The not-so-slow degradation of our national life.

The fugitive truths surrounding the Black Lives Matter protests are too unpleasant for the public interest to digest. For instance, the behavior of the new Holy Trinity of Black Martyrs, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Tamir Rice, in the incidents where they lost their lives. All were doing something likely to get them into serious trouble: 1) beating up on an armed sentinel, 2) groping inside a patrol car for a policeman’s gun, 3) brandishing a pellet gun designed to look like a .45 automatic in a public place. I’d go so far to suggest that the Black Lives Matter movement has become so virulent because it’s increasingly obvious that black behavior is so embarrassingly bad and nobody knows what to do about it, especially black people.^[1]

Not to put too fine a point on it but this "black lives matter" garbage does have a certain, um, backdrop. Here's a hint:

Nevertheless, I have to recognize that the tortured and put-upon BLM souls show a real grasp of irony in the midst of all their contrived angst:

Notes
^[1] "Boundary Problems." By James Howard Kunstler, Clusterfuck Nation, 11/23/15.