Black Lives Matter Co-Founder: 'All Lives Matter' is a Racial Slur
"What it's gonna take to dismantle white supremacy is white folks actually gotta give up something."
2.24.2016
Posted on 02/25/2016 5:06:49 AM PST by SJackson
Jerome Hudson at Breitbart reports that Black Lives Matter co-founder Marissa Jenae Johnson told Fox News correspondent John Roberts that the phrase "all lives matter" - used to counter the "black lives matter" mantra - is a "new racial slur."
In a recent interview with Roberts, Johnson explained why "all lives matter" is a racial slur:
"White Americans have created the conditions that require a phrase like 'Black Likes Matter. Do you know how horrific it is to grow up as a child in a world that so hates you? While you're literally being gunned down in the street, while you're being rounded up and mass incarcerated and forced into prison slavery?"
Roberts didn't bother to challenge her on this, even though America is not "a world that so hates" blacks, even though prison is not the same as slavery, and even though there is no "mass incarceration" of blacks here. That phrase suggests that blacks are being rounded up en masse and herded into internment centers simply for being black, like the Japanese in World War II. The fact is that blacks who are incarcerated got there by committing serious crimes and being convicted of them as individuals in a court of law. Are blacks sometimes wrongly convicted? Tragically, yes, and that's something that must never be tolerated or left uncorrected. But Johnson does not acknowledge that blacks are a disproportionate number of convicts because they commit a hugely disproportionate number of crimes. She does not acknowledge that the vast majority of blacks "gunned down in the street" were violently resisting arrest like Ferguson's Michael Brown. She does not acknowledge that the black community bears any responsibility for its own condition.
"Black Lives Matter is not a strong enough statement for me," she added. If she really cared about black lives, she would acknowledge the scourges of black abortions and black-on-black crime. But those black lives don't push the proper narrative.
You may recall Johnson as the BLM activist who stormed the stage to interrupt candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders at a campaign rally last year. When Fox's Roberts asked her why she targeted "the far-left candidate" to protest, Johnson replied that Sanders is "left for white folks. He's left for the needs and concerns of mainstream white America."
"The Democrats have always been reliant on the black vote," Johnson added. "Part of what we're doing is waking black voters up to their power as a voting bloc within the Democratic party."
"Has the Democratic Party taken African-American voters for granted?" Roberts asked naively.
"Consistently, always," Johnson replied, laughing. "Always and forever."
And yet Roberts didn't ask her the next obvious line of questions: Then why not vote Republican for once? Why not get off the Democrat plantation if you're tired of being a victim? Why not reject the Democrat party's failure to elevate the black community? Of course, the notion of voting Republican would be unthinkable to her, because the right has been so effectively demonized as the party of rich, white racists.
When asked what needs to happen for progress to be made, Johnson threw out some vague proposals about taking down white supremacy:
"What it's gonna take to dismantle white supremacy is white folks actually gotta give up something. You have to actually sacrifice yourself. You have to be willing to give up the things that you currently benefit from."
She didn't specify what, but in any case there is no mainstream white supremacy in America. This is a country with a black President and First Lady, black Supreme Court justices, black attorney generals, black generals in the military, black CEOs, black Congresspeople and Senators, black attorneys, black judges, and on and on. There is no white supremacy apart from marginalized pockets of racist fools (remember, this is a country in which racist murderer Dylann Roof couldn't find anyone in person or online to join him in his massacre of Charleston churchgoers), nor is there any systemic white racism in America, where discrimination is illegal.
But that's how the Black Lives Matter movement must characterize America in order to justify its activism and its self-victimization.
Ain’t OBAMUNISM great??
I don’t care what she or any other black purports to believe that I as a white person needs to (further) sacrifice in the eternal effort to uplift blacks, I’m not giving up anything more than I’m already forced to give up. I have white people who need the help to worry about. If they can care about their own teibe and no one else, so can I. And civilisation will go sideways if whites disappear, the same can’t be said of blacks in general.
Because of Obama I am so ticked off at the 14th Amendment. At the end of the Civil War we should have sent all the slaves back to Africa. Maybe then they would be happy. There, I’ve said it.
We have given up a huge part of our pay. We have given up safety and security. We have lost the right to college admission on our merit. We have lost the right to a job that we are qualified for. We have lost the right to freedom of speech. We have lost the right to walk on the streets without fear of being attacked.
We have given up enough already.
So when Jesus said “When the choice is life and death, choose life.” He was making a racist statement?
When black “teens” are raping elderly women, sometimes beating or killing them, and sometimes not even bothering to rob them, that tells me all I need to know about what motivates many blacks, Not a level playing field (which has been tilted in their favor already, though they themselves are the weight which keeps it from working for them), but plain old hatred and a desire to play the role of oppressor which they claim whites play (even as they follow us oppressors around in our white flight like white on rice).
blacks have created their own cesspool and they revel living in it...
they should look to ben carson, condolesa rice, colin powell and thousands of others as examples of people who applied themselves in a positive way.... and didn’t skate through life with their hand out for free stuff.... blacks have to face reality and get their lives in order...
society has nothing to do with their pathetic plight.... take responsibility.... education, self reliance, family and religion and moral values will help a lot...
What’s good is bad, what’s right is wrong. What’s racist is not, what is not racist is racist. The racist hate #BLM has demonstrated but hangs on non-blacks is satan’s basic strategy of making a lie out of a truth. #BlackLivesMatter? as negros kill each other at the high rates of real war zones, not to mention how many negros kill their own babies before they’re even born? This just doesn’t hold up to the test of truth.
The truth does matter to the left and thus their opposition to it. As long as hate can be increased, the left advances, for hatred of our fellow man is necessary to implement marxism.
Such a crime the bulk of our negro population allows itself to be the useful tool of the left in their advance to communism.
Well, I’m in a similar boat. I already have people I need to care for and that takes up most of my resources. I’ll try to help others as best I can but on my own terms and within my means. I will not tolerate someone else forcing me to “help” someone else, at least not in the manner these people are demanding. It’s nothing short of extortion when you really look at it. “Help me by giving me what you have, or I’ll beat your brains out (or kill you).”
In a sane society racist hate mongers like Marissa Johnson would be incarcerated for inciting others to riot and commit violence...
White people aren’t the problem, although she thinks they are.
Her self loathing unhappiness with who and what she is are the root cause of her racism and hate.
She has the false belief that tearing others down will somehow elevate her.
But the lot of unhappy people cannot be improved by making others suffer any more the lot of the poor is improved by destroying the rich.
German Nazis deemed their lives were superior to other races. Negro Nazis deem black lives superior to other races. America’s Afro-Apartheid government is making it so.
I just want to be left the heck alone. I don’t want to oppress anyone, to the contrary, I want to stay as far the heck away from them as possible so as to not oppress them with my white presence ( and to avoid being a victim of crime). I don’t want to hurt them, and I don’t especially want to help them. They don’t want help, they want a replay of history in which they are the slavemasters. They won’t recognise that they already play that role in a modern manner by having whites forced to sacrifice so many things merely due to their skin color, no other reason.
And “superior” with very few grounds for the claim.
Ms. Johnson, if you really believed that Black Lives Matter you would be outside Planned Parenthood!
This isn't the 1960s. Decent people are tired of being labeled "racist" (which term has nowhere near the meaning it once had) and are becoming increasingly intolerant of the constant complaining and lack of self-control by these "professional (and perpetual) victims".
This is what happens when you let a child act out without any controls, for decades. You end up with this.
‘”White folks actually gotta give up something.” Is she not aware that white folks have basically given up our cities? That the welfare checks you receive come mostly from white folks paychecks?’
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Taken logically, it’s actually white-funded social programs which have served to drive black communities further from self-reliance and prosperity.
Many black women can’t qualify for welfare or assistance if there is an employed male living in the household. Solution? Kick the baby daddy out. Need a bigger handout? Get knocked up again, and kick that father to the curb, too. Rinse and repeat.
Social programs only serve to create greater dependence and eliminate the incentives for blacks to form actual nuclear families.
If this dumbass had any sense at all, she’d be asking for “the man” to stop destroying black’s chances at working themselves out of poverty by ceasing the subsidizing of that culture.
We should apologize for trying to help and turn off the gravy.
At the end of the Civil War we should have sent all the slaves back to Africa
actually, the real villains in this scenario are those that brought them here in the first place...the ones who failed to consider the obvious consequences of importing masses of Stone Age savages, willfully denying them the means of assimilation, an then inevitably, having to release them on the society at large...we are always celebrating the concept of the great American work ethic as one of the pillars of our culture; that ethic vanished like fog in the wind when the work got a little too down and dirty...
So much for Christianity.......whose basic tenet is “all lives matter”.
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