Oh, what a time to be alive.
We live in an era and a society where the latest video, celebrity snafu, political misstep, joyful reunion, family tragedy and everything else under the sun can, and usually is, broadcast via Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, local news, national news, talk radio, blog posts, news articles, and word of mouth. A story can quickly take on a life of its own.
Welcome to my Tuesday, November 3, 2015.
The irony is, exactly a week from now (November 10) will mark one year when my life completely changed and I was pushed into the national, and international, spotlight.
(There’s too much to go into here, but if you are interested in a bit of recent history, see my blog post at https://angelassoapbox.com/will-you-be-silenced/)
(Also see: https://angelassoapbox.com/the-million-miscreant-march-celebrates-20-years-of-blaming-whitey/)
It’s certainly not lost on me how many stars had to align for the many twists and turns this past year has taken. I was teaching in a third grade classroom in the Houston Independent School District when I was targeted by a local news reporter for my views from radical Islam to race relations to illegal immigration to Eric Holder and Barack Obama. Never did I once bring my politics into my classroom, but after CAIR (Council on American and Islamic Relations) and a local community activist named Quanell X attacked me and defamed me personally, I had a decision to make. Take it/crawl into a fetal position/grovel/apologize–or fight back. I chose to fight back, and my new career and life path was born. I was fortunate to begin working in politics and make several media appearances a week, often as a regular contributor (Raging Elephants Radio, The Sam Malone Show, writing for NewsFoxes.com and my own blog AngelasSoapBox.com, and, most recently, the Fox 26 Face-Off with none other than Quanell X himself). Life certainly takes you in places you aren’t expecting.
On Monday’s Face Off, Mr. X and I battled over the case of a South Carolina teenage girl (black) who was overly disruptive in class (asked several times by the teacher, an administrator, and finally a police officer) to stop what she was doing and leave the classroom so the rest of the students could resume learning activities. The police officer, who is white, admittedly got too aggressive in his handling of this teen, and I said as much. I also said that I seriously doubted this was the first time, the second time, the third time, or the fourth time this student had been disruptive. I said it was high time we got to the root of the problem, and that was fixing black culture and to take back communities from groups like Black Lives Matter, which has essentially morphed into a quasi-terrorist hate group, and other racialist organizations which promote victimization, blaming whitey, and, rather than taking responsibility for actions, choose to have a perpetual chip on their shoulders against society in general, and against white people and police in particular.
In addition, I brought up the fact that the Democrat party had essentially ruined the black community through 60 years of failed policies. Out of wedlock births, dependency rates, graduation rates, black-on-black crime rates, and virtually everything currently plaguing the black community can be traced to a Democrat party that, in the 1960s, told black mothers they didn’t need a man in the family, that society was against them, that the government would take care of them, and that the education system was just fine. We have seen what a destructive myth that has been.
(See: https://angelassoapbox.com/thug-liberalism-is-a-national-epidemic/)
In 2014, the Obama Justice Department, led by Eric Holder, essentially gave an edict to schools to stop enforcing “zero tolerance” rules because they felt the rules targeted black students. In fact, the statistics from a 2014 study done by Journal of Criminal Justice discovered that differences in suspension/discipline rates were actually—gasp—caused by more frequent misbehavior from blacks…NOT racism. It found that higher black suspension rates were “completely accounted for” by the individual students’ own behavior.
Which brings us back to South Carolina and the incident with a female, non-compliant black student and former officer Ben Fields.
In my opinion, it is movements like Black Lives Matter and the New Black Panther Party that in part have given rise to student misbehavior (in addition to other factors), because students know that teachers truly can’t discipline them anymore due to the “lawsuit factor” and, more often than not, the teacher—not the student—being blamed for an incident. Students realize that acting out yields few consequences—especially when crying “racism” shows itself to be highly effective.
The Black Lives Matter movement also sees their behavior as justifiable political discourse, whether it be to disrupt Democrat presidential candidate Martin O’Malley when he made the unforgiveable faux pax of saying “All Lives Matter”, or, the day after Deputy Darren Goforth was murdered in cold blood by a black man, a group of Black Lives Matter activists took over a Minnesota fair chanting “Pigs in a blanket, fry ‘em like bacon”, or Black Lives Matter leaders calling for the murder of whites and police. Among other things.
(Martin O’Malley story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3206262/O-Malley-apologized-Black-Lives-Matter-like-disgusting-little-weak-pathetic-baby-says-Trump-insult-blasted-hate-speech.html
Minnesota Black Lives Matter Rally: http://www.startribune.com/pigs-in-a-blanket-chant-at-minnesota-fair-riles-police/323479961/
Black Lives Matter leader calling for killing whites/cops: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/09/02/shock-audio-self-proclaimed-black-lives-matter-online-radio-host-declares-its-open-season-on-killing-whites-andpolice-officers/)
So great was the sin of me calling out Black Lives Matter and the black culture (because, presumably, a white woman isn’t allowed to discuss such things!), that yesterday and today and into this evening I have received the most vile, hateful, misogynist, evil insults of my life. They are far too insane and ugly to repeat here. In addition, I have received death threats that, unless the authors removed them, are visible on both my Facebook and Twitter pages.
(Facebook.com/AngelaBoxPublic; twitter.com/TheBoxThatRoxx)
As I stated from the outset: I believe the officer did use too much force, but that he should have been suspended/disciplined and not fired. The video the world saw did not show anything leading up to the incident, and, as witnesses have come forward, we know that there is much more to this story.
In addition, instead of the dismissal of Officer Fields being celebrated, hundreds of students of all races (many black) have rallied to his defense and are urging the rehiring of the officer. The Twitter hashtag #BringBackFields has started circulating, and it’s unclear where this entire incident will end up eventually.
While brevity is usually the soul of wit, sometimes clarification is necessary. I do not back down nor do I apologize for my statements: I am merely clarifying them. Will the clarification matter to the racialists and the Black Lives Matter mob who seeks my head on a platter? Probably not. But to those fair-minded individuals who understood my intent and meaning, it certainly should.
To the silent majority who has privately supported me, thank you.
Remember though–staying silent in the face of death threats and repugnant personal attacks on another person just because some disagree with him/her is no virtue. To combat the minority of the unhinged, it takes more than just a few of us to rise up and dispatch the crazy back to Crazytown.
It takes ALL of us to stop them.
