Everybody knows that Dean Jonathan Swift is a hero of ours because he set the standard for punitive satire with his "Modest Proposal"
that the British gentry serve parboiled Irish infants at their grand
soirees.
So with a bow to Swift, we have a modest proposal of our own for an
activist group.
Horrified by the announcement by the neo- anarchist group, Black Lives Matter, that it plans a full-throated shutdown of Graceland during the celebration of Elvis Presley week
in Memphis, our shredded heart
and spirit were moved to search for alternatives to suggest to these courageous celebrants of life.
We believe we have found a venue worthy of these worthies'
attention.
Chicago.
That is, by coincidence of course, well prepared fertile
fallow field where BLM can lay about and weigh in (to use some snarky mainstream
media lingo) on the theme they undergird so eponymously.
Because just this past weekend, in less than three days, 52
black citizens were shot and nine black lives were shattered and
lost.
Here is a short version and more details... you may click on the
name of the newspaper :
52 shot: Pace of gun violence in Chicago remains high over another weekend
More than 50 people were shot over
another violent weekend in Chicago, a level of violence that has marked many of
the summer weekends this year and has pushed the total number of people shot in
the city to more than 2,600. The number of people shot during all of last year
was 2,988. Between Friday evening and early Monday morning, at least 52 were
shot and nine of them were killed, according to police. The weekend before, 49
people were shot, nine of them fatally. And the weekend before that, 52 people
were shot, seven of them fatally....
In the sacred words of Al Capp's Li'l Abner..."Any fool can
plainly see !"... that Chicago is NOT a place where black lives matter. It really does need some creative demonstrating and protesting and singular indoctrination on
the Windy City's SouthSide. Certainly the Godfather, Hizzonor D'Mayor Rahm
Emanuel is not achieving much in the way of saving lives and creating
serenity.
Things in general have mattered less and less for the past
eight years during which Washington DC and specifically Pennsylvania Avenue have
drawn a formerly successful community organizer's attention away from South Adams
Street and surrounding environs.
Do you suppose the eminent BLM group can succeed in Cook
County as they have since their inception ?
Well... They can take a stab at it. (OOPS )
I mean to say... time
will tell.
2 comments:
Certainly should be where the BLM folk concentrate their efforts. Possibly they are too afraid to demonstrate there; they would probably be "out-gunned"
Certainly should be where the BLM folk concentrate their efforts. Possibly they are too afraid to demonstrate there; they would probably be "out-gunned"
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