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This country has its grave and grievous "original sin" and culpability for tolerating Jim Crow and for those acts of injustice, e.g., the killing of George Floyd and others, since but, with no reference to peaceful protestors, it is not what the violent mobs,
the Antifa mobs, what the Marxist inspired BLM (the organization, not the sentiment), are saying. There are forces at work, internal and external, who hate the very ideals on which the country was founded.
Dr King and his colleagues didn't. One of the strengths of their movement was to hold this country to its ideals. That's why they won and they did win. Even before anyone knew the truth, at the very thought of a noose-hanging racist,
NASCAR disavowed it and they all marched, literally, behind Bubba Wallace. This isn't 1963. The mobs attacking monuments, including monuments to abolitionists and apparently Abraham Lincoln, are full of blind, ignorant rage.
They hate what they've never understood. They hate what they've been taught this country is and they hate the past. They are eschatological zealots. They want their earthly utopia now and they'll use manipulation and force if we let them.
Those who gave their lives for this country, overseas and here at home, did not die for nothing. They fought and died for the guys next to them, yes, but they signed up for defend the reality of liberty, and the ideals embodied in our founding documents.
Those black cops standing on the riot line, enduring abuse from privileged brats, they're doing their job, they're fulfilling their oath, they're keeping the peace, making a place where their kids can grow up safely and peacefully.
Do we have a ways to go? Certainly. It is a fallen world and an earthly utopia is a destructive dream that, in the 20th century alone, cost the hundreds of millions of lives but we have made progress. This isn't 1963. Bull Connor is not turning fire hoses on the protestors.
The whole country, as one, condemned George Floyd's killing. That wouldn't have happened in 1963. It might not have happened in 1973 but it happened now. That means something.
