BLACK LIVES MATTER HAVE USED UP THEIR GOODWILL, TIME TO END THE MADNESS.

ICHEOKU says everybody supported the Black Lives Matter protests for the gruesome murder of George Floyd on a Minneapolis Street in Minnesota. It is nearly one month now since George Floyd was killed and the protest is still going on. They have sent their message and the nation have heard them. It is now time the protests ended as the nation cannot afford the continuing destruction, fear and uneasiness which they have enveloped the country in. 

A protest which should have ordinarily ended with the burial of George Floyd but which was hijacked by some extremists who are now looting, burning, defacing and pulling down national cultural symbols including the statues of former presidents and emancipation war heroes. Nobody bargained for the destructions of our national art treasures now taking place throughout the country nor the attempt at erasing our history and heritage which the Black Lives Matter is carrying out now. Therefore, this criminal activities must end now or be forcefully brought to an end because they are no longer legitimate peaceful protests. What they are doing now amounts to hooliganism, vandalism and lawlessness. 

America cannot continue to be held hostage for enemy forces which is no longer well intentioned nor well meaning for the cohesive integrity of the country. They have exhausted the goodwill flowing from George Floyd's murder and now is time for them to pack it up, move on and free our streets from their atrocious mayhem. They should no longer be tolerated nor welcomed on the streets of American cities because they have lost their moral authority as a protest group by destroying statues, looting and burning down things. They veered off course of constitutionally enshrined right to peaceful protest and have now become a continuing nuisance which should be abated forthwith. 

Why are they destroying structures and statues which are part of the foundational history of America. If they don't like them, how about the majority who cherishes them as part of their national treasures. Their right to 1st Amendment does not exclude other people's similarly vested right; and above all, such right does not include the destruction of public properties as no such right is envisaged under the constitution. Enough of the madness. 

By the destructions, looting and burning, BLM has morphed into an anarchist group, wrecking havoc on America and such lawlessness cannot and should not be accommodated or tolerated any more, no matter the subterfuge. By these rascality, they are telegraphing to American people that they are not a peace envoy, they do not come in peace. They are destroyers of America's history and peradventure American's way of life. Yes, they are burning these statues because according to them, they remind them of what once was which cause a lot of pain to their people. 

But such pain can only meaningfully go away by resolving their current situation and not through vandalism. Meaningful programs to ameliorate their situation, including economic and educational programs, is the right approach. But definitely not destroying livelihoods, properties and lives as took place in Seattle's CHOP territory where the group refused first aid for a shooting victim who later died. 

Which sane American watching all the anarchy on our streets will, in all sincerity, vote to empower the madness by electing anyone president who supports this group or who the group has endorsed. Will the Italians whose Columbus statues are being torn down and burnt vote for a presidential candidate who has refused to condemn the madness being exhibited by this people? Will any Christian vote for a presidential candidate who does not see anything horrible and horrifying on the attack on churches and holy places, including defacing churches and destroying Christian statues of a Catholic saint who was recently beatified by the current Pope Francis, Saint Junipero Sierra. How could any Catholic or a Christian for that matter vote to institute such desecration of Holy places and objects by people who also called for the removal of Baby Jesus and stained church windows depicting the Holy Family. It is just another example of their attack against the church and God as they want to rid the society of churches and anything that suggests a Higher Power. 

They are attacking everything cultural to America, American flag, American way of life, the believe in God and the sanctity of the family. Baby killers and abortionists who forced homosexual way of life on Americans and are anti human recreation. It is no longer about black lives mattering because some criminal elements have hijacked the once peaceful protest to ferment trouble and hide behind it to implement their long sort agenda remake of America. It is a continuation of what they started a long time ago when they destroyed the institution of marriage by incorporating homosexuality as an acceptable way of life. So, after destroying the historical statues, what is next? But the nation must not wait to find out and every decent American must rise up now to confront the affront on American values and society at large. It is time now to stop all the protests and destructions going on in America, enough of the brigandage. 

How can any sane society stand idly by and continue to watch and tolerate a group of trouble makers besiege the country, loot, burn, break, tear down and destroy priceless works of art as if they are a victorious army in occupation of a conquered territory, all in the name of protest. Whatever right of speech they are expressing definitely does not include the destruction of public properties. Why destroy priceless artworks because of the history behind them. Such history is permanently etched in the mind that even if all the statues were to be pulled down, the memory of what happened will never be erased from the minds of the people. Imagine the craftsmen who wrought the artwork who are all dead and their only connection to the living is now being destroyed and it is ok by some people? Unless these thugs have conquered America, they have no privilege of destroying Americans properties, period. 

Black Lives Matter must understand that nobody is impressed and nothing is achieved by their destroying of these things. Instead, their vandalism will only argument a stereotype of violence usually associated with black people. It will thus further alienate them from the general American society as not only white people will be wary of them, but so shall the Japanese, Chinese, Hispanics, Mexicans and every other group of people in America. It is a bad image to create of a people by the people and they must realize this and come to a heel. 

The relationships among other races in America with black people cannot be improved when black people are destroying things dear to them, including their religious symbols and historical heroes. Imagine the horror felt by Catholic watching the statue of Saint Junipero Sierra being torn down or the Episcopalians watching St John's church being defaced and set on fire. How would Black Lives Matter feel if it was Martin Luther King statue that was pulled down and set on fire or it was Barack Obama statue that was defaced, pulled down and set on fire, afterall many white people see Obama as the worst president ever. 

ICHEOKU strongly doubts if such scenes as are being daily and nightly played out on national television will endear black people in the hearts and minds of other races, both in America and the world in general. Such images will only permanently ingrain resentment and hatred of black people in their minds, as black people will be seen as destructive. Nobody wants such people who can destroy with such ease and glee in their neighborhood and instead of bringing the much sort after rapprochement, it will create further alienation and distrust. It will further damage whatever standing black people otherwise hitherto had in the eyes of those whose destroyed cultural or religious statues meant something very special or important. It is history being destroyed and nobody ever wishes their history to go away just like that, as they are permanently attached to the people as their connection to their past. It is part of who they are as a people and without which, they are not complete or whole. Enough of the destruction. It is time to rein in the vagrancy.