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RIP, BLM
American Thinker ^ | October 15, 2025 | Jeremy Egerer

Posted on 10/15/2025 1:43:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Because of slavery and Jim Crow and too many movies like The Help, there was a point where I genuinely cared about the plight of black Americans in general.

But these days I’m a little picky.  When people say “Black Lives Matter,” I like to ask, which ones?  Because Black Lives Matter already pretended “all of them,” and if we’re being honest, it felt a lot like No Lives Matter.

How can you say lives matter, for instance, when you don’t care how they live?  And how can you say “people are important” without asking them to take themselves seriously?  What we found was that BLM wanted something more than just life: They demanded a total suspension of basic justice.  They wanted to suspend the very laws of cause and effect and physics.  If there was a crazy demand, they wanted you to just give in.  If a criminal was attacking women, they wanted you to just back off.  Evidence?  No time for that, I’m afraid.  If you had a counter-argument, they wanted you to shut up.  If you worked harder and did a better job at your job, they just wanted you to lose the promotion.  And if you won, they wanted you to hand over the extra money.

No voice — no rights — no self-esteem?  Call me crazy, but it sounds as though what Black Lives Matter really needed was slaves.

There were shirts printed all over the country that said “QUIET, A BLACK WOMAN IS SPEAKING,” and they meant it.  They said white history is too white, so they wanted a history that’s all black.  They said they didn’t want to see your models on TV or billboards or magazines — they wanted their own models on everything instead.  Your movies?  Last place at the Emmys.  Your music?...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: blacklivesmatter; blm

1 posted on 10/15/2025 1:43:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I read your title as:
Rip Jim.
My heart sank.


2 posted on 10/15/2025 1:45:27 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Dang ... I knew Trump was serious about cutting back on the size and scope of government ... but axing the entire Bureau of Land Management?


3 posted on 10/15/2025 1:46:20 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Ben Shapiro debates BLM.
4 posted on 10/15/2025 1:51:33 PM PDT by know.your.why (</I>)
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To: NorthMountain
Not that BLM, silly. This is about the Bash Lighter Melanins group,
or is it the Boneheaded Liberal Morons group,
or the Big Lard Mamas group?
5 posted on 10/15/2025 1:51:45 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

It’s gotta be the Big Loud Malefactors ...


6 posted on 10/15/2025 1:55:03 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And the founders/leaders stole money from BLM to buy mansions and luxury cars.


7 posted on 10/15/2025 2:02:22 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: SkyDancer

N word Rich is what its called


8 posted on 10/15/2025 2:20:21 PM PDT by al baby (Whoopie Cushion Goldberg )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

BLM is / was a hypocritical fundraising scam. If black lives truly matter matter why is there no concern for the black lives lost daily in Chicago in New York in you-name-the-American city? And when you choose a life- long thug and drug addict like George Floyd as your cause celebre what does that say?!


9 posted on 10/15/2025 4:19:14 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Ok In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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To: al baby

So far nothing but crickets and frogs from the MSM. Now if it was a WLM group .....


10 posted on 10/15/2025 4:35:11 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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