Destroying The Social Fabric Through "Racial Justice"

How can people of different races ever live in peace with one another if every misunderstanding turns into a public outrage?

Still from doorbell camera footage at the Jenkins residence showing Michelle Bishop with her kids. Source

I know there’s a lot going on out there that many of you might be expecting me to speak on, but there so much else going on that’s also worth discussing. I hope you all know by now that personal safety and prepping are the two topics I enjoy talking about most, even though they may not be as interesting as talking about the more overtly political stuff. I also haven’t been posting as frequently as of late, so maybe taking a detour and discussing some other matters will give you all something more to read and talk about.

A Karen? Or A Protective Mother?

A woman named Michelle Bishop is under fire for supposedly racially profiling a Black man whom she thought was following her around while on a late night stroll with her young kids.

Here’s a summary of the incident from the United Kingdom-based Daily Mail:

A white mother-of-two flew into a panic when she thought a black man was following her while jogging in her affluent neighborhood in Ohio - only to later learn he was simply pulling into his home.

Michelle Bishop was jogging with her two young kids in their neighborhood in Ohio when she became convinced that the man was following her in his car.

She bounded up to a home thinking she’d find refuge, ringing the doorbell frantically and complaining to the woman who answered that she was being followed.

Unbeknownst to her, the house belonged to DaMichael Jenkins - the very man she was accusing.

His wife, Brittany, answered.

‘He’s pulling in because he lives here. That’s my husband,’ she explained.

Bishop refused to believe them.

‘I don’t believe that,’ she said, before running away with her son in her arms and her daughter following close behind - leaving the stroller to fall off the Jenkins’ porch.

She could then be seen running around the neighborhood, screaming ‘help’ at the top of her lungs in other security footage.

Bishop even called the local police department, Jenkins said in an episode of the Nightcap podcast with Shannon Sharpe and Chad Ochocinco.

It turned out he was just on his way home the night of the incident, November 19, and was driving slowly through the neighborhood to admire his Christmas lights.

The story doesn’t end there. Bishop later returned with her husband to collect the abandoned stroller, attempting to clear the air with the Jenkins family in the process. It doesn’t appear as though the Jenkins were in the mood to accept any apologies, which is understandable for reasons we’ll get into later. The two sides parted ways, and nothing more came of it at the time.

It really ought to have either ended there, or the two parties should’ve come to some sort of rapprochement later on in private, but instead, as the Daily Mail story reported, the Jenkins took the incident public, posting their doorbell camera footage on social media for all the public to see. The Jenkins even went on a podcast hosted by former professional football players Shannon Sharpe and Chad Ocho Cinco, all in an attempt to mobilize public opinion to their side and against Michelle Bishop.

As a result, Bishop became tarred as a “Karen,” a term which used to describe White women who get overly concerned with the business of others, or make overbearing, often unreasonable demands of others, specifically in a customer service setting. The definition has since been expanded to include any White woman who dares to notice things that ought to be quite obvious to everyone, or fear for their safety, as Bishop did here. In response, with public opinion having been leveraged against her by the Jenkins, Bishop herself took to social media to tell her side of the story and to also attempt to reconcile with the Jenkins. She posted a nearly half-hour long video to Facebook, attempting to justify her actions that night.

Here’s a brief snippet from the video, with Bishop defending herself from accusations of racism:

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Where do we even start with this one?

Women Should Fear Men. Unless They’re Black.

The first thought that came to my mind was how cognitive dissonance fuels our society. We’re forced, through a variety of ways, to operate in society while believing two thoughts seemingly in conflict with one another. This case is no different.

On one hand, we’re supposed to believe that women and children ought to be wary of male strangers. On the other hand, we’re expected to make an exception when that male stranger happens to be Black. There’s really not much to it: had DaMichael Jenkins been White, fewer people would’ve found Michelle Bishop’s actions to be unreasonable. It certainly wouldn’t have become a matter of a public controversy. The only reason why anyone knows about this incident is because Bishop was White and Jenkins was Black.

So which is it? Should women and children be wary of male strangers, to the point they shouldn’t fear coming off as rude, as world-famous security expert Gavin de Becker once argued? Or does it all depend on the race of those involved? The old Marxist maxim of Who? Whom? seems to be in play here, demonstrating that Marxism is, unfortunately, quite entrenched in our society to an uncomfortable degree.

Why is race even a part of this discussion? As Bishop explained, she didn’t realize the driver was Black until he got out of his vehicle. I believe her because, well… it was dark outside. In a different context, I’ve found allegations of racial profiling during police traffic stops impossible to believe because it’s actually quite difficult to see what a driver looks like when they’re going by, unless you’re at a stop and they’re right next to you. Try it the next time you’re on the road, with due regard for safety. If it’s hit or miss during the daytime, it’s next to impossible at night. This goes for triple if a driver uses tinted windows, which is quite common these days.

Race had no part in this incident. None. End of discussion.

To be fair, I can empathize with the Jenkins because, well, I’m male and have been treated suspiciously by others before, even by neighbors. Do I take it personally? Sometimes I do, yes. I’m only human and I react to how others regard me. If someone behaves in such a way that suggests they fear for their safety around me, it does upset me momentarily, at the risk of overstating it, because I know I’m a well-meaning person who has no intention of harming others or intruding in their personal lives. I also had to endure lectures from women who told me that I, your innocent, protective Max, had to learn that women find all male strangers threatening until they have reason not to be. Well, touche. I guess I ought to do better!

However, I’ve never took it so personally to the point I felt the need to declare war against another person and make the encounter public. Granted, I’ve never had an incident like the one involving Bishop and Jenkins, thankfully. The point is, no matter how offended I might be, after a while, I get over it, like everything else. Once my emotions fade, I’m able to look at the situation more objectively, more empathetically. At which point, I can’t blame the other party for acting as they did. If it were my wife or daughter, I wouldn’t blame her at all. You have only one chance to get it right.

This doesn’t mean it’s fine to behave overtly rudely to others. If a woman reacts in a hostile manner every time a man so much as steps within her “lethal envelope,” that’s indicative of some serious behavioral problems. As citizens, we have a responsibility to make others feel safe around us, but we also should trust the rights of others to simply exist in the presence of others. The only alternative is to create entirely separate spaces for males and females, something not only most Americans oppose, but we’re currently on the verge of completely unraveling (see the transgender debate).

This is all a long way of saying I would’ve never made my grievances public. There was absolutely no reason for the Jenkins to do so, unless they wanted to exploit the incident to their benefit, alongside weaponizing their race. There’s literally no benefit that can come from this beyond cancelling and terrorizing Bishop and her family. Even if they sought to leverage public opinion, there was no need to publish the video. No crime was committed. This is an attempt at character assassination and un-personing.

Bishop and her family have been subjected to death threats, with the added effect of making them unable to run their businesses as well. She explains on her Instagram page:

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Is any of this worth it to the Jenkins? Do they think they’re making a difference? How hurt and hateful do you need to be to set off a chain of events leading to death threats? I’m sure nothing will happen to the Bishops, but that’s not the point. Living in a state of terror and uncertainty is no way to live at all. Bishop explains how many of the threats involve her children, which is so clearly beyond the pale.

There’s no reason for things to have escalated to this level. None. There are likely lawsuits coming, but the party entitled to damages isn’t the Jenkins, in my opinion. It’s the Bishops. Subjecting a person to death threats and trying to ruin them financially over a misunderstanding with ultimately no harm done, when the other party is attempting to de-escalate the situation, is done entirely out of malice.

At some point, the Bishops may need to consider a counter-attack against the Jenkins, if the threats don’t cease or, God forbid, someone does act on a threat. Otherwise, the situation will continue to spiral out of control, potentially ending in tragedy. If apologizing doesn’t work, deterrence needs to be re-established, and the only way to do so is to take the fight to the Jenkins.

Racism: The Indefensible Crime

How does one prepare for something like this? I can’t critique Bishop’s actions that night, even if her judgment was ultimately wrong, because she didn’t do anything unreasonable. She followed all the best practices of personal safety: create distance, seek help, remove yourself from the situation if possible. As I keep pointing out, everyone lived: the only thing hurt were feelings.

Afterwards, she also did the right thing, apologizing and attempting to de-escalate the situation. I can fully understand why the Jenkins were upset and initially didn’t want to make peace. I totally get it. But after giving it a night’s sleep, they should’ve thought better than to escalate the situation by taking the incident public. Now they’ve potentially started a war they won’t be able to finish.

What’s society to do about this problem? I’m not here to tell you how to save the world, but I’ll say fixing it begins with changing the way we think about race, including sacred cows such as the Civil Rights Act. People can weaponize race because the law effectively allows for it. There was nothing racial about this incident, Bishop said nothing racist, yet, somehow, this is still a race matter, and the Bishops are being threatened.

In an interview with Brandon Tatum, one of the few people interested in hearing Bishops’ side of the story, Michelle and her husband discuss what it’s been like dealing with the accusations of racism:

The thing that should strike you while listening to the Bishops is how there’s no way to defend yourself once accused of racism. It doesn’t matter how many Black friends you have. It doesn’t matter how inclusive you are or even how much you’ve fought the good fight on race. Once accused, it sticks. From that point on, you must be destroyed, un-personed, the whole nine yards. We’ve seen far too many examples of this to know otherwise. Our system allows the accused to be able to defend themselves against nearly all crimes, but racism is not one of them. Probably because racism, distasteful as it might be, isn’t actually a crime, and everyone knows it.

I know it sounds trite, but we can’t keep living like this. Obviously, we’ve been living like this for generations. But this is only because Whites, who still comprise the majority of the population, acceded to the demands of Blacks and the Civil Rights Movement. It’s because Whites agreed not to exercise their tremendous power as the racial majority in exchange for social tranquility that the system appears to be working. Walking on eggshells, not offending anyone in the slightest, putting themselves at the bottom of the racial hierarchy, all that was part of the devil’s bargain, which is what the entire Civil Rights Movement is turning out to be. Only under the Civil Rights regime can a person take what’s ultimately a personal matter and turn it into political or social grievance, all while benefiting from doing so.

The fact is, people are getting hurt by this, damaging our social fabric in ways we won’t be able to see until stuff really hits the fan. Incidents like the one involving the Bishops and the Jenkins destroy social trust at a time when we don’t have much of it left to lose. How can people of different races ever live in peace with one another if every misunderstanding turns into a public outrage? What’s the point of multiracialism if, ultimately, we’re forced to eye one another with suspicion?

Prosperity papers over a lot of cracks, but once the crisis of the Fourth Turning really strikes, we’re going to see whether our society is strong enough to withstand the stress. In May of last year, I explained how the government and media are preparing Americans for a breakdown in order and increasing violence in the coming years, including racial violence:

For one, we live under anarcho-tyranny. Under this system, the criminal, not the police officer, is the enforcer, using terror to keep us in line. There’s no more cost-effective a way to keep the public’s mouths shut and the tax dollars pouring in than to tell them nobody’s coming to save you, that you, your loved ones, and your property are up for grabs at any time.

There’s another reason: hard times are coming, either way. I’ve said before that the real problem in America isn’t that crime is out of control. It’s not, not yet. The real problem is that the Regime has decided there’s nothing to be done about crime. It assures a more disorderly, violent future, and whether or not we become like South Africa, America’s safest days are probably in the past. It’s better for the Regime the public gets accustomed to the disorder and violence now than to suddenly wake up to reality later.

This is a problem Donald Trump cannot fix. Maybe he could help in pushing the Overton window even further, but regardless, American culture and society has to progress to a point where we can more honestly talk about race and the impact of the Civil Rights Movement. It’s good to see Michelle Bishop refuse to apologize for racism, since there was nothing racially-motivated in her actions, nor did she say anything racist. It’s a refreshing change from what you often see in these incidents: Whites all but confessing to crimes they didn’t commit, all in a feeble hope of being treated mercifully by their accusers and the overlords.

However, the incident does prove that we’re still a long ways off from the day when we can discuss race and civil rights more honestly, as well as breaking down the racial hierarchy in America. Maybe then, only then, can we truly say we are “free at last.”

Rule By The Worst

In an interview with Brandon Tatum, a former business partner reveals some things about DaMichael Jenkins, casting doubt on the character of the accuser. I’ve cued the video to begin where Tatum asks the business partner whether Jenkins harbored a victim mentality or witnessed him weaponizing his race in any way.

I found the response interesting:

Make up your own mind. It may or may not be relevant to the incident involving Bishop. However, people tend to follow patterns of behavior. I don’t want to go as far as to say this is all a grift by Jenkins, as Tatum suggests, but like I keep saying, the incident should’ve never become national news. The fact that it did makes me suspicious about their motives.

In closing, here’s another example of what the Civil Rights Act has wrought:

NEW: 489 pound rapper Dank Demoss has launched a lawsuit against Lyft after one of their drivers denied her a ride because he said she wouldn’t fit in his car.

The driver was apparently worried that his car wouldn’t be able to handle her weight.

Demoss claims in her lawsuit that her weight based denial of a ride is discrimination.

She says she is taking action against Lyft to fight for her people and to “change the world.”

“If I stand for something, I'll fall for anything. Fighting for my community, my people, and making a change in the world, not just for me, but for everyone.”

Click the hyperlink if you want to see just how massive Dank Demoss is. I think the driver’s concerns were fully justified. Of course, Lyft capitulated in cowardly fashion (there’s a reason I don’t use them any longer), condemning the driver for not allowing a nearly 500-pound… thing to sit inside their vehicle. Apparently, Lyft doesn’t trust its drivers to make any kind of judgment on what kind of passengers they’re comfortable with having inside their vehicles.

Once more, this insanity is only possible under the Civil Rights regime. Only under the Civil Rights regime can someone be forced to drive around a 500-pounder. Just think about all the craziness and stupidity we’ve been forced to accept and accommodate only because of the Civil Rights Act, and how we wouldn’t unless we were forced to under the threat of violence. America is effectively under the rule of the absolute worst people society has to offer, because legislation says they have to be able to exert authority over our lives.

It might be too early for American society to have this conversation, but it’s never too early for you to have this conversation with yourself and with those you trust to have this conversation with. Do it while freedom of speech is still a thing.

Over to you, then. What are your thoughts on the incident discussed here? Were Michelle Bishop’s actions reasonable? Or did she overreact? Is there any way to know? What about the response by the Jenkins family? Justifiable? Or unnecessarily vindictive and escalatory? Finally, what are some things we can do in our personal lives to shift the Overton window on the topics of race and civil rights?

Talk about it in the comments section.

Max Remington writes about armed conflict and prepping. Follow him on Twitter at @AgentMax90.

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