Do Black Lives Really Matter?

"They are going to try and disrupt the Minnesota State Fair? Really? And for what?

Okay. I will say it up front. I am one of these odd balls (and I think there might be many of us) who think black lives matter. That white lives matter. That all lives matter. Not only that, my belief is that each death, of what ever race, should diminish us all. We should be a people who cherish life - all life. We do NOT want to be like Islamist Terrorists who have made a mockery out of the sanctity of human life.

This Saturday the Black Lives Matter (BLM) crew is set to protest something at the main entrance to the State Fair. So let us first look at some facts. According to The Guardian, the number of people killed by police this year might reach 1,000. Based on past statistics, of that number around 300 are expected to be black. What the article does NOT say however, is how many of these deaths were justified. In other words, where the police officer had no choice but to use deadly force. By the way, the number of white deaths out of this 1,000 is expected to be 500.

Now a more disturbing statistic. Using FBI numbers, the average number of black on black deaths every year in America is around 9,000. That accounts for 93% of all young black men killed. Rudy Giuliani recently used that statistic and said if the 9,000 number per year held true over the past 35 years, we would have lost a total of over 300,000 young black men to black on black violence. That is a jaw dropping number - and totally unacceptable.

Now even a worse statistic. According to statistics complied by the Center for Disease Control, every day in America there are about 3,000 abortions. The good news is the number is starting to decline over the past few years. The bad news is it is still sky high. In my opinion, one is one too many. In any event, it is also estimated that black women use abortion services at an rate which is out of proportion for their race. In other words, black woman make up about 1/3 of all abortions performed.

Therefore, out of the 3,000 daily abortions, 1,000 are young black babies. That would be 365,000 a year. Or using the 35 year number that Giuliani used, over 12,000,000 for the same time frame. Some estimates put it closer to 13,000,000. That is more deaths than all other causes in the black community (natural or unnatural) rolled into one. Margaret Sanger must be smiling in her grave.

One more word about our abortion rate before I wrap this up. Someone once said just imagine if we were invaded by aliens. And if those aliens killed 3,000 humans every day. We would think we were being exterminated. And that is exactly what we are doing to innocent babies - regardless of what color they are.

So do black lives matter? You bet they do. All lives matter. If the BLM crew was having a march to bring to light that 93% of all homicides are black on black, I would be marching with them. If the BLM crew was marching to protest 1,000 innocent black babies dying every day at the hands of abortionists, I would be marching with them. However BLM wants to inconvenience hundreds, maybe thousands of fair goers because they don't think there are enough black vendors at the fair.

Here is a news flash. I have known a couple of vendors over the years. It is very, very hard to get a booth there. And by the way, if discrimination by color, race, or whatever was proven, the State Fair would have found themselves in a courtroom, knee deep in lawsuits.

Before Martin O'Malley got "round heals" at a political rally, he had it right. When asked if black lives matter, he responded that all lives matter. Then after getting shouted down by the low information crowd, he backtracked. Well Mr. O'Malley, please let me help you out. All lives do matter. Black, white, brown, male, female, young, old and yes, even (maybe especially) the unborn.