Editorial by Don Bendell

BLM & ANTIFA HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RACISM!

This is fact; not opinion. According to a New York Post article by Yauron Steinbuch on June 25, 2020, “Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors said in a newly-surfaced video from 2015 that she and her fellow organizers are “trained Marxists” – making clear their movement’s ideological foundation, according to a report.

Cullors, 36, was the protégé of Eric Mann, former agitator of the Weather Underground domestic terror organization, and spent years absorbing the Marxist-Leninist ideology that shaped her worldview.”

Black lives do matter, of course. All Lives matter, but Black Lives Matter, the organization, is in fact, a far left wing political organization trying to push our country into a socialist state. All these noble celebrities who have donated millions are financially supporting the democrat party’s significant shift to the left thinking they are being social warriors. Nothing more, although it makes the white ones feel like they are proving they are not prejudiced, and those of color to see themselves as a modern day Martin Luther King, Jr., although not a single one I have seen could have carried King’s athletic supporter.

ANTIFA is an ambiguous organization, essentially without leadership. It is actually a conglomeration of groups who are hell-bent on violence and destruction. What do both of these groups have in common? They are not only fools but also tools of anti-American free enterprise miscreants. All, being funded and controlled by “puppet-masters,” such as billionaire George Soros through his liberal non-profits, who are hell-bent on destroying America as we know it.

What makes it all so very sad is that by supporting BLM, black Americans are binding themselves with the shackles of enslavement of their minds and attitudes, without realizing how they are running backwards instead of plowing forward. The blinders they are wearing are self-imposed and continually darkened by the national news media and power-grabbing, manipulative leftwing politicians.

America is NOT SYSTEMICALLY RACIST, but that is the most effective and convenient label to use when you are behind and panicked in a political race. It is the stratagem now being employed by the democrat party, not realizing it is actually being controlled by the far left idealogues desperately trying to turn us into the new USSR, the United States of Socialist Reform.

Let’s get very real with the racism spiel. Again, fact not opinion. Republican President Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. After the end of the Civil War, under President Andrew Johnson, the Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow Laws were enacted mandating segregation all over the country. They were eventually ended by Republicans enacting legislation. Another fact, one of my personal heroes, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was not a Democrat, but was a devout Republican and a conservative.

Everybody who knows what is real and what is not, especially conservatives, are sick and tired of history being rewritten by the likes of  the media and Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and other democrats with ZERO factual basis to claim that President Donald Trump and his supporters are racist. Fact, not opinion. President Trump, in his first three years in office, increased black employment to an all time record high, lowered black unemployment to an all-time low, increased black private business ownership to an all time high, and guess what? He did the same things for Hispanic and Asian-Americans. Barbara Rez, a Hispanic female and a vice-president of Donald Trump’s business, became the very first female and very first Hispanic to plan, oversee, and construct a high rise skyscraper building. Then business magnate Donald Trump, my long-time friend Muhammad Ali, and the famous Rosa Parks were all honored together years ago for accomplishments they made for the black community, by the NAACP.

I am whiter than a Persian cat eating marshmallows in a snowstorm, but have fought against racism vehemently my entire adult life. There are many white Americans like me who are sick and tired of being labeled a member of the KKK or a racist, because we each totally support the re-election of Donald J. Trump for President.   

Nobody has been a bigger fan of the Denver Broncos than me, and I have been anxiously awaiting to see what Drew Lock, Von Miller, Phillip Lindsey, and crew were going to do this year. However, the Broncos and other teams got caught up in the propaganda of the Black Lives Matter movement and are planning on “Taking a knee” during the National Anthem this year. It does not matter that twice as many whites are shot by white policemen each year as blacks, or that 94% of blacks who are murdered each year are by other blacks, but Black Lives matter says nothing about that.   The NBA has Black Lives Matter painted on their courts now. Take a knee and listen up, all you spoiled multi-millionaire jocks, you are losing me this year, as well as many conservatives, pro-law enforcement people, and veterans, and your sponsors will not have us spend a penny on their products. Just because you have worked out hard, trained hard, and have some talent in a sport, you are not a hero, nor are you some kind of authority on racism. Most of us, cannot take time off to protest anything at our jobs and want to relax watching our teams on our precious days off, not watching young studs bore us with the same crap we hear all week on the evening news. In fact, your actions are actually racist and are playing into the hands of the American hating “puppet masters”

Coaches, general managers, and players, if you really hate racism, stop acting like emotional and intellectual slaves yourselves allowing those “puppet masters” to expertly pull your strings. Celebrities: Never mind, you are beyond reason or common sense. I won’t waste my breath. Democrats, you lost your once-great party. Get smart, and like me, support Trump, not the Chump. Why? Because American Lives Matter.

ABOUT THE WRITER

Don Bendell, is a 4-time best-selling author with over 3,000,000 copies of his 30 books in print and a Pulitzer prize nomination in 2011, a 100% disabled Green Beret Captain and Vietnam combat veteran, and a 1995 inductee into the International Karate and Kickboxing Hall of Fame, Don has a Masters Degree in Business Leadership from Grand Canyon University, and has 6 grown children and 11 grand-children. He and his social psychologist wife and co-author, Dr. Janet Bendell, own the Strongheart Ranch south of Florence, Colorado named for one of his best-selling westerns. They co-authored a motivational book on the myths of toxic masculinity and it is also a memoir, REAL MEN ARE COWBOYS & Women Love Them, which came out in February, 2020, and was a best-seller in its first week of release, and is available in print or e-book at all the popular places such as Amazon, Nook, Barnes and Noble, even Wal-Mart.