Posted on 06/07/2020 8:52:27 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 (#BlueLivesMatter, too) since these predominantly violent protests began over George Floyds horrific death. What about the black lives killed in this nationwide chaos? Do they matter?
Well, you dont have to agree with everything. Just pick out the good things in the #BlackLivesMatter movement, Im told. Really? Lets apply that same logic to another example. Ive been repeatedly approached to partner with New Black Panthers in anti-abortion billboard campaigns. We agree on the violent injustice of abortion, and thats it. Our worldviews are diametrically opposed. But, but, but they believe unborn lives matter! That doesnt 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 movement hostile to the Gospel.
The founders of the movement, the #BlackLivesMatter Foundation (BLMF), created it to radically shift culture. The far-left Ford Foundation, the worlds 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 ten reasons why I will never support the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
1. The premise isnt true. According to the FBIs latest homicide statistics, Im eleven 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 Posts database on police-involved deaths puts things into context. In 2020, among those killed were 76 black males and 149 white males (whose deaths are dont get reported by national mainstream media). Only nine black individuals were actually unarmed.
2. There is no goal of forgiveness or reconciliation. None. Its never mentioned on their sites. You cant talk about the sins of the past and expect to move forward if there is no intention of forgiveness. Im tired of the color-based oppressed/oppressor critical race theory paradigm. Its not Gospel-centered. This should, immediately, be a deal-breaker for Christians.
3. Its all about Black Power. Its 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 dont promote social colorblindness; I love all of our diverse hues of skin. But Im so much more than my pigmentation. Martin Luther King promoted Gods power and human power. Im with him.
4. 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. Im not embracing confusion. The Bible is unambiguous about sexuality. Loving every human being is not the same as loving every human doing.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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, including more accountability and better community/police relations, but this is just foolishness.
8. 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.
9. 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 (isnt 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.
10. 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 dont thrive. BLM groups announced solidarity with reproductive justice groups back in February 2015. You cannot simultaneously fight violence while celebrating it.
The sheeple these movements draw in support the movements due to their own personal feelings and intentions, but never, or seldom, realize many of the “movements” intentions and motives have nothing to do with those of the sheeple-person who ignorantly is drawn into joining them.
That was pretty much how the “Russian revolution” and Mao worked also.
Although Mao did have one advantage over his Russian peers. There was a true enough motive for the restoration of Chinese nationalism and national sovereignty against a long period of foreign “rights” (occupation) of Chinese territories. Mao was able to exploit that and hijack it to his own agenda.
Black Lives Matter won’t make black lives matter.
Black Lives Matter won’t make black lives matter.
..so what does this say about abortion clinics who would abort black babies?? And that’s just for starters.
Or Thomas Sowell. Alan Keyes, Ben Carson, etc, etc, etc
Yet you say, Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father? When the son has done what is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live."
"The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself."
The old testament, and perhaps the new, is replete with this idea that we're responsible for our actions not the misdeeds of generations past. I am from a post-civil rights act era. Slavery, Jim Crowe laws and so forth were discarded misadventures of history when I was in school and I am middle age. I've never understood this notion that what someone looks like determines how I should feel about them. At home and in private faith-based schooling I was taught a consistent message: it's the individual that matters.
Coming to the deep south from California it's been difficult for me to understand the racism that exists on both sides. For whites it's seems largely delineated on a generational basis which shows healthy progress, for too many blacks it's a perpetual grudge and crutch. It's frustrating to see them self-limit because of lies and half-truths they believe about themselves and white Americans. This is my experience living, working with, socializing with and dating a diverse group.
The Democrat party is dependent upon a permanent underclass for power. This was my great insight as a young adult that caused a radical shift in my political views. I began as a starry-eyed idealist on the left but a skeptic, I watched who did what. In the South & urban centers Democrats take advantage of blacks, in the West & Southwest they've done the same with Latinos.
Republicans want everyone to become financially independent and prosperous doing their own thing.
I'd never had a truly bad police encounter until my then significant other & I were stopped one night a few years ago here in Georgia. We were a mixed race couple and one young white cop was so sure it had to be a nefarious situation either drugs or prostitution. It broke the innate trust I had developed for the "boys in blue" over decades.
What's interesting to me is my career has included investigations of misconduct on the job, usually theft. Too often the investigation has lead to a student of criminal justice. I no longer find that coincidental.
No, only the ones they can exploit for their racist, anti-American agenda.
David Dorn’s life doesn’t matter to these hypocrites.
No. Only the ones the msm can spin into a hate crime.
Amen!
Two reasons for me.
1. Chicago
2. Planned parenthood.
>>So are you saying that there is a systemic problem with policing in this country?<<
Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying. I know it’s a tough job but that’s not an excuse for many of these deaths. Tony Timpa was already handcuffed and on the ground when police arrive, there was no need for several officers to sit on him and he lay there. Daniel Shaver was obeying what the police said while crying and begging them not to shoot him, Duncan Lemp was killed during a “no knock” raid when he posed no immediate threat to police.
There are things involving policing that must change. You could be next.
I agree completely. Much of what is being called for in the protests are changes to the system that would help all lives.
>I agree completely. Much of what is being called for in the protests are changes to the system that would help all lives.<
I could be with them on some of this stuff but they have to drop the racism crap. I’m not joining their cult.
>> 10. Apparently, not all black lives matter.
Exactly. You’ll never see a BLACK BABIES MATTER at a BLM rally.
Good article.
If you disagree that all lives matter, then you’re a racist. Period.
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