Dubious Lessons…“Also, Water is Wet” Part 2

By Patrick Hall

Of course, it was all made much worse by the psycho-political insanity of the Defund the Police movement.  We saw cities burn and people killed in places like Minneapolis, LA, Oakland, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon, during the George Floyd riots of 2020.  Today, the attack and outright disrespect of Law enforcement continues with the targeting of National Guard, DHS, and ICE constabulary, currently aiding local, state, and federal law enforcement, trying to enforce Federal immigration laws, after former President Biden (or whoever was running the country) let millions of “illegal” aliens into the country.  Here is lesson number one. They are not migrants, but illegal aliens!  Yes, many of them were looking for a better life for themselves, along with the hazardous criminal element within their ranks. But they are still illegal and not just innocent migrants that the leftist media establishment (a redundancy in terms) tries to manipulate many of us into believing.  

However, here is what you won’t hear from all the experts in center-left academia, the media, the BLM cabal, and of course from the (Conclave of the Severely Miseducated) otherwise known as the Congressional Black Caucus.  Too many young and not-so-young black people have been taught to disrespect, adopt a belligerent posture, not listen to, and, in many cases, totally ignore requests and/or directions from law enforcement. An entire segment of our populace, which includes not only Blacks, but also a significant portion of the Hispanic community, accompanied by the obligatory Defund the Police, and far Left Democratic/Progressive constituencies have been tutored (if not brainwashed) not to afford a basic comportment of respect for law enforcement when these officials go about performing their everyday jobs of keeping the communities that they are charged safe. Speaking with police officers over the past three decades and having relatives in law enforcement, even the simplest requests and questioning by police officers in the administration of their everyday street duties are often met with defiance, an attitude that they (that is, young black men) are somehow above the law.

(Sidebar: Once again, the disrespect and violence we see toward ICE, DHS, and other auxiliary law enforcement as they go about their job of enforcing “Federal Immigration Law” is an extension of this mindset.)

Subsequently, this makes enforcing the law, as well as neighborhood civility, nearly impossible in many inner-city precincts. The so-called profiling and open killing of black men have more to do with a host of life decisions (many of them bad).  They include, but are not limited to, a lack of proper mentoring, the devolution of anything resembling a stable family structure within the black underclass, as well as basic “civic behavior” that has been lost, or not even taught in the post-Civil Rights African American community.
Tragically, (if not egregiously naive) basic civic behavior in the current urban catechism of many within the black community is oftentimes viewed as “acting white.

To reiterate, too many blacks are engaged in illegal activities, including murder (e.g., Decarlos Brown Jr), which brings them into contact with the police, where the potential of something going sideways has been ginned up by the cultural left’s blatantly false narrative of police brutality. This toxic, if not culturally boorish, way of thinking about law enforcement has been injected into a large portion of the black community, including government officials such as Senators Cory Booker (D-NY) and Angela Deneece Alsobrooks (D-MD), as well as Congressional Representatives Jamine Crocket (D-TX), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA).  It is this writer's opinion that the former are “intelligent” but totally amoral, corrupt, slick, two-faced, if not unctuous individuals, similar to Barack Obama.¹    The latter, like Jamine Crocket, are dangerously stupid.  Subsequently, many blacks, as well as a significant portion of the Progressive Democratic Left, including Antifa, exhibit a response to law enforcement that borders on Pavlovian.

From a micro-relational standpoint, many street-level Officers who are charged with maintaining civil society within the current “cashless bail psychopathy” are reporting being met with recalcitrant behavior for even the slightest questioning of suspects in neighborhoods that Barack Obama, Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), and Liberal Democrat Progressives (both white and black) wouldn’t be caught dead in. Mouthing off, walking, or running away when told to stop, and a host of other pejorative behaviors that now precede many stops by police, is dangerously being “You-Tubed-Up” by the Democratic media for the sole purpose of leveraging the political currency surrounding such events. It is a dangerous form of political theater for both Law Enforcement and the communities they are sworn to protect.

Let me be even more blunt.  In Post-Civil Rights America, it is an unfortunate reality that the people who have made the least progress toward racial and social justice have often been black. Why is this? Quite simple. They haven’t had too.
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1. The exploits or con job of Dr. Ian Roberts was an example of a brilliant, but slick, corrupt, if not amoral, individual. He is probably not that uncommon in the politically correct/woke nomenclature of our education system. It is a world replete with DEI and guilt-ridden Progressive Liberals (mostly Democrats) who dominate every aspect of K-12 education, as well as Teacher Education at our nation’s universities. Roberts joined the Des Moines School District in 2023 and had previously held leadership positions in school districts across the United States for 20 years. Many may ask, how could this guy ever be considered the best candidate for the job after a nationwide search?  The answer is simple, if not painful! This is WOKE at its best. Dr Roberts(?) was an affirmative action hire. He was the right color for the Liberal administrators who run our schools.  As I point out, back in 1991, in an article appearing in American Libraries Magazine. Affirmative Action has always been a public policy “windfall” for middle-class blacks, college-educated women, as well as for foreign nationals (like Dr. Roberts) with the right skin tone……(Legal or Illegal).