{"id":653,"date":"2021-10-04T15:36:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T19:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/?p=653"},"modified":"2021-10-04T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T19:36:15","slug":"jaslyn-adams-a-black-life-that-didnt-matter-to-usaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"Jaslyn Adams: A Black Life That Didn\u2019t Matter To USAA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jaslyn Adams and one of her killers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Note: USAA (United Services Automobile Association) is a membership based insurance company begun in the 1920s by a group of Army officers. Over the decades they grew considerably and branched out into financial services.\u00a0 Some type of military association is required to be a member and they developed a deserved reputation for integrity and service. Sadly, their reputation has been slowly declining over the past few years to the point they traded quality and service for volume and greed; USAA is now indistinguishable from any quasi-legitimate financial or insurance conglomerate, and indeed fares poorly among the lower end of that spectrum. In June of 2020 the new CEO, the first one to have never served in the military, decided he wanted to offer up USAA to the gods of wokeness, so to speak. I posted an article at the time (https:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/?p=603<\/a>), and below is a follow-up that I posted on their in-house member\u2019s community forum.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

George Floyd<\/strong> was killed during an encounter with police in Minneapolis in May 2020. Floyd was a lifelong criminal, mostly petty and drug offenses but with a little bit of violence. Nevertheless, the events of that fateful day did not involve a running gun battle or anything of that sort, rather he was being arrested for another suspected petty offense, and was fully contained when a rather brutish police officer decided kneeling on his neck seemed like a good idea; this was the major contributing cause to his death. Pretty much anyone seeing the video could not feel disturbed, and for a brief moment we, as a nation, could have unified around this sad event, searched our consciences, and used what transpired for constructive change. This did not happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were elements among the privileged that viewed the death of Floyd not as doleful and tragic, but as an opportunity, a chance for enhanced wealth and power. The main player was a group called \u201cBlack Lives Matter,\u201d but many self-serving politicians and racialist activists\/celebrities saw an opening for further profit and fame. In fact, there quickly developed a \u201csocial justice\u201d bandwagon, and some of the wealthiest and most elite in the corporate world decided to hop on. This included Wayne Peacock, the CEO of USAA, and the ovine and avaricious Board of Directors. A month or so after Floyd\u2019s death Peacock issued a manifesto of sorts, with an almost a religious tone, in which the sins of America were great, but he was among the handful of enlightened ones who could lead the USAA membership into the shiny new world of wokeness. His thoughts and observations were sophomoric at best, as if he cut and pasted clich\u00e9s from a term paper of a privileged student at a private academy writing about personal angst associated with \u201cwhite privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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 \u201cNo Justice! No Peace!\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019t lead any mass demonstrations, and Wayne Peacock didn\u2019t offer up a position paper decrying the death of this innocent little girl: her life didn\u2019t matter; she was just another statistic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s, being frugal by nature, I was able to afford to leave paid employment and begin doing volunteer work in \u201c3rd-world\u201d 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 \u201cblack lives\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u201ccourage\u201d by having \u201cconversations.\u201d At one point I called his- the CEO\u2019s 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 \u201cadvocacy adviser,\u201d who was very pleasant while informing me that USAA and Wayne Peacock fully endorsed BLM (described by her as a \u201cmovement\u201d) and there would be no going back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the time that\u2019s followed we\u2019ve all had a chance to see what BLM is in reality, and we\u2019ve 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\u2019s of millions have been told they are inherently malevolent based upon their skin color, and redemption is unlikely. Likewise we\u2019ve been told that police are inherently racist and must be \u201cdefunded.\u201d We\u2019ve seen the absurd: people declared to be \u201cracist\u201d because they don\u2019t consider one of the most privileged people in the world, Meghan Markle, to be a \u201cvictim\u201d of racism. We\u2019ve seen the ridiculous: digging up a massive bolder at a university because 100 years ago someone applied a racial epithet to it. We\u2019ve seen the greed: a primary founder of BLM spending millions on real estate. We\u2019ve seen the tragic: a young mother was shot dead in Indiana because she uttered the unacceptable phrase, \u201cAll<\/em> lives matter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps most of all, we\u2019ve 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\u2019t 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 \u201cracist.\u201d 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\u2019t even think for themselves. As our current President declared, a black person \u201cain\u2019t black\u201d unless they all think alike and vote for him and his party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BLM, a \u201cmovement\u201d 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\u2019t 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 \u201cmaster bedroom\u201d 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\u2019t experience the same fate. So what\u2019s in it for Wayne Peacock, a wannabe \u201csocial justice\u201d 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: \u201cI read your social justice posting and all I can say is \u2018well done\u2019 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\u2019m buying.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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