Almost five years have passed since George Floyd achieved a unique American style of sainthood, the canonization process of which, to give it a parodic Hegelian twist, could be said to be the antithesis to the one the Roman Catholic Church uses to establish its saints.
Thesis – Saint Mother Teresa (white)
Antithesis – Saint George Floyd (black)
Synthesis – In process
Catholic canonization requires the demonstration of “exceptional holiness and the performance of miracles.”
In August 2007, Floyd was arrested and charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. Investigators said he and five other men barged into a woman’s apartment, and Floyd pushed a pistol into her abdomen before searching for items to steal.
Thus, the antithesis: a violent criminal, drug addict, a long rap sheet for drug and stealing arrests and multiple prison stays – including the commission of a crime and resisting arrest, minutes before his expiration. Not exactly a life’s work of “exceptional holiness.” He was quite the “performer” at times, but he never got around to “miracles.”
You don’t have to be a Roman Catholic or in quest of saints to idolize to conclude that the “canonization” process that brought George Floyd to “sainthood” is one of the most extraordinary occasions of mass insanity in modern American history. Every element of Catholic, or any other remotely conceivable notions of sainthood, was missing from the forty-three years of George Floyd’s life. No, they weren’t just “missing.” All the elements of “virtue” were conspicuously on display as vice. His sudden apotheosis was the work of a collective exorcism by which the self-appointed priests from the Congregation of Equals would seek to expel the evil spirit of white supremacy. That spirit had taken possession of America’s white policemen, one of whom happened to be Derek Chauvin. So possessed, he then proceeded to murder a really nice black man, whose life was a bit troubled, perhaps, but he was black and everyone knows that means he never had a chance. George Floyd’s death epitomized the persistent malevolence of that “whiteness” that permeates American society and the nobility of black suffering.
Enough has been reported about the individual “George Floyd.” We have all we need to know about his life, and a rehash of the sordid details would be pointless. Floyd, just like his predecessor, Rodney King, in a riot-sparking black engagement with “racist” white police, was a composite of the usual elements of black social pathology. His death upon his encounter with a white policeman, minus the contagious commotion spurred by apostles of the gospel of “the superior virtue of the oppressed,” would have been an entirely unremarkable statistic of that pathology at work.
Nonetheless, it is a pathology a long time in the making and – here comes the very bad news – seemingly intractable.
For those inclined to dismiss this pessimism as the ravings of far-right “racism,” the bearer of this “bad news,” sixty years ago, was Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a liberal Democrat who served in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. His conclusions are found in a document issued by the Office of Policy Planning and Research, United States Department of Labor (1965) Moynihan Report: The Negro Family, the Case for National Action.
Here in summarized form is Moynihan’s bad news.
In this new period [post-1964 civil rights legislation] the expectations of the Negro Americans will go beyond civil rights. Being Americans, they will now expect that in the near future equal opportunities for them as a group will produce roughly equal results, as compared with other groups.
Prominent liberal intellectual that he was, Moynihan attributed the plight of “Negro Americans,” to persistent white racism, “the racist virus in the American blood stream still afflicts us.”
That said, Moynihan clearly grasped that, unlike other minority groups that had struggled against discrimination and achieved success, blacks were uniquely disadvantaged to make the ascent. So much so, that their prospects of attaining an equal share in “in the responsibilities and rewards of citizenship,” achieved by other groups, were grim.
“The harsh fact is that as a group, at the present time, in terms of ability to win out in the competitions of American life, they are not equal to most of those groups with which they will be competing. Individually, Negro Americans reach the highest peaks of achievement. But collectively, in the spectrum of American ethnic and religious and regional groups, where some get plenty and some get none, where some send eighty percent of their children to college and others pull them out of school at the 8th grade, Negroes are among the weakest. The most difficult fact for white Americans to understand is that in these terms the circumstances of the Negro American community in recent years has probably been getting worse, not better.”
“After an intensive study of the life of central Harlem, the board of directors of Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited, Inc. summed up their findings in one statement: “Massive deterioration of the fabric of society and its institutions… It is the conclusion of this survey of the available national data, that what is true of central Harlem, can be said to be true of the Negro American world in general.” (italics added)
Here thus was the conclusion to be drawn from his findings of empirically-based realism: “This [near future equal opportunity for them as a group] is not going to happen. Nor will it happen for generations to come unless…” Unless, what, Professor Moynihan? “[U]nless a new and special effort is made.” (italics added)
The failure of black Americans to gain “equal opportunities for them as a group” that would “produce roughly equal results, as compared with other groups” was rooted in the disfunction of the black family. “At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family. It is the fundamental source of the weakness of the Negro community at the present time.”
That “new and special effort” Moynihan would argue though out the rest of the report, would be the responsibility of the Federal Government to implement programs designed “to have the effect, directly or indirectly, of enhancing the stability and resources of the Negro American family.”
To summarize the course of Moynihan’s thinking in the report, very much worth reading in its entirety: slavery, Jim Crow and racism had terribly damaged the black family; that damage was the cause of the pathologies – educational failure, high crime rates, single parent families, unemployment (born out with lots of statistics) – that plagued black communities. The situation was so bad, that without Federal government intervention to fix the black family, it would go on indefinitely “for generations to come,” and likely get worse.
Fast forward to 2025. All the “new and special effort[s]” of the Federal government to “bring the Negro American to full and equal sharing in the responsibilities and rewards of citizenship,” we can see sixty years after Moynihan’s grim predictions in spite of the “unless,” have come true — massive deterioration of the fabric of society and its institutions. And, not only in the black communities. Many of America’s great cities – Detroit, Baltimore, St. Louis, Atlanta, Oakland – have become black-run, crime-ridden, third world slums. Black “culture” – decline of marriage and hip-hop music – has migrated solidly into the white community.
The Federal government’s “new and special effort[s]” on behalf of American blacks can be captured by the image from Greek mythology of Sisyphus, son of a king.To achieve atonement, he wasfated to roll an immense boulder up a hill only for it to roll back down, forever – the boulder a metaphor for government’s continuous effort but inevitablefailure to raise the bar of black achievement and reduce the negatives of crime, poverty and single-family parenting.
Professor Moynihan died in 2003, well before Obama’s “racism in our DNA,” Trevon Martin, Michael Brown, the “gentle giant,” Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and finally, the riot torn, anarchical “canonization” of George Floyd that terrorized American cities in the Summer of 2020.
So, if Patrick Moynihan had survived to witness all of this, one wonders if he would have concluded that the government’s efforts were just not “new” or “special” enough. Or, was there enough “race realism” in the Professor’s 1965 view of race in America to conclude that his analysis had been partially correct but fatally flawed? Yes, the dysfunctional black family was a major cause of black social pathologies. But no, the government couldn’t fix the black family; only blacks could do that, and, well … That project appears to be on permanent hold. Obama’s legacy, carried forward with the Biden Presidency was that “white supremacy” was the big thing that needed to be fixed, the problem being that fixing it means “abolishing whiteness,” which if we dare apply elementary logic, means abolishing white people.
From: Noel Ignatiev’s Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity: “Abolish the white race – by any means necessary.”
This is what the Biden people were about, but Biden is gone. A new sheriff is in town, one who decisively defeated a black woman whose entire campaign message was that Trump was Hitler and an incorrigible racist. Trump’s dismantlement of DEI in the military and corporate reaction to follow suit is enormously encouraging. That said, the opposing forces are long standing and deeply entrenched. Trump has only four years; they’ve been around seemingly forever.
But back for a moment to the events surrounding George Floyd’s death. One of those events was the legal lynching of the Minneapolis policeman, Derek Chauvin, who is rotting away in a Federal prison, already attacked and stabbed 22 times. Chauvin was subjected to a trial, the likes of which could only be found in the annals of Joseph Stalin’s 1930s show-trials with all of the manufactured hysteria of the Soviet organs of propaganda. Black prosecutor, Jerry Blackwell – tapped by President Biden for a Federal judgeship for a job well done in 2022 – did a perfect imitation of Stalin’s prosecutor, Andrey Vyshinsky who typically performed the rituals of vilification of the defendants with emotionally charged denunciations that targeted their moral defectiveness.
[T]he trials were stage-managed with consummate skill. Vyshkinsky’s displays of righteous indignation seemed to be borne of genuine rather than confected outrage. The judges maintained the right degree of dignity.
Blackwell performed, Vyshinsky-like for the jury.
After Chauvin’s attorney told jurors that an enlarged heart may have contributed to Floyd’s death, Blackwell left jurors with these final words: ‘You were told … that Mr. Floyd died because his heart was too big. … The truth of the matter [sic] is that the reason George Floyd is dead is because Mr. Chauvin’s heart was too small.’ Floyd’s enlarged heart was a forensically established fact, highly relevant to the cause of his death. Chauvin’s “too small” heart was a cheap rhetorical trick to play to the jury’s sympathies for Floyd.
The jury was under enormous pressure to return the correct verdict From the Big Kahuna himself, President Joe Biden, who must have skipped “jury intimidation” in law school: he was “praying the verdict is the right verdict. The evidence is overwhelming in my view.”
Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter and sentenced to 22-and-a-half years in a state prison and 20 years in a federal prison for “violating George Floyd’s civil rights.”
The trial, conviction and imprisonment of Derek Chauvin is one of the most egregious miscarriages of justice in modern American history with the President of the United States and a U.S. Congress woman (Maxine Waters) engaging in jury intimidation. The judge should have declared a mistrial. Stacked against him was the entire weight of the Federal government. No one can seriously argue that Derek Chauvin received a fair trial.
We must hope that President Trump will doing everything within his power to do whatever it takes to secure the release and exoneration of Derek Chauvin. He deserves no less, and in so doing President Trump would send a clear, powerful message that he is repudiating the four years of vicious, odious racial revenge that Joe Biden and his minions rained down on the American people.
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Just as egregious, if not more so is the Brunswick, Georgia prosecution of the McMichaels. Talk about jury intimidation. Wasn’t there armed black militia outside the courthouse?
In my opinion their saga is even more tearjerking. They had video evidence of Arbury trying to steal their shotgun.
The only crime they committed was looking to much the part of being racist gap toothed hillbillies. Mr. Trump would do right by overseeing their release as well.
“Just as egregious, if not more so is the Brunswick, Georgia prosecution of the McMichaels.”
Certainly, a case could be made for that, Fred. Al Shapton and Jesse Jackson were allowed to sit in the courtroom. Also, James Field from the Charlottesville fiasco.
As bad. As th Chauvin trial was, the McMichaels was worse. The media portrayal of those poor souls was beyond shameful, and how they portrayed Arbury was equally absurd. Just out jogging… He enjoyed looking at construction work.. He admired the joists. Even friends of mine who stay neutral could see the absurdity.
It’s interesting that the “Summer of Riots” was launched about two and a half months into the COVID situation i.e. when the lockdowns had already taken a toll on most urbanites’ mental state (and Black people in particular must have been exceedingly restless).
The choice of George Floyd’s demise rather than any other Blacks-related event had to do with its unique suitableness in the COVID context:
Floyd died repeating “I can’t breathe” over and over again, at a time when most Americans were fearing a pulmonary disease and suffering from mask-mandates that made it hard to breathe -> highly emotionally relateable. Plus, “Chauvin” = “Chauvinism” (the only better-fitting surname would have been something like “White” or “Crow”).
The instigators of the 2020 riots in the media and at the NGO level (Soros etc) had probably been looking for a way to capitalize on the lockdown situation and so must have regarded the actual Floyd event as it appeared on May 25th as a small miracle in their favor so they went all-in and made this a bigger thing than planned. Or at least that’s a plausible enough explanation.
It’s all about setting up the right infrastructure (e.g. BLM as a widely-known organization) and paying close attention so you don’t leave any good opportunity to waste.
“The Fall of Minneapolis”, is a good one to send to friends and family – even legislative representatives. The McMichaels travails are another outrageous injustice that must also be corrected.
It’s terrifying to think how many billions if not trillions of dollars has been wasted on blacks by America with no return at all. And it’s even worse when you look at China today and what they’re able to achieve minus a parasitic violent minority. It really shows what the US could have been if they’d sent them all back to Africa centuries ago.
There was an analysis detailed here at Counter-Currents into the question of reparations that started with us owing blacks a generous amount, coming to a figure of about $17.5 trillion. But then it deducted what they’ve cost us, and at the end it came out to them owing us $28.8 trillion as of 2021. And that was erring on the side of generosity.
As for what we could do with it, that’s the inflation-adjusted cost of over 100 Apollo lunar programs, 100 Gemini projects, and 100 robotic lunar programs, combined. Imagine where we could be by now…
It makes me wonder what they really do with all the gibsmedats, aside from keeping amateur pharmacists in business. If they’d have put all that loot into the stock market, the Blacks could be the rulers of Wall Street.
A perfect day for Trump to grant Derek Chauvin a full pardon would be February 1st, the opening of Black History Month.
Chauvin should receive a full pardon for murder but once out should still face rigorous prosecution for his thoughtless act of littering.
Also, Trump can only pardon federal offenses. Any state charges are a lost cause when it comes to pardons unless you have a really sympathetic governor in those respective states.
Tim Walz is Governor, so forget that, and his successor will probably as bad or worse. Another possibility is to get the state conviction overturned on appeal. Perhaps with Trump pushing hard and the right judges in place, that could happen.
The reality of George Floyd’s character is unimportant; what really matters is what real in their leftist minds.
Always great writing from you Stephen – thanks.
I did manage to catch the documentary about Chauvin and it’s quite eye-opening. I do hope that he is exonerated.
The cures for the cancer of the faux do-gooder moynihanism anti-White death cult is to lock them in diversity cages with the worst of the feral trash and enjoy your cultural enrichment with a side of screams you’ve so glady forced onto our murdered people with dozens of fentanyl floyds, flukey stokes’, and cosbys crawling on their face. Fire fought with Hell’s inferno.
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