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As he watched Joseph Stalins coffin removed from Red Square in 1961, Yevgeny Yevtushenko asked, But how to remove Stalin from Stalins heirs. For us, in 2020 the question becomes: How to remove racism from the anti-racists?

According to Ibram X. Kendi, a rising scholar of the white disorder called racism, there is no such thing as being non-racist. You are either a purposeful anti-racist or a racist. No neutral ground exists. To be color-blind is a ruse. Since racism is the original sin of Euro-Americans, to be anti-racist is to be well, you finish the sentence.

Even the American Library Association has genuflected to the unspoken substructure of the anti-racist meme. Amid protests following the death of George Floyd, the ALA issued a press release heaving with self-accusation. It confessed:

The American Library Association (ALA) accepts and acknowledges its role in upholding unjust systems of racism and discrimination against Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) within the association and the profession.

We recognize that the founding of our Association was not built on inclusion and equity, but instead was built on systemic racism and discrimination in many forms. We also recognize the hurt and harm done to BIPOC library workers and communities due to these racist structures.

Penitent librarians rushed to promote an anti-racist reading list, a round-up of titles and authors suited to grievance studies seminars and mandatory re-education workshops. The keynote was struck by the collected penses of former Black Panther and police abolitionist Angela Davis, and Kendis instructions to white people on how to disown the racism of good intentions and become anti-racist.

Robin DiAngelos White Fragility was inevitable, as was Michael Eric Dysons Tears We Cannot Stop: a Sermon to White America, and anything by slavery reparations advocate Ta-Nehisi Coates. Layla Saads Me and White Supremacy comes straight to the point. It declares all Caucasians complicit in white supremacy due to their melanin count.

In June, my local public library published its social justice bona fides on the buildings faade: CHANGE STARTS WITH YOU. BLACK LIVES MATTER. Staff librarians compiled a list of books for children that promoted the anti-racist theme to young readers from toddlers to teens.

Titles suggest what the staff all white; all-female consider necessary for youngsters in a predominantly white town: Skin Again; The Skin You Live In; Woke, A Young Poets Call to Justice; The Power Book; Lets Talk About Race; One Person, No Vote: How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally; Rise Up!: The Art of Protest; The Hate U Give; Black Brother, Black Brother; We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices; The Power Book.

It is not possible to annotate all of them. It is enough to highlight those that epitomize the timbre of the entire venture. Begin with Kendis picture book Antiracist Baby, a kindergarten distillation of his bestseller for teens Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You.

Dedicated to all young people unbound by the imaginations of state violence and white supremacy, the book is meant to be read by white parents to their potentially racist fledglings. Antiracist Baby is bred, not born. Put plainly, white tots must be trained bred to recognize and denounce their latent racism. As it is never too soon to create a woke child, a newly published board book edition, intended for teething infants to age three, is now on Amazon.

Breanna McDaniels picture book Hands Up! preserves the mythology of the 2014 Ferguson riots by insinuating the trademark slogan of Black Lives Matter (Hands up! Dont Shoot!) into a sequence of childlike vignettes. It begins sweetly: Greet the sun, bold and bright! / Tiny hands up! Next page: Peek-a-boohands up!

The repeated refrain accompanies a little girls growth in age and race consciousness: Together we are mighty. / High fives all around, hands up! The progression reaches its politicized climax with the girl, older now, at a protest march: As one we say, HANDS UP!

The Black Lives Matter sign tells the rest. What it does not tell is that Michael Brown never did raise his hands in surrender and did not say, Dont shoot.

Another picture book recommended for children aged 3 to 8 is Anastasia Higginbothams Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness. Pulsing with reformist zeal, Higginbotham writes for white parents anxious to inform their young that white supremacy is a lie; that white innocence is a lie. Every white child needs prompting to Question everything you are told about your goodness and your value as a white person.

Higginbothams illustration places Colin Kaepernick on the same principled plane as John Lewis and other lionhearts of the 1960s Civil Rights movement. The moral grandeur of that movement dwindles to her mandate for todays kids: Be a spy. Catch whiteness lying to you.

Kendis contempt for his country is in sharper relief in Stamped, a young-adult version of his 2016 National Book Award winner Stamped From The Beginning. Scaled to the lowest common denominator of teen readers in collaboration with Jason Reynolds, it revolves around the axis of denunciation. Kendi reminds us repeatedly that This is not a history book. It is a not history history book.

Nikole Hannah-Jones, non-historian architect of The 1619 Project, follows Kendis lead almost verbatim:

Ive always said that the 1619 Project is not a history, Hannah-Jones said in a series of tweets. It is a work of journalism that explicitly seeks to challenge the national narrative and, therefore, the national memory. The project has always been as much about the present as it is the past.

Translation: The project uses prevailing ignorance of the American story, in its fullness and complexity, to dig up old bones in a reductive narrative that turns the nations founders into sows ears. And stokes black antagonism.

Kendi supplied Hannah-Joness dismissal of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator as slaves called him in the 1860s together with her claim that black Americans fought back alone. After informing teen readers that Lincoln spoke out of three sides of his mouth, Dr. Kendi adds: Lincoln was labeled the Great Emancipator, but really, Black people were emancipating themselves.

School kids will not learn from these two of the 2.2 million Union soldiers who fought to end slavery and 365,000 who died. Kendi cuts the Civil War down to this:

There were now two governments, like rival gangs. And what have gangs always done when one gang feels their turf is being threatened?

FIGHT!

Welcome to the Civil War.

The wrecking ball swings at White people with the same derision aimed at Benjamin Franklin:

Franklin started a club called the American Philosophical Society in 1743 in Philadelphia. It was modeled after the Royal Society in England and served as, basically, a club for smart (White) people. Thinkers. Philosophers. And . . . racists. See, in the Enlightenment era, light was seen as a metaphor for intelligence (think, I see the light) and also whiteness (think, opposite of dark). And this is what Franklin was bringing to America through his club of ingenious fools.

Contemptuous of assimilationist vomit, Kendi falsifies the Trayvon Martin case to fit an activist narrative. Despite considerable evidence that George Zimmerman acted in lawful self-defense, Kendi presents the incident that set in motion the Black Lives Matter movement as if no rational grounds existed for not convicting Zimmerman as a racist murderer:

Zimmermans racist ideas in 2012 transformed an easy-going Trayvon Martin walking home from a 7-Eleven holding watermelon juice and Skittles into a menace to society holding danger. . . . If not for racist ideas, Trayvon would still be alive. His dreams of becoming a pilot would still be alive.

The crudity of the prose matches the vulgarizations of the historians craft. Displacement of real history with the politics of resentment provides a rationale for endless racial preferences. It is a point lost on the ALA, but not on Amy L. Wax:

Under the new dispensation, unconstrained group preferences for blacks would be the order of the day, with other groups pushed aside without delay or ceremony. As Kendi puts it in How to Be an Anti-Racist, Fundamentally, the modern antiracist movement is . . . pro-discrimination [against whites and Asians].

Ultimately, Kendis statement is a quiet admission that antiracism is not benign. It is a rationalized form of genealogical blackmail.

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A woman who has already been arrested once for throwing paint on the Black Lives Matter mural in front of Trump Tower was arrested again for doing exactly the same thing.

Police say 39-year-old Juliet Germanotta acted alone this time in vandalizing the mural on Fifth Avenue. She was caught on camera Wednesday on her knees, spreading blue paint all over the yellow mural with her hands. The mural supporting the movement for racial justice has been vandalized several times since it was painted on July 9.

Germanotta and two other women were arrested the last time the mural was painted over on July 17. The vandalism appeared to be a coordinated effort involving about 10 people. There were plans going around on social media with a group of people discussing pulling off the stunt.

When the mural was painted, Germanotta told News 4 at that time that she would come back to deface the mural. When a bystander said she would go to jail, Germanotta said, "I don't care. There's no bail." She was charged again Wednesday with criminal mischief.

For the second time in a week, vandals were caught on camera pouring paint on the Black Lives Matter mural outside Trump Tower. Ray Villeda reports.

The mural has been called by President Donald Trump as a "symbol of hate," but the words coined after the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, a Florida teen who was shot by neighborhood watch George Zimmerman, have become a movement for racial justice.

"Our city isnt just painting the words on Fifth Avenue. Were committed to the meaning of the message," Mayor Bill de Blasio said after the mural was painted.

The mural is one of five found in each of the city's five boroughs.

Just days after it was painted - the Black Lives Matter mural in front of Trump Tower has been defaced. Jen Maxfield reports.

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Members of the Newark community painted "Abolish White Supremacy" and "All Black Lives Matter" on Halsey street and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd on Saturday, June 27. Drone video taken on Monday, June 29, in Newark. NorthJersey.com

South Orange is home to the latest brouhaha over the Black Lives Matter movement, with the pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows telling one of his lectors to stop wearing a t-shirt that bears the message of racial equity.

The Rev. Brian Needles said in a letter to the lector that several people complained to him about his attire. Needles letter, posted in a local Facebook group, says a t-shirt, incredibly enough, can be a real source of division and distraction.

We live in such a contentious society already and I dont want a t-shirt worn at Mass to become a source of distraction or bad feelings in our parish, the letter reads. When the word of God is proclaimed, nothing, including a slogan on a shirt, should distract listeners from the fruitful hearing of the scriptures.

The request has caused a stir in South Orange and neighboring Maplewood, liberal enclaves where residents pride themselves on professing racial justice. Last month the towns joined to paint Black Lives Matterin two places on Valley Road, a few blocks from Our Lady of Sorrows. Black Lives Matter signs dot numerous front lawns in both towns.

A spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Newark said lectors should adhere to a dress code.(Photo: Terrence T. McDonald)

In a statement, the Archdiocese of Newark, which oversees the church, said parishioners are welcome to wear shirts that promote a cause or movement, but lectors should follow the archdiocesan dress code.

"The policy requires celebrants and lay ministers to refrain from wearing t-shirts as well as any clothing that draws attention to the individual and distracts from the word of God," the statement reads. "This is to ensure that the assemblys attention is focused on scripture and not on the individual proclaiming it."

Walter Fields, founder of education advocacy group Black Parents Workshop, told NorthJersey.com as a Christian he is perplexedthat a "stand for oppressed people" could be seen as contradictory to the message of the Catholic Church.

"In the Bible that I read Jesus Christ is a revolutionary prophet who challenged injustice and stood for 'the least of these, Fields said. To suggest a t-shirt is somehow offensive to the word of Christ is to suggest that our worship is not Christ-like."

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Support of the Black Lives Matter has risen dramatically since the movement began in 2013 as a reaction to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin. A majority of American voters support the movement by a double-digit margin, according to online research firm Civiqs. The movement has gained increasing popularity since the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, which sparked nationwide unrest and calls for police reform.

But the phrase continues to spark political division. When the state Assembly voted in June to designate July 13 as Black Lives Matter Day, 18 members abstained, including Assemblyman Jon Bramnick, R-Union, who said he believes Black lives matter but does not support the Black Lives Matter organization.

In Hackensack, Beech Street resident Janine Luppino is at the center of her own Black Lives Matter controversy. Luppino hung a Black Lives Matter banner on her balcony about a month ago, leading to a spat between her and her condo association, which told her she must take the banner down.

Luppino acknowledges the banner which she noted hangs inside her balcony, not over the side is not permitted by the associations rules. But she said some of her neighbors also have items on their balconies that are not permitted, like plant hangers hanging off the side.

Ill follow the rules when everybody else follows the rules, she said.

Luppino on her balcony with the Black Lives Matter banner that landed her in hot water with her condo association.(Photo: Mitsu Yasukawa/ Northjersey.com)

The condo buildings management, which declined to comment, told Luppino and her husband they will lose their pool privileges if the banner is not removed and may have one of their parking spaces revoked, Luppino said.

She said because of her schedule she can't be heavily involved in Black Lives Matter protests, but she wanted to do something.

"It was something I felt like doing as solidarity," she said."It just felt good to do it, to make a statement."

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Important discussions continue at CSUN as departments and organizations across campus work together to support students in the fight for justice and equality.

Hundreds of CSUN students, faculty, staff and alumni have attended virtual conversations that began after several Black individuals were killed during acts ofpolice violence, including George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville. In the days after Floyds death in late May, the University Student Union (USU) worked with University Counseling Services (UCS) to develop a series of conversations titled HealingSpace: Uplifting the Community After Tragic Loss. As the focus of the discussions has evolved, the name was changed starting July 31 to Essential Talks.

Updates on upcoming topics will be posted on the CSUN USU Instagram page.

Racquel Holloway, the 2020-21 Black Student Leadership Council president

The conversations provide a place to discuss current issues, build positive connections and identify how the campus community can take action in support of social justice advocacy, said Freddie Snchez, the USUs associate director of Marketing and Programs. Hundreds of students, faculty and staff have joined the conversations.

During the sessions, many CSUN students of color, including Black students and LGBTQIA+ students, have shared emotional stories of their experiences, fears and vulnerability as they go about their lives.The campus community has rallied around these students, with members of departments and organizations around campus voicing support and taking steps to work for change.

It has been comfortingto see the outpouringof support from so many of the differentcampus organizations, saidRacquel Holloway,the 2020-21 Black Student Leadership Council president and a senior public health major. During this time where the Black community is facing so much adversity and loss, the campus has taken a step in the right direction to provide healing spaces and further support.

Recent talks have focused on the significance of Juneteenth,violence towardBlack trans women and gender non-conforming individuals, andthe impact of monuments celebrating historical figures who enslaved people, supported the Confederacy and committed other racist actions.

In late July, conversations alsowerescheduled on Thursdays, focused on violence against Latino males and mass incarceration of males of color. The Friday talks have continued to focus primarily on issues impacting the Black community.

Abram Milton, counselor of CSUN University Counseling Services

Various campus organizations have partnered with the USU and UCS counselors to facilitate these discussions, including professors from the Department of Africana Studies and the International and Exchange Student Center.

The talks can also serve as an introduction to these issues for students who have not been exposed to them but want to learn more, said Abram Milton, a counselor with University Counseling Services who has co-facilitated many of the discussions.

We value those who are so supportive of social justice, because that shows strength within those numbers, Milton said. What I really would love are the ones who just will admit, I dont know, and just come because we all can learn from different perspectives.

The last Essential Talkof the summer was held on July 31 agathering focused on engaging the community with the movement beyond the summer.

Freddie Snchez, CUN USUs associate director of Marketing and Programs

The Essential Talks will continue in the Fall semester, Snchez said. Planning is underway to identify best way to move forward and have greater impact. The Fall semester will bring conversations around COVID-19-related violence toward the Asian community, the killing of soldierVanessa Guillnat Fort Hood, who had told family members that she had been sexually harassed on post, and other topics of discussion impacting the community.

We have a long way to go in the fight for social justice, equity and inclusion, and we are identifying how we can contribute to build positive connections on campus,Snchezsaid. CSUN is a diverse campus, and as such, we work to ensure equitable environments for historically underrepresented communities [so everyone can] feel like they belong on this campus.

Milton said it was encouraging that the conversations will continue, because after previous incidents that brought the focus onto racial justice and equality in recent years, attention has eventually shifted away. He said it is important for faculty members to recognize that students of color may have anxieties and issues concentrating because of these ongoing struggles and news events, and it would be helpful to reach out to these students and offer to listen.

Ive been very happy that the USU has said this is notgoing to be just a sprint, its going to be a marathon, Milton said. These issues didnt just happen overnight, so its not going to change overnight. There are many students that are going to be returning to CSUN, and I would imagine that they will be looking to [university leaders]to see how this topic is still being brought up. With a lot of students I can even speak for myself as a man of color it makes me feel good, that the school is at least acknowledging it.

Melina Abdullah, co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter and a Cal State L.A. professor of Pan-African Studies

On June 12, MelinaAbdullah, the co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter and a Cal State L.A. professor of Pan-African Studies, joined the CSUN Healing Space for two virtual conversations.The events were co-sponsored by theUSU,Black Student Success Council, Black Faculty and Staff Association, the CSUN Department of Africana Studies, CSUN Black House, Black Leadership Council and Black Student Union.

The first event was open to the campus community, including alumni. On Zoom, Abdullah spoke about the origins of the Black Lives Matter movement, which was born in2013 after George Zimmerman, the Florida man who fatally shot unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, was acquitted.Later, Abdullah spoke to Black CSUN students about how to enhance student leadership on campus, andhow they can continue to use their voices to advocate for social change.

Black Lives Matter is a rallying cry. It is not a plea to white society, its a rallying cry, Abdullah said. Its saying that we need to make Black Lives Matter, we need to step into our sacred duty. And then we need to make demands of the existing system.

Holloway said it was important to hear from an influential Black leader at a time when many students are looking for guidance and support. She said she agreed with Abdullahs advice to keep pushing for change for equality.

We as the Black community must be persistent and steadfast in this fight; as it is the only way well see the fruit of our labors, Holloway said. We must continue to fight and remind each otherof the countless Black women, men and children who were not given the chance to advocate for themselves, and make sure their deaths were not in vain.

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The war against the police did not start with the deaths of Michael Brown, or Eric Garner, or George Floyd. The war was started by President Barack Obama on July 16, 2009 with the arrest of his personal friend, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Before knowing the facts that led to the arrest, Obama attacked all police officers by declaring: What I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that theres a long history in this country of African Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately.

The Black Lives Matter movement, a leading proponent of the war, began in 2013 after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. A little known fact is that the BLM movement was co-founded by Patrisse Cullors, an avowed Marxist, with the aim of overthrowing the American government.

BLM was never about saving black lives. It is not concerned about the daily killings of blacks by blacks in the nations urban centers. And it is actually not concerned about blacks killed by cops. Abetted by the media, BLM uses incidents where white cops kill black men to foment the protests and riots that have led to the arrests of cops for doing their jobs, thereby paralyzing the police. Patrisse Cullors and the other BLM leaders know that in order to overthrow the government you must first paralyze the police.

These turbulent times are not just an uprising by African-Americans. Images of the protesters and rioters clearly reveal there are far more whites than blacks participating. The whites are mostly middle-class college students and graduates. They have been conned by the big lies of BLM, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and the media into believing they are fighting against racial injustice and against the racist police who are brutalizing blacks for being black. For instance, there is no evidence that any of the officers involved in the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks were racists.

The media is a key element in the war against the police. Americas 800,000 law enforcement officers have about 375 million annual encounters with civilians. The vast majority of those encounters are uneventful. With that many LEOs thee are bound to be some encounters between civilians and bad cops. Even though cases of police brutality are a daily occurrence, they are a very tiny fraction of all the police encounters with civilians. But the media keeps cherry picking acts of police brutality against blacks to the extent that they appear to represent common police behavior. And the media does BLMs bidding by highlighting the incidents where white cops kill black men.

The white protesters and the media are weapons of mass destruction in BLMs arsenal.

Politicians have been quick to kowtow to BLM. Barack Obama did not stop with his 2009 attack on the police. When in July 2016 five Dallas police officers were slain in an ambush by a black man, then President Obama said black parents were right to fear that their children may be killed by police officers whenever they go outside. When George Floyd was murdered by a white cop, Obama called for police reform and said that it was tragically, painfully, maddeningly normal for millions of black Americans to be treated differently by a racist criminal justice system.

When George Floyd was killed, Joe White Obama Biden did his part in the war by declaring that all blacks fear for their safety from bad police and black children must be instructed to tolerate police abuse just so they can make it home.

And even now, more than two months after George Floyds death, Barack Obama continues to be a warrior against cops. While delivering the eulogy at the funeral of civil rights icon John Lewis, the former president said: Bull Connor may be gone. But today we witness with our own eyes police officers kneeling on the necks of Black Americans.

Many other politicians have joined in with the BLM movement. Muriel Bowser, mayor of the nations capital, and New Yorks Sandinista-loving Mayor Bill de Blasio defaced their streets with huge BLM murals. And the two mayors also stuck their thumbs into President Trumps eye, with Bowser having the mural painted on the street near the White House and de Blasio personally helping to paint one of his citys seven murals directly in front of the Trump Tower.

And politically-motivated prosecutors have joined the war against the police by charging cops with assault and murder when things go bad while they are trying to arrest a criminal or trying to take a mentally ill person into custody.

Prominent sports figures have also joined in with BLMs war on the police. A shameless Roger Goodell, commissioner of the NFL, has joined the ranks of those who openly express their hatred of the police. He apologized to Colin Kaepernick and the leagues black players for failing to recognize the suffering blacks have experienced at the hands of the police. And the NFL is now considering listing the names of blacks killed by the police on uniforms through decals on helmets or patches on jerseys.

And what have the police chiefs done about the war against the police? Except for a few sheriffs, they have kept mostly silent for fear of getting fired. In fact, many cowardly chiefs are licking the boots of those that are waging war against the police.

NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea caved in to Mayor de Blasios demand that he fire officer Daniel Pantaleo, a good cop, for his part in the death of Eric Garner. Pantaleo was unjustly fired for trying to subdue a 395-pound Garner who kept shoving several other cops away while resisting arrest. In the struggle, Pantaleo applied what appeared to be a forbidden chokehold, but that did not warrant his firing. The BLM mobs howled that the officer be fired and put on trial for the murder of Garner.

Some chiefs even joined the BLM protesters. Art Acevedo, Houstons poor excuse for a police chief, knelt with and hugged several protesters even though 33 of his officers had been injured and 16 HPD patrol cars had been damaged or destroyed earlier by the BLM mobs. And on the same day that BLM mobs ransacked many Manhattan shops, Chief of Department Terence Monahan, NYPDs highest-ranking uniformed officer, knelt in solidarity with the protesters.

Then, what have the cops done about the war being waged against them? Practically nothing. They are not interfering with the defacing and destruction of statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Christopher Columbus and Confederate war heroes, For instance, on July 4th a BLM mob in Baltimore tore down a statue of Columbus and tossed it into the harbor while the police who were present did absolutely nothing.

On July 15, a number of misguided cops joined a protest march across the Brooklyn Bridge. A clash ensued with the police who were trying to maintain order. Four officers, including Chief Monahan, were injured when they were beaned by bat-wielding peaceful protesters. Most NY cops must have had a good laugh over Monahan getting his head strummed since earlier their boot-licking chief had knelt with the BLM protesters.

When Beyonc glorified the police-murdering Black Panthers in her shameful half-time performance at Super Bowl 50, cops should have boycotted the Queen Bitch. Instead, they eagerly accept the off-duty jobs of providing security for her concerts. And instead of boycotting the NFL, cops will continue to accept those off-duty security jobs for the leagues games. Beyonc is and the NFL will be paying them with blood money the blood of their fellow officers that have been killed by black men. (THE ONLY GOOD PIG IS A DEAD PIG Illustration from Black Panther childrens coloring book)

Cops are letting the police unions do their fighting. Patrick Lynch, president of the union that represents the rank and file of NYPD officers says: Over the past few weeks, we have been attacked in the streets, demonized in the media and denigrated by practically every politician in this city. Now we are facing the possibility of being arrested any time we go out to do our job. But when Lynch and other police union leaders speak out, they are preaching to the choir.

Droves of NYPD officers, as well as cops all across the country, are putting in for early retirement because they have been so demonized by the media and become hated by the very people they have been protecting from criminals. As one NY cop put it, the police feel like Vietnam veterans coming home to a country that hates them.

Cops cannot count on their supporters to win the war against the police. They must join in the fray. And the police have a weapon of mass destruction to fight with its called a strike. As a former law enforcement officer and retired criminal justice professor, I call on the police to strike back with their WMD by going on a 3-day nationwide strike.

Unions like the. Los Angeles Police Protective League, NYPDs Police Benevolent Association, NYPDs Sergeants Benevolent Association and the Fraternal Order of Police, and organizations like the Peace Officers Research Association of California and the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, should get together and organize a 3-day nationwide strike by local and state law enforcement officers. No Calling in with the blue flu, but a real strike.

Most police are forbidden by law to go on strike. But there have been some unlawful police strikes where no action was taken against the striking officers. Boston, Detroit, NYPD, Baltimore, San Francisco, Cleveland, New Orleans, Birmingham and Milwaukee are among at least 23 US police agencies that have gone on strike.

And in a nationwide strike of police officers and their sergeants, who is going to arrest them? And when the strike is over, the powers that be cannot suspend or fire an entire local or state police force.

Lets see how good the sheriff and his command staff will be at running the county jail when they are the only department members left to do that. Lets see how the police chief and his command staff will patrol the neighborhoods and respond to calls for help.

Lets see how all those shouting Fuck the police and All cops are bastards will feel when they are left without any police protection for three days. And those demanding to defund the police. And the law abiding black community. And the kowtowing politicians.

And lets see how those white middle-class college students and graduates will feel as the women are getting raped and the men are getting robbed because there are no police to protect them.

When there are no cops responding to calls for help, people will realize how much they need the police. Enthusiasm for BLM will quickly fade away because during those three days, Americans of all colors will see what a BLM nation will be like. Even that shameless Roger Goodell might order his NFL players to respect flag and country by standing during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner.

The downside to a police strike is that the people who support the police or are disgusted with BLM and the protests will also suffer from the absence of police protection. But because they are aware that our cops are subjected to despicable daily attacks by protesters and the protest-fueling media, they are very unlikely to turn against the police.

But not to worry. If cops are not willing to boycott Beyonc and the NFL because of the blood money they will lose, they are not likely to give up three days of pay.

Nevertheless, if cops want to win and end the war on the police, they must resort to using that weapon of mass destruction. If the rank-and-file officers do not fight back, theyve got only themselves to blame for losing the war.

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