Bay Area 'Black Lives Matter' Protests Greet New Year

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Racial division greeted the New Year in the form of demonstrations in Oakland and San Francisco, as the erroneous narrative that police are gunning for blacks continues to encourage such protests.

As a result of the crowds, Oakland transit lines had to be detoured.  Suggested numbers place the protest at one to two hundred persons, with a large police presence marching along with them.

While protesters demand a stop of police violence against blacks, statistics reveal that the idea that violence against blacks by police brutality is on the rise is a fictional concept.  In reality, the numbers show that cops are more likely to kill unarmed whites, than unarmed blacks.

The argument, then, being used by black protesters, whether they realize it or not, finds its roots somewhere else.  The foundation of the narrative being used by the roaming mobs screaming about police brutality against blacks is politically motivated.  Racial division, class division, and any other kind of division that can be mustered, are the tools of tyranny.  Individual cases where black youths are killed in a confrontation with cops are being highlighted and portrayed in a manner designed to get the black population up in arms, and prepared to demand more change.  Government, then, is expected to ride in on a stallion to quell the violence, and set things right.  It's an age old trick of politics.  Create crisis, then promise to fix the crisis you created, and grab a little more power in the process.

It reminds me of the video clip in Los Angeles I once came across as storms ripped through Southern California.  A woman, soaked to her toes, exclaimed, "The government's gotta do something!"

Sometimes, especially when government herds around the myriad of crises for their own benefit, the government doing something is the last thing we need.

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Demonstrators March Against Police Brutality in Oakland and San Francisco on New Year's Eve - CBS San Francisco

Cops More Likely To Kill Unarmed Whites Than Unarmed Blacks - Political Pistachio