For me, the issue with hearing people say “Black Lives Matter” and seeing signs saying it is that it indicates they have signed on and support an openly Marxist political organization.
Whether they do it knowingly as Marxists or unknowingly as Useful Idiots, the result is the same.
Black Lives Matter is not a civil rights organization. It is not a human rights organization.
It is a racist, marxist, political organization.
The fact that it is utterly based on a lie should be enough for anyone who appreciates the rights and other beneficial things that America with our Constitution provides to reject it with prejudice.
But they don’t.
In my part of the country which is sadly lost to me in this respect, they buy into it in disgustingly large numbers.
And by by trying to mandate that people say the phrase, mean it, put signs on their lawns displaying it, and otherwise paying obeisance to it is corrosive and destructive beyond the obnoxious, racist, phrase that is refutable at its core.
And one of its most corrosive and destructive aspects is its inherent fundamental assault on Freedom of Speech. Try going anywhere and refuting the phrase “Black Lives Matter”. You will be branded a racist at best, and physically assaulted or murdered at worst.
My employer has included paeans to Black Lives Matter and George Floyd in their company-wide communications. Does anyone think I could take public exception to that without ramifications? Of course I couldn’t. I am free to decide if I want to make an issue about it, but it wouldn’t be freedom of speech. It would be me deciding what price to pay to keep my integrity, and all choices would be at my cost with the exception of maintaining my integrity.
So, for me, the issue is not a fundamental one of a disagreement over whether the melanin content of skin imparts a value on life that is more or less for one skin color or another (which by definition is racist at its very core) it is an issue of whether America as currently defined by OUR founders Constitution is an America to keep or strive for, or whether the America as defined by Black Lives Matter and their founders is more just and in line with the inalienable rights of humans.
The America envisioned by Black Lives Matter and THEIR founders is antithetical to the vision of the American founders. Those two visions have no commonality at all.
None.
The America envisioned by the founders of Black Lives Matter forsakes God, advocates abolition of the traditional family, advocates racism, and is committed to the destruction of economic freedom.
And to me, the abolition and destruction of economic freedom (a core tenet of Marxism) is just as important and fundamental a human right as Freedom of Speech.
F.A. Hayek makes this key point in “The Road to Serfdom”: you cannot have Political Freedom without Economic Freedom, and you cannot have Economic Freedom without Political Freedom. Political and Economic Freedom are inextricably intertwined, and the destruction of one destroys the other.
And Black Lives Matter, founded and run by “trained Marxists” (their words not mine) advocates the destruction of economic freedom because they think that Politic Freedom is possible without it. What they don’t know is even their childish perception of what Political Freedom is won’t be possible under their vision.
That is my main issue with Black Lives Matter-their open embrace of racist Marxism which is incompatible with America as our founders laid out for us in our Constitution.
And the problem is, 95% of the people who advocate, support, have signs on their lawns supporting Black Lives Matter are Useful Idiots who have absolutely no idea of this fundamental incompatibility.
Very good post. A little long but very good :-)
“And the problem is, 95% of the people who advocate, support, have signs on their lawns supporting Black Lives Matter are Useful Idiots who have absolutely no idea of this fundamental incompatibility.”
Almost exactly the statement made in an article I’m still drafting on the topic.
Spot-on.
My wife implored me not to put pro-Trump stickers on my car--or fly the Trump flag, as I did before the 2016 election--because it would be dangerous. I have complied.
This speaks volumes about the USA in the 21st century. (Note tagline.)
I hope--and I believe--that those who feel as you and I do constitute a majority of the US voters and will re-elect President Trump in November.
If he is not re-elected, America will descend into a desperate situation. Pray that this does not happen.
Very thoughtful and well expressed comments. Thanks for your insights.
my problem is the mind control aspect.
they control your thoughts by controlling your language. You’re not allowed to say something so obvious and plain spoken as “ALL LIVES MATTER”. because only BLACK lives matter is acceptable speech. Try put an ALL LIVES MATTER sign in your yard and they’ll spray paint a black ring around your house and burn it down.
it’s no longer the america that i’m accustom to.
Very good post!
As to your employer, do not for a moment feel that your silence implies your support for their folly.
Even the gospel, in fact, may not be for all:
6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
23 ¶ Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
Exercise your God given freedom of speech; just Wait for the right time, and the right audience. Because freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences, and your employer has a right to decide who he will employ - I just wish that were true evenly, across the board.
Thanks for the ping back to this thread. Great post in a great thread of posts.
BTW...
“Whether they do it knowingly as Marxists or unknowingly as Useful Idiots, the result is the same.”
This is true. These Useful Idiots have rarely visited the BLM site, and even fewer are aware of their mission statement. I have often pointed it out and they perform all manner of contortions to explain away what “they really mean” despite the clear verbiage.
But I have a different take on what Mr Beatty repeatedly states. To justify BLM rather than ALM, you have to accept the premise “that black people’s lives are relatively undervalued in the US“ in recent history. I don’t. At least not ant more than any other life. Rather, BLM “trained Marxists” need the cover the uninitiated Useful Idiots provide. Having their catchphrase replaced or altered separates the true BLM from those that possibly might be of purer heart.
We’re heating for an apartheid.
Oh, and to further brighten your day, BLM is a 501(c)(3).