InterVarsity – Don Boys https://donboys.cstnews.com Common Sense for Today Sun, 05 Mar 2023 04:46:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.29 Cops: Best Promoters of the Fact that Black Lives Matter! https://donboys.cstnews.com/cops-best-promoters-of-the-fact-that-black-lives-matter https://donboys.cstnews.com/cops-best-promoters-of-the-fact-that-black-lives-matter#respond Mon, 25 Jun 2018 02:46:33 +0000 http://donboys.cstnews.com/?p=2131 It is a strange anomaly that the people who most need the good will as well as the protection of the police are stridently, strangely, and stupidly doing their best to hinder, hurt, and harass those same people! And many black leaders have bought into the lie that the enemy of blacks are the cops who are looking for opportunities to shoot them down in the streets. It is shocking to me that any honest person would support such dishonest demagoguery. It is dishonest, dangerous, and deleterious to support a preconceived opinion by trashing the truth.

Of course, too many people of all races are killed every day but then too many people have rebelled against the laws that all sane people want enforced. The vast majority of the shootings of Blacks and Whites are justified because of those rebellious people coming in contact with those we pay to enforce our laws.

A New York Times editorial asked, “When will the killing stop?” and the answer is when Black youth start obeying police officers. But then they weren’t taught respect for authority in the home, mainly because of the absence of a male authority figure.

That’s not blaming the victim; it’s recognizing an unpleasant and unassailable truth.

It should be understood that it is not always necessary to shoot a suspect and when other means are available, lethal force should not be used. No doubt, many police departments need to do more training and be aware that they may have rogue cops among them. Also, it is a fact that police officers tend to be in areas known for criminal activity! So, if they are patrolling a black neighborhood because of so many robberies, then the cops will arrest more Blacks and have more potential clashes resulting in a tragic death of the cop or criminal.

Would the race-baiters such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton want the cops not to patrol predominately black parts of town? Decent and concerned Blacks often say, “They are selling drugs on my street corner” or “I can always smell marijuana in my building.” And everyone knows many streets in black and many white neighborhoods are not safe after dark. Now, since cops go where they are needed, is it any surprise that there are more confrontations in those areas?

Michelle Higgins is an Evangelical leader who has joined the race-baiting crowd. She is known as Marxist Michelle, a fanatical follower of and defender of the Black Lives Matter movement. Speaking at an InterVarsity Christian Fellowship sponsored meeting of 16,000 students, Higgins said, “If VonDerrit Myers (a black man shot and killed by a St. Louis police officer in October) was wearing an ankle bracelet at the time that he was killed, then he deserved to die.” She made the statement as if repeating what vicious, unconcerned Whites say about the incident as if that’s all the pertinent facts.

It is a fact that Myers shot first, and the officer at whom he fired returned fire and killed the teen. Lab results found Myers had gun powder deposits on his hand at the time of his death. He was also awaiting trial on earlier gun charges and wearing an ankle bracelet as a condition of his bond in that case.

Continuing her racist diatribe, Higgins said, “The blood of Michael Brown cries out from the ground.” No, there is a cry for honesty, common sense, and courage coming from citizens of all races who want protection from thugs. Also, a plea for parents, especially black parents to teach their sons to respect those people who daily defend their right to live and work. Youth must be taught to obey those in authority whether parents, police, or principal.

She opined that because of her activism, she and her father were once “pursued and targeted for eight months by white supremacists who had been ‘dead set” on killing them. It is interesting that no reporter asked her to elucidate. How were they “pursued” and “targeted”? If they were dead set on killing them, why did they not make any attempts? Yes, it is possible her statement is true, but it smells like a very dead fish.

Higgins charged that white Evangelicals are convinced that “African worship is weird.” Well, it is not only weird but pagan. I wonder if she has been to Africa and seen the paganism, shamanism, devil worship, etc. But I’m not supposed to write that especially since I’m as white as a ping pong ball.

She added, “God wants to relieve you of the burden of being in control.” Well, I didn’t know Evangelical Christians were in control. But if whites are to be relieved of control, who is to take charge? After all, someone has to be in control.

Michelle really showed her true colors when she added, “You need to make reparations for the guilt for the crimes of all white humanity.” Sorry, sweetheart, I have no “guilt for the crimes of white humanity.” None, zero, zilch, not a smidgen of guilt.

She took a swipe at President Trump charging: “If you don’t know your history, you’re going to end up repeating it with a crazy-‘a’ president who don’t know what he doing.” I think a “Christian” spokesperson should have the grace and good sense not to call a national leader “crazy” without substantial medical support for the diagnosis. (Moreover, a college and seminary graduate should know about subject verb agreement.)

She spent much time promoting BLM: “Black lives matter is not a mission of hate.” Well, that’s news to me. Their activities, slogans, signs, and chants indicate otherwise. She asserted that Blacks are “incarcerated and executed because of their skin color.” That is outrageous bilge and it is incredible that at least one informed, courageous student did not oppose her lies. But most students are non-thinking wimps.

Barbara Reynolds is a black author and pastor and former editor and columnist for USA Today. Fact is, Barbara and I wrote for that paper at the same time. I seldom agreed with her but we are on the same page today. Barbara wrote, “But at protests today, it is difficult to distinguish legitimate activists from the mob actors who burn and loot. The demonstrations are peppered with hate speech, profanity, and guys with sagging pants that show their underwear. The movement loses sympathy when it shouts down those who dare to utter ‘all lives matter.’”

Reynolds was right on target and she is to be respected for her candor.

During her speech at the InterVarsity gig, Higgins didn’t say anything about the Gospel but she did speak favorably of Communist Angela Davis! You remember Angie, don’t you? She was a professor who climbed into bed with the radical Black Panthers in the 1960s. She ran for U.S. vice president on the Communist Party ticket more than 30 years ago. And she once said, “The only path of liberation for black people is that which leads toward complete and radical overthrow of the capitalist class.” That sounds like insurrection and if so, it is illegal to advocate the overthrow of our government! She should be in prison but she escaped prison in 1970s when an all-white guilt-ridden (in my opinion) jury left her free to do her work.

The sordid even took place on August 7, 1970, when teenager Jonathan Peter Jackson tried to gain the freedom for his brother George and another prisoner by kidnapping a Superior Court judge from the Civic Center in San Rafael, California. The botched attempt ended with a shootout that left four men dead, including both the younger Jackson and Judge Haley! Two others were wounded. The nation’s attention was captivated for months during the manhunt and trial. Davis had been a professor at UCLA and had been dumped but got involved in this caper with the Jackson brothers and the Black Panthers. Davis was set free even though she owned the weapons used in the incident!

And such a radical Communist was praised by Higgins at a Christian event!

InterVarsity, feeling the heat if not seeing the light, issued a damage control statement saying, “InterVarsity does not endorse everything attributed to #BlackLivesMatter. For instance, we reject any call to attack or dehumanize police. But – using the language of Francis Schaeffer and Chuck Colson – we are co-belligerents with a movement with which we sometimes disagree because we believe it is important to affirm that God created our Black brothers and sisters.”

What a copout! No one questions that God created Blacks. God is not responsible for the disruption of black families, numerous bastard children, and lack of respect for authority especially by young, black males. Inter-Varsity has gone the way of hundreds of other parachurch groups—compromise, collusion, and corruption.

InterVarsity desperately tried to wrap themselves in the mantles of two popular Evangelical leaders, Francis Schaefer and Charles Colson. The religious group then reiterated their support for Black Lives Matter by calling them co-belligerents in the battle for doing God’s work. Can anyone imagine the Apostle Paul seeking to identify with the Gnostics in order to carry out God’s work on earth! After all, he could find something with which he agreed, if he looked long enough. We are not to give any support to unbiblical, unpatriotic, or unlawful groups. BLM qualifies on all three counts.

Leftist religious groups and individuals, consisting of the usual suspects, were surprised and delighted that InterVarsity had invited Higgins to speak. Biblically oriented people are horrified and many have struck InterVarsity from their list of those they financial support.

For sure, Jesus Christ was not preached, promoted, or presented and some people still wonder why thinking Conservatives don’t support Black Lives Matter!

Higgins and other spewers of hate and misinformation need to understand that there is no government agency more dedicated to the proposition that black lives matter than the police!

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Black Lives Matter Movement Infecting Churches! https://donboys.cstnews.com/black-lives-matter-movement-infecting-churches https://donboys.cstnews.com/black-lives-matter-movement-infecting-churches#respond Thu, 21 Jun 2018 21:09:47 +0000 http://donboys.cstnews.com/?p=2129 Christianity Today reported that Pastor John Piper has jumped on board the Black Lives Matter (BLM) bandwagon! “At first, Piper was reticent to support BLM when he visited BlackLivesMatter.com and noted that the site’s three women founders were ‘queer-affirming and transgender-affirming.’” Yet, Piper stayed on board with that crowd! He even encouraged white Evangelicals to “pause” before saying anything like, “All lives matter.” Has Piper lost his mind? Maybe Piper should pause before saying anything!

Piper, a highly respected Evangelical, said, “I saw a statistic that there were 102 unarmed black men killed by police.” But that’s not the whole story since most of those Blacks were armed, resisted, or disobeyed police orders. Such reactions are an invitation to be shot!

Even Calvin College invited a left wing black activist, Michelle Higgins to speak to their students. Michelle was invited to speak in October 2016 but being detained at the airport she spoke via skype and told the overflowed crowd of Evangelicals, “It is clear that in our nation,” she explained, “we don’t treat all lives as equal.” No, minorities are given special treatment to compensate for long periods of discrimination. Has Calvin College lost their direction?

According to the Chimes, mouthpiece for Calvin College, reported, “However, she cautioned us against replacing #BlackLivesMatter with #AllLivesMatter.” Heavens no, they must never do that.

Higgins has become the unofficial voice of BLM and is a very persuasive speaker. She is a professing Christion using the Bible to support her spurious cause. She directs worship and outreach at South Church in St. Louis–associated with the Presbyterian Church in America. She sees white supremacy as the reason for everything wrong with America. She demands Whites look honestly into their hearts and repent of known or unknown hatred (real or imagined) while she sees Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Eric Garner as innocent, misunderstood choir members.

Higgins is a graduate of Covenant Theological Seminary and a “proud supporter of local activism groups MCU (Metropolitan Congregations United)….” She is a radical racial agitator who is being accepted as a compassionate racial healer by some Evangelical groups. As a leader in the Black Lives Matter movement, she is called Michelle the Marxist and spoke to 16,000 students at the Urbana 15 Student Mission’s Conference in St. Louis on Dec. 28, 2015. Urbana is a part of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, formerly a respected biblical student organization. The worship team singers wore Black Lives Matter T-shirts in preparation for the speaker!

At that meeting Michelle said, “The decentralized movement of Black Lives Matter allows local pastors or local groups to use the phrase to mean all black people are despised systemically in such a way that our country does not hesitate to refuse them proper health care, quality education or fairness in the face of potential arrest.” That is a ridiculous inflammatory statement with an intent to manipulate the unwary, uneducated, and the uninformed.

She asserted that “Black people are sacred to God” but then all people are sacred to God.

Higgins declared, “The United States is not so different from the Roman Empire,” but surely a college and seminary graduate knows better than to belch such tommyrot. The leader of the U.S. is not a dictator; people are not thrown into an arena to be devoured by vicious animals; men (and women) do not fight to the death to satisfy a blood-thirsty crowd; more than half of the residents of any major city are not slaves; but then we are taxed like the Romans who placed heavy taxes on land, on goods and food, and on inheritances. Farmers and the poor suffered the most under their system of taxes.

Higgins averred, “If our children do not regularly hear the truth that Jesus was man (sic) of color, we may be mortified to discover they believe Jesus was white. That’s our fault.” Does it really matter to anyone what color Christ was? He came to die and rise again for everyone, everywhere, of every color for all time. His color matters only to the racists. No one knows His hue, only that He was a Jew from the Middle East. Only the racists make an issue of such a non-issue.

Higgins suggested that Blacks and minorities spend their lives “under the awareness that racist people want to kill you …” While there are no doubt a few racist nuts who want to kill Blacks, very, very few actually carry out the threats. If black parents had taught their sons to obey authority, especially when the authority has a gun, there would not be any or many killings by the police.

In the 70s, my wife’s Black friends taught her that Black neighborhoods were dangerous and to stay away because they wanted to do her harm; however, many Blacks have to live in those dangerous areas. Respect for law and for authority are essential for everyone but especially in dangerous neighborhoods.

Higgins said, “God is challenging humanity to ‘tell the truth, the whole truth’ about the stories of human history.” I suggest that Higgins and her crowd tell the whole truth rather than using selected vignettes of police shootings to validate their untrue and unfair declaration that all Blacks are in danger of being gunned down by rogue cops on the city streets in broad daylight.

Irresponsible Blacks speak of being arrested by thugs in blue for driving while black or walking while black. Every sane person knows there are bad, even wicked people in every category: military, academia, sales, education, ministry, media, and yes, law enforcement. I have gone on record as detesting overbearing, unreasonable, psychotic cops and they should be dealt with appropriately. However, police are there to enforce our laws, laws made for the benefit of the general public—red, yellow, black, or white—all should be equal in their sight.

We are told that it isn’t working because so many black youth are being killed and imprisoned. I just had a thought: do you think that it might be because they commit more criminal offenses? The police officer must first protect his or her own life; then try to keep harm from bystanders or hostages; then enforce the law or keep the crime from being committed; then try to apprehend the alleged perpetrator. If the perpetrator resists, he is a fool and will likely become a dead fool.

Following his death, black civil rights “leaders” and main stream media will proceed to twist the facts to present the cop as a deranged racist killer and the young black as a candidate for sainthood or at least the Nobel Prize. But now, everyone can know the truth: the facts are clear and were discovered and delivered by the leftist Washington Post! The Post revealed that on the whole the police tend to use force appropriately to protect their own lives and the lives of others! Of course, what would you expect? That was the Washington Post!

But the Post added more grist to the mill!

After a year-long study of case-by-case shootings it was found that the police use force primarily to defend lives; the use of force against unarmed suspects is rare, and the use of force against Blacks is largely proportional to their share of the violent crime rate! Of course, every police chief in every city should be fired if that is not true in his city.

As of December 24, 2015, the Post reported that American police officers had fatally shot 965 people in 2015; 564 of those killed were armed with a gun while 281 were armed with another weapon, and 90 were unarmed. In three-quarters of shootings, “police were under attack or defending someone who was.” Well, that’s the way it’s supposed to be.

The Post revealed that blacks “commit homicide about eight times the rate of whites and Hispanics combined. Even worse, “among males between the ages of 14 and 17, the interracial homicide commission gap is nearly tenfold.” According to National Review in 2014, “while black Americans constituted only about 13 percent of the population, they represented a majority of the homicide and robbery arrests. 82 percent of all gun deaths in the black community are from homicide.”

But wait a minute. What about the white police officers who kill so many unarmed black men? While even one is too many, white cops killing unarmed blacks is “less than 4 percent of fatal police shootings.” So Black Lives Matter; Hands up, don’t shoot; and Stop! I can’t breathe! are used by unprincipled or uninformed or unthinking people to justify racist and irresponsible attacks upon police officers.

And it is shameful that a professing Christian would purposefully distort the truth for use as propaganda in a dubious cause.

Higgins declared, “Justice means my baby boy, my baby girl will not be tried, condemned, sentenced and executed on the street. That is justice.” Well, the most disgusting white (or black) supremacist would agree with that statement. Of course, she is referring to the black youth who have been killed by white (and sometimes, black) police officers. However, in all those cases, the victims were young black thugs who resisted arrest or disobeyed the officers. It is astounding to me how any person with any since of right and wrong could defend the thugs (black and white) and blame the police.

Of course, racists come in all colors. Some even carry Bibles.

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