Apologize and mean it!

     It's been an interesting week here at Bloody Nib Manor. Not only have we, for the past several months, been forced to raise the drawbridge because of some plague that escaped from the Celestial Kingdom, but because of the idiocy or cruelty of one man against another there have been demonstrations, rioting, and looting in the shire and the nation. It brings the Luddite revolt to mind, at best, and the overthrow of Louis XVI at worst. One could consider the Russian Revolution, but the Frenchies, for their time, were much more efficient at killing their own considering the technology.
     This writer does not think i necessary to go deeply into the reasons for the present unrest. Simply put, a white policeman in Minnesota, probably because he was just, to put it sort, a thug and hot head, killed a black man by holding the black man to the ground by putting his weight on the neck of the black man (George Floyd) resulting in the suffocation or strangulation of Mr. Floyd.
     It was an act of cruelty and, perhaps, racism. It may have been an act of over-enthusiasm. Who knows what was going through the thick head of the cop? Only he does. And he won't say. At trial he'll lie and say something like, "I feared for my life" or some such nonsense.
     While the death (killing) of Mr. Floyd was a bad thing (this writer will not say that it's a tragedy because it wasn't in the classical sense like Macbeth or Achilles) and a crime, it was a rarity in American life. White law enforcement officers do not go out and hunt black people in the way that Belgian colonists hunted Congolese natives in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The overwhelming number of cops start their shifts praying for no trouble and do not go out of their way to look for trouble. In fact, a certain percentage will turn a blind eye to trouble just to avoid the paperwork involved.
     But, for some reason, this particular instance took the fancy of the Internet (and the Internet these days means the public). Probably because it was so gruesome. Adding to the mix is that a week before a white woman was shown on many platforms telling a black man who is a birdwatcher that she would call the police and tell them that she had been assaulted by an African-American man because she felt threatened because he told her to leash her dog in an area that was a leashed dog area (it was the perfect match of the clash of two Karens, but the woman ended up losing her job). The latter, because people assumed that the woman was a racist because she described the man as an Africa-American, in a sense, while not striking the match, took the match out of the box.
     We have all seen the result of the death of Mr Floyd: demonstrations against "systemic racism" by law enforcement agencies and the nation in general.
     And those people who claim to represent black Americans, the Black Lives Matter movement in particular, have demanded that whites, no matter if their ancestors came to America in 1620 or 2019, apologize for what the BLM and their cohort call systemic racism. To be white, and in some cases, to be Asian or Hispanic, is, to the BLM crowd, is to be racist against African-Americans.
     All too many times this writer has seen videos of people kneeling (it's always kneeling; the position of least power and self-direction) repeating like they were reading out of a Roman Catholic Missal apologies read out by BLM leaders. Mass Mea Culpas that Catholic Churches in the U.S. haven't seen in decades. Old white guys who in their youth had Huey Newton posters on their walls when they were in college, old white women who had had one or two black lovers, young Asian women who never saw a black person in the flesh before they came to the U.S. to go to college, young white men and women who think Beyonce' is (to pardon the expression) the "tits." It's like the Lindy Hop back in the 1930s. Everyone's doing it.
     But what they do not realize, besides not being guilty of anything besides being human, they will get no absolution or forgiveness from BLM or any other leftist black group. What they have done is made fools of themselves and given BLM and such a weapon. That apology will always hang over their heads like the sword of Damocles ready to fall at the whim of BLM. They have said, whether they are or not, that they are/were racist and apologize for it and the BLM crowd will always remember it and use it as a weapon against one. One, when it is convenient for BLM, is, was, and always be a racist, and that group and their ilk, will use it like a topping maul on the skull of a hog to get what they want. At least the renegade Christian during the times of the Roman persecution, once they put a pinch of incense on the altar of Caesar, were sent away and forgotten.
      It was a sickening sight for us here at the Manor to see police officers and National Guardsmen kneel before the demonstrators. By doing so they were saying that they were guilty of something they had never done. They did not kill Mr. Floyd. The overwhelming number of them never killed, or even hurt, a black person in any way. Were they trying to be Christ and take what is sometimes called the "original sin" of the nation upon themselves? That's doubtful. They were either afraid or wanted to be friends with people who don't want to be friends. They bent the knee. They bowed their heads. Much like the victims who were beheaded by ISIS.
     It's cheap talk and easy to say, but there was a saying that was popular in this writer's callow youth: It's better to die standing and fighting than to live one's life on one's knees. The knees of too many of those in our various forms of government have been bent in our name, and too many apologies have been made to the undeserving by the clueless lick spittles. And it bodes not well.