Articles of Morgan Clements RSSFri, 07 Aug 2020 18:35:49 GMTIs Silence ViolenceBy Bob TrueThe phrase Silence is Violence has become characteristic of the implied correctness of the Black Lives Matter movement. The Irony is its intention is to silence other voices that might question the movement or its motives.The idea that blacks are being systematically and intentionally targeted for demise as Black Lives Matters claims, has no basis in fact. So often we see the number of blacks killed by cops related to the number of whites killed by cops, with a comparison stating that blacks are disproportionately being killed by cops. Because they make up only 12% of the population but represent 24% of the people killed by cops. This is specious at best. It assumes that the only relationship between people being killed by cops is skin color, when in fact a more telling figure is the number of people who commit a crime.  When we look at those numbers there is a flip flop. Blacks account for 22 percent of violent crime while only representing 12%  of the population and whites account for 50% of the crime while representing 62% of the population. When this is considered you are actually more likely to have a deadly encounter with an officer if you are white.The idea that the system we live in is flawed from the outset and therefore unfixable is counterintuitive and has its roots in Marxist rhetoric.It is based on the idea that blacks are being excluded from the financial benefits of the capitalist system. To say that this was never the case in America or that Blacks have not been excluded from the economic benefits that many others have enjoyed would be untrue. But not recognizing the advancements that Blacks have made since the Civil Rights Movement would be equally disingenuous.It does not matter which metric you use to measure the progress we have made towards equalityThe number of black college and university professors more than doubled between 1970 and 1990; the number of physicians tripled; the number of engineers almost quadrupled... Read more

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