“But…I thought Blue Lives Mattered!”

"You'll never take back our country with weakness," Trump proclaimed. "Demand that Congress do the right thing... fight like hell."

~Donald Trump

An hour after Donald Trump gave his "I will never concede speech" in front of thousands of his supporters, at his "Take Back America Rally," on January 6th 2021, his jubilant super- hyped, ardent followers took his "coded" message of "stop the steal... save America and "Fight for Trump!" and they stormed the State Capitol!

Brandishing their American, Confederate, and Blue Lives Matter Flags, and with their guns, bats, bricks, climbing ropes, planks and pepper spray, this Motley Crew of insurrectionists broke down bearers, broke out windows, scaled the walls and desecrated the State Capitol Building, leaving in their path, the destruction of government property, theft, mayhem and death. Men and women calling themselves Patriots, pushed past barricades, and fought with those Police Officers who attempted to maintain order. At the center of this display of anarchy was an almost exclusively White Trump support base! However, for every African-American watching in dismay from their vantage point, the script had been flipped! And an entire ethnic group's truth had been dragged into somewhat of an alternate universe! And the elephant in the room, was the stench of the double standard! All summer long, people of color and the disenfranchised marched, paraded, protested, and rioted for social justice in the wake of George Floyd. Those protests, peaceful or destructive, were countered for the most part by law enforcement, choke holds, Rubber Bullets, Zip Ties, and Flash Bombs! The thickness of the "Blue Lives" were an ever present force; holding the line, administering the blows with their batons, knocking down the elderly, and beating down any and everything Black! Their Commander In Chief, when speaking of protestors, said: "if they had breached the gates (of the capital) they would have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen!"

Those words, are still echoing in the ears of Black America. The response by the "Blue Lives" to this insurrection, have left a bitter taste on our pallets and have tested our gag reflexes. Yet, the irony and disgust is not contained within the Black Community- it has been felt around the world. On one hand, we watched these rabid, so-called "Patriots" throw their "Blue Lives Matter" flags on the ground against their noble men-in-blue, who stood their course despite the punches. While on the other hand, we watched another sinister group of men in blue, usher the insurgents into the Capitol in a visible, welcoming, manner! Again, all summer long, the cry of 'Black Lives Matter' was countered with "Blue lives Matter!" or its first cousin, "All lives matter!" Which was a slap in the face of the African American community.

The insurrection of 2021, was a mythbuster, and an uncovering. It proved that Blue Lives are as dispensable as Black Lives when you are coming against the common enemy of racism and oppression. And it read like a page from the book of Systemic Racism, showing us all that by its guidelines, it was absolutely okay, this past year, to pit the Police Officers of a community, against its citizens! However the glitch in this subversive manifesto was the "disease" itself. Consideration wasn't given for the hemorrhaging artery hidden within the body of our human nature. And when pressured, and stressed, and packaged with a mob mentality it bled profusely! And now that bleeding is out of control. This systemic recipe didn't take into consideration the variable of the White supremist immersed together with a radicalized Trumpian Nation where a "Blue life" in opposition to Trump, is just another nigger.

What an education we have received; what an enlightenment we were privy to! Finally the lies and charades which remained stuffed beneath our Nations undergarments have now slipped out from beneath its dirty blood- stain skirt for all the world to ponder! What we do with this information collectively is on us! This past week the world cataclysmicly, winced in pain in reminicence of another 'George Floyd moment!' Yes, Blue lives do matter. And they "mattered" in their complicitness in the death of their own, Brian Sicknick, who stood proud and tall in his blue uniform.