Identity Politics Violence is Tearing America Apart by Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Three years ago, a bloody summer of black nationalist violence claimed the lives of eight police officers with the massacre of five police officers by Micah X. Johnson in Dallas and the murder of three police officers in Baton Rogue by Gavin Long. Johnson had declared his support for the Black Lives Matter racial nationalist group and told police that he wanted to kill white people, and especially white police officers. In the fall, Marc LeQuon Payne tried to run over Phoenix police officers. Next spring, Kori Ali Muhammad went on a shooting spree in Fresno, murdering three white men. Muhammad and Long were both part of the Moorish Science Temple black nationalist movement. Muhammad had posted Nation of Islam content which claims that "white devils" are subhuman. Long had admired the killing spree by Johnson. Payne had posted that, “the Caucasian needs to be slaughtered like the pigs that they are right along with the niggas who serve and protect them.” Long wasn’t alone in viewing Johnson as a black nationalist hero. A former Miss Alabama had described the racial nationalist killer as a “martyr”. Babu Omowale, a co-founder of the Huey P. Newton Gun Club, said, "The fact that Micah just got five of the bastards, that's what got you all upset right now." Yafeuh Balogun, another co-founder of the black nationalist group named after the founder of the Black Panther Patyu, wrote, "He shall be celebrated one day." While the white nationalist shooters of this year have been banished to 8chan, Johnson, Payne and Long were radicalized and posted their rantings on Facebook. The outpouring of support for their acts of violence also took place on Twitter and Facebook with no effort at censorship by the social media sites. (This is one of the best summaries of the terrible situation that's developed over the past years that I've seen. He's so right, we desperately need to return to the founding principle of the nation, E Pluribus Unum, Out of Many, One, that is, from a diversity of people, ideas, customs, still one overall identity binds us together as family. That was a critical concept in 1789 and it's even more critical today. All those who are pushing the divisiveness are the mortal enemies of the ideal of America, and we must vehemently reject them. As Lincoln said, a house divided cannot stand, but if this house falls, I shudder to think of the consequences. --Del)
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