Black Lives Matter Co-Founder: 'All Lives Matter' is a Racial Slur
"What it's gonna take to dismantle white supremacy is white folks actually gotta give up something."
2.24.2016
Posted on 02/25/2016 5:06:49 AM PST by SJackson
Jerome Hudson at Breitbart reports that Black Lives Matter co-founder Marissa Jenae Johnson told Fox News correspondent John Roberts that the phrase "all lives matter" - used to counter the "black lives matter" mantra - is a "new racial slur."
In a recent interview with Roberts, Johnson explained why "all lives matter" is a racial slur:
"White Americans have created the conditions that require a phrase like 'Black Likes Matter. Do you know how horrific it is to grow up as a child in a world that so hates you? While you're literally being gunned down in the street, while you're being rounded up and mass incarcerated and forced into prison slavery?"
Roberts didn't bother to challenge her on this, even though America is not "a world that so hates" blacks, even though prison is not the same as slavery, and even though there is no "mass incarceration" of blacks here. That phrase suggests that blacks are being rounded up en masse and herded into internment centers simply for being black, like the Japanese in World War II. The fact is that blacks who are incarcerated got there by committing serious crimes and being convicted of them as individuals in a court of law. Are blacks sometimes wrongly convicted? Tragically, yes, and that's something that must never be tolerated or left uncorrected. But Johnson does not acknowledge that blacks are a disproportionate number of convicts because they commit a hugely disproportionate number of crimes. She does not acknowledge that the vast majority of blacks "gunned down in the street" were violently resisting arrest like Ferguson's Michael Brown. She does not acknowledge that the black community bears any responsibility for its own condition.
"Black Lives Matter is not a strong enough statement for me," she added. If she really cared about black lives, she would acknowledge the scourges of black abortions and black-on-black crime. But those black lives don't push the proper narrative.
You may recall Johnson as the BLM activist who stormed the stage to interrupt candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders at a campaign rally last year. When Fox's Roberts asked her why she targeted "the far-left candidate" to protest, Johnson replied that Sanders is "left for white folks. He's left for the needs and concerns of mainstream white America."
"The Democrats have always been reliant on the black vote," Johnson added. "Part of what we're doing is waking black voters up to their power as a voting bloc within the Democratic party."
"Has the Democratic Party taken African-American voters for granted?" Roberts asked naively.
"Consistently, always," Johnson replied, laughing. "Always and forever."
And yet Roberts didn't ask her the next obvious line of questions: Then why not vote Republican for once? Why not get off the Democrat plantation if you're tired of being a victim? Why not reject the Democrat party's failure to elevate the black community? Of course, the notion of voting Republican would be unthinkable to her, because the right has been so effectively demonized as the party of rich, white racists.
When asked what needs to happen for progress to be made, Johnson threw out some vague proposals about taking down white supremacy:
"What it's gonna take to dismantle white supremacy is white folks actually gotta give up something. You have to actually sacrifice yourself. You have to be willing to give up the things that you currently benefit from."
She didn't specify what, but in any case there is no mainstream white supremacy in America. This is a country with a black President and First Lady, black Supreme Court justices, black attorney generals, black generals in the military, black CEOs, black Congresspeople and Senators, black attorneys, black judges, and on and on. There is no white supremacy apart from marginalized pockets of racist fools (remember, this is a country in which racist murderer Dylann Roof couldn't find anyone in person or online to join him in his massacre of Charleston churchgoers), nor is there any systemic white racism in America, where discrimination is illegal.
But that's how the Black Lives Matter movement must characterize America in order to justify its activism and its self-victimization.
Frankly, since they have made it clear that they don’t want effective proactive policing in their communities, I hope they have at it. We just need to somehow ensure that we don’t get the spillover. This is on them, it’s what they said they wanted, so who are we to deny them?
Not by half. It is never enough for these people. Those are just dead white guys to them, and their sacrifice means nothing to those whose main purpose in life seems to be gimmedat.
If they really believed that whites hated them, they wouldn’t make it a constant goal to follow the white flight “oppressors” who move away from them. What kind of idiot goes out of his way to follow his so-called oppressor like a parasite?
#AllLivesMatter
It’s a shame the racists on the left celebrate the thug culture that is responsible for the overwhelming majority of shootings on our streets - primarily young black males.
It’s a shame the racists on the left celebrate abortion, which kills the overwhelming majority of black babies who do not survive to birth.
It’s a shame the racists on the left celebrate Obamacare and other socialist programs that are responsible for turning black Americans into dependent vassals of professional leftist politicians.
If racists on the left believed All Lives Matter, they would reject big government liberalism, and all Americans would be better off. Given the overwhelming failures of the welfare state, especially for minorities, blacks would benefit most from the freedom that comes with reversing the ongoing transition to socialism.
This wasn’t enough?
Wow...what a scathing record of the aftermath of battle...do you know the location of that photo...?
All we whities need a beat down for good measure.
Ain’t OBAMUNISM great??
This buffoon goes on to say, “White folks actually gotta give up something.” Is she not aware that white folks have basically given up our cities? That the welfare checks you receive come mostly from white folks paychecks? Ms. Hudson, I think we’ve given you enough, stop playing the victim and work on getting your folks straightened out! Your group seems to be the only folks that refuse to acclimate, it only hurts your race.
TV has got to where these days a militant black attitude is
being pushed. Last night on one of the “black family
comedies”, the father of the family delivered a most
“eloquent” diatribe against Whitey & Cops, seemed to be
justifying the rioting and looting. (No amount of welfare is
ever going to be enough in Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society”.) I am sick of the black women’s characters being
pushed on TV, big-mouthed, big asses.
To people of this ilk, EVERYTHING is a racial slur.
“What it’s gonna take to dismantle white supremacy is white folks actually gotta give up something”
Like what, logic, reason and applicable knowledge? Yeah, right...Like I could just voluntarily give that up.
All lives matter because all people have worth. Black lives are included in “all lives”. But to these racists all that matters is “black is right, white is wrong”.
...by people of your own color.
Finished his thought.
"What it's gonna take to dismantle white supremacy is white folks actually gotta give up something. You have to actually sacrifice yourself. You have to be willing to give up the things that you currently benefit from."
She didn't specify what, ...
Geez, either the author is incredibly dense, or is unwilling or afraid to speak the truth. It is clear what this leech wants. Anyone who has ever held me up on the street or carjacked me while driving has always wanted one thing and one thing only: my money. They don't give a crap about my political ideology or how I am voting in the coming election. All they want is whitey's money, and then maybe kill him for the thrill of it.
As Rush would say, "by the way", did anyone pick up on the "white folks" racist dog whistle, especially the "folks" part? Who else do we all know does the "folks" this and "folks" that routine? Why do black racists always fall back on that old saw pejorative (the way they use it)?
I’m not disputing your point, simply adding to it-
And unless blacks really are just overgrown children, they are complicit in responsibility for choosing to accept these things. They can’t have it both ways.
Need? We’re getting it, in the form of all the knockdown “games”, “polar bear hunting”, etc, which get absolutely no attention much less outrage from the msm.
Excellent point
I am perfectly willing to stop oppressing blacks by the mere presence of my white self, as are many whites, hence white flight. But I never saw a people so determined to be oppressed, as they will follow their so-called oppressors to the ends of the earth.
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