Abraham Lincoln returned to Springfield, Illinois after his single Congressional term. Unhappy with politics, he devoted himself to the legal field in which he had become a successful lawyer. That occupied him until Stephen Douglas' colossal blunder in 1854 dismissed the Missouri Compromise in favor of Popular Sovereignty. That brought the Tall Man back to the political arena, to the debates with Douglas that made Lincoln a household name in the country and to the White House in 1860.
Using Lincoln simply as an illustration, while content to write blogs, books, devotionals and Sunday messages based on Scripture, an occasional departure has occurred. My study Factors That Have Secularized American Society is one. It will shortly be available for publication. Another article appeared in the San Diego Union-Tribune 7/8/21 that got my attention and has produced this blog. It's the memorial exhibit traveling the country featuring the black Americans who have died interacting with police. The glaring racism inherent in the display is inexcusable. While blacks have no trouble seeing White Lives Matter as racist, they're blind to the racism in their own motto. Whoever designed the exhibit; invested in it; sponsored it and otherwise publicizes it, are racists and anarchists. They have an interest only in stirring unrest, turmoil and distrust among the races. They would welcome a race war in which they could capitalize more completely on a self-imposed victimhood they have kept alive by being a welfare-dependent people. The generous Government welfare payments in the 60+ years HAS NOT created a desire among many blacks to escape dependence, but an interest in continuing it. And that attitude has created Victim-hood that doesn't demand they make the changes in their culture that has birthed the anti-authority obsession in their young men. I'll not refer to the lack of black fathers in black culture; or the overwhelming existence of black mothers and grandmothers rearing rebellious youths who naturally resent any outside authority; or other issue blacks haven't addressed. The blatant, flagrant racism of the exhibit is all I criticize.
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1: a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition, page 962.
By that very definition, Black Lives Matter is a racist slogan. Just as White Lives Matter would be. Just as Asian Lives Matter would be. Just as Brown Lives Matter would be. Therefore, if Kansas State Football players “will boycott all team activities until administrators create a policy that would allow a student to be expelled ‘for openly racist, threatening or disrespectful actions’, they must insist that the racist slogan, ‘Black Lives Matter’ be one of the “threatening or disrespectful actions” banned. San Diego U-T, 6/29/20, C-9 section. When even a professor in a medical school in San Diego was reprimanded as a racist for saying, “good lives matter”, how can “Black Lives Matter” be exempt from racism? Think People. Think rationally, not emotionally. And think spiritually, not humanistically. Which will be hard, if not impossible, for many, who have no belief or background in God’s Word. For it alone gives us the two reasons WHY ALL LIVES MATTER! First, it’s due to our Origin--Genesis 1:26-27. All the creatures God made lacked HIS imprint on them. His Image distinguishes every human from all else in creation. Second, it’s due to our Destiny—Revelation 20:11-15. All human beings ever to be conceived in a mother’s womb are eternal persons, for life begins at conception, Luke 1:39-44, especially verse 41. Once begotten, they live eternally. Either with God or without God. In Heaven with the Godhead or in Hell with Satan and his angels. That’s why all human lives matter. Don’t be distracted by emotional issues that create an importance in the mind of some races that makes them superior to others. That’s pure racism. |
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