When Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick isn’t saying that the Orlando mass shooting at the club Pulse, is condoned by the Bible’s homophobia, he’s usually saying some other blither blather about all kinds of idiotic things God has “inspired” him to do. As the events in Dallas unfolded last night, Fox News got Patrick on the horn for an interview and he quickly went to work blaming the peaceful protestors and anybody who has ever had any criticism of law enforcement, in the history of America.
And I do blame people on social media, with their hatred towards police. I do blame, I saw Jesse Jackson, on fox the other night calling police racist without any facts. I do blame, former black lives matters protest. Last night was peaceful. Others have not been.
Fuck off Dan Patrick. You are making up a word salad of racist dog whistles you cannot even string into a coherent thought. Don’t believe me? Here’s part of the follow up of this meandering blather.
This has to end. I grew up in a, I recall a world. I've been around long enough, we always had bad people, we always had dangerous people but the general public respected police. Too many in the general public, who aren't criminals but have a big mouth are creating situations like we saw last night.
People used to respect the police? People still respect good police. People still respect men and women doing a very difficult job. Unfortunately, racists like Dan Patrick are so scared of the future, and they are so scared of black people voicing their distress over the violence of racism, that they cannot even make an argument based in the logic of the critique.
All those protesters last night, they ran the other way, expecting the men and women in blue to turn around and protect them. What hypocrites.
This is the fundamental flaw. The Black Lives Matter movement, and frankly, anyone who is angry and unaccepting of the wholesale brutalization of citizens by bad police officers, is not concerned with there being no police, they are concerned with police who are not protecting and serving their communities.
I understand, I understand the first amendment. I understand freedom of speech. I defend it. It is in our constitution and is in our soul but you can't go out on social media and mainstream media and everywhere else and say that the police are racist or police are hateful or police are killers.
You do not understand the first amendment. Not at all. The very basis of that amendment is that people can call out racism, or their perceptions of racism, in our systems of law and government. The concept is that by allowing open criticism of our institutions, we can keep those institutions honest and working in the best interests of the people, for the people.