Democrat candidates must disavow Black Lives Matter

  There's a question that Democrat Roger Sims needs to answer in his bid for 5th District Kansas Representative.

It must be asked of Michelle De Le Isla who wants to be the U.S. Congresswoman from the 2nd District to represent Anderson County and pretty much the entire eastern third of the state. Don't forget to ask Mike Bruner, who wants to be the senator from Kansas' 12th District, which also represents most of our local area.

It's the same question that voters and the ever-tip-toeing-around-Democrats Kansas media need to ask all Democrats running for elective office in the state. Indeed it is the elephant in the room of the 2020 elections that must be addressed by all Democrat office seekers. And that question is this:

"Will you disavow the Marxist leadership and objectives of Black Lives Matter and the crimes of murder, rioting and violence its armies have perpetrated against the United States of America?"

America demands that question be answered by local, state and national Democrats as they stump for office over the next 90 days. It is required because their national leadership has failed to condemn BLM, nor to stand in support of police during 2020's Summer of Carnage.

Is it a loaded question? Not really.

Not when so many of those victimized by BLM in these attacks have been the very black lives they say 'matter' – those who've been traditionally supportive of Democrat candidates ad nauseam for generations.

Not when innocent Americans of all races have been killed, confronted by mobs and had their homes and small businesses destroyed in the name of seeking 'justice.'

Not when the lionized martyr for BLM's attacks was too stupid and too high on meth to obey a simple instruction to get in the back of a patrol car.

Not when his murder was co-opted as a ploy to burn a country in an effort to besmirch a president.

Not when Democrat mayors and governors have sided with the attackers of their own citizens, cowered to the violence and appeased the criminals with the genius move of defunding the cops sworn to protect them.

Yes, it is a rightful question Democrat candidates must all answer.

Were it far right agitators or Neo-Nazis rioting and burning abortion clinics, basing attacks on a premise of racism, confronting and attacking police departments in minority neighborhoods, do you believe the media would be asking Republican candidates for their stance on such violence? That's been a standard of news coverage in the past. Those seeking office should be asked to declare themselves, their beliefs and their intentions on the major topics of the day, particularly when Americans are being murdered by riots condoned and facilitated by some in their own party.

Candidates should go on the record regarding BLM because the organization and its attacks are murdering Americans. The grieving families of those Americans deserve to know.

Retired St. Louis police officer David Dorn, a black man helping defend his neighbor's store during riots in St. Louis weeks ago, was shot and killed by a rioter.

David Patrick Underwood was a federal protective services officer murdered while guarding a federal building in Oakland, Calif.

Twenty-two year-old Italia Kelly was attending a protest in Davenport, Iowa, when things turned violent and she sought to leave. She was hit by a rioter's bullet and killed as she was getting in her car.

This list goes on although it's hard to find. Some casualties are police, some protestors themselves, some just bystanders. No one in the media has done a very good job of compiling the identities of the bodies the day after these 'peaceful protests,' as many media outlets have dubbed them, took place.

They all have one thing in common: Black Lives Matter.

Voters in the upcoming elections have a right to know if Democrat candidates, whose party members have created and fostered a petri dish for BLM's violence, condemn or endorse the actions of this Marxist-led mob of murderers.

     They owe America an answer. ###

–Dane Hicks is publisher of The Anderson County Review in Garnett, Kan.