Black Lives Matter Is Not Actually About Black Skin

Sandra Bland, Michael Brown Jr., Eric Garner and now Sam Dubose.

These are the black lives that might have mattered if they were not quite so black.  I'm not actually referring to their skin color, though I'm certain that melanoma played a role in their deaths.  I'm referring to their black characterizations that quickly became the narrative reason why losing these lives didn't really matter as much because of THC in the blood, taking or selling tobacco products or driving without a license.

When the young white lady got killed by a Mexican illegal, Fox News ran that story as though little white girls in America are getting accidentally killed by Mexican illegals every day but we just don't hear about it.  The criminal that admitted to the crime was sufficiently blackened for his five time, illegal return to America, while the victim and her family were treated with the grace and dignity that they deserved.  Her background wasn't publicly besmirched like Trayvon Martin was after George Zimmerman took his life.

The real idea of black lives matter is the notion that a white boy suspected of murdering the Emmanuel 9 gets the kind of dignity that Sam Dubose was begging for when he asked University of  Cincinnati  police officer  Roy Tensing to simply run his name and confirm that he was a licensed driver who lived in the area.

Was Dubose concerned that a minor incident was quickly escalating towards the demise he endured when he tried to start his car and drive away? Officer Tensing was forcibly attempting to remove the driver from his car  just as Dubose appears to think to drive away instead of standing clear of the door and requesting the driver to exit the car as is normal procedure with non-violent confrontations. If there was any damage to Tensing's arm that happens from the car pulling away (he claims a tingling in his arm after the incident), it appears to happen after Tensing has already shot Dubose in the head and as his limp body presses on the accelerator which then forces Tensing to the ground when the car takes off. Apparently, driving without your license was concerning enough to this officer to the degree of forcibly figuring out why.

When Walter Scott ran away from an officer for reasons that only he could answer if he were still alive, his fleeing was about to be characterized as fleeing while struggling for the officers taser gun if a video didn't change the story.  The video bleached away the blackening of Scott that made the previous explanation of a long distance kill shot from the back plausible somehow.

Black lives matter is an attempt to stop making black people responsible for being church going people who are also in church at the time they get killed type church going people: who also have family that are full of grace and dignity in the face of hate and terror, before we feel the compassion it takes to empathize with the black legislators in South Carolina who reminded us for years that the Confederate message and the flag was both offensive and dangerous.


White Lives and Lion's Lives Matter Too?!?!

Black lives matter is a recognition that no man would persist to achieve something for someone else that they don't insure exists for themselves.  Black lives don't seem to matter at times because no lives really matter that much any more. What appears to be white derision towards disadvantaged blacks is more accurately described as subjugation of blacks in the pursuit of the green.  Poor people of every color are unfortunate victims of capitalism's engine. Post blackening the reputation of the victims of oppression is often times more about economics than racism. yet to fix this we must recognize that our weakest links are not responsible for the persistence of perception.

 This is a hard thing to digest because how exactly do you repair innocent victims from being stuck at the wrong end of the lens? If you have a blackened view of black people, it doesn't matter how pure white or young and innocent they actually might be.  Even 12 year old Tamir Rice couldn't get a customary "drop the gun or we'll shoot" command that could have saved his life.  Without this horrendous video, God only knows how blackened the reputation of this 12 year old boy would have been beyond the blame of being too old looking and playing with a pellet gun in the park which white boys apparently have never done.  Without the bleach of video, Rice would have been blackened with an accusation of pointing the gun at police to justify his killing.

Sam Dubose is the most recent killing and the Cincinnati prosecutor is trying the officer with murder.  He probably should be trying for a conviction that could be achieved, like manslaughter because the battle is now over whether or not this black man, who had no license and could have been driving away with the officers hand stuck in the car, deserved to die since the officer feared for his own life.  Because of the blackening of people who deserve better, half of America will see this video one way and the rest another.

Black lives matter is the dream of the day when most of us will see Dubose, the only one who didn't have a lethal weapon, fleeing the escalating aggression posed by the only person who did have a lethal weapon and see the exact same thing. What a dream.

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Are They Playing Fair? Huffington Post Pushes Donald's Diatribes To Entertainment News Page.

pol·i·ti·cian

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noun

a person who is professionally involved in politics, especially as a holder of or a candidate for an elected office.

Is Donald Trump a politician?  You better believe it!!

synonyms:

legislator, elected official, statesman, stateswoman, public servant; More

• US

  a person who acts in a manipulative and devious way, typically to gain advancement within an organization.

Donald Trump may not appreciate being connected to the field of politics, but the definition of the field fits "The Donald" to a tee. Unashamedly, Trump has always sold America a bill of goods that he's now hoping to use for a run at the highest office in the land. Unfortunately, he's so very good at politicking that he might just win this thing, and even Trump seems to be growing afraid of a job that is much more appealing to throw darts at versus dodging them for 4-8 years.

Despite a GOP party that has mostly allowed Trump to be as abrasive as he'd like, Trump is now threatening to go Ross Perot and do the third party run which would likely do for the Clinton family exactly what it did for them the first time when Bill Clinton unseated George H.W. Bush thanks to an assist from third party Perot.  Trump is manipulating the American political process in a devious way to gain advancement- but not within the GOP necessarily who are hopelessly tied to a disjointed party platform that isn't inspiring mainstream America like it used to.  In order to really fix his hot button issue- immigration, President Trump will have to really be a friend of Mexico and not just a politician that criticizes them and later pretends to have a bond with these ridiculed people just because he hires so many of them

Trump hasn't had to change his message because he's politically savvy to alter it just enough to ease the heat.  When his accusing the Mexican government of criminal mischief didn't play well on every air wave, Trump simply adjusted his message with a back handed compliment describing them (Mexico) as smarter and craftier than our government.  When asked by CNN's Anderson Cooper whether or not we have a problem with policing of black people in America in response to the Sandra Bland video, Trump remained politically non-committal by saying; 

"I hope we don't, but we might".

Trumpis not a lifelong elected politician because he is an even worse type of politician, similar to Rush Limbaugh who plays the game exclusively for personal gain and not for love of country.  Trump might be a victim of his own bombastic nature, but he seems way too bombastically calculated for any of us to treat him as an accidental tourist.  He's been on this journey in one form or another for as long as we've known him. Now, the only thing that has changed is the form of his hustle

Maybe he's going for political influence like Bill Clinton has used to create a worldwide corporate empire, sensing the end of "The Apprentice" and the need of a new reality television show to keep himself relevant to the world. Don't be surprised if all of these Trump Tower interviews are not being recorded by Trump to become the basis of some show that we get to buy from Trump  after the election season is over. 

Whatever the motivation, no candidate who continually raises his middle finger to the entire political process is really hoping to win it all in the end.  Trump is running a new kind of political game on the populace and some of us are so tired of that old game that we would play any new game just for the sake of change.  A third party run would keep the control of Trump's game squarely at Trump Towers and through Trump twitter feeds, two methods of message delivery that have cost "The Donald" no money and no energy for an amount of air time that he could never truly afford to pay for- especially with some questions over his actual wealth given the recent release of his financial documents.

He might not be quite as rich as he first told us, but he is still just as smart as he still claims to be. He graduated near the top of the best school in America (Wharton).  Assuming he wins,Trump would be relinquishing his access to wealth creation until he has fully finished his days as president of America.  Without question, his presidency would be a major income demotion for "The Donald", who's appears to be worth somewhere between 1.54 billion  and 10 billion in assets based upon document review.  If Trump is not seeking the presidency to diminish or destroy his entertainment value, he's not going to run without displaying it.  Until the rest of the media recognizes their role in Trump's manipulative game like the Huffington Post has realized, he will use them all as the key asset to his twisted self indulgence masquerading as a run at the presidency.

That's Entertainment!

The Huffington Post has decided that most of Trump's escapades are nothing more than acts of entertainment that deserve to be placed in the entertainment section and not on the front page of real news that covers real candidates who don't snub their noses at our process just to elevate themselves.  Whether you support their decision or not (I do), you have to acknowledge that the media seems more entertained by the Trump story than convinced that he's a viable option for the office.  For several days now, the same media that shoved their microphone's in the face of Trump so that they could laugh at his brashness has had to turn the microphone around on themselves while asking the question of, "why is it actually working?".

Political  pundits are usually fairly good prognosticators when determining the likely twists and turns of politics.  Most expect the crash and burn of Trump even while few can tell you when or how it begins.  This is the most unlikely of political stories, so judging its end is harder than explaining its existence in the first place.  Most people will tell you that he will eventually come back down to earth, but that is based upon normal political experience created under normal political circumstances.   The presidential run of Trump, while entertaining, is hardly normal.

It is also nothing if not a clear representation of some segment of the GOP voting block.  Worse tthan Mitt Romney, Trump would struggle as a GOP candidate in a general election, yet that doesn't matter to those who still question the birth of Barack Obama.  For years, Trump has lead this political charge against the president because it offered political attention that could be cashed in.  Trump is now leading a new political charge but for the same old political reason's.  Cashing in.

Would tough talk from Donald insure war with Putin?

Trump, who hurt his net worth with his toxic rhetoric, must use his political smarts to achieve the same political plan he's always displayed as a political entertainer.  Candidate Trump never planned  to console the families of the lost soldiers who die when president Trump upsets Vladimir Putin and must deploy troops in Ukraine. That's not the kind of entertainment Trump had in mind when he started this marketing plan.  $500,000-$750,000 per speech like Bill Clinton gets, however, is a great form of work for an old guy, and Trump (69) is a year older than Bill (68) and two years older than Hillary Clinton (67) and in need of an easier way to cash in on his persona.  If you don't connect Trump's entertainment plan to his peculiar political behavior then you too might remain a puppet in "The Donald's" twisted reality show.

If Hillary won't do interviews for the entertainment hungry press and the rest of the presidential field isn't entertaining enough to deserve free press, Trump is willing, ready and able to fill the entertainment void for them all.  So whenever its hard to make sense of a nation that seems hungry to watch the political performance of a circus clown, we have to keep in mind.

That's entertainment!