‘Black Lives Matter’—but Reality, Not So Much

Wall Street Journal ^ | 9/8/2015 | Jason L. Riley

[RightGeek]

The great lie of the summer has been the Black Lives Matter movement. It was founded on one falsehood—that a Ferguson, Mo., police officer shot a black suspect who was trying to surrender—and it is perpetuated by another: that trigger-happy cops are filling our morgues with young black men.

The reality is that Michael Brown is dead because he robbed a convenience store, assaulted a uniformed officer and then made a move for the officer’s gun. The reality is that a cop is six times more likely to be killed by someone black than the reverse. The reality is that the Michael Browns are a much bigger threat to black lives than are the police. “Every year, the casualty count of black-on-black crime is twice that of the death toll of 9/11,” wrote former New York City police detective Edward Conlon in a Journal essay on Saturday. “I don’t understand how a movement called ‘Black Lives Matter’ can ignore the leading cause of death among young black men in the U.S., which is homicide by their peers.”

Actually, it’s not hard to understand at all, once you realize that this movement is not about the fate of blacks per se but about scapegoating the police in particular, and white America in general, for antisocial ghetto behavior. It’s about holding whites to a higher standard than the young black men in these neighborhoods hold each other to. Ultimately, it’s a political movement, the inevitable extension of a racial and ethnic spoils system that helps Democrats get elected. The Black Lives Matter narrative may be demonstrably false, but it’s also politically expedient.

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[RightGeek]

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[Old Sarge]

The Black Lives Matter narrative may be demonstrably false, but it’s also politically expedient.

And there isn't a single person on the Left you will ever convince.

[stephenjohnbanker]

White leftists funded the BLM movement

[factoryrat]

Black lives (and any other lives for all intents and purposes) matter only if they pull the lever for a democrat. In return, they get to stay on the plantation, and the democrat party will give them treats, like rewarding a dog for being good, or performing a stupid pet trick.

Why this doesn't infuriate the black community at being considered stupid puppets by the democrats is completely beyond me.

Of course, the republicans AND the democrats, at the behest of their financiers, just want to replace them, and everyone else (the elite exempted of course) with mexican illegals and cheap chinese communist labor.

So, the question is: Which Presidential candidate can help put a stop to this?

[PGR88]

BLM is NOT a “movement!!”

Its an organized political agitation group, planned in advance from the top - Obama, Holder, Jarrett. Michael Brown was simply the launching pad. It could have been anyone. They couldn’t find a better victim or narrative at the time, so they simply made it up.

Think Mao and his Red Guards in China.

[Repent and Believe]

What is a black life?

[SunkenCiv]

The reality is that a cop is six times more likely to be killed by someone black than the reverse. The reality is that the Michael Browns are a much bigger threat to black lives than are the police.