The headlines showed the mindless destruction and street-rioting anger of people in predominantly black areas of Milwaukee.
Black power – yeah.
Black harassment – yeah.
Police bias – yeah.
Another cop shooting – yeah – but wait a minute, this was a black cop who shot an armed black man, who in fact had a record as long as your arm.
But never mind. Never miss a chance to get whitey, and Milwaukee was rocked by days of riots, burnings, looting, shootings, violence and death.
It was racial and anti-police hatred at its worst, and for those of you who thought we were beyond this kind of disaster, this proves you are wrong. We saw the same thing in Ferguson and Baltimore, but liberals are in full denial.
I recall on my radio program more than two years ago, saying it was just a matter of time before we'd be in the midst of this kind racial unrest again. I knew it would happen but many people disagreed. They'd bought into the liberal line that just by having a black president, things would be different and that racial unrest would melt away.
Think again. We have a black in the White House. We have blacks at the top of just about every government agency and department, and yet we're facing the worst racial divide since the horrors of the '60s.
While the news focused on the violence and the fires, they didn't listen closely enough to the shrieking of blacks in the streets, shouting their hatred of whites and their demands that the rioting move out of the city and into the suburbs to burn them down – for, after all, that's where the rich white folks live.
The idea is that if the rich whites don't give their wealth away to the blacks, then the blacks have the right to take what they want and destroy the rest.
Extreme? Yes, but it's what we're hearing and what we're facing. I have no doubt it will continue this summer with our black president on his way out and determined to get more of his agenda accomplished, regardless of the damage to the country.
But something is going on that makes this thinking of blacks and other minorities even more dangerous.
There's a movement afoot to train children in civil rights activism.
And when I say "children," I mean just that.
The Black Lives Matter group had a protest march in Oakland, Calif., July 21, and a number of the participants were little children. They'd been trained in social activism at something called the "Abundant Beginnings" summer camp.
One of the youngest was a 3-year old little girl, Jonnie-mae Taylor of Berkeley, who led the chant: "What do you want?" The response was "Justice!" She asked, "When do you want it?" The response: "Now!"
Mind you, she is 3 years old.
This child was one of some 20 who attended that camp to be trained in "social responsibility and justice." One of the organizers told the East Bay Times that the goal is to "raise the consciousness" of the children and get them "to pay attention to what really matters."
The camps address everything from racial bias to social justice to peaceful activism and fairness, one goal being to learn how those issues play into the decisions people make about situations and other people. It's all supposed to raise their consciousness about social issues.
Another Berkeley mother brought her three children to the Oakland protest, the kids carrying signs that read "Black Lives Matter" and "Racism isn't born. It's taught."
Yeah, and it appears they're doing the teaching.
The camps are held in different areas, and the children range from toddlers to teens. The older children direct their actions toward police and wrote letters to officers.
To quote some of the notes:
"Police, you should help people, not hurt people."
"To the Police: You should stop and slow down and maybe ask black people how they feel. P.S. Black Lives Matter."
At the Oakland rally, a 14-year-old confronted police who were blocking a freeway ramp. She taunted them, yelling and asking why they were afraid of a 14-year-old girl.
This kid needs a spanking, not praise.
The children built an altar made of pictures, flowers and drawings to honor people killed by police.
A local family psychologist, Shauna Castro-McDaniel, told the newspaper that participating in rallies "gives children an outlet to speak up and an opportunity to feel empowered."
Empowered, and then what?
If they don't get what they want when they want it, it appears they'll feel empowered to just take it, no matter the consequences.
It's not surprising that camps like this would be taking place in the Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco area – liberal bastion that it is.
To some, the concept may sound high-minded, but it really amounts to training younger generations to be social protesters, rabble-rousers and rioters.
So in the future, when you hear crazed rioters shouting in the streets for racial justice, you'll know where they came from – and there'll be no end to it.
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