The Flag Is Drenched With Our Blood Summary

Mr. Wipf, I know you couldn’t read “The Flag is Drenched with Our Blood” because you don’t have enough articles, so let me quickly summarize it for you: Charles Blow recounts every evil that has ever befallen the black community in America since they were taken from their homes in Africa. It’s a complete ad misericordium; he presents no line of thought that connects the situation in modern black America with any of those events of the past (eg. segregation, lynchings, slavery). All he says is that since blacks were once slaves, “how dare” we criticize their current actions. It’s complete sensationalism and emotionally-charged to the point of denying fact. Of course we can all agree blacks suffered great evils in the past. There is not one person in America who is disputing that. But maybe, just maybe, we can all agree that the 1960s were 50 years ago and it’s time to move on?
I honestly don’t have much to say about her article, other than to give her a round of applause for her concise evisceration of the protests.
As for my thoughts on this, I’m growing rather sick of op-eds like Mr. Blow’s piece, especially when they say “how dare” we care about what’s going on in our society. “How dare” we criticize social movements that interrupt our lives. He talks about the rates of fatal police encounters and blacks in jail without mentioning their disproportionate rate of crime commitment. He blows over all the important stuff, all the stuff that might lead to actual self-reflection and change, in favor of slamming white America and trying to revoke our right to have an opinion on black