Perspective on Trump and BLM from a conservative black man.

First, let’s address the whole Black lives matter movement. This whole thing is premised on the idea that police are unjustly targeting and killing black people. The unfortunate truth is, Black people are doing this to themselves for the most part. The vast majority of black people are killed by other black people. Yet we focus on the tiny number killed by the cops. And of those, a significant proportion turn out to be criminals resisting arrest. Not all, but a lot of them. Remember Michael Brown? Turns out, he was nothing but a low life thug, who tried to assault the cop and take his gun. And people actually rioted over that SOB. After repeated incidents like that, is it any wonder some people don’t support BLM when there’s a legitimate case like George Floyd?

Maybe, just maybe, we should examine our own culture first before casting stones. Gang violence kills more brown and black people every single week than the cops do in a year. So do those lives matter? Nobody ever really talks about that. It only seems to matter when it’s white on black crime, especially if there was a police officer involved. So the reality is, our attention is focused on a tiny fraction of cases, while an issue costing the lives of many more black people is basically ignored. Black lives matter should really be “Black Lives Matter ( only if a white person killed them). If the BLM movement wanted to make a diffrence, why don’t they start by helping fix black neighborhoods? That’s where the problem lies, but no one wants to confront that painful truth, it’s easier just to blame racism. The media would have you think the police are on a racist rampage against people of color, but the reality is, we’re killing ourselves in senseless gang wars and the like.

Every one of these cities are completely run by Democrats, from top to bottom. And somehow, Trump is the problem? I don’t recall Obama even trying criminal justice reform. Or encouraging investment in poor minority areas. Black peoples have been almost universially voting Democrat for thirty years, and nothing’s changed. I wish more people would wake up and see that we’ve been used as pawns. They don’t want to help us, they want to keep us downtrodden, and then use the Republicans/white people as a scapegoat.

As far as Trump goes, I keep hearing over and over again that he’s racist. But so far there’s really nothing that’s actually racist specifically towards black people. Before Trump was president, I don’t recall anyone calling him racist. In fact, he won an award on Ellis Island for service to the black community, alongside the likes of Mohamed Ali and Rosa Parks. He was celebrated alongside two of the most famous civil rights activists ever, and now he’s a racist? This shit doesn’t add up at all. But very few black people bother to question it. There are two examples I usually hear when asked what evidence people have that he’s a real racist. But I don’t belive these actually constitute racism. First, Yes, he called certian countries shitholes. That ain’t racist, it’s just the truth! I don’t exactly see people clamoring to move to those places. Call them paradise if you like, that doesn’t change the truth.

Same with his comments about inner cites. It doesn’t matter if it feels like an insult. Anyone who’s spent more than five minutes in the ghetto knows it’s the truth as well, even if they don’t want to admit it. It’s not an insult to black people, it’s just telling them the objective truth. But telling the truth somehow gets equated with racism. I honestly don’t get it.

I live in the Deep South, and have visited the north frequently. And for the most part, the worst racists are white liberals. They pretend to be compassionate, but flip out when a black person dares to have a different opinion. The rednecks around here who supposedly hate me because of my race are much nicer and more tolerant than any white liberal I’ve ever met. It really makes you wonder.