Posted on 12/16/2020 8:03:46 AM PST by Heartlander
There is nothing new under the sun, and that holds true for Black Lives Matter (BLM), the anarchical organization hell-bent on cultural revolution, which means deracinating those institutions necessary for human flourishing. Marxism, feminism, and paganism were chewed up, swallowed, and vomited out as the bolus BLM.
Knowing that a divided house cannot stand and longing for the collapse of the house, BLM uses race to divide and destroy. Saturated with Critical Theory, which emerged from the desiccated carcasses of failed Marxist projects and flourishes in academia, BLM exploits identity politics—not to unify and free the oppressed—but to acquire power.
Mark T. Mitchell, dean of academic affairs at Patrick Henry College and author of Power and Purity: The Unholy Marriage That Spawned America's Social Justice Warriors (Gateway, 2020), makes clear what so many Americans intuit about the BLM-spawned riots:
Is race really the central issue in what has been happening? . . . Most Americans are far less concerned about race than they are about providing for their families and living at peace with their neighbors. Something other than racism is driving these protests.
Mitchell goes on to diagnose the problem obscured by "mostly peaceful" BLM rioters chanting "Burn it down":
[S]elf-righteous grievance professionals . . . who despise America . . . are using race as a weapon in a war to transform the United States, and they are willing to engage in intimidation, violence, and property destruction to achieve their ends. . . .
In attacking private property, the revolutionaries are striking at one of the bedrock institutions of a free society. The American republic was designed for a propertied citizenry; the ownership of property cultivates the independence necessary for self-government. . . . No one understood this better than Karl Marx, who claimed that Communism could be summed up in a single sentence: "abolition of private property."
Spinning Factless Narratives
Signaling its feminist bona fides, BLM's "HERSTORY" page identifies the group as beginning in 2013, when "three radical Black organizers—Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi"—started it as a response "to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin's murderer, George Zimmerman."
George Zimmerman—a Hispanic, i.e., "person of color," who killed Martin in self-defense—was acquitted of all charges. BLM's mischaracterization of Martin's death as a murder points to the organization's strategic and tactical exploitation of the deaths of blacks for their revolutionary goals. Whenever a black person is killed by a law enforcement officer, BLM—the organizational equivalent of Al Sharpton—descends on the community in which the homicide occurred to take control of the narrative before the facts can be known, and it then uses the false narrative to foment racial division.
This is the same tactic homosexual activists used after Matthew Shepard was killed in Laramie, Wyoming in 1998. Before Shepard could be buried, homosexual activists descended on Laramie and constructed a false narrative according to which homophobic bigots murdered Shepard in cold blood. When homosexual journalist Stephen Jimenez finally exposed the truth1 that Shepard was killed by an acquaintance in a meth rage, the false narrative had gone around the world twice. Even today, most people believe Shepard was murdered because of homophobia.2
So, in 2014, when the 17-year-old thief Michael Brown was shot by a police officer defending himself against an attack by Brown, BLM descended on Ferguson, Missouri, like a volt of vultures to create a factless narrative that would impel a riot, after which the wake of vultures would feast and grow.
Then came Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Jacob Blake—all blacks whose deaths were proclaimed "murders" before any investigation had begun. The actual circumstances were dramatically different from the BLM-constructed myths.
Marxist Devotees
BLM's co-founders, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi, all espouse the destructive dogma of Marxist-born Critical Theory, radical feminism, and paganism. Patrisse Cullors is a "queer polyamorous practitioner of Ifà, a religious tradition from Nigeria,"3 and a "trained Marxist"4 who is "married" to another queer BLM activist who goes by the name of Janaya Future Khan.5
In a melodramatic speech6 delivered at the 2020 Democratic National Convention, Cullors urged the Democratic National Committee to support: the "Breathe Act,"7 which calls for defunding the police; the closure of all federal prisons and immigration detention centers; the elimination of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, life sentences, and electronic monitoring; and the "decriminalization and expungement of all drug offenses." She calls these measures necessary for the "true American Revolution."
In addition to her decade-long Marxist training under domestic terrorist Eric Mann, Cullors has been "inspired" by Assata Shakur,8 also known as Joanne Chesimard, a former member of the Black Liberation Army who has been on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list since her escape from prison where she was serving a life sentence for murder.
Like Cullors, Alicia Garza is a Marxist and a lesbian who is "married" to "Malachi" Garza, a woman who pretends to be a man. Two years ago, Garza founded another organization called Black Futures Lab, which is "fiscally sponsored" by the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA), a "pro-People's Republic of China organization" founded in 1972.9
Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation's Allison Center for Foreign Policy, explains the reason for the CPA's investment in Garza's Black Futures Lab: "It is clear . . . why the CPA would sponsor a new enterprise by Garza: They espouse the same desire for world communism."
While Opal Tometi was not identified as a "trained Marxist" by Cullors, the Panama Perspective identifies her as a fawning devotee of Marxists, citing her description of the 2015 election of Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro as evidence:
"In these last 17 years, we have witnessed the Bolivarian Revolution champion participatory democracy and construct a fair, transparent election system recognized as among the best in the world," wrote Tometi about one of the world's most corrupt voting systems in history.10
Tometi, the daughter of illegal immigrants from Nigeria, holds radical leftist views on lawbreaking, recasting illegal immigration as "the criminalization of migration." In a 2015 interview in Berlin,11 she made the outlandish claim that "every 28 hours a black person who is unarmed is murdered in the United States by a police officer or by a vigilante or a security guard. And that's happening many times with impunity. We see this as a pandemic."
Tometi reveals that the radical BLM goal of "reimagining" or defunding the police, which shocked many Americans during the summer of 2020, has been in the works for at least five years. She declared that "this campaign is explicitly about reducing the number of police in New York City" to better ensure "safety," and—in Tometi's view—"safety . . . looks like not being harassed if you jump the turnstile because you can't afford to pay for your train ticket."
In other words, safety means breaking laws with impunity.
Scrubbed but Still Held
Between early June and late August 2020, polls showed a precipitous drop in public support for BLM.12 Then, on about September 18, BLM scrubbed its website of its "What We Believe" page. Thanks to the website Wayback Machine,13 however, concerned citizens can see for themselves the radical worldview of BLM, including its embrace of pagan sexuality:
We make space for transgender brothers and sisters to participate and lead.
We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift Black trans folk, especially Black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence. . . .
We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and "villages" that collectively care for one another. . . .
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. . . .
The rejection of "heteronormative thinking" and affirmation of both homosexuality and cross-sex impersonation reflect the unbiblical spiritualism of BLM.
Hebah Farrag, contributing writer for The Berkeley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, describes the spiritual dimensions of BLM in an article titled, "The Fight for Black Lives is a Spiritual Movement":
The movement infuses a syncretic blend of African and indigenous cultures' spiritual practices and beliefs, embracing ancestor worship; Ifà-based ritual such as chanting, dancing, and summoning deities; and healing practices such as acupuncture, reiki, therapeutic massage, and plant medicine in much of its work, including protest. That work, though, often remains invisible.14
Ifà is essentially a pagan system of spiritual beliefs, and from paganism comes all manner of sexual perversion.
Different Obsessions, Same Paradigm
The now-deleted beliefs of BLM point to the Marxist training and ideological commitments of Cullors and Garza. Murray Bessette, writing at The Claremont Institute's American Mind, connects the gone-but-not-forgotten beliefs of BLM to those of Marx and Engels:
Marx and Engels's call to abolish the family in the Manifesto of the Communist Party is clearly an antecedent to BLM's commitment "to disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and 'villages' that collectively care for one another, and especially 'our' children to the degree that mothers, parents and children are comfortable."15
As further confirmation of BLM's Marxist commitments, the Panama Perspective exposes the group's perfervid and ironic devotion to Marxist oppressors:
[W]hile Black Lives Matter claim to oppose police abuse and racism around the world, the organization is simultaneously a great supporter of some of the world's most brutal and repressive dictators. In particular, the founders of BLM have been staunch supporters and allies of the sanguinary Venezuela dictator Nicolas Maduro and of the Castro regime in Cuba.16
Following Marx and Engels, intellectuals in academia began supplanting Marx's class obsession with obsessions on race, sex, homosexuality, and, more recently, cross-sex impersonation while retaining Marx's oppressor/oppressed paradigm—a paradigm that is at the wildly thumping heart of BLM.
Antipathy for Private Property
Now with an army of propagandized hooligans burning and looting, we are beginning to see the Marxist antipathy for private property emerge. When asked about criticism from black activists about the violence committed by BLM, Tometi—like all faithful Marxists—dismissed property destruction:
I think that conversation is complicated, and . . . I just don't equate the loss of life and the loss of property. I can't even hold those two in the same regard, and I think for far too long we have seen that happen. We have had these conversations where we are conflating very different realities and operating from different value systems. . . . that's how I view it, and a lot of my colleagues and peers as well as mentors have similar views. We are really focussed on how to get our demands out and stay focussed on the main thing, which is people, and we want to value our love of people over property.17
Tometi was not asked if the loss of life and the loss of property were equivalent. Her evasive answer and false suggestion that the love of people and the love of property are mutually exclusive point to a Marxist disregard for private property.
Mitchell argues in his new book that,
Today's social justice warriors of the radical left embody a toxic combination of the Nietzschean will to power and Puritan moralism, secularized but no less rigorous than its earlier religious instantiation. . . . For Nietzsche, life is nothing but the will to power: the attempt to assert oneself against others who are motivated by the same headlong drive. The Puritan is motivated by a quest for moral and political purity.
Sounds a lot like the sanctimonious mayhemaniacs storming America's ramparts, demanding that al fresco diners raise their fists in a coerced demonstration of "support" for their cause.
On a Precipice
America teeters precariously on a precipice, over the edge of which lies the socialist utopia for which aging Marxists have longed. The division in America is now so great that a civil war looms possible. A few more "struggle sessions" in which colorless persons are hounded into self-flagellation over their white skin just might push us over the precipice.
Private property—gone. Speech rights—gone. True marriage—gone. Nuclear families—gone. Theologically orthodox Christianity—gone. Well, maybe not gone but definitely under siege.
There simply does not exist a consensus of commonly held values to unite the country. Do decent conservatives really have anything in common with neo pagan, decadent, hedonistic , abortion loving , socialistic leftists? What rational person views the demented, criminal, Biden as a legitimate President. Sorry, bad times ahead.
Dec. 16, 1773 - The Boston Tea Party insurrection. American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped more than 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest tea taxes.
There are socialists in the Democrat Party.
A few of them.
Too many in the media throw around the word “socialism” without really knowing anything about it.
Socialism/communism is all about “evening” things out. The world is divided into percentages of wealth. Those who are above the 50% line must “give” to those below the 50% line. This, in their minds, evens or balances everything out.
It sounds good to poor or stupid or lazy people.
The amount of foolish assumptions in this theory is astounding!
People are going to work to give themselves less?
They don’t understand humans at all. They dream and wish.
Let us take that great Democrat socialist, Nancy Pelosi, as an example.
She showed everyone her really expensive freezers filled with really expensive ice cream.
No real socialist would ever do that.
They would be too ashamed.
They would be publicly humiliates by their fellow socialists.
What is Nancy Pelosi if she is not a Democrat socialist?
Well, first off, she’s a liar.
If she’s willing to lie about her reasons for being in politics, what else will she lie about?
Everything.
Lying is who she is.
“I’m eating $40 pints of ice cream for you! The little people!”
Dec. 16, 1773 - The Boston Tea Party insurrection. American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped more than 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest tea taxes.
Dec 16 1773 - The Conservative Patriot insurrection. Millions of American Conservatives dump their cable tv.
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