Meme - Xi Jinping: "We develop new spy balloons that US military won't touch"
"Black Lives Matter"
The forgotten alliance between Black activists and China - The Washington Post - "the most vocal support for Black lives from Asia came from the representatives of Beijing. State-run media outlets such as the Global Times and the China Daily published hundreds of articles related to the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent unrest. Lijian Zhao, a spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry, described the United States’ race problem as a “social ill” and argued that “Black Lives Matter and their human rights should be protected.” Another spokesperson, Hua Chunying, affirmed a now common refrain of the movement by tweeting, “I can’t breathe.”... For decades, Black activists argued that race matters in foreign relations. Without a commitment to human and civil rights, U.S. diplomacy is an engine running on fumes. Only moral leadership, they believed, could reinvigorate democracy and prevent the world from spiraling into less favorable hands. If China’s worldview risks substituting one form of domination for another, then the current Black Lives Matter movement, with its grass-roots, multiracial coalition, paints a more hopeful picture. Like their 20th century predecessors, the two have common cause: Both seek an end to racial subjugation and poverty on a global scale. But only the latter, in its inclusiveness and refusal to adhere to old hierarchies and racial boundaries, can move us beyond “the color-line,” toward a day when liberty and dignity can be enjoyed by all."
They know how to play the system. Anyhow the historical cooperation is because they had (and still have) a common enemy. BLM has been revealed to be a grift, but that hasn't stopped naive liberals supporting it
Latinos must confront 'ingrained' anti-black racism amid George Floyd protests, some urge - "White-presenting Latinos should use this time to "reconcile with the privilege" their light skin gives them in systems tainted with white supremacy and figure out ways to use it in a productive way, Sanz said. Jasmine Haywood, an Afro-Latina who has researched anti-black Latino racism, told NBC News that millennial Latinos like Sanz are looking to break cycles of internalized racism and the ways Latinos perpetuate and uphold white supremacy."
Some BIPOCs are more equal than others
Meme - Nike @Nike: "We will continue to stand up for equality and work to break down barriers for athletes* all over the world... BLACK LIVES MATTER. How Nike Stands Up For Equality"
"Nike BEGS Portland mayor for police protection to reopen shuttered community store plagued with retail theft"
U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder in protester's shooting death in Texas - "A U.S. Army sergeant who fatally shot a protester in 2020 at an Austin demonstration against police brutality and racial injustice was convicted Friday of murder. A Travis County jury found Daniel Perry, 35, guilty in the death of Garrett Foster, 28... Police said Perry, based at the time 70 miles north at Fort Hood, was driving in downtown Austin on the evening of July 25, 2020, when he encountered demonstrators in the street and came to a stop. Witnesses told NBC affiliate KXAN of Austin that Perry aggressively accelerated before stopping. Foster was legally carrying a semiautomatic rifle when he approached the intersection where protesters had gathered, police said, and was fatally shot by Perry, who stayed in the vehicle and used a handgun. Perry claimed to police that Foster, a U.S. Air Force veteran, had pointed the weapon at him, inspiring him to shoot in self-defense"
Even if you believe that this wasn't self-defence, the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was at fault for bringing a gun to a demonstration, which provoked people into attacking him, are not going to condemn Foster for doing the same thing
Officer testifies Garrett Foster had been warned about the way he carried his rifle at earlier protests - "a police officer testified he had seen officers warn Foster at previous protests that he was carrying his rifle in a dangerous manner. Senior Austin officer Brent Cleveland said during Perry's trial late Thursday that Foster was "visibly and verbally not receptive" to the police criticism. Cleveland said he never spoke to Foster but had seen him carry an AK-47 in a strap slung with the barrel pointed down in previous protests. He told jurors that if Perry had raised the barrel even a small amount, it could be considered threatening. AK-47 rifle bullets can penetrate car doors and police vests, Cleveland said. The officer testified that if he had encountered someone with an AK-47 who was carrying the rifle slung down like Foster was, and that person raised the barrel slightly, then he would shoot them... Alexandria Bills, who was an Austin police crime scene specialist at the time of the shooting, also testified Friday that she examined Perry's car after the shooting and lifted 24 sets of fingerprints off of it. Defense attorneys have said Perry was threatened by a crowd of protesters who surrounded his car and banged on it."
href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dzh2fq">BBC Radio 4 - Best of Today, Police bodycam footage shows abuse of Tyre Nichols - "‘The fact that the officers were themselves black has added an extra layer of pain but Mr Nichols mother Rovonne Wells told me the issue was the race of the victim, not the race of the police’
‘What they did was wrong and what they're doing to a, the black communities is wrong. We don't care that it's a black police officer, you're a police officer and you're a bad police officer. That's what we're focusing on, the bad police. We're not worried about the race of the police officer, we're worried about the conduct the conduct of the police officer’"
This is telling. They only care when black people are the "victims"
href="https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/stolen-camera-burglars-milwaukee/">Stolen camera live still streaming from burglar's home in Milwaukee - "The two men snatched thousands of dollars worth of tools from the house near 74th Street and Silver Spring Drive. They apparently also unwittingly grabbed a security camera that is still transmitting from their kitchen table... She shared video recorded Monday, a week after the burglary, still in the home of the burglar. "We're seeing people doing drugs. We're seeing people talk about how they sold the stuff, where the money went." Winship said she can only assume they don't realize the camera is still transmitting."
The man is wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt
href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/blm-chapters-sue-organization-head-over-alleged-10-million-theft/">BLM Chapters Sue Organization Head for Alleged $10 Million Theft - "A lawsuit filed by a coalition of 26 Black Lives Matter (BLM) chapters has accused the organization’s foundation head of “unjust enrichment,” specifically the theft of $10 million in charitable contributions for personal expenditures. Black Lives Matter Grassroots claims that Shalomyah Bowers, the leader of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, defrauded the local activist groups by siphoning funds away from them... Bowers denied that he engaged in financial misconduct, suggesting that the BLM grassroots network is complicit in systemic racism in launching litigation against him... Bowers said the complainants, who named him and the headquarters in the suit, have fallen “victim to the carceral logic and social violence that fuels the legal system.” “They would rather take the same steps of our white oppressors and utilize the criminal legal system which is propped up by white supremacy (the same system they say they want to dismantle) to solve movement disputes,” the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation’s board of directors, on which Bowers serves, said in a joint statement."
href="https://ifunny.co/picture/oKvMyF1TA">Meme - Bomb on Combat Aircraft: "Black Lives Matter"
Keywords: Missile, Fighter Jet, Bomber Aircraft, BLM
href="https://unherd.com/2020/06/why-dont-black-lives-matter/">Has BLM picked the wrong target? - "While a black Brit may have personally experienced racism, chances are the Nigerian in Nigeria hasn’t. Yet both clearly seem to have shared something unifying in recent weeks, and I have wondered what exactly is at play here, beyond the ubiquitous and increasingly indefinite concept of ‘racism’. A discernible majority of the black opinion I have engaged points to the key role of another, slightly more specific, R-word: Respect... Whether it is Libyans selling black Africans into slavery, which is happening right now, Chinese people contemptuously discriminating against blacks in China, or Indians doing same in India, a general low regard for black people across the world does seem to be a constant. In fact, the reason we focus on racism in the West and not elsewhere is because western societies are the most responsive to black opinion. As a general rule, the Chinese, Indians and Arabs don’t seem to care very much whether we consider them racist or not. Their societies are openly assertive of their felt superiority. So we know about the negative perceptions of black people created by slavery and colonialism, but what exactly is driving this hierarchy today? “White supremacist propaganda”, according to the BLM narrative. Western movies and media contain overt and covert messages propagating black inferiority. These are internalised by white people and others, including black people, thus sustaining global belief in black inferiority. Hence, the ongoing campaign to pull movies and TV shows deemed racist from the sites of Netflix et al... The “white-supremacist messaging drives global disrespect for black people and black self-hate” argument was technically plausible in the 20th-century, when Western entertainment and media were essentially the only game in town. But since the beginning of this century, we’ve lived in a world where people have access to multiple sources of information, can follow who they want on social media and one where Nigerians watch more Nollywood movies than Hollywood movies. Yet, white people are still welcomed with open arms everywhere while black people are often not. So what gives? It is surprising to see radical Leftists so focused on white-supremacy ideology as the great explainer of racism, when Marx himself clearly argued it is the material which determines the ideological, rather than the other way around. We live in a capitalist world, hence, our values are shaped by capitalism’s values, both at conscious and subconscious levels. What does capitalism value most? Wealth and success. So these are what impress most of the world today. It is why even intellectuals who love bashing capitalism make sure to emphasise they are “best-selling” authors on their social-media profiles. It is why most people adopt an instinctively respectful tone in the presence of the significantly successful. They listen to their words attentively, like they expect to hear something worth knowing. Because, like it not, the world has bought into the idea of success being an indicator of specialness... Nigerian scholar and historian Toyin Falola characterised contemporary black-white relations thus: “If Europeans regarded Africans as the ‘primitive Other’, the colonial experience enabled Africans to construct themselves as a terrorised race, raped and exploited by the patriarchal, powerful ‘white Other’.” This reactive construct of Africanness resembles very much the construct of global blackness offered by the BLM school of thought. The problem with this approach is that it appears more interested in portraying the present vulnerability of the black collective as a moral virtue rather than focusing on eliminating that vulnerability. It obsesses over the appeal and power of whiteness, instead of trying to figure out how to make blackness more appealing and powerful. This construct may inspire the world’s sympathy, but it will not win its respect. Perpetual sympathy without respect means being viewed as a perpetual victim... The achievement of black strength and resultant respect can come from a consciously determined focus on black economic advancement within the diaspora populations and, crucially, in Africa. The Jewish story is a great example of collective vulnerability transformed into collective strength in the space of a generation"
This is McCarthyism in BLM clothing - "The first sign that something was amiss was Blackout Tuesday, when friends were posting black squares on Instagram and other platforms. Not only was this gesture taken up by celebrities, media organisations and large corporations, but those who were thought to have posted clumsily, insincerely or self-servingly – or who had failed to post at all – were criticised and called out. How had an innocuous expression of solidarity immediately become the focus for recrimination and shaming? Later the same week, my employer and my trade union emailed me on the same day, both proudly announcing their support for the protesters’ cause. How had an avowedly anti-establishment protest become the basis for consensus?... First, there is the pressure to adopt certain behaviours or say certain things. This is not just a matter of posting the correct hashtags and properly worded messages on social media, where a culture of calling out and clapping back has become normalised, though that is bad enough. The same imperative now extends to the offline world, where people perform self-abasing rituals of obeisance, such as taking the knee and foot-washing, and declaim public admissions of inherited guilt. Even if kneeling politicians are seen by many as performing superficial gestures for the cameras, there is still pressure to conform and vilification of those who refuse – as Daily Mail columnist and serial dissenter Peter Hitchens discovered when he was followed through the streets by a group of protesters angry at his presence. It is also difficult simply to opt out of obligatory confessions of guilt and professions of support, since silence is now deemed to be equal to complicity with violence – reminiscent of those whose refusal to answer accusations about their un-American activities in the 1940s and 1950s was taken by Senator Joseph McCarthy as ‘the most positive proof’ of guilt. Secondly, there has been a symbolic cleansing of the public sphere... It was broadcasters who pulled an episode of the much-loved 1970s sitcom Fawlty Towers, for example, and it was rugby football’s governing body that suggested banning fans from singing ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot’. The cultural illiteracy of these new puritans is astounding. Fawlty Towers featured racist attitudes in order to ridicule them, and rugby fans were singing a song written in the 19th century by a former slave and adopted by the 1960s civil-rights movement. Before Prince Harry waded in to offer his support for banning a song ‘associated with slavery’, perhaps someone should have told him it had previously been proscribed as ‘undesired and harmful’ by the Nazis, or that one of the most famous versions of the song is the 1920s recording by Paul Robeson, later targeted by the McCarthyites for his radical political activism. Thirdly, and most worryingly, people’s attitude to BLM has become grounds for being suspended or sacked from their jobs, particularly in the media and universities. The ever-lengthening list of things that can get you in trouble at work includes saying ‘All Lives Matter’, saying ‘Canada is not a racist country’ (a view shared by most Canadians), criticising the concept of ‘white privilege’ and questioning the relevance of BLM protests on the Isle of Man. Even tactical criticism of BLM is dangerous – as data analyst David Shor found when he questioned the political effectiveness of rioting. Shor was only summarising the research of a black academic, but that did not prevent him from being accused of ‘anti-blackness’, since quotation and context are now no defence. People have been suspended and investigated for reportedly quoting someone saying ‘a word that should never be used’ during a news editorial meeting, and even for reading out Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail during a lecture on the history of racism... An anonymous (black) history professor at Berkeley wrote that he did not dare publicly voice his criticisms of BLM because ‘dissent could almost certainly lead to expulsion or cancellation’. His concerns seem entirely justified. Students at Cornell have demanded that a professor be fired for questioning whether a well-publicised incident of a protester being pushed to the ground should be described as police brutality, for example, and academics have petitioned the management of the Journal of Political Economy to remove its editor after he criticised BLM’s call to defund the police. Astonishingly, dozens of poets have also petitioned the management of the Poetry Foundation, demanding that its president be replaced and that the governing board issue a ‘meaningful statement’ in support of BLM. The Foundation’s mistake, apparently, was that its initial statement of solidarity was too ‘vague’ and ‘contained no details, action plans, or concrete commitments’. Even if all the accusations were true, all the accused were indeed guilty, all the words, songs and films deeply offensive, do we really want to live in a world of political-purity tests for opinions, words, artworks, films and songs? We will all be like the Hollywood Ten, our future job prospects dependent on professing the correct political views... Freedom of speech, already under attack for years, is particularly threatened by identity politics. From that perspective, words, ideas and cultural symbols are understood not as things to be interrogated and argued over, but as defining – and so potentially threatening to – one’s very sense of selfhood... Ultimately, we are asked to distrust ourselves. According to the new gurus of unconscious bias and race awareness, our sincerely held beliefs about ourselves cannot be taken at face value... The graphic is currently circulating among psychologists and other health professionals, who may soon begin to diagnose racism as something akin to a disease or a mental disorder. The really radical change is to separate us from each other and strip us intellectually naked before the inquisitorial eye of the new thoughtpolice of trainers and awareness-raisers."
How can the Black Lives Matter riots be justified, whereas the “Stop the Steal” riot is not? « Law# « Cambridge Core Blog - "During the middle of the Stop the Steal riot on Wednesday, some commentators on social media argued that this showed how those who defended Black Lives Matter riots in the summer were wrong. At first glance it seems like the height of hypocrisy to defend rioting by protestors for a cause you support, while condemning rioting by your political opponents. It is far more prudential to simply do what President-elect Joe Biden has done, and condemn all forms of political violence. But this approach is misguided because it neglects a crucial difference between the two sets of riots—the Black Lives Matter riots were democracy preserving, whereas the pro-Trump riots were a direct attack on democracy."
Democracy involves rioting. Amazing. Given that BLM is based on lies this article is rich
Teen Who Filmed George Floyd’s Death Says Minneapolis Police ‘Killed My Uncle’ Following Fatal Car Crash - "A video captured by teenager Darnella Fraizer was key in the investigation of the murder of George Floyd. Since then, the teenager has been the focus of much media attention. The 18-year-old has revealed that her uncle, Leneal Lamont Frazier, died after Minneapolis police accidentally collided with his car during a high-speed pursuit of a carjacked vehicle."
Conspiracy theories are good if they help your cause
The white & the woke - "They had to make it all about themselves, didn’t they? No sooner had black Americans started protesting the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis policeman, than the whites took it over. They pushed the protests towards fighting the police. They denounced the incorrigible racism of their nation and families. They ‘took a knee’ at every opportunity, even though the posture looked oddly like the one struck by Officer Derek Charvin when he had taken a knee on George Floyd’s windpipe. The killing was the spark and the coronavirus the accelerant – when one of the Four Horsemen is around, the other three are sure to turn up sooner or later – but the dry tinder came from all over. We have seen racial protests on a scale last seen in the late Sixties. This is strange. By every index, racial equality has improved since the reforms of the Great Society... Something else is going on here. We know this because something else very quickly did go on here. The propagandists insist that the response to the killing of George Floyd was unified, and a mostly sympathetic American media has repeated this. But the truth is that the protesting, looting and rioting rapidly divided on racial lines. So did a more radical and open-ended political campaign that used the killing of George Floyd not to end police racism, but to pressure elite institutions. Black protestors in the cities tended to direct their protests at the local police and their violence at the local stores they looted. Only in St Louis, Missouri, a city especially troubled by drug-related gang violence, were the police shot at in the chaotic first week. Meanwhile, white protestors tended to respond differently, and in distinctly generational ways. When order broke down at the protests, younger whites fought the police. The instigators were the cells known as Antifa or the “black bloc”. These European-style anarcho-communists emerged from the aspic of 1968 at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017. In almost every major city after every major march, Antifa and its sympathizers fought the police. Not without reason, black protest organizers and inner-city residents complained that their cause and protests were being hijacked by woke whites. Antifa and its black-clad wannabes were also prominent as the disturbances moved into their second phase. After two weeks, the black inner-city neighborhoods had cooled. The sites of confrontation now moved out of black neighborhoods and in two directions. One path led back to a battlefield on which black and white groups had united in the early days of Black Lives Matter: attacks on statues to Robert E. Lee and other heroes of the Confederacy. The other path led to a battle with the American system itself. The targets this time were not local or state policing, or the management of communal relations, but symbols of the American founding... The further the focus of protest moved from police violence against black people, the further it moved from black neighborhoods, and the whiter the faces in the footage became. The anarchists who seceded from the United States by declaring the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in six gentrified, heavily gay and mostly white blocks of Seattle were almost entirely white. They rectified this by delegating security in their urban Eden to Raz Simmons, a black rapper who poses with a machine gun in his Twitter profile. Simmons delivered his first exemplary beating within hours of his appointment. Meanwhile, older whites – call them the weak, rather than the woke – engaged in ritual abnegations and atonements. White church leaders knelt to wash the feet of black church leaders. In Virginia, white suburbanites rallied to raise their hands, testify to their sins and announce their spiritual rebirth, as though appropriating the habits of evangelical black churches. Prominent whites in the media confessed too. Condé Nast, a top-of-the-market titan that had laid off dozens of employees due to the coronavirus, was a particular locus of revolutionary conscious raising. Anna Wintour suddenly realized that it must be hard to be black and work at Vogue. The editor of foodie magazines Bon Appétit and Epicurious resigned after it emerged that he had attended a Halloween party in the guise of a Puerto Rican... None of this had anything to do with George Floyd or police violence against black men. Nor did the revolt of the newsroom at the New York Times after it published an op-ed in which the Republican senator Tom Cotton called for the use of force against rioters, a notion endorsed by a majority of Americans. The weapons of struggle were now the thought-crime language of the private campus: institutional racism, white supremacy, whitesplaining, cultural appropriation. Those wielding them were the graduates of four-year colleges, the kind of people who can afford to take entry-level jobs in the media. Again, the white generations divided, only this time their antagonism was obvious. As with the #MeToo scandals, the young are “calling out” the complicity of the old... The generation that graduated after 2008 are lost and angry... The young American left talks like Marx, but their revolution is Tocqueville’s: the “revolution of rising expectations”. As in pre-1789 France or pre-1917 Russia, America’s educational system produces more prospective members of the elite than the state and the market can employ. The liberal order that enriched the Millennials’ grandparents and parents has failed to enrich them... The Millennials talk of “safe spaces” because there are fewer safe spaces in American life, fewer secure perches in a gig economy that makes Uber drivers out of college grads. The only safe space is now inside an institution, whether of government, education or media. Once you have that spot, the only way to protect it from the increasingly vicious competition of your peers and rivals is to outplay them in the rhetoric of identity politics. We are witnessing the end of the post-Sixties liberal system in America... The younger, radical generation is taking the civil rights of blacks as a pretext for levering their parents’ generation out of power. They have no time for free speech: why would they want anyone to describe what they’re doing?"
Black Lives Matter calls for month-long boycott of 'white companies' to support 'BlackXmas' - "Black Lives Matter has announced its seventh year of boycotting 'white companies' during the holiday season to support 'Black Xmas.' On Black Friday, the official Black Lives Matter Global Network shared an Instagram post calling to 'support Black-led-Black-serving organizations.' 'We're dreaming of a #BlackXmas. That means no spending with white companies from Black Friday until New Years Day', the official blackxmas.org site states. The group suggest three ways for its supporters to take part in Black Xmas: Build Black, Buy Black, and Bank Black. The group is encouraging its followers to 'buy exclusively from Black-owned businesses' claiming 'white-supremacist-capitalism uses policing to protect profits and steal Black life.' ... 'Great idea by blklivesmatter! def gonna make sure the local owned shops I buy from are white owned! we gotta support our own race! so glad we are finally on the same page,' @Sligresda commented. Many Twitter users also pointed to several Black Lives Matter leaders that have bought expensive houses in predominately white neighborhoods in recent years. 'Give us your money so we can buy more houses worth millions and then blame white supremacy again,' @Mikail58980053 tweeted. 'Or hear me out...build a $35k fence around your $1.4m home in a predominantly white neighborhood and BOOM liberated. Doing pretty good for a "marxist",' @ljmikeii wrote."
There used to be a term for discriminating against people based on race. Now that term is "anti-racist"
A requiem for Black Lives Matter - "Black Lives Matter has yet to receive a requiem, a summation in print. More than seven years into the globally unavoidable anti-police movement, there certainly exists a sizable BLM academic literature, dealing – as my political science colleague Bob Maranto has pointed out – with questions ranging from how the movement impacted on youth-voter turnout to the social impact of Ben & Jerry’s selling politically themed flavours of ice-cream. However, almost no one has examined how well Black Lives Matter met its initial goals: reducing the police violence that was invariably presented as ‘epidemic’ or ‘genocidal’ and reducing crime more broadly, as brothers and others came to trust a fairer criminal justice system. For that matter, whatever happened to the literally billions of dollars donated, in good faith, to national and local BLM chapters? This article takes a shot at those tough questions. In most cases, unfortunately, the blunt but real answer seems to be: Black Lives Matter had few, if any, positive impacts. Police violence is down slightly, if at all, while overall crime in BLM-affected areas has sky-rocketed back to 1990s levels. As Dr Maranto and I recently noted for Commentary magazine, rates of fatal shootings of civilians by US police – per an authoritative database from the Washington Post – appear to have hardly budged during the post-2014 BLM era... The modern leftist ‘kinder and gentle’ approach to the policing of tough urban areas has been tried over and over since its genesis during the 1960s, and the results have always been basically the same. Back in 2016, during the first wave of what has now been seven or eight years of BLM unrest in the US, a neighbourhood Chicago paper – with a heavily black readership – ran the tear-jerking but unremarkable headline: ‘Chicago Police Stops Down 90 per cent… Gun Violence Sky-Rockets.’ Decades before this, the Miranda v Arizona and Escobedo v Illinois legal cases, fruit of the poisoned-tree evidence doctrine, both shifted the balance of power in interrogations in favour of suspects. Meanwhile, the community policing movement, ‘maximum sentence’ campaigns and so forth of the 1960s led directly to a brutal new normal for American crime, which endured until the Bill Clinton and Rudy Giuliani backlash of the fed-up post-OJ 1990s... there seems little doubt of a causal relationship here. The highly professional CCCJ report notes that: ‘Homicides, aggravated assaults and gun assaults rose significantly beginning in late May and June of 2020.’ As we know, George Floyd died on 25 May 2020, and widespread unrest and police pullback began almost immediately afterward... donations to BLM-related causes – the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) and other NGOs at the heart of international BLM – between May and December 2020 amounted to $10.6 billion... a shortlist of causes to receive at least a six-figure grant from BLMGNF includes: ‘Trans United, the Audrey Lorde Project (Trans Justice), Black Trans Circles, the Transgender District, the Black Trans Travel Fund, the Okra Project, For the Gworls, the Trans Justice Funding Project, the Trans Housing Coalitions Homeless Black Trans Women’s Fund, Black Trans Media, and Black Trans Femmes in the Arts.’ Very probably, BLMGNF – an entity which is ‘unapologetically queer’ – has committed more money to gay and particularly trans-advocacy organisations than to black groups focused on improving the ‘hood’ or fighting police brutality. Indeed, a collective of urban Black Lives Matter chapters known as the #BLM10, which includes the significant New Jersey and Hudson Valley branches of the organisation, has publicly complained that its chapters have received ‘little to no financial support’ since BLM’s launch in 2013. Be that as it may, organisational contributions and individual speaking fees have certainly enabled a pleasant lifestyle for the Black Lives Matter national leadership team, as well as those affiliated with the charities they support... From my perspective on a typical American street, however, a quick and negative summary of the effects of BLM comes immediately to mind: Black Lives Matter got a lot of black people killed."
The liberal cope is that black people killed by the police is a huge tragedy because the state, which is supposed to protect you, has failed, whereas black people killing each other doesn't matter because the state isn't involved. From the perspective of the dead black people and those affected by their deaths, that doesn't matter, of course (even if we pretend that all the black people killed by police were innocent)
