First of all let me apologize for whatever I write here that you find racist and offensive. Since I'm trying to be open and honest much will fall into those categories. Also know that I'm not really sorry, after all I am only the product of my environment and genetics. But I think a preemptive apology is polite and correct.
I want you to know that I am praying for you, your organization, your communities, your people. I have lived among Blacks for most of my life and we have been through a lot together. This is just a sincere fact, please don't roll your eyes at me! Often there has been tension, dishonesty, hypocrisy, and worse. But there have also been connections and bonds that are real and it hurts me to see us at odds. There is so much that we can accomplish together, so many things we hold in common. We should not let that go to waste because we also have some irreconcilable differences. Perhaps we can join forces against enemies that are so vast and powerful that we have no other choice? I pray that it is so.
As you well know there is a combination of corporate and government power rising right now over this nation. The government is taking powers to itself that are unheard of in our land (since Jim-Crow anyway) and that threaten everyone's God-given rights. At the same time the largest and wealthiest men are using the government-induced lockdowns to force their smaller competitors out of business so that they can monopolize our economy. This is being done with a helpful veneer of socialism on top, but I have no reason to believe that the elites who are engineering this crisis have any attachment to ideology. They will use socialism, they will use capitalism, but most importantly they are using the reputation of "science" and "medicine" to instill terror in us. Even the CDC has admitted that Corona has about the same death-rate as a bad flu. Once you realize this, once you realize the scale of the psychological warfare, then you will understand that we are in grave danger on all levels. The attack on America and other nations is too multifaceted to describe here, but I will say that it involves the use of an arsenal of weapons, of which the police are just one.
When I say that the cops are a minor problem in the big scheme underway I don't intend to be casual or dismissive about them. They are very dangerous and I always interact with them the way I would some large predatory animal that could destroy me easily. Luckily, because I have learned to be calm around them and they don't generally perceive me as a threat, I don't have to worry about police brutality very much personally. If I was living in fear of the police I'm sure my thinking would be different, it is because I have emotional distance from the street enforcers that I am trying to see the bigger picture. So I ask you to come along with me to pierce the veil of lies that is the current media campaign of race-baiting.
The media elites love to use the cops as their scapegoats, it distracts us from the greater crimes which are underway. They also love a good riot with looting so that those people can be scapegoats too and we can bicker about whether or not they were justified in smashing that Target, or that library. It makes me sick to see us be so easily manipulated!
Just as the city of Minneapolis is being destroyed so as to destroy the police, my country is being destroyed in the name of destroying capitalism. Maybe the police are evil, but they will not be destroyed through looting and burning. Maybe capitalism is evil, but those few who benefit from it will not be destroyed by collapsing the economy. No, they will only be made far stronger in the end. We have to salvage what we can from a bad situation and learn together about how to fix it. A solution handed-down to us from on high is not going to be the answer.
So what is the answer? I can't say I know exactly. I do know that we are not looking at separate problems, but two sides of the same coin. They love to contrast the gun-toting protesters of Michigan with the TV-carrying looter of Minneapolis, this is their ideal wedge, their perfect distraction. But even if we disagree with each-others methods (or both methods, as is my opinion), can we agree that the power structure we are defying is one and the same? Maybe not, I wouldn't presume to be an expert on inter-sectional identity theory or anything. My bet is that there are some good ideas being put forth and some bad ones too. I'm genuinely curious what solutions we can come up with together.
So I would like to invite BLM to come and join us in our prayers for healing of our common land. I would like to offer you some time to speak about your own cause after you have listened to us first (the valedictorian address is the most honored, as a guest's should be). I won't say anything against Blacks and I would hope that you can afford us the same courtesy. We need courtesy right now, when we are on the brink of so much destruction. But if you want to harangue Whitey that's fine too, it's just not going to do very much. To accomplish the great things we are now called-upon to do we need unity of purpose, or at least to live and let live. It may be that that is the best we can hope for: to let communities define themselves and govern themselves how they see fit. I hope to hear back from you soon so I can give you the time and place we will be meeting, or get invited to one of your events instead if you care to.
All I ask is that you don't bring antifa!
With Goodwill And Faith In God,
Macsen
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