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Top 10 Reasons I Won't Support the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
Townhall ^ | 06/05/2020 | Ryan Bomberger

Posted on 06/05/2020 9:20:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Every life unjustly killed deserves justice. In the cause to make things right, I will not join a movement that has nearly everything wrong. More innocent lives have now been killed (including cops) since these predominantly violent protests began over George Floyd’s horrific death. What about the black lives killed in this nationwide chaos? Do they matter?

“Well, you don’t have to agree with everything. Just pick out the good things in the #BlackLivesMatter movement,” I’m told. Really? Let’s apply that same logic to another example. I’ve been repeatedly approached to partner with New Black Panthers in anti-abortion billboard campaigns. We agree on the violent injustice of abortion, and that’s it. Our worldviews are diametrically opposed. But, but, but they believe unborn lives matter! That doesn’t matter. Their mission is not my mission. I cover all of this in-depth in my new podcast, Life Has Purpose

Yes, #BlackLivesMatter. But Truth matters. As a Christian, the Church should be leading on these issues instead of sheepishly following a deceptive movement hostile to the Gospel.

The original BLM founders, the #BlackLivesMatter Foundation (BLMF), created it to radically shift culture. The far-left Ford Foundation, the world’s largest population control organization, vowed in 2016 to raise $100 million for the Movement for Black Lives (MFBL)—a nationwide coalition of BLM groups (including BLMF). MFBL released a shocking manifesto of policy positions that are deeply political and deeply disturbing. 

Drawing mostly from those positions, here are the top 10 reasons why I will never support the #BlackLivesMatter movement. 

The premise isn’t true. I hate racism. And I hate when it’s used as a political weapon. According to the FBI’s latest homicide statistics, I’m 11 times more likely to be killed by someone of my own brown complexion than a white person. Also, a comprehensive 2019 study concluded: “White officers are not more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers.” Every loss of life is tragic, but Washington Post’s database on police-involved deaths puts things into further context. In 2020, among those killed were (all males): 2 Native Americans, 9 Asians, 46 Hispanics, 76 blacks, 149 unlabeled individuals and 149 whites (whose deaths don’t get reported by national mainstream media). Only nine black individuals were actually unarmed.

There is no goal of forgiveness or reconciliation. None. It’s never mentioned on their sites. You can’t talk about the sins of the past and expect to move forward if there is no intention of forgiveness. I’m tired of the deeply prejudiced oppressed/oppressor critical race theory paradigm. It’s not Gospel-centered. This should, immediately, be a deal-breaker for Christians.

It’s all about Black Power. It’s plastered all over the MFBL website. BLMF founders explain their “herstory”: “It became clear that we needed to continue organizing and building Black power across the country.” I don’t promote a colorblind society; I love all of our diverse hues of skin. But I’m so much more than my pigmentation. Martin Luther King promoted “God’s power and human power.” I’m with him.

They heavily promote homosexuality and transgenderism. “We foster a queer-affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking.” I’m not embracing confusion. Loving every human being is not the same as loving every human doing.

They completely ignore fatherhood. From BLMF: “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.” Well, every “village” that has fatherless families is a village that suffers higher crime rates, higher drug usage, higher abortion rates, higher drop-out rates, higher poverty rates, and so much more. #DadsMatter.

They demand reparations. Ok. Sooooo, I guess the white half of me will have to pay the black half of me? If progressives want to push reparations, start with the Party of Slavery and Jim Crow—the Democrat Party! Let them ante up. But the #BlackLivesMatter movement bizarrely demands: “Reparations for…full and free access for all Black people (including undocumented and currently and formerly incarcerated people) to lifetime education…retroactive forgiveness of student loans, and support for lifetime learning programs.” Uhhh, good luck with that. 

They want to abolish prisons and police forces. And…cue utter chaos. MFBL asserts: “We believe that prisons, police and all other institutions that inflict violence on Black people must be abolished...” Defund and remove the police have been rallying cries. That would be anarchy in any community. I advocate some needed police reforms and better community/police relations, but this is just foolishness. 

They are anti-capitalism. Oh the irony of this declaration made by a movement that is the result of capitalism: “We are anti-capitalist. We believe and understand that Black people will never achieve liberation under the current global racialized capitalist system.” The videos that make us aware of police brutality are captured on phones that are a result of capitalism. The best way to elevate people out of material poverty? Capitalism. This system is why the United States is the most charitable nation. 

Colin Kaepernick supports it. A “biracial” adoptee, Kaepernick is now obsessed with his “blackness.” He idolizes the late murderous Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and worships Malcolm X (just see his social media feeds). Malcolm X was anti-integration, pro-violence and a member of the virulently racist Nation of Islam (who forced him out). Kaepernick makes millions from Nike—a company whose entire Executive Leadership Team is white (isn’t this white supremacy???)—that makes its shoes in the most murderous regime in the world. Kaepernick, of course, is completely silent on that. But you know, #SocialJusticeWarrior.

Apparently, not all black lives matter. Pro-abortion BLMF declared: “We deserve and thus we demand reproductive justice [aka abortion] that gives us autonomy over our bodies and our identities while ensuring that our children and families are supported, safe, and able to thrive.” Aborted children don’t thrive. BLM groups announced “solidarity” with “reproductive justice” groups back in February 2015. You cannot simultaneously fight violence while celebrating it.



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blacklivesmatter; georgefloyd; race

1 posted on 06/05/2020 9:20:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s a fundamentally racist movement.

It’s name is Black Lives Matter, and most certainly they do.

But....they maintain that ONLY black lives matter. If you try and tell them that All Lives Matter they reject that on delivery.

More than reject, actively oppose. They got a basketball announcer in Sacramento fired for saying nothing but that.

Any movement that denies human lives have value if they are of any race but their own are fundamentally racist.

And very dangerous.


2 posted on 06/05/2020 9:24:01 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: SeekAndFind

Its a business (NPO - 501C3)
EIN 47-4143254

As a non-profit, all filings are public.


3 posted on 06/05/2020 9:25:13 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s totally political. These rortests are a good example how the Dems get out the vote. Look at the demographics of these events.


4 posted on 06/05/2020 9:25:20 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SeekAndFind

today I am singing various songs

this one is pretty good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqbk9cDX0l0

I’ve No More F**** To Give!


5 posted on 06/05/2020 9:32:14 AM PDT by RummyChick ( Yeah, it's Daily Mail. So what. AND I AM NOT FACT CHECKING POSTS. I AM NOT TWITTER)
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To: SeekAndFind

If BLM believed their own rhetoric we’d see more of their members OUTSIDE of abortion clinics.


6 posted on 06/05/2020 9:33:25 AM PDT by G Larry (The People must shutdown the tyrants.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The more I think about it I think BLM is less about racism and more about entitlement.


7 posted on 06/05/2020 9:54:02 AM PDT by Ben Mugged (He who lacks the will does not need the ability.)
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To: SeekAndFind
...freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking.”

NORMAL...the new "N" word, because it triggers those who are not.

8 posted on 06/05/2020 10:23:03 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Instead of parrying "Black Lives Matter" with All Lives Matter" employ a different BLM: _blank_ Lives Matter. After the likely response, "Huh?," explain you fill in the blank diversely.
9 posted on 06/05/2020 11:19:45 AM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (waiting for the tweets to hatch)
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To: SeekAndFind

BLM does not care for all black lives:

Blacks killing black cops

Blacks killed by white rioters

Blacks murdering blacks daily in Baltimore, Detroit, and chicago

Millions of black babies killed over decades.


10 posted on 06/05/2020 11:22:06 AM PDT by stuckincali
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To: JohnBovenmyer

Instead of parrying “Black Lives Matter” with All Lives Matter” employ a different BLM: _blank_ Lives Matter. After the likely response, “Huh?,” explain you fill in the blank
= = = = = = = = = = = =

Very good...

Right up their with the ‘safe’ way to wear your MAGA hat....

Have a TShirt with the MAGA and underneath a block of shredded cheese with a slash through it and the explanation

BAN PRESHREDDED CHEESE

MAKE
AMERICA
GRATE
AGAIN

Should satisfy ‘both’ sides like ALL my hats I wear now are RED with my different/Navy/Vn etc message


11 posted on 06/05/2020 11:30:05 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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