departed we have known. I bend the knee before the altar, and only there.
Troglo
The Missouri Intelligencer 