By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--March 25, 2021
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It should come as no surprise that both city council and Black Lives Matter (BLM) had a hand in Monday’s deadly massacre in Boulder, Colorado.
Boulder’s long-hyped racism, targeted by a city council initiative to “combat Whiteness” back in 2015, saw city residents engaged in BLM “anti-racism training” in 2019.
Within six years Boulder council’s racism accusation was to become a panic paradox run wild.‘Combating 'Whiteness', Boulder Has Imported Syrian Refugees Like Ahmad Al-Issa’- (National File)‘Boulder shooting victim: Neven Stanisic, a young man of faith and family, killed in mass shooting’ - (Denver Post, March 24, 2021) Young Stanisic, second youngest of the 10 killed in the massacre, was both Serbian and white.
“Neven Stanisic, 23, was a man of faith and exemplary family values, friends and leaders at his family’s church said Tuesday. (Denver Post) "Stanisic was the second youngest of Monday’s 10 shooting victims at the Boulder King Soopers. “A graduate of Alameda International Jr./Sr. High, Stanisic’s family came to the U.S. as refugees in the late 1990s, according to leaders at Saint John the Baptist Serbian Orthodox Church in Lakewood. Stanisic was born in the U.S. “His family fled the war in the former Yugoslavia and everything they had was either left behind or destroyed,” said Rev. Radovan Petrovic of Saint John the Baptist. “They left everything to save their lives, and came here to have a new start.” “Stanisic was headed away from the King Soopers on Monday after a coffee-machine fix-it job inside the grocery store, Petrovic said, adding, “He ended up being in the parking lot, in his car, when the bullet struck him.”
“Most recently, students at the University of Colorado Boulder were invited to take part in a webinar titled “Difficult Dialogues: Unpacking Whiteness (what it means to say that CU Boulder is ‘so white’),” which queried, “How can we engage the CU Boulder community about these issues, and how can white people address and combat white privilege and white supremacy in our classrooms, our departments, and the campus at large?” (National File) “The city of Boulder, Colorado was recently rocked by a mass murder at a local supermarket that took the lives of 10 people. The suspect police have arrested in connection to the murders is a Syrian man named Ahmad Al Issa who has a history of complaining about “racist white people” and cultural insensitivity. “In 2015 liberal foundations in Boulder began to stress the importance of welcoming Syrian immigrants, celebrating the fact that “In 2016, we expect nearly 2,000 refugees will be welcomed into Colorado, and, according to the TRENDS Report, some 419 refugees became permanent legal residents of Boulder County between 2003 and 2013.” “Boulder’s then-mayor Suzanne Jones noted, “We have inclusivity aspirations that we are working to live up to.” The Boulder City Council then continued to hold votes to allow even more Syrian refugees to take up permanent residence in the city in a “declaration regarding inclusivity for the refugees and other disenfranchised populations.”(Jones is now Eco-Cycle. Executive Director).
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“Even after the founder of Boulder’s largest Syrian refugee charity pleaded guilty to felony charges of embezzling more than $130,000 from his own organization in 2018, the city continued to push for racial change. Articles lamented the city’s “crushingly white majority population,” and liberal activists expressed horror about the city’s relatively small proportion of foreign-born residents. (National File) “The man who murdered 10 people inside a Boulder King Sooper this week, Syrian-born Muslim Ahmad Al Issa, frequently complained about white people and threatened fake hate crimes charges against those he didn’t like. All of his victims were white.”What happened in Boulder is what happens when meddling municipal councillors trying to “combat Whiteness” join up with BLM activists in futile efforts to change the demographics of towns and cities. The municipal council of Boulder, Colorado was not voted in to legislate a “declaration regarding inclusivity for the refugees and other disenfranchised populations.” The takeaway of this tragic story is that Boulder City Council figuratively drew a target on the back of innocent, 23-year-old, white, Serbian Neven Stanisic. Most municipal councils in North America take their marching orders from the overbearing United Nations and not the local citizens who elect then every three or four years. Hope folk remember that the next time municipal elections roll ‘round.
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