It proved to be quite an easy thing for the racialist activists to create division and antipathy, to convince people they were victims, and incite mass demonstrations and even violence and destruction. However, to those guided by objectivity and reality, a great inconsistency was evident. While the activist elite, and their cheerleaders like Peacock, kept chanting about black lives mattering and “No Justice! No Peace!” lots of black Americans were being killed at the hands of other blacks. Looking a cold statistics, for those willing to look, slightly over half of all murders in the US are committed by black people, and an overwhelming number of their victims are also black; this being in the range of 7,000 people a year, though the number has likely increased by several hundred since BLM gained ascendancy (recently released crime statistics showed a massive 30% increase in murders between 2019 and 2020). Curiously, the same parties that were outraged at the unjustifiable killing of Floyd and the handful that die every year under such circumstances (all races, not just black) expressed no concern for the 1,000s upon 1,000s of black lives ended through black on black violence; as if, in the absence of profit potential, their lives mattered not a bit.

In April of this year, a 7-year-old named Jaslyn Adams, a little black girl, was sitting a car in a car at a Chicago McDonald's when her life was snuffed out by six bullets; the suspects were three young black men. There was no outrage, BLM and Al Sharpton didn’t lead any mass demonstrations, and Wayne Peacock didn’t offer up a position paper decrying the death of this innocent little girl: her life didn’t matter; she was just another statistic.

On a personal note, my military career, as it was, was fully honorable and completely unremarkable: I never did anything of significance. While in my 40’s, being frugal by nature, I was able to afford to leave paid employment and begin doing volunteer work in “3rd-world” countries. This included an 11-month stint as the volunteer medical director (PA) at a remote clinic in Kenya. This was at the peak of the AIDS epidemic in Africa, and almost everyday included a tragedy unimaginable to most Americans. I saw many people die, including too many children, and all their “black lives” mattered a great deal to me. When I learned about the senseless killing of Jaslyn Adams I admit I was deeply affected, and further angered by the hypocrisy of all the privileged BLM activists and their sycophants like Wayne Peacock, to whom only a select few black lives matter, Jaslyn Adams not among them.

When Peacock published his manifesto on the USAA website in June of 2020, I wrote him a pointed letter, with the foolish assumption he would respond to a 35-year USAA member and the fact that he talked about showing “courage” by having “conversations.” At one point I called his- the CEO’s office- to see if my letter had been received and reviewed. I talked with someone who promised to look into it and call me back, but he never did. On 8/21/20 I received a call from someone, an “advocacy adviser,” who was very pleasant while informing me that USAA and Wayne Peacock fully endorsed BLM (described by her as a “movement”) and there would be no going back.

In the time that’s followed we’ve all had a chance to see what BLM is in reality, and we’ve learned that black lives mattering is merely a catchphrase and a misdirection for a larger goal, which includes lining the pockets of what might be called the black racialist elite, and disparaging America. Ten’s of millions have been told they are inherently malevolent based upon their skin color, and redemption is unlikely. Likewise we’ve been told that police are inherently racist and must be “defunded.” We’ve seen the absurd: people declared to be “racist” because they don’t consider one of the most privileged people in the world, Meghan Markle, to be a “victim” of racism. We’ve seen the ridiculous: digging up a massive bolder at a university because 100 years ago someone applied a racial epithet to it. We’ve seen the greed: a primary founder of BLM spending millions on real estate. We’ve seen the tragic: a young mother was shot dead in Indiana because she uttered the unacceptable phrase, “All lives matter.”

Perhaps most of all, we’ve seen the pernicious: a belief among the woke elite that black people are inferior, that black children are incapable of learning so that academic standards are being lowered or abolished, that they cannot be expected to obey laws so that crimes of theft are no longer prosecuted until they reach a certain dollar amount, that they are so feckless a race that they can’t even be expected to obtain ID, that black people are so weak they cannot endure  residing with people of other races so that segregated dormitories are created on college campuses, that raising kids in intact families is itself “racist.” There are always politicians, celebrities, and activists who are more than happy to tell black people their only hope is to surrender their lives and futures to the woke elite, because they can’t even think for themselves. As our current President declared, a black person “ain’t black” unless they all think alike and vote for him and his party.

BLM, a “movement” fully supported by Wayne Peacock and USAA, has obtained virtually unchecked power to coerce, threaten, accuse, intimidate, and demean. This is the kind of power that hasn’t been seen since the darkest days of Jim Crow, when bigoted, intolerant, and sometimes violent people wearing hoods controlled the culture, and damaged and even murdered black people who, in their opinion, got out of line. We can topple all the statues of Abraham Lincoln we want, forbid the use of the term “master bedroom” in real estate listings, vandalize local businesses, and ban books and censor speech, but none of this means Jaslyn Adams is less dead, and that many others like her won’t experience the same fate. So what’s in it for Wayne Peacock, a wannabe “social justice” action figure? Probably a belief that he can be absolved from a sense of guilt over his wealth (he makes about $5 million a year) and privilege by virtue signaling, and a belief in his own wonderfulness. Perhaps more than anything, he can receive the accolades of his privileged corporate peers: “I read your social justice posting and all I can say is ‘well done’ old boy, you are quite the diversity warrior. We need to show them us wealthy and privileged people can feign outrage and compassion just as well as our globalist politicos and other celebrity pals. Drinks at the clubhouse? I’m buying.”