Posted on 09/14/2015 2:36:52 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
An optimist would say the Black Lives Matter movement is working. Even if there were no other signs of progress, the incessant, contorted attacks the movement now faces from the right would be evidence enough. Only a movement thats making inroads would draw such ire and condemnation.
A pessimist would say that conservative crazy-talk tactic is working, drumming up fear among white Americans and turning the most galvanizing civil rights group of our time into a perceived threat.
On Fox News, Black Lives Matter is the new Benghazi, the newest favorite target of the panoply of conservative commentators and conservative presidential candidates. The right has expanded its rhetoric from demonizing immigrants to accusing the civil rights movement of inciting violence against police officers.
Black Lives Matter seeks justice within the criminal justice system not only for unarmed blacks killed by police but also for the many blacks killed by other blacks whose cases go unsolved, often because they are just swept under the rug.
Black Lives matter is not about creating divisions. It is not about scapegoating police. It is about bringing diverse Americans together for a just cause. It is a multi-faced front: black, LGBT, clergy of many faiths, millennials of all races and individuals of varied economic backgrounds and ages.
The attacks against it require a similarly united defense. Saying all lives matter diminishes the historic apathy toward the deaths and often, the lives of non-whites. White lives have always mattered. Black lives, not so much. When did a missing black woman drive cable TV into a Natalee Holloway kind of frenzy?
There is no scale to weigh the unprovoked killing of a white sheriffs deputy in Texas against the unprovoked killing of nine black church members in Charleston, S.C., during bible study....
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
To quote Bugs Bunny: “Geez what a maroon”
Facts = Race card
#FactsDon’tMatter
#AdvanceTheNarrative
Once again, the MSM teaches me that black lives only matter when a white guy kills them.
I would have posted a sourced rant on the article’s site, but they require a bookface login, and I don’t subscribe to that.
The narrative for the last 50-60 years has always been that every day whites violently attack black people FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER!! The truth is exactly the opposite. Which proves this rag is an enemy of the truth.
It was #blm that was marching in the street chanting “pigs in a blanket fry them like bacon” which was a call to kill cops.
Cops should stay out of the inner city permanently until #blm disbands.
#BlackThugsDontMatterLetEmKillEachOther
Black Lives Matter seeks justice within the criminal justice system not only for unarmed blacks killed by police but also for the many blacks killed by other blacks whose cases go unsolved...IOW, the editors are liars.
Partisan Media Shills Alert!
What a world.
Race Victim Assailant
Black 272 60
Hispanic 62 16
White/Other 12 7
Police - 5
Unknown 9 -
Source: (lol) Illustrating Chicago Values
So 272 blacks killed ytd - 5 by cop, but it's a cop problem.
What a buncha maroons!
Bugs is always right!
Also shows blacks can’t shoot worth a dam. Lookit that crummy wound/kill ratio. I propose we all kick in to get em some shootin’ lessons.
This has to be from Colorado or Washington. Emma Fur be trippin.
>>Also shows blacks cant shoot worth a dam. Lookit that crummy wound/kill ratio. I propose we all kick in to get em some shootin lessons.
No. Let’s let them get their shooting skills from TV. Some day soon, we’re going to have to face off against them. I want to see as many of them as possible holding their gun sideways in one hand while the other hand holds up their baggy pants.
Ah yes. BLM is just bunnies, unicorns, and baby deer. Mean old Republicans.
Eggzzacktly right. You get a gold star on your homework paper!
It really is a shame that Missouri has McCaskell as a senator.
Thank you Rove and GOPe!
Yes. And it’s a St. Louis rag. Isn’t St. Louis one of the black on black crime capitals? And didn’t St. Louis “supply”additional rioters when the fracases took place in Ferguson? And is it South or East St. Louis that is vying with Chicago for the title of top B on B murder capital?
> Cops should stay out of the inner city permanently until #blm disbands.
Let em kill, steal, and beat the crap out of each other for awhile witout any police intervention. They’ll be beggin gthem to come back within the week.
#blacklivesdon’tmatteranymoretocops
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