I've seen an argument on right-leaning sites pointing out that BLM is racist against white people.  While BLM is certainly guilty of that, the movement is actually racist in the old-fashioned, Ku Klux Klan way, as mentored through a century of life by Old Mr. Jim Crow himself.  It's racist, in other words, not so much to white people, but to the black people it claims to champion. It takes as a first position a concept of the African-American male as without agency.  He is without impulse control, without self-restraint, with tendencies toward violence, rape, murder, and inability to conceive of consequences.  No old seg could have phrased it better. That being the case, it implies that the police must be prepared to accept such behavior as the norm. Thus, when confronted by a clearly under-the-influence perpetrator like George Floyd, it is incumbent on them not to confront and restrain as part of the process, but to give him room...(Read Full Post)