“If you comply, you won’t die!” There is a simple solution
to the “systemic racism” of our policing, as so dutifully trumpeted by the
press and the race mongers that always swoop in to create additional
divisiveness in our society. Police have the authority to stop and demand
identification in any number of situations. Police have the authority to take
away your freedom when they make an arrest. Police have the authority to
escalate the force necessary to effect an arrest. Resist and police will
escalate. Continue to resist or fight and the chances of injury or worse,
increases exponentially, for both the citizen and police. The unfortunate death
of George Floyd did not have to happen this way. If Floyd had cooperated fully
with police the situation never would have spiraled out of control. Follow the
lawful orders of the police, allow the handcuffs to be placed on without
struggling and sit in the back of the squad car peacefully. Floyd chose to do
none of these, causing the chain of events that ultimately ended his life. Had
he complied, he would likely still be alive, unless the cocktail of drugs he
ingested caused his heart to stop.
Far too many instances of black men dying at the hands of
police began when that person failed to comply and chose to resist. The default
position of many in the African American community is to be confrontational,
flee or simply resist. If police have the authority to stop and question or to investigate
a potential crime, why would any reasonable person choose to resist? This
culture of distrust of the police escalated exponentially with our first Black
President, Barack Obama. A black professor in Cambridge, MA, locked out of his
house, lacking any identification, decided that he should attempt to break in.
Neighbors reported that someone was breaking into a neighbor’s house and police
responded. Police, as they should, detained Henry Louis Gates Jr. and after he
became belligerent and combative, the police ultimately arrested him, creating
a stir that reached all the way to the Oval Office. Lacking the ability or
desire to diffuse the incident and without considering all pertinent facts,
President Obama decided to inflame the situation using racial overtones, by accusing
the officer of acting stupidly, inferring that the officer should have accepted
that Professor Gates was acting lawfully. In actuality, the officer acted
appropriately, but of course, adding to the intrigue of racial animus, the
officer just happened to be white.
President Obama made other inflammatory statements regarding
race. He accused his own grandmother of racial bias, stating the she would
cross the street whenever a black man approached her when she was out walking,
with the inference that she believed that all black men were up to no good.
When George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin after Martin attacked him
and knocked him to the ground, Obama opined that if he had a son, he would look
like Trayvon. As the President of the United States, Barack Obama swore an oath
to the best of his ability, preserve,
protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. His rhetoric actually
inflamed racial tensions, especially when he declared, “Too many young men
of color feel targeted by law enforcement, guilty of walking while black, or
driving while black, judged by stereotypes that fuel fear and resentment and
hopelessness.” After a white Ferguson Missouri police officer Darren Wilson, shot
and killed Michael Brown, after Brown attempted to disarm him, President Obama
unleashed the full force of the Justice Department, led by Attorney General
Eric Holder and began Federal investigations into a number of police
departments in order to overcome the “systemic racism” he falsely believed was so
prevalent throughout law enforcement.
President Obama, in his efforts to preserve, protect and defend the
Constitution of the United States, has exasperated this generation of Black
Americans, actually encouraging them to distrust, fear and fail to comply with
lawful orders, by obstructing, resisting and fleeing by using accusatory rhetoric
at those who protect and serve. If there is anyone in authority that shoulders
the most blame for many, what should be, non-confrontational police
interactions or simple arrests that end in tragedy, it is Barack Obama. The
preamble to the Constitution states, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more
perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the
common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of
Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this
Constitution for the United States of America.”
President
Obama controverted justice by falsely accusing those that unappreciatively
protect and serve, with unfounded and provocative rhetoric, rejected domestic
tranquility by using accusatory language that encouraged divisiveness,
undermined the common defense by creating an environment of distrust and racial
animosity, diminished the general welfare by pushing a false narrative that our
nation is indelibly flawed and irredeemable and furthermore, endangered our
future liberty by engaging in reckless foreign relations by engaging with our
enemies and apologizing to other nations for his baseless belief that our
nation has harmed other nations by our reckless behavior and deserves to be
condemned for those actions.
“If you comply, you won’t die!” Such a simple and logical concept
that is unfortunately disregarded by far too many who listened to a President
that had the potential to be the “Great Uniter”, but instead became the
“Divider in Chief”. In the immortal words of Obama’s long-time Pastor, Jeremiah
Wright, the chickens have come home to roost on the door step of the Obama’s
$11.75 million estate in Martha’s Vineyard. Laws for thee, but not for me! And
now, with President Biden continuing to stoke the flames of racial animosity,
what could possibly go wrong? After all, when it comes to the left, the ends
really do justify the means.
