Black Lives Matter. Whether you like it or not.

Let's talk about Black Lives Matter.

There are a lot of lies about Black Lives Matter that need to be dispelled. Where do the lies come from, you ask? The disinformation campaign actively being perpetrated against BLM stems from White supremacists needing to marginalize the group to discredit it. A large, well funded, and organized group that is specifically geared to uplift the Black community is very dangerous to White supremacy. Throughout history you can see examples of these tactics being used against Black rights groups and activists. Huey Newton and The Black Panthers, Martin Luther King and The Freedom Riders, Farrakhan and The Nation of Islam, W. E. B. Du Bois and The NAACP, Marcus Garvey and the UNIA-ACL, etc. were all victims of attempts to discredit and marginalize them.
Sometimes it works.

Sometimes it doesn't and people end up getting shot.

So, the lies.

1. Black Lives Matter is a terrorist group that condones and even encourages violence.

This is the most dangerous lie that people tell. Condemning a group like Black Lives Matter as a terrorist group is a tactic that people want to use to allow police to violently crackdown on protesters. Once you call them terrorists all bets are off. Tear gas wouldn't just be acceptable but encouraged. The police would get to use all that shiny new military gear they've been itching to break out since they bought it for cheap from the government. Lots of innocent people will die for exercising their first amendment rights. This lie must be countered always.

Quotes from BLM activists on anti-police violence;

“The Black Lives Matter movement is a movement against police violence, and this was an act of violence,” - Nate Bowling, BLM supporter.

“The movement began as a call to end violence,” Mckesson told The New York Times. “That call remains.” - DeRay Mckesson, Campaign Zero.

"I hate police brutality. I don't hate police. This violence is wrong on every level. It is as American as apple pie, but wrong nonetheless." - Shaun King, on the Dallas Police shootings.

"Black activists have raised the call for an end to violence, not an escalation of it. Yesterday’s attack was the result of the actions of a lone gunman. To assign the actions of one person to an entire movement is dangerous and irresponsible. We continue our efforts to bring about a better world for all of us." - Black Lives Matter, on the Dallas Police shootings.

Black Lives Matter is not a hate group - Time

2. Black Lives Matter protests always end in riots and looting.

My own research, since no one else seems to have ever listed how many were actually riots, turns up Seven. Milwaukee, St. Paul, Ferguson, Oakland, Charlotte, Baltimore, and San Diego. Seven. Out of 1,635. Not even close to all. Not even many. So why aren't these 1,628 protests getting any attention? Well, because they're peaceful so no one gives a shit. They don't fit the narrative of the angry Black mob that White people should fear so they're completely ignored.

3. Black Lives Matter doesn't care about Black on Black crime.

From the Black Lives Matter website's list of misconceptions about BLM:

The movement doesn’t care about black-on-black crime. The idea that black-on-black crime is not a significant political conversation among black people is patently false. In Chicago, long maligned for its high rates of intraracial murder, members of the community created the Violence Interrupters to disrupt violent altercations before they escalate. However, those who insist on talking about black-on-black crime frequently fail to acknowledge that most crime is intraracial. Ninety-three percent of black murder victims are killed by other black people. Eighty-four percent of white murder victims are killed by other white people. The continued focus on black-on-black crime is a diversionary tactic, whose goal is to suggest that black people don’t have the right to be outraged about police violence in vulnerable black communities, because those communities have a crime problem. The Black Lives Matter movement acknowledges the crime problem, but it refuses to locate that crime problem as a problem of black pathology. Black people are not inherently more violent or more prone to crime than other groups. But black people are disproportionately poorer, more likely to be targeted by police and arrested, and more likely to attend poor or failing schools. All of these social indicators place one at greater risk for being either a victim or a perpetrator of violent crime. To reduce violent crime, we must fight to change systems, rather than demonizing people.

4. Black Lives Matter doesn't care about White victims of police brutality.

When Dylan Noble was gunned down by the police in Fresno, California Black Lives Matter rallied around that cause. Because anyone being murdered by the police is wrong. Just because the group is called Black Lives Matter people want to get deep into their feels and claim that it then does not care about anyone else. This is a fallacy. The FOCUS of the group is the killing of POC by the police but that doesn't mean it isn't interested or empathetic to any other cause. The primary goal is an end to the violence.

Ask yourself this, also;

Why is it that when White people are killed by the police the "All Lives Matter" people are quiet?

5. They're racist.

Marginalize, marginalize, marginalize. Black Lives Matter is not a racist group. Sure, there are some activists that get the microphone at some rallies that are super militant. Black separatist style militant. That isn't representative of the movement or everyone in it. Black Lives Matter welcomes people of all colors to be allies for the cause. They are not excluding anyone. As POC trying not to die in America we need all the help that we can get. White people are great allies! You should not, however, expect BLM to make room for you and make you feel comfy just because you're White.

6. SOROS!

George Soros never said that he wanted to "bring down the United States by funding Black Hate groups". It never happened. Get your head out of your ass and stop reading Breitbart. They are fucking liars. Yes, Soros donated to Black Lives Matter. He's donated $11 billion all over the world. He's not the devil or the boogieman. Most of the people that dislike him do so because he is their worst nightmare; A rich Jewish liberal. Terrifying to a White supremacist.

7. BLM wants to abolish all policing.

This is false. This comes from an interview that Jessica Disu gave Megyn Kelly on Fox. This is not an official goal of Black Lives Matter.

Anyone can affiliate themselves with a group and say whatever they want. I could say right now that the goal of BLM is to take donuts away from all police and give them to the poor. That doesn't make it an official policy of Black Lives Matter. Just as anyone can go to a protest, get on a megaphone, and yell things. That doesn't make the things they're yelling the official position of that protest. Abolishing the police is not the answer. They do need a huge overhaul, though. As the orange says, we need to drain the swamp.

I'm sure I'll have to add to this in the coming days and weeks as I continue to research. For now, I just want to add this;

Everyone has their opinions and they're entitled to them. I just think that your opinion should be based on FACTS and not FEELS.

If you're intimidated by Black Lives Matter ask yourself why. Look in the mirror long and hard. Why does a group of Black people standing up for Black people threaten you?