Maggie's Farm

“There’s no art to Selma” “I've got to tell you, having the cast show up in T-shirts saying "I can't breathe" I thought that stuff was offensive.”
The purpose of the movie Selma was to stuff old racism and old grievances down our throat. To revive the good old days where blacks could righteously stick it to the man. To label every white person and in fact every non-black person as racist and no better than terrorists. Just as black history month is the month where make believe self-aggrandizing black history and stolen valor by blacks is trotted out as the truth and dare anyone to disagree. It is particularly ironic considering the tremendous turn around in race relations and discrimination over the last 50 years. Imagine if you can, someone like Oprah Winfrey, the richest self made black female billionaire in the world, telling us all how much she has suffered from racism.
So what is the purpose of the “hands up don’t shoot” and “I can’t breathe” T-shirt? To steal the narrative. To shame and extort whites. To change the conversation because the truth is too difficult for them to discuss. We are supposed to make believe that even though blacks commit 80% of the murders in the U.S. while their population is only 13% that somehow this isn’t their fault and must be OUR fault. We are supposed to ignore that the police in large cities are 10 times more likely to be killed by a young black man than any other segment of society. That violent crime is committed by black men at a rate 30 times greater than any other segment of our society. And we are supposed to agree that in spite of that the police should not be any more suspicious of a young black male than they would be of a little old grandmother. To do anything else would be “profiling” and grounds for a federal lawsuit. A recent study of black on white murder discovered that in 2014 that 393 white people were murdered (many were hate crimes) by blacks while during the same period only 4 blacks were murdered by whites. Black on white rape is epidemic while white on black rape is so rare as to almost be non-existent. We must ignore these uncomfortable facts and believe the meme that whites are out their lynching poor innocent blacks.
Most people won’t say these things and many don’t even like reading them. We have been so conditioned to believe the whole racism guilt trip that even talking truth about it is uncomfortable. But most people know this because there is of course TV and radio news and even though the MSM tries to cleanse the news of uncomfortable facts the truth is still there. There is a reason why a woman clutches her handbag more closely when a black male approaches and why white people don’t drive to certain parts of town especially after dark. We know the meme that movies like Selma and The Butler are selling is propaganda and intended to reverse the narrative and hide the uncomfortable truth. There is a reason we don’t walk from Baltimore’s inner harbor to our hotel after dark or walk anywhere in the city of Atlanta after dark. Or worse walk anywhere in East St Louis day or night. But in today’s America we cannot have an honest conversation about race.

I remember Selma very well. I was living in Mississippi for about 9 months when the Selma march took place. What a cultural shock for someone raised North of Boston to move to Mississippi in 1964. I saw racism and bad behavior by law enforcement in Mississippi and it wasn't only directed towards blacks. If you did something wrong in the old South and a LEO was confronting you than you better be saying "yes sir and no sir". If everyone in the Selma march had been white and that was the only thing different, I doubt the events would have unfolded much differently. Of course the intent was to put down this upstart black man from out of town but make no mistake law enforcement in the South in the 60's was rough play at best and brutal at worst. But what is missing in the discussion about Selma is that it was a great success. The violence and video for the six o'clock news was exactly what MLK wanted and he got it. And good for him he brought the issue of government racism and discrimination front and center. This and many other acts of bravery by the civil rights community is the reason that the "Old South" is history and the New South is a much better place because of it. There was a "great" story they could have told in the movie, but instead they used a great story to front what could only be described as propaganda. And that is a shame.