Opinion: Why are police being demonized?

By Washingtonia T Booker PhD, a black female college professor

 Question: If one watches every video of an alleged “violent attack” by a law officer on a “black victim” over the last decade — did you notice what took place immediately prior to the so-called “brutal attack?”

 Answer: In each and every case, the “victim” showed disrespect for the police.

But — when pulled over by police for speeding or running a red light — you or I, as a law-abiding citizen, would obey the officer and remain courteous at all times. So, the real question is: why do we see, today, this common behavior of disobedience and disregard for authority — which was very rarely seen in, say — the 1950s? To answer this question, let’s go back in time in American history. In 1925, 85 percent of black families had two parents; today, that number is 25 percent. And single mothers too often have children from many different fathers.

This dramatic change in the “nuclear family” over the past century is not unique to African-Americans, but is far more common than in whites or Hispanics. And this behavior is extremely rare in Asian families — as well as in most immigrant families arriving from foreign lands — including Africa.

While the nation was in the middle of a bloody Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. For the next century, Republicans overwhelmingly supported abolition, whereas Democrats — especially in the southern States — continued to resist. Founded in Tennessee in 1865, the Ku Klux Klan spread into virtually every southern state (and many northern states) by 1870, becoming a vehicle for resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for all Americans of color.

As a result, between the mid-1860s and 1960s, those blacks who were able to vote (despite intimidation by white resistance) cast their ballots for the Republican Party. This all changed with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson (and approved in Congress by more Republicans than Democrats). This law prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for integration of all schools and other public facilities, and made employment and housing discrimination illegal.

The Civil Rights Act was followed by LBJ’s “Great Society’s War on Poverty” (May 1965), which, in effect, threw money at the problem of poverty but only made things far worse. This — combined with massive increases in the flow of recreational drugs from south of the border, availability of birth control pills leading to promiscuity, and drug gangs (e.g. flying in hundreds of MS-13 gang members from El Salvador, as an attempt by Obama to destabilize America) — all resulted in massive increases in single-parent families, as well as males and females showing no respect for authority (parents, teachers, or police).

The “War on Poverty” did result in something positive for the Democratic Party. And that was to push the blacks back into a “plantation mentality” in which they are promised to be taken care of by the Democrats, in return for voting them into office. This hasn’t worked for more than 50 years, and President Trump has asked the blacks to “think — before continuing to vote for the Party that always makes things worse for them.”

So, here we are today, with riots of fake outrage — and “Black Lives Matter” and “Antifa”, two communist-sponsored organizations — with plans to overthrow the U.S. government. And then we have the selfish looters taking advantage of the situation with greed and evil intentions. Sadly, all of this began with disrespect for authority, initiated between children and their parents, and then between students and teachers, in the 1960s.

 

Consider the following video that reflects today’s current father to child ratio.

 

 

 

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