Modern Ninjutsu by J. Alaric Justice

Author:J. Alaric Justice [Justice, J. Alaric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781504349369
Publisher: Balboa Press
Published: 2016-07-12T04:00:00+00:00

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WHY IS NINJUTSU NEEDED TODAY?

Why is ninjutsu still needed in the world today? Hmmm.

Let’s start with a scene from the movie Ali (2001), starring Will Smith. Muhammad Ali, known then as Cassius Clay, is shown as running down the street in a jogging suit one night in 1964. During his jog, white police officers follow him, flash their sirens, harassing him and asking why he is running. He simply continues to plod forward, maintaining his rhythm and focus, until the racist patrolmen drive passed.

Fast-forward to over forty years later, in the same city that Clay started his life and Boxing career, to late 2011. While running on a marked running and biking trail along Southern Parkway, along with dozens of other joggers and walkers, I was approached by local police of the same department that had harassed Ali so long ago. They did not stop any of the other people on that trail, perhaps because all the others were Caucasian. They flagged me down, and knowing that these men were from the same department that had recently shot one man dead while his hands were cuffed behind his back (and another man just because he was allegedly holding a hammer), I quickly stopped. They patted me down, ignoring the sweat-soaked jogging shorts and tee-shirt that could conceal almost nothing, then checked my identification (ignoring that I lived only three blocks away) to make sure that I had no warrants. Three other cars showed up, and it took 15 minutes for them to release me on my way again, all the while other joggers and walkers passing us by (as well as hundreds of cars in the street just twenty feet away). It was humiliating, to say the least.

Yes, this kind of racism does still exist, and not just in Louisville, Kentucky. Many people, whole organizations in Arkansas, openly proclaim that the “South will rise again.” Obama’s race for, and win of, the presidential office ever so quickly revealed the long-suppressed face of racial prejudice on a national scale through the media and some of its more vocal or radical commentators. The KKK are alive and well in the United States, but the “quiet racism” that has so long existed in places like Kentucky does far more damage to our country, its people and various ethnic cultures herein. In a recent CNN report, some 1083 hate groups now openly exist, recruit and operate in the United States today.

Now, to be clear, I am not saying that martial artists of today need to be prepared to defend themselves against police. As a former law enforcement agent myself, I would never openly say that. Working that field, I saw both good and bad officers (more bad than good, I’m afraid). However, in this age when Americans are seeing so much money and personnel resources being committed toward the so-called “War on Terror,” I will say this: The closest most Americans will ever come to terrorism is being tazed or sprayed with chemical agents or shot by local law enforcement agents.

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