The Whites of Their Eyes

 The Whites of Their Eyes

By Brian Schulman

 

 

I have heard every opinion on BLM and the protests and riots.  Including those of BLM members themselves.  They all are lacking.  

 

There are the black members who say that they are strictly black for black—and that they deserve anything and everything.  And that they are in a struggle for power—straight up.

 

There are the white girls and men who are all over facebook supporting BLM and telling everybody that they have to support BLM.  In an implicit, global “or else.”  But they would never put their lives on the line--like the blacks are courageous enough to do.  They always choose security over liberty—something Benjamin Franklin warned us not to do.

 

There are those who are anti-BLM and call them violent children who did not get their way and are a huge danger to our democracy. The call for law and order and more policing.

 

There are those who are supporting defunding the police and curtailing police power.

 

Wait.  What?

 

There are those who are supporting defunding the police and curtailing police power.

 

Wow.  Henry David Thoreau and Thomas Jefferson would be proud, honestly—even though the blacks claim that they are just doing it for themselves—not everyone at all.

 

But there has been a slow increase in police and government power and centralized authority for decades. Making our free country much less free—and leading to fascism or socialism (the same thing).  And few have had the courage or desire to fight against it.  Except yours truly.

 

And the blacks.

 

And a few others—like David Korresh and Ted Kazinsky--called insane and rapists and child rapists and killers to discredit and imprison them (the same accusations every time someone brilliant and revolutionary needs to be discredited).  When Ted Kazinsky bombed the federal building in Oklahoma, he was branded as a child killer and insane.  Now BLM has burned up a federal building in Portland, Oregon—and it is not fully noted—nor discredited—and is truly heroic.  The powers that be might be very scared: if BLM is organized and fights for more than themselves.

 

Under the guidance of a person who shall for now remain nameless, the blacks were given a new strategy to find success in their civil disobedience—whereas always before they were met with more and more police brutality and each effort frustrated.  But after this series of protests  many are calling for the defunding of the police.  And many heads have rolled.  Police chiefs themselves.  Police officers.  And the media has jumped on board the BLM success.

 

This is one of the biggest moments in American history: for the blacks.  And for all of us.  Someone has the courage to do what even many of the founding fathers called for even as they established the republic and the federal government: "a little revolution now and then is a good thing" (Thomas Jefferson, author of the declaration of independence and the Constitution)—as power would ultimately snowball—even in America—even with its Constitution and Bill of Rights.  The republic was in danger—from day one—of becoming much like who America had just beaten in a revolutionary war.  And it has.  “You can’t fight city hall” is a slogan that explains our current state and recent past.  And most people don’t even try.

 

But the blacks have persisted for decades now—knowing the true nature of power in the hands of the monied elite.  But they never had the success they had when recently one individual told them frankly: instead of shooting each other and burning down your own neighborhoods, why don’t you go to Beverly Hills and Santa Monica (and the like in each city) and protest and riot there?

 

And they did.

 

And history is being made.

 

Honestly, if the blacks, who are the only ones courageous enough to fight The Man (who keeps us all down or as chess pieces) decide that they want to be inclusive with whites and others who want to fight for Liberty and equality, they may be able to save us all from inevitable tyranny.