“And so we seek not reform but transformation.” While the planks often amount to little more than platitudes, replete with grammatical errors, the platform offers a clear demand for socialism under the cover of racial reconciliation.
is a country that does not support, protect or preserve lack life,” the M4BL original statement says. To present their “demands” more completely, the Black Lives Matter Network joined dozens of like-minded groups to found the Movement for Black Lives, sit on its “united front,” and adopt its policy platform. The issue was just “a spark point” to begin “calling for the defunding of police, a moratorium on rent, a moratorium on mortgages and utilities” and issuing “ demands” relating to “housing and education and health-care systems.” “When we started Black Lives Matter, it wasn’t solely about police brutality and extrajudicial killing,” one of BLM’s three co-founders, Opal Tometi, confessed to The New Yorker. Those who march under its banner are unwittingly putting themselves in a position to be identified by BLM's activists as endorsing these beliefs.īLM activists have made no secret of their views. It is a radical pressure group that embraces a vista of controversial, extremist positions. However, they have no inkling that "Black Lives Matter" is not just a maxim or a graphic to be posted online. They often protest to this end and, as long as those protests are peaceful, they are exercising the first freedom enshrined in the Bill of Rights. Americans rightly outraged by incidents like the indefensible killing of George Floyd by a police officer with a long history of complaints adopted the slogan to demand proper treatment under the law - one of cornerstones of Western civilization. In the public imagination, Black Lives Matter is nothing more than a ubiquitous black square on social media platforms. The media have not reported its aims - at least, not in context of the recent riots. While the slogan wins public support, the racially tinged socialism espoused by the organization Black Lives Matter should concern everyone who cherishes freedom.īLM proudly proclaims its belief that all black Americans should receive a guaranteed minimum income and “free” healthcare, schooling, food, real estate, gender reassignment surgery, and abortion bring an “an end to all jails” as we know them disrupt the traditional family demand reparations on behalf of foreign nations and form a “global liberation movement” that will “overturn US imperialism capitalism.”Īmericans could be excused for not knowing that BLM is a political organization with an agenda no less comprehensive than reshaping the entire world. Thanks almost entirely to the killing of George Floyd, Black Lives Matter’s approval rating has more than doubled from where it stood four years ago, surging from 27% in 2016 to 57% today.
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