{"id":404,"date":"2016-11-28T19:02:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T00:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/?p=404"},"modified":"2016-11-30T07:40:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T12:40:44","slug":"a-grandfathers-narrative-and-the-loss-of-his-grandson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"A Grandfather\u2019s Narrative and the Loss of His Grandson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Reid Fitzsimons<\/p>\n

On Nov. 18, 2016 a black youth, 15 year-old Javon Wilson, was shot to death in his home in Chicago. The suspects\/culprits were inside the house when apparently an argument over a pair of shoes ensued, and 17 year-old Dijae T. Banks (a female) handed a pistol to 16 year-old Tariq M. Harris (a male) who then shot Wilson. News accounts summed up his short life with a depressing \u201che liked basketball and rap music.\u201d<\/p>\n

His death was not particularly out of the ordinary, sadly. In the progressive world we\u2019ve created, life, per se, is not of inherent or specific value, lest we sound like Pro-Life nut jobs talking about the \u201csanctity of life.\u201d This especially holds true with black people, where there exists no innate value, but rather the meaning and matter of life is largely determined by the manner of death, with a few exceptions such as black sports and music figures, celebrities in general, and inaptly described civil rights leaders. Had young Javon Wilson been shot by the police his life would had found great significance and been marked by ecstatic outrage, marches, riots, and perhaps other murders.\u00a0\u00a0 Typically, however, a black person murdered by another black person rates at best a candle light vigil, a makeshift monument of teddy bears, and a few pro-forma words from a local politician of how we have to stop the violence.<\/p>\n

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Actually Wilson was not a complete non-entity in that his grandfather, Danny Davis, is one of those perpetual congressmen who represents the Illinois 7th<\/sup> district, covering portions of west and south Chicago. He has all the prerequisites to be a fully qualified progressive: he\u2019s a member of the Black Congressional Caucus, the Progressive Caucus, and the Democratic Socialists of America. There is not a progressive cause he does not support: unlimited abortion, gun control, green energy, higher taxes, open borders, etc. He has earned a 95.13 lifetime progressive grade by one of those political scorecard groups (Paul Ryan, who is not robustly conservative, earns a 4.64).<\/p>\n

Needless to say, Rep. Davis found opportunity in tragedy to offer social justice platitudes and to urge more government intervention- increased gun control, more \u201cinvestment\u201d in poor areas, and the like. Progressivism is similar to the creepy guy who truly believes if he shows up just once more at his beloved\u2019s workplace with a dozen roses or leaves even another romantic sonnet on her windshield she\u2019ll finally realize they are meant to be together. For Danny Davis and his fellow travelers, if the last incarnation of a \u201cjobs program\u201d didn\u2019t do the trick surely the next one will. If the quarter million black children aborted every year in the US hasn\u2019t given the desired resolution to social problems then perhaps half a million will. Since feeding $14,000 a year per student into the Chicago public school bureaucracy seemingly hasn\u2019t worked then try $16,000. How about more pay and benefits to public sector employees? Endless outrage, attribution of violent behaviors to other entities (animate and<\/em> inanimate), perpetual victim hood, and dependency on government programs have never really achieved the oft-promised goals, so obviously the answer is we haven\u2019t tried these approaches enough, there can be no other possible conclusion.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a fair bet that the killers of Javon Wilson, whose own young lives are pretty much destroyed, didn\u2019t regularly attend a church-synagogue-mosque with mom and dad where the message was don\u2019t covet, don\u2019t steal, don\u2019t murder, turn the other cheek, love your neighbor and all those other Biblical admonitions (I suspect there are houses of worship in Chicago that offer a more culturally tailored message, so to speak, such as the church Barack Obama was caught attending and had to denounce for political reasons). I\u2019m no Christian but it\u2019s difficult to believe the Christian exhortations of Martin Luther King, for example, are best set aside for the relativistic message of Danny Davis and his fellow progressives, the idea that right and wrong are fluid and just seem to appear out of nowhere, like the celebrity of Lena Dunham.\u00a0 Woe to those who don\u2019t equate moral good with sensual and emotional pleasure and celebrate whatever social justice mores spontaneously generate and are trending now on Yahoo!<\/p>\n

As a closing aside, I can\u2019t help but think of the perpetual political corruption of New York State when considering Rep. Danny Davis. In the 25-some years I lived in NY there was never-ending fraud and sleaze in Albany that seemed to be exposed every five years or so. The response was always predictable: demands for an ethics commission to study the situation, new ethics laws proposed and occasionally passed, a few prison sentences handed down, then everything forgotten until the next time. It never seemed to occur to anyone that the lack of laws wasn\u2019t the underlying problem, but rather somehow the good citizens (or perhaps non-citizens) of NY voted people into office who somehow failed to learn that stealing, embezzlement, cronyism and similar activities are wrong. Rep. Danny Davis\u2019 lament that teenagers with murderous intent shouldn\u2019t have access to pistols is not controversial, but sadly he fails to see that Dijae T. Banks and Tariq M. Harris didn\u2019t kill Javon Wilson because there aren\u2019t enough laws but because somehow they were taught in his congressional district in Chicago that a pair of basketball shoes has more value than a life, or at least a black life. To actually consider the real reasons for this doesn\u2019t fulfill the requirements of the progressive narrative, hence the body count of murdered young black men will continue to rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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