Burned out car in front of apparently unlooted Bloomingdale’s.
https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/soho-riots2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&strip=all

Decency and self-respect alone compel us not to remain silent. And if we do remain silent, while chanting the cause of those who vandalized our houses of worship and shops, we will have neither decency nor respect. We will have become as contemptible in our own eyes as we already are in the eyes of the Black Lives Matters pogromists who did this knowing that there would be no response.

Fighting anti-Semitism doesn’t mean launching educational programs. It means, as Mordechai told Esther, “If you remain silent now, salvation will come to the Jews from some other place, and you and your father’s house will perish.”

All those many generations ago, the Jews faced genocide because one stubborn old sage refused to take a knee before a brutal thug and abandon the aspirations of his people.

A Jewish organization or synagogue that takes a knee before brutal thugs and refuses to speak up when Jews are attacked is not worthy of claiming to speak for Jews. It is not worthy of Jewish support or loyalty. I, personally, will not donate to any Jewish organization or synagogue that sends me a George Floyd letter, but says nothing of the pogrom in Fairfax. I encourage you to do the same.

Tyler O’Neil reports from New York City, where the Jews are speaking out about the indefensible double standards of the mayor:
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/06/04/as-rioters-destroy-new-york-cops-disperse-jewish-families-at-a-playground-n495368

Jewish community leaders are condemning New York Mayor Bill de Blasio for a “blatant double standard.” He singled out the Jewish community in enforcing coronavirus restrictions, yet defended protesters who violated social distancing rules in order to protest the heinous police killing of George Floyd. In fact, videos showed police officers dispersing Jewish mothers and their children at a playground while a larger group of protesters gathered in violation of lockdown rules.
…
Jewish marketing professional Yossi Gestetner provided more context for PJ Media: “Hasidic Jews in Williamsburg Brooklyn a mile away from where thousands were protesting at the same moment without distancing.”

Gestetner also shared a video which he claimed showed New York cops berating a group of Hasidic Jews on the sidewalk while rioters destroyed the city. “As THOUSANDS of protesters are in Manhattan and in Brooklyn tonight in violation of the curfew, [the NYPD] has time to tell Hasidim something about the curfew. What’s the point of this? If 5K Hasidim were out in a protest, you will leave them alone?”

And it gets worse, in New Jersey.
https://www.app.com/story/news/local/jackson-lakewood/lakewood/2020/06/04/nj-protests-lakewood-store-owners-board-up-windows-advance-saturday-march/3131924001/

Weinstein said he has seen numerous social media posts saying “protesters want to specifically come to Lakewood to destruct the town on Saturday.” Many stores owned by the Orthodox are closed on Saturday because they observe the Sabbath.

“I agree 100% with the protests and we have to definitely show something to the world that what is going on is wrong,” Weinstein said. “But I just ask to please be peaceful and don’t destroy our stores. We didn’t do anything to you, we have nothing to do with this. If it were on a regular day, we would be there right with you.”
…
However, local and county authorities cautioned that it was still too early to distinguish whether the chatter was a legitimate threat or unfortunately the commonplace anti-Semitic rhetoric directed against Lakewood’s Orthodox Jewish community.

Inzelbuch said while some of the chatter on social media surrounding the march was “concerning,” local and county law enforcement have been consulted and will be on hand to secure the demonstration.

Fortunately, there were no incidents of violence, or else they were the silent kind.
https://www.nj.com/news/2020/06/a-day-of-demonstrations-tens-of-thousands-of-new-jerseyans-take-the-streets-in-protest.html

Record time fulfilling a prophecy, even if it was in a slightly modified form:
https://twitter.com/BabylonBeeFan/status/1269096504486068224

(check out the link to a Legal Insurrection post that reports on the BLM activists)

His remarks won’t get any play on the MSM, and I hope will not get doxxed by #BLM.

It was impossible to find the clip again, of course, in either my history or bookmarks, but a search at DDG turned this up from 2019, which is by another black man making the same point: the media and the left are only interested in dead black people if they can make a racist narrative about it.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/01/18/black-lives-only-matter-if-they-are-taken-by-whites/
Black Lives Only Matter If They Are Taken by Whites
Armstrong Williams / @Arightside / January 18, 2019

Social media rang with righteous indignation over the senseless killing of Jazmine Barnes, who was shot and killed while riding in a car along with her mother and three sisters on a Texas highway on Dec. 30.

The gunman, who was identified as a white man, allegedly drove a red pickup truck and fired upon the Barnes family seemingly randomly and without any provocation. A picture quickly emerged of a racist murderer on the loose, hell-bent on killing innocent black children.

All of the usual alarms were triggered. New York Daily News writer Shaun King, a leader of the Black Lives Matter movement, who was made famous in the aftermath of the Ferguson, Missouri, protests, rushed to tweet out accusations about the alleged suspect, a man named Robert Cantrell.
…
[*I am omitting this paragraph for reasons that will be apparent later*]
…
… in the days immediately preceding the arrests, Black Lives Matter activists quickly mobilized in Houston, holding rallies and vigils and decrying the racist slaying of an innocent girl.
…
Celebrities like former NBA All-Star player Shaquille O’Neal also got in on the act, promising to donate money to cover Jazmine’s funeral expenses.

Houston Texans’ star wide receiver, DeAndre Hopkins, promised to take the field in Jazmine’s honor, after tweeting, …
Prominent Dallas civil rights attorney Lee Merritt also joined the case, primarily due to his belief (based on the initial description of the suspect) that the shooting was racially motivated.

*Here’s what I left out above
“Tips began to pour in to King, who forwarded them to police. One of those tips ultimately led to the arrest of two suspects, both of whom turned out to be African-American males.”

Mr Williams continues:

When, on Monday, the new suspect was arrested and it appeared the motive was not race-related, the hoopla immediately died down. Gone was the righteous indignation on social media. No more celebrity attorneys announced they were interested in the case.

Sadly, this appeared to be just another case of black-on-black crime. … Nothing to see here.

In a week, Jazmine’s case is likely to fade from public discourse.
…
Where, one wonders, is the outrage over the nearly 500 black children killed by guns last year? How many of those names have even made it to the national media? Is each of their lives less important because a black person took them?

It seems that in all too many cases, black lives don’t matter unless they are taken by a white person. We almost never hear about the thousands of senseless murders of blacks by blacks.

But when the suspected killer is a white person, well, of course, that’s news. **All of a sudden, there is an outcry of support and care and concern and activism. The murder unfailingly makes the evening news. Prognosticators are ready on the draw with the usual platitudes and complaints and inferences about America’s worsening racial climate.

The troubling narrative that emerges from the grossly disproportionate treatment of the relatively isolated instances of violence deemed “racially motivated” versus the virtual sea of other crimes not deemed tainted by race begs the question: Is the only reason we even know about Jazmine Barnes because people believe she was killed by a white man?

And that question begs another question: When black children are being murdered in absolutely horrific proportions, mostly at the hands of other black people, do black lives actually matter to black people? Or do they only matter when someone white kills them?

The obvious answer, and maybe Mr. Williams didn’t want to go there, is that of course the Left doesn’t care if black people kill other black people, because their fate is not the issue, the revolution is the issue –and the only use Leftists have for blacks is as cannon fodder in that war.

Maybe some of the black people who lost their homes, jobs, stores, and family in the Floyd Riots will start to see that.

David Horowitz knew that a long time ago, and told us.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18820570-barack-obama-s-rules-for-revolution
“An SDS radical once wrote, “the issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” In other words, the cause — whether inner city blacks or women — is never the real cause, but only an occasion to advance the real cause, which is the accumulation of power to make the revolution.”

**PS – it’s NEWS (even if true) because it’s so rare. That’s why there are so many fake hate crimes being staged – there is a serious dearth (thank goodness) of real ones.

The plight of the black shop owners in burned-out cities, the personal recognition by many that not every white person is a racist killing machine out to get blacks and that most black deaths are caused by other black people, the heavy-handedness of Joe Biden’s campaign gaffe, and the trashing of the economy by Democrats just as blacks were making historic gains — well, that’s a lot of red pills floating around the internet.

Some posts alluded to above are familiar here (Candace Owens, for one), but I came across a few more recently.

I’ll start with a Solzhenitsyn quote that applies, and then one by Thomas Sowell.
They have a lot of common ground in their thinking.

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a53b7883809f039d91608f252c20bc772eac4be2bbeabd37ffe7bec57f331a98.jpg

https://i1.wp.com/www.the-american-catholic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Sowqell-16.jpeg?fit=1174%2C616&ssl=1

Elbert Guillory, whose video posts are always calm, but passionate, and present the conservative black POV with reason and confidence has a video that is definitely a must-see.
“Joe Biden thinks we are slaves on his plantation. He recently told black people that if we don’t vote the way he wants us to, then we are not black. That is insulting, despicable and oh so wrong. Our response to massa Biden!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scltg10N6lk&list=TLPQMDYwNjIwMjAgLh7dGIUIKw&index=2

A black vlogger, Modern Renaissance Man, who says: “If you enjoyed Black Lives Matter when it comes to Mr Floyd What About Retired St. Louis Police Capt David Dorn? ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSMwtXRids8

“Play stupid games, get stupid prizes” department:

“Antifa dude drops incendiary, protesters throw it back into his car-”
https://twitter.com/NotSweetDeeSez/status/1268051545360302080

“Give her to me. Her parents raised this thing. They should be ashamed.” –
https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/1268443097521946625

If you don’t want to commit twittery, the last two can be seen in the comments here:
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2020/06/03/cosplaying-the-revolution/

Ramirez sums it all up in a picture, as usual.
https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/06/mrz060220-color-1-3mb_orig.jpg?ssl=1

Remember: whatever you read on the news, for the left the narrative is never the reality.
https://postimg.cc/94JL7BdL

AesopFan: Amen to that. The police are absolutely necessary and the left is out of control, but there is a police problem.

However, I am with Spiked: I did not kill Floyd, or Taylor, or any other victims of bad policing, much less the alleged victims that the BLM has rioted for.
I didn’t vote for the mayors or city council members who supervise those police departments; I don’t advocate or support their local leftist political policies that have done nothing in 50 years to make the lives of black citizens better; and I resent being extorted by everyone from the media to my alma mater (the obligatory PC email came yesterday) to concur with the leftist intimidation so graphically on display.

“Blog: Protests, demonstrations remain peaceful in Albuquerque”
https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/live-blog-protest-underway-in-albuquerque/5752358/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Breonna_Taylor

No racism I can discern, but Taylor was black and it’s an opportunity to cash in another “Black Lives Matter” chip.

Yeah right. And you can just imagine how well that would go over if the reverse situation existed!! You know…like women driving in Saudi…or wearing a bathing suit … or having a religious celebration… or about a million other things that we in the USA do within a normal day’s activities and which are not against the laws of the US, but are against the laws in Saudi. Do you think they’d ignore those situations in SA just because they weren’t against the law in the USA?? I sure don’t.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/06/03/i-did-not-kill-george-floyd/amp/?__twitter_impression=true