For their several years of being in existence and several months of this year; angrily stoking so called ‘peaceful marches’, BLM had put forward a serious bevy of political demands. They were supported by country-wide revolt, riots and general destruction.

As of this writing (September 2020), this despicable gang had many ‘accomplishments’. Please be the judges of how admirably they are succeeding so far in changing America’s political and economic landscape.

Just the facts found on the internet, with a bit of our mocking commentary*

While living in America, to which we pledge our allegiance, we simultaneously live in a number of fiefdoms, without realizing so. No, they don’t occupy any part of the physical landscape here. Yet, they are there, right next to us.

They have sprung up over the last few decades. In many ways, their lords are more powerful than the federal government of the United States. They have the power to tell us what to buy and to read; who to believe, how to vote. These powers alone decide what the future is going to look like. Some of them even try to change the past. Now and then, they erase our memories of events, small and large. By themselves, they define what is newsworthy and what is not. Through the means at their disposal, they know what we think most of the time, using it to their advantage. All our habits and vices are known to them, ditto for the lists of people in our orbits. Their relationships with societies, politicians, businesses and ordinary folks are complex and convoluted.

Why can they do all of that? Well, because we let them.

We willingly give them the keys to our homes and the passcodes to our minds.

We swiftly moved into the age where Affirmative Action in the United States of America is no longer sufficient to meet the hiring targets. By itself, Affirmative Action has outlived its usefulness and became an impediment to hiring the best qualified personnel. Yet, that was not enough. The pestilence of ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ practices is suddenly in the picture.

We bet our bottom dollar this hideous new invention was born in the socialist, left-oriented minds. They love to form committees, councils and commissions to bring about societal changes. We let them.

The word ‘diversity’ in the title stands so much closer to ‘divert’ rather than ‘diversify’.

Don’t let the ‘inclusion’ portion of the name fool you either. Their goal is to exclude, not include. To discriminate, not diversify. On the surface it looks like a benign, justified initiative to make certain everyone has a fair shot at employment. In reality this is going to be quite the opposite. Members of the diversity councils will be diverting some candidates and wholeheartedly embracing others. Need we spell it out for you? Thinly disguised, they are really racial selection bodies. Whites need not apply.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

These three short lines put to paper back in 1791 define some of the most important pillars of American life. Freedom of speech is one of them. Freedom from the censorship. Freedom from arbitrary gag orders by anyone with authority; imposed upon the people who want to be heard. Freedom to think, to write, to shout, to disagree, to be different, to state the truth no matter how painful it may be.

I’m a white man. I admit I don’t know what it’s like to be an American of African descent today. From the history I know your forefathers were brought here in chains and sold on the slave markets some centuries ago; to work on plantations on this continent. The life of your ancestors was very hard, yet not always as horrible as they want us to believe these days. Slaves were expensive. Those who owned them had to take care of their ‘investment’. Still, it was a period full of suffering; of tragedies for these unfortunate people. No matter how we look at it, the slavery was and is indefensible, something that had to be cast away.

I don’t for a minute condone slavery. No man or a woman should be deprived of freedom and a choice of their own destiny. But you can’t undo history. It was what it was. I’m glad the people eventually recognized that slavery was an inhumane, unbecoming element of life in the country marching forward and legally abolished it.