In the film The Shawshank Redemption, inmate Ellis Boyd Redding (Morgan Freeman) says:
“There’s not a day goes by I don’t feel regret…I look back at the way I was then. A young…stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I wanna talk to him. I wanna try and talk some sense to him. Tell him the way things are. But I can’t. That kid is long gone. This old man is all that’s left. I gotta live with that…”
In Chicago a young stupid kid, just 22, is charged with the terrible crime of murdering a Chicago police officer as he returned home at 3 A.M. Four young stupid kids, aged 19, 19, 18, and 16, are in jail charged with the terrible crime of murdering a beautiful 24-year-old black policewoman in a carjacking, just hours after she got her Master’s degree. These “kids” were said to be on a robbery spree to raise money for a girlfriend’s barbecue. All accused murderers are black.
Black lives matter?
Dexter Reed of Chicago showed just how much his life mattered to himself and his now-grieving mother when he opened fire on police during a routine traffic stop. As police legally instructed him to not roll his tinted windows up he defiantly began rolling his tinted windows up. He fired at police, emptying his magazine of 11 rounds. He received 96 in return. His mother is suing police. Social justice.
In New York another young, stupid kid faces 25 years in prison for the terrible crime of viciously throwing a 68-year-old woman down the steps of a church, fracturing her skull. The 16-year-old black teen then rummaged through her still body, stealing $300 and car keys before running away while pulling his pants up. This “young kid’s” life began the year America made history by electing its first black president. Hope and change?
There are countless more stories like this everywhere. Same make and model. All with long criminal histories of arrests, juvenile detention, parole, out on bail, no bail, due back in court…. fleeing police. No fear. No respect for the law. No respect for human beings or decent society. And why should they?
Since 2015 George Soros has poured millions into electing progressive Democrat DA’s instructed to, “reverse engineer and dismantle the criminal justice infrastructure.” Results? In cities across America black teens routinely commit retail theft up to $1000 without penalty or deterrence. Shootings, homicides, car theft, and carjackings have all exploded. Many of the victims are black. Compassion?
In 2000 George W. Bush called out the, “soft bigotry of low expectations.” Today we see the harsh bigotry of no expectations.
“Rehabilitated? You know I don’t have any idea what that word means…. I know what you think it means, sonny. To me it’s just a made up word. Politician’s word. So that young fellas like yourself can wear a suit and a tie and have a job… Rehabilitated? It’s just a bullshit word… So you go ahead and stamp your forms and stop wasting my time because to tell you the truth, I don’t give a s***.”
BLM? It’s just a made-up phrase. A virtue-signaling phrase so that activists can feel better about themselves and fundraise $90 million so that Patrisse Cullors, the black lesbian Marxist who advocates against the nuclear family and school choice, can live in a $1.4-million-dollar home in Topanga Canyon. Black population: 1.4%
Talk sense? Apparently DEI, reading about “white fragility,” “unpacking whiteness” seminars and shaming eight-year-old kids for being born white aren’t working. You’d think that the NAACP, which claims to stand for the “advancement of colored people” would take a long look at nearly 60 years of post civil rights and Great Society legislation and come to some obvious conclusions: Culture matters. Race does not.
Black lives matter? It’s just a bullsh*t phrase. So you go ahead and punch your Democrat ticket and stop wasting our time pretending to care about black lives because to tell the truth, you don’t really care. Live with that.
Doug MacGregor is a former trader, real estate broker, investor, writer, screenwriter and Uber driver in Chicago.
Image: Erica Cherup
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