Is Everything Racist?

Living in Memphis after moving from El Paso, I have benefitted from living within an African American community.  I have found them to be courteous, friendly, and helpful. 

Last Thanksgiving, I had a fender bender and was given a citation.  All my fault.  The policeperson was very courteous to me.  I expected to be chastised  for being careless but she was extremely friendly and helpful. 

Recently there was a tragic death of Tyre Nichols.  He was brutally beaten by five black officers and they have been charged with murder.  It was a tragic thing and never should have happened.  I’m sure the officers will be charged accordingly and given prison terms.  But there is another cause for alarm.  This too has a racial component.

No sooner was the beating death announced than accusations of “systemic racism’ surfaced.    Despite these being black officers and killing a black man this is still a racist issue.  Now everything that happens becomes a racist issue!

I keep in touch with doings in El Paso.  For the many years I lived there I was very involved with saving the Franklin Mountains from developers who would gladly bulldoze and grade the slopes in to order to build homes with a view!  Since it is dry desert area the natural fauna would rarely come back. 

I received notice that Tom Lea Park was building a permanent shelter for hikers and bikers who wanted to take a rest and enjoy the views of the city.  They are naming the permanent shelter in honor of Tyre Nichols!!  Really? 

I wrote on their Facebook page that Mr. Nichol’s death was indeed a tragedy but that he had never been to El Paso, had not contributed to the city or had done any outstanding deeds that he should be remembered in such a way. 

The response I received made me out to be unsympathetic, cold hearted, uncaring, racist etc etc. I was the bad guy for even suggesting that this shelter should not be named after Tyre who had never contributed to the good of the city of El Paso or even here in Memphis.  He wasn’t on an errand of mercy when he was pulled over and beaten to death. 

As Victor David Hanson wrote in Epoch Times. “Pause to reflect that American is the only successful multiracial constitutional republic in history.”

As the world becomes ever scarier Americans must…..As Benjamin Franklin once warned……”hang together or most certainly they soon will all song hang separately. “