LETTER: 'All black lives matter' - not just some

I recently visited my parents who live in a mixed-racial neighborhood in a large city.

My 88-year-old father does not readily accept assistance. After he shoveled snow from their sidewalk, I snuck out to shovel the driveway. While doing so, the next door neighbor told me he was about to use his snow blower to do the job. When I gave him a Montana style bear-hug and thanked him for looking out for my parents, he smiled broadly, told me he was so happy to do it… said my parents were such good people… He was a man of (very dark) color.

At the airport, between asking some questions of people of color and sitting there for hours, I observed hundreds of people of color and non-color (logical correlate term for Caucasians) interacting… Kindness, civility was all I experienced.

Leaders of the “black lives matter” movement say blacks are disproportionally mistreated by whites in general (even though a large percentage of whites voted for our current mixed-race president) and by police in particular. If you think whites have anything close to a monopoly on bad behavior, you are deaf, dumb and blind.

The powers that be are enjoying the racial divide they are creating. Not based on reality, it promotes the divide-and-conquer strategy, perpetuation of chronic unrest, and distraction from the real problems and true sources of those problems.

I dearly appreciate the response of the Charlottesville, South Carolina, and national black leaders who recognize the white man who killed those blacks in a church in Charlottesville did evil as an individual. Pastor Clenard Childress, is outspoken in this regard and about black genocide via abortion, where minorities are disproportionally targeted by Planned Parenthood in the spirit of their Margaret Sanger racist foundation.

Those who believe blacks are disproportionally abused in this country, most of you support the right to kill black babies by abortion. I urge you to reconsider your logical disconnect. In the words of Pastor Childress: ALL black lives matter. —Annie Bukacek, Bigfork