The Shared History of NAACP and Black Lives Matter By Allen West | July 6, 2020 | 5:18am EDT “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”(Quote attributed to George Santayana) If American Blacks are to truly overcome, the time has come for them to stop being driven into irrational emotionalism. Somehow, in the Black community, reason and rational thought have taken a backseat to the acceptance of thoughts, perspectives, and ideologies that are not consistent with the “proclaimed” principles and values over which many in the black community shout “hallelujah” on one particular day of the week — Sunday. Why are we watching a community self-implode but go right along “whistling past the graveyard” in addressing its real, true issues. I believe the fountain from which this irrational emotionalism flows has to do with organizations that have been established in the...