{"id":765,"date":"2024-05-19T10:59:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T10:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/05\/19\/black-lives-maga\/"},"modified":"2024-05-19T10:59:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T10:59:09","slug":"black-lives-maga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/05\/19\/black-lives-maga\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Lives Maga!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The South Bronx <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E10QsJgUkG8\">comes out<\/a> for the Orange Man.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The video is about eight minutes long and puts me in mind of the old &quot;Joe and Eddy&quot; tune from the early &#39;60s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MMoPZd-4Fq8\">There&#39;s a Meeting Here Tonight<\/a>.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Black support for Trump makes perfect sense. These black <em>citizens<\/em> understand that an endless influx of <em>illegal aliens<\/em> will have a disproportionate impact (to put it mildly) <em>on them<\/em>. After all, where will the illegals be sent? To Martha&#39;s Vineyard?&#0160; They will be sent and are being sent to black neighborhoods&#0160; where they take over the schools, the playgrounds, drain the social services, etc.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Black citizens, most of whom are law-abiding, understand that the rule of law is good <em>for them<\/em>, and that the cadre leftists who have infiltrated and now control the Democrat Party have contempt for said rule, despite their mendacious mouthings&#0160; to the contrary, mouthings that are belied by their actions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">My use of &#39;disproportionate impact&#39; above is slightly ironic, as I am sure my astute readers have noticed. The leftist line is that the enforcing of laws is &#39;racist&#39; because strict enforcement and appropriate punishment has a &#39;disproportionate impact&#39; on blacks. And of course it does. But that doesn&#39;t make it &#39;racist&#39; on any reasonable definition of the term.&#0160; It can&#39;t be racist if it is true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">&#39;Disproportionate impact&#39; is exactly what one would expect given the well-established fact that blacks <em>as a group<\/em> are more criminally prone than other groups.&#0160; And this even after adjusting for police brutality, and other forms of police malfeasance.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">We conservatives are not racists or fascists with an &#39;authoritarian personality structure.&#39; We stand for liberty and (therefore) for limited government. We appreciate that cops are a necessary evil.&#0160; I dilate further in&#0160; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2010\/05\/cops-a-necessary-evil.html\">Cops: A Necessary Evil<\/a>.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">UPDATE (5\/21)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Is Trump the first populist Republican? No surprise <em>The Militant<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/themilitant.com\/2024\/05\/18\/judge-makes-a-mockery-of-the-constitution-in-ny-trump-trial\/\">sticks&#0160; up<\/a> for him.&#0160; Meanwhile, James Carville, junkyard attack dog, barks himself silly. (Looks like the video I was looking for has been removed.)&#0160; What could the lovely Mary Matalin see in him?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Bronx comes out for the Orange Man.&#0160; The video is about eight minutes long and puts me in mind of the old &quot;Joe and Eddy&quot; tune from the early &#39;60s, There&#39;s a Meeting Here Tonight.&#0160; Black support for Trump makes perfect sense. These black citizens understand that an endless influx of illegal aliens &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/05\/19\/black-lives-maga\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black Lives Maga!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,8,56,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-crime-and-punishment","category-politics","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}