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 that’s 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 sheriff’s 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 ...
Yes, the race card is getting very old...
To Blacklivesmatters:
“Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
And the initial reports are that a St.Louis black perp just killed a white Kentucky State Patrol officer during a traffic stop.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3336518/posts
When BLM sits in at Rahm Emmanuel’s office to protest the black slaughter of black men, I’ll consider taking them seriously.
Black lives matter is by definition racist
BLM is not a race card, BLM is a race deck, racist in it’s entirety
BLM is an attempt to force racial unity to counter the efforts police efforts against a criminal black underclass that is a blot on American society.
There is no black community. Rather, there are a series of black subcultures that when viewed separately end the successful civil rights movement. Many have succeeded and a few have failed to cross the line of success
BLM is based on a lie.
Repeat the big lie often enough...
Cowards on the SLPD won’t even sign their names to the editorial. Typical.
I’ll believe “black lives matters”. when they start protesting black on black killings in chicago, detroit, baltimore, .....
its just a modern day jesse jackson shakedown until then
“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.”
Up here in Utica, NY black on black shootings, the last sentence in the newspaper article is “The victim is not cooperating (I did not see nuffin).”
No, it does not. It only gets excited when a black is killed by a white.
Obviously, the blacks killed by the white police officers is the problem. /s
Good post!
Black youth are killing black youth all over.
Should i give a damn?
Not as long as the black community don’t give a damn.
Hell with em.
black lives matter
just another SOROS FUNDED libtard radical group..
so another cop gets killed “in the name of justice”...
useful idiots and stupid people being led by people with and agenda trying to get something for nothing and causing criminal acts..
weve seen this crap before
black panthers
new black panthers
nation of islam
rev wright
all the racist extortionists
occupy
left wing activists
and now
this group of jerks...
people who put no real effort to make themselves economically viable and prefer to rob, loot, extort, threaten and incite violence to achieve their goal MORE FREE STUFF..
to whom i render the salute... the Hawaiian love sign...
keep it up and justice will prevail... not in your favor
The editorial falsely claims that the BLM movement includes blacks who lose their lives in the hood. Not true. This is an anti-police movement, whining about the thousands of blacks who are killed by pooooooolice. Which is untrue.
This is “identity” politics, funded by Soros and his pals. It preys on the hatreds and rivalries of inner-city slum dwellers, four and five generations on welfare. They gave us Obama & Co.
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