Rev. Christopher,
We had three babies maimed for life, and one of them died this week. Approximately, 0% of the white ladies of BLM showed up demanding action. None of them are ever going to protest against Black people, even if they’re in gangs, even if they’re killing Black babies. They’ll always go silent and their silence will be deafening.
You blame ‘The Community’ for these young men running around, out of control, doing the shooting. I don’t. I blame the State of Minnesota acting on good intentions and bad ideas. Those bad ideas are based in Critical Theory which has a way of suggesting Black people are too stupid and irresponsible to overcome obstacles and that Black men are oppressing their families.
I know a fair amount about MN history. This state has been ground zero for a war on men that started over 50 years ago. That war, combined with good intentions and these bad ideas are driving a lot of the problems in the community.
A war on men is abstract. Let me make it concrete. It’s a war on fathers, grandfathers, uncles, brothers, sons, and unborn babies.
Now, let me make it clearer, it’s a war on Black fathers, Black grandfathers, Black uncles, Black brothers, Black sons, and unborn Black babies.
The father of the Pro-Life Movement, a Catholic monk, started his Pro-Life social justice movement from St.Cloud and took it to the world. A Summit Ave. heiress started a Pro-Choice cultural revolution based on critical theory. Both knew how to spread ideas virally to make change, unfortunately, it makes them all blind to anything else.
Why will Minnesotans show up to chant and kneel when a Black man is dead, but won’t show up when babies die at the hands of fatherless young men? It’s religious. I’ve written 50 articles about this religion, how it infects the mind, how it spreads, and how it makes people feel good when Black men die.
This cult worships dead Black men and they are doing everything they can to make more of them. A religion doesn’t need God to spread, it only needs a Devil. White men are the Devil. Unfortunately, their war on white men also destroys Black fathers, Black sons, and unborn Black babies.
Maybe you can’t see that right now, but you will. Watch them the next time a Black life starts to matter to them. They will march, kneel, chant, pray and profess their faith and they will give money for Black death.
I have deep roots and high hopes for the Community you serve, even if I have different opinions than most Minnesotans. I wrote on the difference between how Minnesota treated Philando and Justine, and I begged the world to give Mohamed Noor a fair trial. I knew Minneapolis and other cities would burn if he didn’t get one.
A year ago next week, they did. How I knew that is complicated but it’s something I’ve been watching for a long time. If my theory is right, cities will burn again, but it’s not for justice, it’s for sin.
They made a hero out of George Floyd, they made a hero out of Daunte’ Wright, Court TV even tried to make a hero out of Morries Hall who was selling poison and passing fake bills in the Community.
The world was watching and they missed the real hero in the story – he passed by right under their nose. When I say hero, it’s not my opinion, hero has a very technical meaning.
If my theory about Minnesota being an epicenter of a pathological mind virus is wrong, I’ll be forgotten, and this body of work for naught, but for this, I’m dedicating these 50 articles to Chris Martin, and asking anyone who reads this to recognize his character.
We care a lot about Black men, when they’re dead, even if they do the wrong things. What will we do for Chris Martin who did the right things?
Who is Chris Martin?
A year ago, Chris was working his job on Memorial Day. He could have taken it off, he could have called in. He didn’t. He was at work preparing for some kind of future he had in his mind.
He was helping a customer who floated a $20 bill that Chris didn’t check. He fucked up, he made a mistake and his first instinct was, “It’s my mistake I’ll pay for it, put it on my tab.” Twenty dollars is a lot of money for a guy working at a convenience store, and he was willing to take the hit because it was his mistake.
His boss had a different idea, and sent him out to collect the money from two big dudes, from out of town, in a Mercedes Benz. He did it.
He walked right out there and knocked on their window, when they wouldn’t pay him the police were called, the rest is now considered “Black history.” If that’s going to be the history that defines Black people in America, I’d like to point out that George Floyd is not the hero.
When the police showed up, Chris was on the phone with his mom, he told her to stay upstairs. He saw nothing good from her being down there. “This is what we have to put up with” he said, but I don’t think he meant just the police.
The minute that video hit the internet everybody started pointing fingers. They pointed fingers at Minneapolis Police, Derek Chauvin, Systemic Racism, Patriarchy, The Mayor, the City Council, Donald Trump, George Perry Floyd himself, even Climate Change.
Chris Martin is the hero because he asked himself the directional question, “What could I have done differently?”
This is the type of question that makes great men.
Ron Edwards was a great man, who caused a lot of change, and a good many people were happy to see him go. I miss him terribly. He died on Martin Luther King Day, #1202020 owing me a favor. Mr. Edwards wanted to make sure Mohamed Noor got a fair trial and at 80 years old, he was too old.
I went to that trial, and watched yet another Black man get screwed in a Minnesota court. They reinvented 3rd degree murder, just for him. Everyday, I called Mr. Edwards and updated him. Mr. Edwards wanted what was best for his community and viewed it as a duty. He was not out to win popularity and I’m pretty sure he never did.
They laid him up at Shiloh Temple, all the activists, the Mayor, the Police Chief and the dignitaries lined up while he lay in state, even Ilhan added his accomplishments to the congressional record. If Mr. Edwards were alive today, I’d ask him to write a personal recommendation for Mr. Martin. If he were here, he would.
Will you?
Please add your recommendation recognizing Mr. Martin’s strength of character.
