WHAT’S WRONG WITH HEROES LIKE MARTIN LUTHER KING AND NELSON MANDELA?
IFYOU are black and wish to elevate a figure to become an ethnic icon worthy of reverence, that is perfectly understandable. But why pick George Floyd?What is wrong with Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, Rosa Parks? Or any of the black heroes who struggled against the retention of slavery in the USA in the Abolitionist movement?
Why pick Floyd who, though his death at the hands of brutal policeman now under lock and key was unjustified and criminal, had a long criminal record including five years jail in Texas for a violent home invasion? Not really a role model for the young.
The man who allegedly killed him will go on trial. Of this world’s 200 countries there are at least 100 where that would never happen. Why not put them in the dock? But the BLM movement goes much further.
Its website makes very plain that it seeks the destruction of the capitalist economic system on which the prosperity of the entire West and much of the world depends. The only alternative for the past 100 years has been communism. This has brought strife, poverty, war, cruelty and death to many millions across the planet. In its day the USSR was profoundly racist. Black students at the Patrice Lumumba University were treated horribly. Those at the London LSE ran free and demonstrated whenever they wished.
And why does Sir Stephen Lovegrove, Permanent Secretary of our Ministry of Defence, in a memo to all his staff, warmly endorse BLM? Has he not read its website? If this Marxist-Leninist movement, pretending to be concerned with ethnic dignity, had its way there would be no British Armed Forces and certainly no Stephen Lovegrove with his fat salary, plump pension and empty head.
Revere real heroes of all races, creeds and ethnicities. Revere the men and women commemorated by the smeared Cenotaph, many of whom were black and gave their lives for us. But black people surely do not need a rabid ultra-Left organisation dedicated to hatred to represent them.
They are better than that.