Thousands of demonstrators gathered in New York City on Sunday to support black Americans in a “BLM” march in front of the Brooklyn Museum.
Video of the event shows thousands of rallygoers, most wearing masks due to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, marching through New York City streets following an initial gathering at the museum.
The Mayor has so far condoned these crowded protests while remaining stubborn about other coronavirus precautionary measures such as allowing children to return to parks.
Read more at The Hill.
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BLACK HATS MATTER
Keep acting like immature children, protesting about camp, keep joining lawsuits with Baptist churches, and wonder why elected officials don’t take you serious. The organized Jewish community has lost its rudder and is bobbing in the choppy seas.
Keep acting obnoxious, don’t take people’s feelings into consideration, don’t address their points and wonder they don’t take you seriously.
Your comment makes YOU seem like the one who lost your rudder and is bobbing in the choppy seas
Really? Hows that.care to explain? The parks beaches rallies can be open, protest in the thousands..but a small park for kids is closed. You have an issue… a major one. It’s called lack of common sense…or critical thinking
Good point. The Jews should just take it on the chin. There is nothing as goid as an obedient Jew. Please bend down so I can kick you in the teeth easier. Just be contrite and enter the cattle cars. Showers will be given upon arrival. Hey look, I can see the smoke rising from the ovens. I want to be the first to jump in.
Double standards. The mayor could say as many times as he wants that one can’t compare. The facts is what matters. If it a health risk then you can’t allow them to demonstrate. If it is not a health risk then open the parks. It’s not rocket science. There is no in between.
It IS WORSE than a health risk. It’s a risk of INVISIBLE ENEMIES causing “children to be carriers” – to be carried away. Don’t you understand why President Trump closed the borders and what all these lockdowns are for?
Was this also a mishgav zachor event? Your WhatsApp status stated that it was.
WAKE UP IDIOTS! Parks and camps will not and SHOULD NOT be open before the INVISIBLE ENEMY will be eradicated from the earth. President Trump made it his goal to DRAIN THE SWAMP and he’s b”H matzliach. With all the lockdowns during “coronavirus” and arrests during riots/protests hundreds of thousands of Deep State Cabal Invisible Enemies criminals have been arrested and/or executed globally. Don’t expect to hear / read any of this on Mainstream Media Fake News.
Donations to BLM movement actually go directly to support Democratic presidential candidates. This is another clear proof that it is a political movement and nothing about social equality.
I very much like to consider the Covid-19-Lockdown episode through the view of a certain parable, which I posted at many of Matzav’s Coronavirus articles. To see my full version of it, please look at it at the Matzav article of June 8 titled: “York City Reopens Under Phase One On Monday.”
B’Ezras Hashem, I will repeat here a brief version:
One day, an old good friend calls you and relates that his company downsized, he was one of those who was laid off, and, with no income for several months, is completely out of money. He is now in your town and needs a place to stay for about three weeks while he finds a new job and will then get his own residence.
So, wanting to do Tzedaka and Hachnossas Orchim, you happily invite him into your house. At first, everything is great as you and he chat about old times. However, his looking-for-a-job is not occurring. He refuses to to even look at the local newspaper’s “Help Wanted” ads. You offer him your computer, but he uses it only for computer games!
You excitedly inform him of a company that just opened and that several of your friends got great jobs there. He though, claims that, that company is not a good one. You though insist that he should at least check it out. So, he does go there but is very rude to the Personal counselor who tries to interview him.
By now, it is long past the “three weeks” that he initially requested; it is more like ten weeks going into eleven and twelve! Throughout this time, as mentioned, he is hogging your computer and your phone — for leisure. He is eating up almost all your food and leaving huge messes. As he rarely goes out, you must stay with him and cannot go to your own business.
Then, he reveals that his former company is opening a branch in your town and make him the manager. It is THIS prestigious position of branch office manager that is his goal, and until that occurs, which will not be for at least another six months, he is not budging from your house!!
On top of this, you discover that your friend’s former company never “downsized”; instead, he and a few others were caught in a huge embezzlement scheme. As it did not want the scandal to blow out into the open, the company — which itself is obviously very corrupt — is quietly paying him and planning to move him and his crew to this new office in your town.
So, by now, it is more than glaringly clear that, all along, your so-called “friend” never intended to look for any job, most of what he told you were outright lies, and his situation had nothing to do with any Tzedaka or Chesed, as, instead, it was just a mean scam to, Chas V’Shalom, completely ruin you!!
(Im Yirtza Hashem, to be continued)
(B’Ezras Hashem, Continuation of story)
OK, I said the Moshel – the parable; now, what is the Nimshal – what is the parable referring to?
We were all told that there is this new gravely dangerous virus, called “Coronavirus” that “somehow” seeped out of a meat market in the Wuhan section of China. It is severely contagious, and a person carrying it will not even know that he is carrying it — and further spreading it — until a couple of weeks later when the illness starts coming out in him. The disease, called “Covid-19,” is quite deadly, with each day bringing reports of increasing numbers of deaths, Lo Alaynu.
As the epidemic, now a pandemic, spread devastation through countries of Europe and, sooner than later reached our American shores, our governments “took action.” To try to stop the virus from spreading even further, they declared that people must not be near each other! Yes, for three weeks, do not gather together; do not even go out! “Stay in Place!” “Lockdown!”
We cannot repeat it enough that we all well remember how, in response, we all readily and happily agreed to this. All our Gedolay Torah leaders emphatically instructed us that, as we well know, our Torah HaK’dosha clearly declares that we absolutely must avoid any possible threat to human life.
The lockdown was vigorously promoted from other angles too. The director of the website “NaturalNews,” a scholarly scientist named Mike Adams, brilliantly compared it to how in World War II, when our nation was also then in the fight for its life, LITTLE CHILDREN carried old rubber tires and scrape metal pieces to designated government depots to help donate what was needed. So, now, in our Covid-19 fight, our lockdown is what is needed.
(Im Yirtza Hashem, to be continued)
(B’Ezras Hashem, continuation of my above story)
As we were gladly locking ourselves down though, many items emerged that strongly indicated that something about this picture was very much “not right.” There were — and continue to be — actually so very many indications-of-something-not-right that I do not even know where to start!
B’Ezras Hashem, let us look at this aspect of the story, that in the countless tightly strict Lockdown & Social Distancing rules, there were — and continue to be — numerous rules that were glaringly unfair. Again, there were so very many instances of being unfair that I do not know where to start.
B’Ezras Hashem, let us start with the grocery line. Despite the (supposed) urgent need for everything to be totally locked down, a gigantic allowance was made for grocery vendors, as they provided services and products that were “essential,” which means services and products that were absolutely necessary for people’s survival. Of course, their allowance was only under the rules of Social Distancing, but, following those rules, they were allowed to be open.
So, the principle was that enterprises that were essential were allowed (with the distancing) to be open. So, grocery vendors and pharmacies and doctor offices and hospitals, being obviously “essential,” were allowed to be open. But there were several other entities that were certainly essential that were NOT allowed to be open! Why couldn’t the same allowance, with, of course, the distancing setup, be made for them too???
The most notable of these other-not-allowed-entities were houses of worship. The services that they provided were not “essential”????? The arch-conservative news commentator, David Knight — and I am sure, countless other people — exasperatedly exclaimed: “G-D IS NOT ESSENTIAL???????” Boruch Hashem though, later on, President Trump finally stepped in and declared this travesty to be the terrible travesty that it was. He thus strongly ordered the full opening of all houses of worship and further ordered that if any state governor opposed this directive, he would override that: “WE NEED MORE PRAYER, NOT LESS!!”
Furthermore, along with houses of worship are the schools of religion; the study and teaching of the Sacred Religious texts are certainly EQUALLY “essential.” By extension, all schools, even for Limudei Chol – even for secular studies are also essential; that’s right, for a child (instead of doing nothing) to have a day of constructive activities at school is not “essential”?????
Similarly — the issue of these articles’ news stories — for a child to be able to fully go to and walk around and play in a park and a playground is not “essential”?????
Again, of course, if distancing was needed, then have these open with the needed distancing. But houses of worship, religious schools, secular schools, parks & playgrounds are all absolutely essential services that should never have been closed!