I Love America Too Much to Stay Silent
Nestride Yumga experienced real corruption and civil rights abuses in Africa. Then she came to America, the land of opportunity, education, and freedom. So when Black Lives Matter protests declared America guilty of systemic racism and injustice, she knew she had to defend her adoptive country.
Ms. Yumga was born in _____________________________.
LiberiaCameroonMoroccoSenegalWhy did Ms. Yumga come to the United States?
for freedom and happinessfor the opportunity to get a good educationfor the opportunity to earn a good livingall of the aboveBlack Lives Matter and their allies are using George Floyd’s death to split Americans apart at the very moment we should be coming together.
TrueFalseWho kills black men, women, and children every week in Chicago, New York, Baltimore, and Washington D.C.?
white copsblack criminalsblack copswhite protestersBlack Lives Matter’s obsession with racism is sending American citizens _________________________.
to a better futureinto a spiral of self-destructioninto peaceful powerdown a path of positive change
- There’s no better place to live for anyone, of any race, than America. That’s why more than 40 million U.S. residents are foreign born.
In 2015, more than 40 million residents of America were foreign born — that’s over 13% of the population, the highest percentage since 1890, when it was 14.8%.
View sourceAmerica grants permanent residence to over a million people every year.
View sourceIn the New York City public school system alone, some 176 different languages are estimated to be spoken among students.
View sourceRelated video: “A Fine Time to Become an American” – Niall Ferguson
View source- America is a land of opportunity. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants from a diverse range of countries are naturalized every year.
In 2017, the U.S. admitted over 50,000 asylum seekers.
View sourceIn 2017, the U.S. naturalized over 65,000 immigrants from Europe, over 250,000 from Asia, and over 60,000 from Africa.
View sourceIn 2017, the U.S. admitted 71,000 from the People’s Republic of China, and 170,000 from Mexico.
View sourceIn 2013, Chinese and Indians surpassed Mexicans as the largest sources of immigrants.
View sourceRelated reading: “Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States” – Migration Policy Institute
View source- The narrative of “systemic racism” in law enforcement is not supported by statistical evidence.
In 2019, the police killed 235 black people, most of them armed or dangerous, out of 1,004 police shooting victims overall. That 25% ratio is actually less than what the black crime rate would predict, since police shootings are a function of the rate at which officers encounter violent suspects.
View sourceThe Washington Post’s database of fatal police shootings in 2019 cites 9 unarmed black victims and 19 unarmed white victims of fatal police shootings.
View sourceOf the roughly 7,300 black homicide victims a year, the number of unarmed black people shot by police would constitute about 0.2% of the cases.
View sourceHarvard economist Roland Fryer’s study of more than 1,000 shootings concluded that police shootings show no racial bias and found that blacks are 24% less likely than whites to be shot by police in situations when they are armed or acting in a threatening manner.
View sourceThe Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald found that data suggesting police bias in police-involved shootings of minorities was often de-contextualized, misleadingly ignoring details of the cases, such as the threatening actions of suspects and attempts to gain access to weapons.
View sourceRelated reading: “The Myth of Systemic Police Racism” – Heather Mac Donald
View source- George Floyd’s death in May 2020 sparked protests and riots across the country, activists claiming it was evidence of “systemic racism.”
George Floyd, 46, died on May 25, 2020, while in police custody after being arrested on suspicion of using a counterfeit $20 bill in Minneapolis. When officers attempted to place him in the police vehicle, Floyd resisted, complaining of not being able to breathe and claiming that he was claustrophobic. During the arrest, Officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on Floyd’s neck for over eight minutes while Floyd repeatedly stated that he could not breathe. Video of the fatal arrest went viral before the full bodycam footage was released.
View sourceChief medical examiner Dr. Andrew Baker listed Floyd’s death as a homicide but also determined that Floyd had “a fatal level of fentanyl under normal circumstances,” according to a memorandum filed by the Hennepin County Attorney’s office in early June.
View sourceDr. Michael Baden, who examined the body for the Floyd family, also stated that the fentanyl level in Floyd’s blood “could be fatal to some people, not necessarily for others. But the circumstances of death are very important, especially in this case.”
View sourceFloyd’s death became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement, with activists portraying his death as evidence of “systemic racism” in the criminal justice system. Some of the protests across the country quickly devolved into violent riots and looting. Many of the businesses destroyed or looted in the riots were minority-owned.
View sourceWATCH: Nestride Yumga, a D.C. resident and immigrant from Cameroon, denounces Black Lives Matter activists
View source- The law-abiding citizens of high-crime communities are the ones who will pay the price of a diminished police presence.
Some of the most effective ways to reduce the number of police-involved deaths is to increase the amount of hands-on tactical training, practice for de-escalation, and teaching of techniques to control stress.
View sourceDefunding police agencies will almost certainly lead to an increase in fatalities. Fewer officers mean less back-up and thus more stress and more likelihood of bad decisions by officers in the face of potential danger. It will also lead to increased response times and a decrease in training.
View sourceShifting police funding to social services will not reduce the amount of crime or fatal encounters, as New York City has demonstrated. New York City spent one-seventh of all government welfare dollars in America for decades, yet crime started falling in the city only when the NYPD adopted the data-driven policing that has now become the norm across the country — sending officers to the areas where they are most needed.
View source- Police spend most of their time in minority communities because that is where innocent people are most being hurt by violent street crime.
In the 75 largest U.S. counties, about 60% of robbery and murder defendants are black, even though blacks comprise only 15% of the population in those counties.
View sourceIn New York City, blacks make up 73% of all shooting victims, though they are 23% of the city’s population.
View sourceIn Chicago in 2016, there were 4,300 shooting victims –– almost all of whom were black. Among the two dozen victims under the age of 12 was a three-year-old, shot on Father’s Day, who is now paralyzed for life, and a ten-year-old, shot on Labor Day, whose pancreas and spleen were ripped apart.
View sourceRelated reading: “Systemic Racism? Make Them Prove It.” – Andrew McCarthy
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When I got out of bed the morning of May 31, 2020 after a sleepless night, I knew I had to do something.
I didn’t know what. Or what I would say.
I saw the protests and the riots. I had heard all the accusations about racism, racial injustice, and police brutality. I was horrified by what happened to Mr. George Floyd. But I was also horrified about what was happening to my adopted country, my beloved America.
And I just couldn’t take it anymore. I couldn’t keep it inside.
So I went to one of these protests and I did the most American thing I could think of: I told the protesters exactly what I thought.
I admit it—I wasn’t very diplomatic.
Maybe that’s why my remarks went viral. You can find them easily on YouTube.
Many people admired me for what I said. Many hated me. I don’t care either way. I didn’t do this for me. I did it for America, the greatest country in the world.
And I know what I’m talking about.
I was born in Cameroon, a country in West Africa. My family lived day to day, simply trying to survive. When I hear people talk about corruption and civil rights abuses here in the US, I shake my head. They never lived in Cameroon—or anywhere within a thousand miles of Cameroon, that’s for sure.
I came to the United States for what I could never have in my native land: freedom and happiness, the opportunity to get a good education, to earn a good living, to build a good life for myself. And that’s exactly what I’ve done. That’s what America has allowed me to do. And for that, I am eternally grateful.
Since coming to the United States, I have trained in nursing and worked as a visiting nurse assistant. Recently, I received my master’s in health care administration, and I am now working as a health care executive.
My career ambition is to close the gap in health care outcomes and design new and better strategies to ensure that under-served populations get the health care services they need. I also serve as a reservist in the United States Air Force. And yes, I look forward to getting married and starting a family.
My life is grounded in a simple truth: There’s no better place to live for anyone, of any race, than America. And everybody outside of America knows it. That’s why they line up, like I did, at US embassies around the world, hoping for a chance to come here to live and work. This is truly the land of opportunity.
So, don’t go around trashing it. I don’t care where you come from. Or what your complaint is. Or what your skin color is. I’m not having it.
And that brings me back to May 31st and that park in Washington, DC.
Mr. Floyd should not have died as he did. But make no mistakes: Black Lives Matter and their allies are using George Floyd’s death to split Americans apart at the very moment we should be coming together. They are striking at the heart of this country—twisting the knife of white guilt with one hand, and black resentment with the other.
These protests are not about empowering black people. They are about disempowering black people.
Because when the fires stop burning, all that remains is hopelessness, anger, and shame. That’s not empowerment. That’s oppression.
Look at the innocent victims—the business owners, many of them black, who have lost their life’s work to looting and arson. What are they supposed to do now? Who cleans up the graffiti and the shattered glass? Who rebuilds? Who, after seeing their dreams go up in smoke, even wants to?
Every week in Chicago, New York, Baltimore, Washington, DC, black criminals kill black men, women and children—children. Do you know the name of a single one of them? Why don’t their lives matter? Where are the protests for them? Why do we only get angry when a white police officer kills a black man, while dozens of our brothers and sisters are mowed down every weekend in our neighborhoods?
Black Lives Matter and its supporters, with their bottomless obsession with racism, pretend to be leading us to a better future. But in fact, they are sending us into a spiral of self-destruction.
It was an intense struggle for me to get to America. I love it too much to stand aside and watch it be torn apart. Stand with me.
I am not oppressed.
I am not a victim.
I am a free American.
I’m Nestride Yumga for Prager University.
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