This type of black ‘leadership’ is exactly what will keep blacks on a plantation forever.
The problem with “Black Lives Matter” is that it is hypocritical and anecdotal, and many of the anecdotes are misrepresented and biased(starting with “hands up don’t shoot”).
For example, we have the black lady who got bad service at Starbucks. She concludes that she is disrespected because she is black, and then generalizes that all black folk are oppressed because of race by the entire “white establishment”. I assure you that Starbucks really really wants her business, and if she had complained to management, she would have gotten an apology and excellent service next time she came in.
I could match her anecdotes ... I went into a fast food place and had to wait for 10 minutes for service while the two black teenagers gossiped with each other. Should I conclude that the black teenagers disrespected me because I am white, and that all black employees would do the same? Or the time that I went to an IRS audit on time, and had to wait for 30 minutes while the female employees continued planning a wedding. Should I conclude all female IRS employees treat taxpayers like cattle to be milked?
On the other hand, there a large number of black lives that don’t appear to matter to the black lives matter crowd. The high abortion rate of black females don’t matter. The 80% teenage boys in the inner cities raised without a father don’t appear to matter. The bright black boys who could do well in school but are bullied by the “you’re acting white” crowd don’t seem to matter. The children shot in the inner cities (Chicago, New York) don’t appear to matter. The black teenagers who drop out of terrible schools into a life of crime don’t appear to matter, because the black lives matter crowd supports the status quo in education. Only the lives of young black men, criminal or not, shot by white cops, seem to matter.
I grieve.
THE BLM movement is demonstrably just a front for a quite different political motive. Otherwise, as you will when you continue reading this comment, it is quite insane.
Police kill about 400 people a year (mostly criminals & some innocents). Of those about 25% (~100) are black. Most of the rest (~300) are whites & hispanics. NOW in contrast, about 8,000 (EIGHT THOUSAND) blacks are killed by OTHER blacks every year.
In other words, for every 1 (one) black killed by a white cop each year (many of whom were committing a crime while killed) 71 (seventy one) blacks were murdered by other BLACKS. In the past 35 years about 323,000 (yes that’s THOUSANDS) blacks have been murdered by other blacks. Over
9,000 per year on average.
The logical & factual conclusion (rather than insane, hysterical, emotional ranting) is that as a black person, you are FAR safer in the company of a white cop than you are in the company of another black person.
Therefore, if you are going to mobilize MILLIONS of people against the LEO killings and NOT the black on black killings (as the BLM group is doing) at MOST you will save about 50 black lives a year. If you take that energy instead to convince BLACKS, that black lives matter (should
be easier than convincing the so called racist, white police right?) you could save THOUSANDS of black lives per year instead. Which one is a SANE person going to do?
BTW, of the approximately 1 MILLION violent crimes committed in the USA each year, 85% are committed by blacks and only 25% by whites. Even though blacks only make up about 14% of the population.