Do Black Lives Matter Activists Care About the Facts?

[BuckToothMoron]

Do Black Lives Matter Activists Care About the Facts?

You've heard it before, "Hands Up, Don't Shoot!" It seems that no matter what the outcome, no matter what facts bubble up, BLM activists never change their position on a perceived "injustice" once committed to a cause. They ignored the injuries sustained by George Zimmerman and the testimony of the eye witness. They ignored the evidence in the Michael Brown case which lead to a riot. In every or any case involving a white police officer and a black suspect, it would seem the facts don't matter. Sides are chosen immediately after the incident hits the internet and no matter what the facts demonstrate, BLM seems to continue on with the evil police narrative whether that be the case or not. In fact, studies demonstrate that they are wrong about police brutality on black suspects. So my question is simple: Do BLM Activists Care About the Facts?

The Numbers Are In: Black Lives Matter Is Wrong about Police, by David French, National Review

Are you assuming they accept those as fact? Do you know what they see as facts?

It's quite easy to see what's on their minds, what they're thinking, and how they're portraying events of perceived "injustice." They don't exactly try to hide it. They're on the news, on Facebook, they have their own website, they grant interviews, and have their own twitter account. Moreover, well over a year after Michael Brown they're still saying "Hands up, don't shoot," despite no substantiating evidence that was the case. I think we know they're playing fast and loose with the facts.

Black Lives Matter Freedom & Justice for all Black Lives
Black Lives Matter (@Blklivesmatter) | Twitter
News about #blacklivesmatter on Twitter
Black Lives Matter

So would you conclude they have another agenda?

 

[BuckToothMoron]

In 1906, W.E.B. Du Bois, a great Black educator and social activist, said:

"Blacks are going to have to realize that white people are not the cause of everything that goes wrong in their lives."

Du Bois...and America, too....are still waiting.

Of course that statement has a modicum of truth...Blacks like Clarence Thomas and Ward Connerly play a major part in some things that go wrong in Black's lives.

What role do they play?

 

[Pete7469]

BLM is just another leftwing extremists terror group. No leftwing groups care about facts period. Least of all facts that completely discredit and marginalize them because their grievances are bullshit.

 

[Publius1787]

Blacks kill each other in far larger numbers than racist whites or bad cops. Black lives mater seems to be deaf to their own message, just preachy to whites and it make them seem a mockery to their own cause.

The Data makes a mockery of their cause.

Murder Arrests by Race in 2014 (2015 data not complete)

Expanded Homicide Data Table 3

Whites and Hispanic-Whites were arrested in 31.4% of all 2014 murder cases despite making up 63.7% of the U.S. population. Blacks were arrested in 37.2% of all 2014 murders despite making up only 12.2% of the U.S. population. Of all arrests where someone was charged with murder, Whites/Hispanic Whites were arrested at a rate of 44.7% despite making up 72.4% of the U.S. population and Blacks were arrested at a rate of 53% despite making up only 12.2%of the U.S. population.

(Note: Since the FBI’s 2014 Uniform Crime Reporting counts Hispanic or Latino in the White offender category we cannot truly ascertain how many Whites & Non-Hispanic Whites were arrested for murders)

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The Color of Crime 2016 revised edition

• The evidence suggests that if there is police racial bias in arrests it is negligible. Victim and witness surveys show that police arrest violent criminals in close proportion to the rates at which criminals of different races commit violent crimes.

• There are dramatic race differences in crime rates. Asians have the lowest rates, followed by whites, and then Hispanics. Blacks have notably high crime rates. This pattern holds true for virtually all crime categories and for virtually all age groups.

• In 2013, a black was six times more likely than a non-black to commit murder, and 12 times more likely to murder someone of another race than to be murdered by someone of another race.

• In 2013, of the approximately 660,000 crimes of interracial violence that involved blacks and whites, blacks were the perpetrators 85 percent of the time. This meant a black person was 27 times more likely to attack a white person than vice versa. A Hispanic was eight times more likely to attack a white person than vice versa.

• In 2014 in New York City, a black was 31 times more likely than a white to be arrested for murder, and a Hispanic was 12.4 times more likely. For the crime of “shooting” — defined as firing a bullet that hits someone — a black was 98.4 times more likely than a white to be arrested, and a Hispanic was 23.6 times more likely.

• If New York City were all white, the murder rate would drop by 91 percent, the robbery rate by 81 percent, and the shootings rate by 97 percent.

• In an all-white Chicago, murder would decline 90 percent, rape by 81 percent, and robbery by 90 percent.

• In 2015, a black person was 2.45 times more likely than a white person to be shot and killed by the police. A Hispanic person was 1.21 times more likely. These figures are well within what would be expected given race differences in crime rates and likelihood to resist arrest.

• In 2015, police killings of blacks accounted for approximately 4 percent of homicides of blacks. Police killings of unarmed blacks accounted for approximately 0.6 percent of homicides of blacks. The overwhelming majority of black homicide victims (93 percent from 1980 to 2008) were killed by blacks.

• Both violent and non-violent crime has been declining in the United States since a high in 1993. 2015 saw a disturbing rise in murder in major American cities that some observers associated with “depolicing” in response to intense media and public scrutiny of police activity.

Don't believe the HYPE: Compare teh FBI Crime report to the above BS:View attachment 71803

You've chosen to look at metropolitan counties. Two observations. 1. The DOJ counts Hispanics and Latinos as "White." 2. What are the populations for each demographic in the metropolitan counties? For example, blacks make up 13% of the total US population but 50% of our nations murders. That's national data. What's the population of the segment of society you chose to look at for each demographic within that segment of society?

 

[2aguy]

Blacks kill each other in far larger numbers than racist whites or bad cops. Black lives mater seems to be deaf to their own message, just preachy to whites and it make them seem a mockery to their own cause.

The Data makes a mockery of their cause.

Murder Arrests by Race in 2014 (2015 data not complete)

Expanded Homicide Data Table 3

Whites and Hispanic-Whites were arrested in 31.4% of all 2014 murder cases despite making up 63.7% of the U.S. population. Blacks were arrested in 37.2% of all 2014 murders despite making up only 12.2% of the U.S. population. Of all arrests where someone was charged with murder, Whites/Hispanic Whites were arrested at a rate of 44.7% despite making up 72.4% of the U.S. population and Blacks were arrested at a rate of 53% despite making up only 12.2%of the U.S. population.

(Note: Since the FBI’s 2014 Uniform Crime Reporting counts Hispanic or Latino in the White offender category we cannot truly ascertain how many Whites & Non-Hispanic Whites were arrested for murders)

----------------------------------
The Color of Crime 2016 revised edition

• The evidence suggests that if there is police racial bias in arrests it is negligible. Victim and witness surveys show that police arrest violent criminals in close proportion to the rates at which criminals of different races commit violent crimes.

• There are dramatic race differences in crime rates. Asians have the lowest rates, followed by whites, and then Hispanics. Blacks have notably high crime rates. This pattern holds true for virtually all crime categories and for virtually all age groups.

• In 2013, a black was six times more likely than a non-black to commit murder, and 12 times more likely to murder someone of another race than to be murdered by someone of another race.

• In 2013, of the approximately 660,000 crimes of interracial violence that involved blacks and whites, blacks were the perpetrators 85 percent of the time. This meant a black person was 27 times more likely to attack a white person than vice versa. A Hispanic was eight times more likely to attack a white person than vice versa.

• In 2014 in New York City, a black was 31 times more likely than a white to be arrested for murder, and a Hispanic was 12.4 times more likely. For the crime of “shooting” — defined as firing a bullet that hits someone — a black was 98.4 times more likely than a white to be arrested, and a Hispanic was 23.6 times more likely.

• If New York City were all white, the murder rate would drop by 91 percent, the robbery rate by 81 percent, and the shootings rate by 97 percent.

• In an all-white Chicago, murder would decline 90 percent, rape by 81 percent, and robbery by 90 percent.

• In 2015, a black person was 2.45 times more likely than a white person to be shot and killed by the police. A Hispanic person was 1.21 times more likely. These figures are well within what would be expected given race differences in crime rates and likelihood to resist arrest.

• In 2015, police killings of blacks accounted for approximately 4 percent of homicides of blacks. Police killings of unarmed blacks accounted for approximately 0.6 percent of homicides of blacks. The overwhelming majority of black homicide victims (93 percent from 1980 to 2008) were killed by blacks.

• Both violent and non-violent crime has been declining in the United States since a high in 1993. 2015 saw a disturbing rise in murder in major American cities that some observers associated with “depolicing” in response to intense media and public scrutiny of police activity.

The abandonment, by black leadership, of policies which preached empowerment and the switch to policies which emphasize victimization and entitlement seem bizarre and self-defeating to me. I don't find it surprising, though. We started at a post-slavery unemployment rate hovering at about 100%, and now it's about 25%. Still too high, but it shows that improvement is always possible. It's gotten harder, though. The 25% are the hard-core poor. The ones who didn't have the resources available to the Thurgood Marshall's of the old South, who were raised in segregation and fought their way out. Now these inner city neighborhoods are filled with the people who couldn't get out. Put enough of them in any public school and that public school will fail. The permanent underclass.

They are our problem. They are very expensive. We can't ship them to Liberia and we can't kill them. They've got to be trained from birth to become good citizens of a service based economy if we want to break the cycle of poverty, and their poverty is something we all pay for one way or another.

Yeah, but how to you pay for single motherhood? Ask them politely to stop?

Out of Wedlock Birth Rates by Race in 2014 (2015 data not yet complete)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr62/nvsr62_03.pdf
Births to Unmarried Women

Whites: 2.9 out of 10 White children were born to a single mother in 2014.
Blacks: 7 out of 10 Black children were born to a single mother in 2014.
Hispanic: 5.29 out of 10 Hispanic children were born to a single mother in 2014.

2015 Welfare Demographics

Welfare Statistics – Statistic Brain
Whites made up 38.8 % of those on welfare in 2015 despite making up 63.7% of the U.S. population
Blacks made up 39.8 % of those on welfare in 2015 despite making up 12.2% of the U.S. population
Hispanics made up 15.7 % of those on welfare in 2015 despite making up 16.3% of the U.S. population
Asians made up 2.4% of those on welfare in 2015 despite making up 4.7% of the U.S. population

The out of wedlock birth rates over decades is what has led to the high gun murder rates in this country.....teen mothers raising boys with no adult men to teach them how to be men......

 

[MaryL]

Actually, blacks Do slay each other far more numbers than white trigger happy cops, and IF blacks lives really DO matter, Blacks better stop playing that game and get real.

 

[JQPublic1]

In 1906, W.E.B. Du Bois, a great Black educator and social activist, said:

"Blacks are going to have to realize that white people are not the cause of everything that goes wrong in their lives."

Du Bois...and America, too....are still waiting.

Of course that statement has a modicum of truth...Blacks like Clarence Thomas and Ward Connerly play a major part in some things that go wrong in Black's lives.

What role do they play?

I would say their roles encapsulate the classic definition of the world renown Uncle Tom.

 

[2aguy]

In Britain...their out of wedlock birth rates are lower, but growing..which is why they are seeing more violent crime too....

Most children will be born out of wedlock by 2016

 

[Publius1787]

Blacks kill each other in far larger numbers than racist whites or bad cops. Black lives mater seems to be deaf to their own message, just preachy to whites and it make them seem a mockery to their own cause.

The Data makes a mockery of their cause.

Murder Arrests by Race in 2014 (2015 data not complete)

Expanded Homicide Data Table 3

Whites and Hispanic-Whites were arrested in 31.4% of all 2014 murder cases despite making up 63.7% of the U.S. population. Blacks were arrested in 37.2% of all 2014 murders despite making up only 12.2% of the U.S. population. Of all arrests where someone was charged with murder, Whites/Hispanic Whites were arrested at a rate of 44.7% despite making up 72.4% of the U.S. population and Blacks were arrested at a rate of 53% despite making up only 12.2%of the U.S. population.

(Note: Since the FBI’s 2014 Uniform Crime Reporting counts Hispanic or Latino in the White offender category we cannot truly ascertain how many Whites & Non-Hispanic Whites were arrested for murders)

----------------------------------
The Color of Crime 2016 revised edition

• The evidence suggests that if there is police racial bias in arrests it is negligible. Victim and witness surveys show that police arrest violent criminals in close proportion to the rates at which criminals of different races commit violent crimes.

• There are dramatic race differences in crime rates. Asians have the lowest rates, followed by whites, and then Hispanics. Blacks have notably high crime rates. This pattern holds true for virtually all crime categories and for virtually all age groups.

• In 2013, a black was six times more likely than a non-black to commit murder, and 12 times more likely to murder someone of another race than to be murdered by someone of another race.

• In 2013, of the approximately 660,000 crimes of interracial violence that involved blacks and whites, blacks were the perpetrators 85 percent of the time. This meant a black person was 27 times more likely to attack a white person than vice versa. A Hispanic was eight times more likely to attack a white person than vice versa.

• In 2014 in New York City, a black was 31 times more likely than a white to be arrested for murder, and a Hispanic was 12.4 times more likely. For the crime of “shooting” — defined as firing a bullet that hits someone — a black was 98.4 times more likely than a white to be arrested, and a Hispanic was 23.6 times more likely.

• If New York City were all white, the murder rate would drop by 91 percent, the robbery rate by 81 percent, and the shootings rate by 97 percent.

• In an all-white Chicago, murder would decline 90 percent, rape by 81 percent, and robbery by 90 percent.

• In 2015, a black person was 2.45 times more likely than a white person to be shot and killed by the police. A Hispanic person was 1.21 times more likely. These figures are well within what would be expected given race differences in crime rates and likelihood to resist arrest.

• In 2015, police killings of blacks accounted for approximately 4 percent of homicides of blacks. Police killings of unarmed blacks accounted for approximately 0.6 percent of homicides of blacks. The overwhelming majority of black homicide victims (93 percent from 1980 to 2008) were killed by blacks.

• Both violent and non-violent crime has been declining in the United States since a high in 1993. 2015 saw a disturbing rise in murder in major American cities that some observers associated with “depolicing” in response to intense media and public scrutiny of police activity.

The abandonment, by black leadership, of policies which preached empowerment and the switch to policies which emphasize victimization and entitlement seem bizarre and self-defeating to me. I don't find it surprising, though. We started at a post-slavery unemployment rate hovering at about 100%, and now it's about 25%. Still too high, but it shows that improvement is always possible. It's gotten harder, though. The 25% are the hard-core poor. The ones who didn't have the resources available to the Thurgood Marshall's of the old South, who were raised in segregation and fought their way out. Now these inner city neighborhoods are filled with the people who couldn't get out. Put enough of them in any public school and that public school will fail. The permanent underclass.

They are our problem. They are very expensive. We can't ship them to Liberia and we can't kill them. They've got to be trained from birth to become good citizens of a service based economy if we want to break the cycle of poverty, and their poverty is something we all pay for one way or another.

Yeah, but how to you pay for single motherhood? Ask them politely to stop?

Out of Wedlock Birth Rates by Race in 2014 (2015 data not yet complete)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr62/nvsr62_03.pdf
Births to Unmarried Women

Whites: 2.9 out of 10 White children were born to a single mother in 2014.
Blacks: 7 out of 10 Black children were born to a single mother in 2014.
Hispanic: 5.29 out of 10 Hispanic children were born to a single mother in 2014.

2015 Welfare Demographics

Welfare Statistics – Statistic Brain
Whites made up 38.8 % of those on welfare in 2015 despite making up 63.7% of the U.S. population
Blacks made up 39.8 % of those on welfare in 2015 despite making up 12.2% of the U.S. population
Hispanics made up 15.7 % of those on welfare in 2015 despite making up 16.3% of the U.S. population
Asians made up 2.4% of those on welfare in 2015 despite making up 4.7% of the U.S. population

The out of wedlock birth rates over decades is what has led to the high gun murder rates in this country.....teen mothers raising boys with no adult men to teach them how to be men......

Indeed it leads to garbage like this

2014 Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in the United States and their demographics.
Most dangerous cities in the United States in 2014: FBI

1. Camden, New Jersey Camden, New Jersey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
White 17.59% (Includes both Non-Hispanic & Hispanic)
Black 48.07%
Hispanic/Latino 47.04%
Asian

2. Flint, Michigan Flint, Michigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Non-Hispanic White 35.7%
Black 56.6%
Hispanic/Latino 3.9%
Asian 0.5%

3. Detroit, Michigan Detroit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
White 7.8%
Black 82.7%
Hispanic/Latino 6.8%
Asian 1.1%

4.Oakland, California Oakland, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Non-Hispanic White 25.9%
Black 28%
Hispanic/Latino 25.4%
Asian 16.8%

5. St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Non-Hispanic White 43.6%
Black 47.5%
Hispanic/Latino 3.8%
Asian 3.2%

6.Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Non-Hispanic White 33.4%
Black 53.3%
Hispanic/Latino 10%
Asian 1.8%

7.Gary, Indiana Gary, Indiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
White 10.7% (Includes both Non-Hispanic & Hispanic)
Black 84.8%
Hispanic/Latino 5.1%
Asian 0.2%

8. Newark, New Jersey Newark, New Jersey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Non-Hispanic White 11.6%
Black 52.4%
Hispanic/Latino 33.8%
Asian 1.6%

9.Bridgeport, Connecticut Bridgeport, Connecticut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
White 39.6% (Includes both Non-Hispanic & Hispanic)
Black 34.6%
Hispanic/Latino 18.1%
Asian 3.4%

10. Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham, Alabama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
White 22.3% (Includes both Non-Hispanic & Hispanic)
Black 73.4%
Hispanic/Latino 3.6%
Asian 1%

 

[BuckToothMoron]

In 1906, W.E.B. Du Bois, a great Black educator and social activist, said:

"Blacks are going to have to realize that white people are not the cause of everything that goes wrong in their lives."

Du Bois...and America, too....are still waiting.

Of course that statement has a modicum of truth...Blacks like Clarence Thomas and Ward Connerly play a major part in some things that go wrong in Black's lives.

What role do they play?

I would say their roles encapsulate the classic definition of the world renown Uncle Tom.

How justice Thomas complicit to the oppression of Blacks?

 

[Elvis Obama]

Blacks kill each other in far larger numbers than racist whites or bad cops. Black lives mater seems to be deaf to their own message, just preachy to whites and it make them seem a mockery to their own cause.

The Data makes a mockery of their cause.

Murder Arrests by Race in 2014 (2015 data not complete)

Expanded Homicide Data Table 3

Whites and Hispanic-Whites were arrested in 31.4% of all 2014 murder cases despite making up 63.7% of the U.S. population. Blacks were arrested in 37.2% of all 2014 murders despite making up only 12.2% of the U.S. population. Of all arrests where someone was charged with murder, Whites/Hispanic Whites were arrested at a rate of 44.7% despite making up 72.4% of the U.S. population and Blacks were arrested at a rate of 53% despite making up only 12.2%of the U.S. population.

(Note: Since the FBI’s 2014 Uniform Crime Reporting counts Hispanic or Latino in the White offender category we cannot truly ascertain how many Whites & Non-Hispanic Whites were arrested for murders)

----------------------------------
The Color of Crime 2016 revised edition

• The evidence suggests that if there is police racial bias in arrests it is negligible. Victim and witness surveys show that police arrest violent criminals in close proportion to the rates at which criminals of different races commit violent crimes.

• There are dramatic race differences in crime rates. Asians have the lowest rates, followed by whites, and then Hispanics. Blacks have notably high crime rates. This pattern holds true for virtually all crime categories and for virtually all age groups.

• In 2013, a black was six times more likely than a non-black to commit murder, and 12 times more likely to murder someone of another race than to be murdered by someone of another race.

• In 2013, of the approximately 660,000 crimes of interracial violence that involved blacks and whites, blacks were the perpetrators 85 percent of the time. This meant a black person was 27 times more likely to attack a white person than vice versa. A Hispanic was eight times more likely to attack a white person than vice versa.

• In 2014 in New York City, a black was 31 times more likely than a white to be arrested for murder, and a Hispanic was 12.4 times more likely. For the crime of “shooting” — defined as firing a bullet that hits someone — a black was 98.4 times more likely than a white to be arrested, and a Hispanic was 23.6 times more likely.

• If New York City were all white, the murder rate would drop by 91 percent, the robbery rate by 81 percent, and the shootings rate by 97 percent.

• In an all-white Chicago, murder would decline 90 percent, rape by 81 percent, and robbery by 90 percent.

• In 2015, a black person was 2.45 times more likely than a white person to be shot and killed by the police. A Hispanic person was 1.21 times more likely. These figures are well within what would be expected given race differences in crime rates and likelihood to resist arrest.

• In 2015, police killings of blacks accounted for approximately 4 percent of homicides of blacks. Police killings of unarmed blacks accounted for approximately 0.6 percent of homicides of blacks. The overwhelming majority of black homicide victims (93 percent from 1980 to 2008) were killed by blacks.

• Both violent and non-violent crime has been declining in the United States since a high in 1993. 2015 saw a disturbing rise in murder in major American cities that some observers associated with “depolicing” in response to intense media and public scrutiny of police activity.

The abandonment, by black leadership, of policies which preached empowerment and the switch to policies which emphasize victimization and entitlement seem bizarre and self-defeating to me. I don't find it surprising, though. We started at a post-slavery unemployment rate hovering at about 100%, and now it's about 25%. Still too high, but it shows that improvement is always possible. It's gotten harder, though. The 25% are the hard-core poor. The ones who didn't have the resources available to the Thurgood Marshall's of the old South, who were raised in segregation and fought their way out. Now these inner city neighborhoods are filled with the people who couldn't get out. Put enough of them in any public school and that public school will fail. The permanent underclass.

They are our problem. They are very expensive. We can't ship them to Liberia and we can't kill them. They've got to be trained from birth to become good citizens of a service based economy if we want to break the cycle of poverty, and their poverty is something we all pay for one way or another.

Yeah, but how to you pay for single motherhood? Ask them politely to stop?

Out of Wedlock Birth Rates by Race in 2014 (2015 data not yet complete)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr62/nvsr62_03.pdf
Births to Unmarried Women

Whites: 2.9 out of 10 White children were born to a single mother in 2014.
Blacks: 7 out of 10 Black children were born to a single mother in 2014.
Hispanic: 5.29 out of 10 Hispanic children were born to a single mother in 2014.

2015 Welfare Demographics

Welfare Statistics – Statistic Brain
Whites made up 38.8 % of those on welfare in 2015 despite making up 63.7% of the U.S. population
Blacks made up 39.8 % of those on welfare in 2015 despite making up 12.2% of the U.S. population
Hispanics made up 15.7 % of those on welfare in 2015 despite making up 16.3% of the U.S. population
Asians made up 2.4% of those on welfare in 2015 despite making up 4.7% of the U.S. population

Yeah, but how to you pay for single motherhood? Ask them politely to stop?

You do it the same way you do it with anyone else. You educate them. You call hip-hop what it is, a culture of failure. The culture of the permanent underclass. You provide a culture in which they are respected. A culture in which they are supervised. Easier said than done, obviously, but that's the job. It starts with a recognition of just how bad an upbringing people get in the inner cities. Parenting matters. A lot. People love to go on about how much their folks did for them, and rightly so, but then they turn around and dismiss those who had no such support and failed in life as a result. People who are great-grandparents in their forties. Working three jobs to support everyone in her extended family. What can someone like that provide by way of long-term guidance? We've redefined the family in a lot of places, but in the inner cities it's been shredded. It's not easy to fix, but we all lose by ignoring it.

 

[MACAULAY]

In 1906, W.E.B. Du Bois, a great Black educator and social activist, said:

"Blacks are going to have to realize that white people are not the cause of everything that goes wrong in their lives."

Du Bois...and America, too....are still waiting.

Of course that statement has a modicum of truth...Blacks like Clarence Thomas and Ward Connerly play a major part in some things that go wrong in Black's lives.

What role do they play?

____________

They haven't signed on to the latest More Free Stuff Pity-Scam.....Black Lives Matter whose motto is:

If you don't agree with us, you're wrong.

They glomed that from the Democratic Party.

 

[Publius1787]

Do Black Lives Matter Activists Care About the Facts?

You've heard it before, "Hands Up, Don't Shoot!" It seems that no matter what the outcome, no matter what facts bubble up, BLM activists never change their position on a perceived "injustice" once committed to a cause. They ignored the injuries sustained by George Zimmerman and the testimony of the eye witness. They ignored the evidence in the Michael Brown case which lead to a riot. In every or any case involving a white police officer and a black suspect, it would seem the facts don't matter. Sides are chosen immediately after the incident hits the internet and no matter what the facts demonstrate, BLM seems to continue on with the evil police narrative whether that be the case or not. In fact, studies demonstrate that they are wrong about police brutality on black suspects. So my question is simple: Do BLM Activists Care About the Facts?

The Numbers Are In: Black Lives Matter Is Wrong about Police, by David French, National Review

Are you assuming they accept those as fact? Do you know what they see as facts?

It's quite easy to see what's on their minds, what they're thinking, and how they're portraying events of perceived "injustice." They don't exactly try to hide it. They're on the news, on Facebook, they have their own website, they grant interviews, and have their own twitter account. Moreover, well over a year after Michael Brown they're still saying "Hands up, don't shoot," despite no substantiating evidence that was the case. I think we know they're playing fast and loose with the facts.

Black Lives Matter Freedom & Justice for all Black Lives
Black Lives Matter (@Blklivesmatter) | Twitter
News about #blacklivesmatter on Twitter
Black Lives Matter

So would you conclude they have another agenda?

Of course they do. They want race oriented political power and preferential treatment. Funny, they want the exact thing civil rights aimed to stop.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=7876

BLACK LIVES MATTER (BLM)
URL :Black Lives Matter Freedom & Justice for all Black Lives

• Established in 2013, in response to the acquittal of the man who killed black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin
• Seeks to stoke black rage over the “virulent anti-Black racism” that “permeates our society”
• Says America was originally “built on Indigenous genocide and chattel slavery” and “continues to thrive on the brutal exploitation of people of color”

See also: Alicia Garza Patrisse Cullors Opal Tometi

Freedom Road Socialist Organization

Black Lives Matter (BLM) was established as an online platform in 2013 by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi. Their objective was to stoke black rage and galvanize a protest movement in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the “white Hispanic” who was tried for murder and manslaughter after he had shot and killed a black Florida teenager named Trayvon Martin in a highly publicized February 2012 altercation. Before long, “Black Lives Matter” became a rallying cry for writers, public speakers, celebrities, demonstrators, and even rioters who took up the cause of demanding an end to what BLM terms the “virulent anti-Black racism” that “permeates our society.” In 2014, BLM also adopted the slogan “Hands Up–Don’t Shoot!,” which was first popularized by Dream Defenders and grew out of that year's death of Michael Brown, a young black man in Ferguson, Missouri who was killed by a white police officer after he had tried to take the officer's handgun during a confrontation. (In the immediate aftermath of that incident, numerous racial agitators circulated the false narrative that Brown had been shot after raising his hands in submission and pleading, "Don't shoot.")

Demanding that Americans “abandon the lie that the deep psychological wounds of slavery, racism and structural oppression are figments of the Black imagination,” BLM aims to force the country to become “uncomfortable about institutional racism.” Emphasizing the permanence and intransigence of American depredations, BLM maintains that the nation's “corrupt democracy” was originally “built on Indigenous genocide and chattel slavery” and “continues to thrive on the brutal exploitation of people of color”; that “the ugly American traditions of patriarchy, classism, racism, and militarism” endure to this day; that “structural oppression” still “prevents so many from realizing their dreams”; and that blacks in the U.S. are routinely “de-humaniz[ed],” rendered “powerless at the hands of the state,” “deprived of [their] basic human rights and dignity,” and targeted for “extrajudicial killings … by police and vigilantes.” In sum, says BLM, black Americans are “collectively” subjected to “inhumane conditions” in a “white supremacist system.”

Though BLM professes to articulate the needs and grievances of black people as a whole, the organization deems it vital to go “beyond the narrow nationalism” that “merely” urges black people to “love Black, live Black, and buy Black.” That is, it focuses an added measure of attention on those blacks who, in the past, “have been marginalized within Black liberation movements.” These include, most notably, black “queer and trans,” who “bear a unique burden from a hetero-patriarchal society that disposes of us like garbage and simultaneously fetishizes us and profits off of us”; black “undocumented immigrants” who are “relegated to the shadows” of American society; black “disabled” people who “bear the burden of state-sponsored Darwinian experiments that attempt to squeeze us into boxes of normality defined by white supremacy”; and blacks who self-identify along non-traditional points of the “gender spectrum.”

To improve the allegedly abysmal condition of blacks in the United States, BLM has issued a series of non-negotiable demands. These include:

• “an end to all forms of discrimination and the full recognition of our [Blacks'] human rights”;
  
  
• “an immediate end to police brutality and [to] the murder of Black people and all oppressed people”;
  
  
• “full, living-wage employment for our people,” to ensure “our right to a life with dignity”;
  
  
• “decent housing” and “an end to gentrification”;
  
  
• the cessation of racially “discriminatory discipline practices” in the schools;
  
  
• “an end to the school-to-prison pipeline,” a term for the practice of using black students' behavioral problems as an excuse for pushing them out of the classroom and into the juvenile- and criminal-justice systems;
  
  
• “quality education for all,” including “free or affordable public university” enrollment;
  
  
• “freedom from mass incarceration and an end to the prison industrial complex,” whose hallmarks include “the over-policing and surveillance of [black] communities,” the enactment of many “racist laws,” and “the warehousing of black people”;
  
  
• “access to affordable healthy food for our neighborhoods”;
  
  
• “an aggressive attack against all laws, policies, and entities that disenfranchise any community from expressing themselves at the ballot” (e.g., Voter ID laws);
  
  
• “a public education system that teaches the rich history of Black people”;
  
  
• “the release of all U.S. political prisoners”;
  
  
• “an end to the military industrial complex that incentivizes private corporations to profit off of the death and destruction of Black and Brown communities across the globe”;
  
  
• a comprehensive Justice Department review of “systematic abuses by police departments” across the United States;
  
  
• congressional hearings investigating “the criminalization of communities of color”;
  
  
• an end to “the use of profiling on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin or religion by law-enforcement agencies”;
  
  
• the implementation of a National Plan of Action for Racial Justice by the Obama Administration, addressing “persistent and ongoing forms of racial discrimination and disparities that exist in nearly every sphere of life”;
  
  
• the release, by the office of U.S. attorney general, of “the names of all [police] officers involved in killing black people within the last five years … so they can be brought to justice—if they haven’t already”; and
  
  
• “a decrease in law-enforcement spending at the local, state and federal levels and a reinvestment [through the federal government] of that budgeted money into the black communities most devastated by poverty in order to create jobs, housing and schools.”

Several of the foregoing demands are clearly modeled on those that were put forth by the Black Panther Party in the 1960s.

In December 2014, a group of BLM protesters in the San Francisco Bay area rejected efforts by three regional police unions—in Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose—to initiate “constructive dialogue that calls for a common sense approach to very complex issues.”


Ties to the Freedom Road Socialist Organization

BLM is closely allied with numerous groups that are fronts for the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), a Marxist-Leninist entity that calls for the overthrow of capitalism. Economist and investigative journalist James Simpson has identified some of these FRSO fronts that are tied to BLM:

• National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA): seeks to develop "women-of-color leaders" to help domestic workers—who are disproportionately female and nonwhite—gain political power and promote "concrete change"; gave money to CASA de Maryland and the Institute for Policy Studies in 2013; has received funding from the Ben & Jerry's Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Marguerite Casey Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Oak Foundation, George Soros's Open Society Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Surdna Foundation.
• People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER): promotes "social change" by empowering "those people who are most affected by the problems of society"—specifically, "low-income and working class people, people of color, women, queer and transgender people"—to "lead a movement of millions to eradicate those problems"; evolved from the now-defunct revolutionary communist group STORM; has received funding from the Akonadi Foundation, the Ben & Jerry's Foundation, the California Wellness Foundation, the Hill-Snowden Foundation, the Marguerite Casey Foundation, the Public Welfare Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, and the Tides Foundation.
• Right to the City Alliance (RTTC): a nationwide network that opposes inner-city "gentrification" that displaces “low-income people, people of color, marginalized LGBTQ communities, and youths of color from their historic urban neighborhoods”; has received funding from the Akonadi Foundation, the Ben & Jerry's Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Margerite Casey Foundation, the Soros Funds, the Surdna Foundation, and the Tides Foundation.
• School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL): strives to "lay the groundwork for a strong social justice movement by supporting the development of a new generation of organizers rooted in a systemic change analysis—especially people of color, young women, queer and transgender youth, and low-income people"; claims to have trained 679 organizers in 2013; has been funded by the Heinz Foundation, the Akonadi Foundation, the Hill-Snowden Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, and the Tides Foundation.
• Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI): "educates and engages African American and black immigrant communities to organize and advocate for racial, social and economic justice"; has been funded by the Ben & Jerry's Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Marguerite Casey Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, and the Soros Funds.
• Advancement Project (AP): describes itself as a “civil rights law, policy, and communications 'action tank' that advances universal opportunity and a just democracy for those left behind in America,” meaning nonwhite minorities; has been funded by the California Endowment, the Ford Foundation, the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Soros Funds, the Tides Foundation, and the Vanguard Public Foundation.
• Movement Strategy Center (MSC): dedicated to "transformative movement building" and "equitable distribution of resources"; has been funded by the Akonadi Foundation, the Ben & Jerry's Foundation, the California Endowment, the Ford Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, the Soros Funds, the Surdna Foundation, and the Tides Foundation.
• Dignity and Power Now (DPN): claims to seek “dignity and power of incarcerated people, their families, and communities”
• Labor/Community Strategy Center (LCSC): works to "build consciousness, leadership, and organization among those who face discrimination and societal attack—people of color, women, immigrants, workers, LGBT people, youth"; is headed by Eric Mann, a former Weather Underground leader who exhorts followers to become “anti-racist, anti-imperialist” activists.
• Black Left Unity Network: a Marxist-Leninist organization that supports a variety of communist causes
• Black Workers for Justice: "believes that African American workers need self-organization to help empower ourselves at the workplace, in communities and throughout the whole of U.S. society to organize, educate, mobilize and struggle for power, justice, self-determination and human rights for African Americans, other oppressed nationalities, women and all working class people"
• Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ): "a national alliance of U.S.-based grassroots organizing groups organizing to build an agenda for power for working and poor people and communities of color"
• Causa Justa/Just Cause: a Black/Latino solidarity organization that aims to build a "multi-racial, multi-generational movement ... for fundamental change"
• Hands Up United: works for the “liberation of oppressed Black, Brown, and poor people through education, art, civil disobedience, advocacy, and agriculture”
• Intelligent Mischief: an African-American organization that "
  "design projects that critique the current status quo and re-imagines the possibilities"
  
  • Organization for Black Struggle (OBS): seeks to "build a movement that fights for political empowerment, economic justice and the cultural dignity of the African-American community, especially the Black working class"; is affiliated with the Communist Party USA; is allied with Black Workers for Justice and the Advancement Project.
  • Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee (RSCC): is dedicated to "uniting revolutionary-minded youth and students throughout the CUNY system in NYC"
  • Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): a “national network of groups and individuals organizing White people for racial justice”; quotes BLM co-founder Alicia Garza's assertion that “We need you defecting from White supremacy and changing the narrative of White supremacy by breaking White silence.”
  • Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE): seeks to "reduce and eliminate structural barriers to social and economic opportunities for poor and economically disadvantaged communities and communities of color"; is led by Anthony Thigpenn, a former Black Panther and board member of the Apollo Alliance.
  
  As evidenced by these numerous ties between FRSO and BLM, Black Lives Matter is in essence a project of FRSO. All three of BLM's co-founders have been employed by, or affiliated with, one or more of FRSO's aforementioned front groups at various times. Specifically:
  
  
  • Alicia Garza has served as a special projects director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA); executive director of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER); a board member of School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL); and board chair of the Right to the City Alliance (RTTC).
  • Patrisse Cullors, who was trained by former Weather Underground leader Eric Mann, founded Dignity and Power Now (DPN) and has served as its director.
  • Opal Tometi is affiliated with the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI).
  
  
  The Consequences of BLM's Rhetoric
  
  In 2013 and beyond, a number of black criminal suspects who had died in the course of confrontations with police officers joined Trayvon Martin as new, martyred icons of the BLM movement. Prominent among these were Eric Garner (New York), Michael Brown (Ferguson, Missouri), Tamir Rice (Cleveland), Timothy Russell (Cleveland), Malissa Williams (Cleveland), and Freddie Gray (Baltimore). High-profile political leaders such as President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and the mayors of the cities where the aforementioned deaths took place, routinely depicted race as a major underlying factor in those deaths.
  
  In December 2014, for instance, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio—explicitly exhorting New Yorkers to remember that “black lives matter”—lamented the “centuries of racism” whose legacy was still influencing the actions of too many police officers. The mayor called not only for the retraining of police forces “in how to work with [nonwhite] communities differently,” but also for the use of body cameras to bring “a different level of transparency and accountability” to police work.
  
  And in the aftermath of Freddie Gray's death in April 2015, Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, citing her desire “to reform my [police] department,” called on the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct a civil-rights investigation to determine whether Baltimore police had been engaging in unconstitutional patterns of abuse or discrimination against African Americans. Moreover, when violent riots were overrunning parts of her city following Gray's demise, Rawlings-Blake, by her own admission, “gave those who wished to destroy, space to do that as well.” In other words, the police were in effect sidelined.
  
  In New York, Baltimore, and elsewhere in urban America, law-enforcement officers responded to the newly rising anti-police climate by becoming less proactive in apprehending criminals, particularly for low-level offenses. This, in turn, led to a dramatic rise in crime rates in a number of U.S. cities. For example:
  
  
  • Through the first five months of 2015 in New York, the incidence of murder was 20% higher than for the same period a year earlier, and shooting incidents were up 9%.
    
    
  • During the three months that followed August 2014 (when Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Missouri), homicides in nearby in St. Louis city rose 47%, and robberies in St. Louis County increased by 82%.
    
    
  • After the protests and riots over the April 12, 2015 death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, shootings in that city increased by more than 60% compared to the same period a year earlier. In May 2015, Baltimore recorded 43 murders—the most in any month since August 1972.
    
    
  • From January to mid-May of 2015 in Milwaukee, homicides were up 180% compared to the same period in 2014.
    
    
  • From January through March of 2015 in Houston, murders were up nearly 100% compared to the same period in 2014.
    
    
  • From January 1 through May 24, 2015 in Chicago, shootings were up 25% and homicides were up 18% compared to the same period in 2014.
    
    
  • From January through May of 2015 in Los Angeles, shootings were up 23% and other violent crime was up 25% compared to the same period in 2014.
  Moreover, some criminals deliberately made police officers the targets of their violence. For instance, less than three weeks after Mayor de Blasio's December 2014 condemnation of police in New York, a black gunman named Ismaaiyl Brinsley shot and killed two uniformed NYPD officers, execution-style, as they sat in their marked police car. In a Facebook message he had posted just prior to carrying out his double murder, Brinsley made it explicitly clear that his motive was to avenge the recent deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
  
  And of the nineteen police officers nationwide who were killed in the line of duty (by gunshot, assault, or vehicular assault) during the first five months of 2015, ten were killed in the month of May alone; i.e., the month following the Freddie Gray riots in Baltimore.
  
  These spikes in urban crime and in attacks against police officers were not at all troubling to BLM because, notwithstanding the movement's constant professions of deep concern about black lives, the reality is quite different. What matters most to BLM is finding a spark—e.g., allegations of police vigilantism—that can be used to ignite a race war; to take America back to the “long hot summers” of the 1960s, when criminals were seen as radical “heroes,” police had a bull's-eye on their backs, and the streets of America’s inner cities ran red with fantasies of “revolutionary violence.”
  
  
  More BLM Activities
  
  In April 2015, BLM held a "Populism 2015" assembly at a Washington, DC hotel. The event was sponsored by National People's Action, the Campaign for America's Future, USAction, and the Alliance for a Just Society.
  
  On May 28, 2015, BLM held an event at the Center for American Progress titled "Toward a More Perfect Union: Bringing Criminal Justice Reform to Our Communities." At this gathering, writes journalist Matthew Vadum: "lack activists blamed the rising tide of black violence against police and whites on everyone except the perpetrators." They cited such root causes as the evils of capitalism, white privilege, excessive numbers of laws and police officers, corporate malfeasance, and insufficient taxes levied on the wealthy.
  
  In a July 2015 Netroots Nation conference in Phoenix, Arizona, BLM-affiliated protesters disrupted talks by two Democratic presidential candidates—U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley—shouting at both men: “Say that black lives matter! Say that I am not a criminal! Say my name!” O’Malley, for his part, responded by appealing for a sense of unity: “I think all of us have a responsibility to recognize the pain and grief caused by lives lost to violence. Black lives matter. White lives matter. All lives matter.” These remarks by O’Malley caused the demonstrators to become enraged, and they proceeded to boo loudly and shout him down.
  
  At that same Netroots Nation conference, BLM activists led much of the crowd in the following chant (click here for video):
  
  "If I die in police custody, don't believe the hype. I was murdered!
  Protect my family! Indict the system! Shut that sh*t down!
  If I die in police custody, avenge my death!
  By any means necessary!
  If I die in police custody, burn everything down!
  No building is worth more than my life!
  And that's the only way motherf***ers like you listen!
  If I die in police custody, make sure I'm the last person to die in police custody.
  By any means necessary!
  If I die in police custody, do not hold a moment of silence for me!
  Rise the f*** up!
  Because your silence is killing us!"
  
  On August 29, 2015—just hours after a lone black gunman had murdered a white sheriff’s deputy in Texas while the latter was pumping gasoline into his car—demonstrators affiliated with the St. Paul, Minnesota branch of BLM disrupted traffic as they marched—with police protection—to the gates of the Minnesota State Fair. Carrying signs bearing slogans like "End White Supremacy," they repeatedly chanted in unison: “Pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon.” “Pigs” was a reference to police officers, and "blanket" was a reference to body bags. The slogan echoed what gunman Ismaaiyl Brinsleyan had posted on the Internet—"Pigs in a blanket smell like bacon"—in December 2014, just before he murdered NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos.
  
  During the September 1, 2015 airing of a blog-talk-radio program associated with BLM, the hosts laughed at the recent assassination of Texas Deputy Daron Goforth, a husband and father who was shot 15 times at point blank range from behind while he was gassing up his patrol car. One host, a self-described black supremacist known as King Noble, said the execution of that "cracker cop" was an indication that "it's open season on killing whites and police officers and probably killing cops, period." "It’s unavoidable, inescapable," he added. "It’s funny that now we are moving to a time where the predator will become the prey." After claiming that blacks were like lions who could win a “race war” against whites, Noble declared: “Today, we live in a time when the white man will be picked off, and there’s nothing he can do about it. His day is up, his time is up. We will witness more executions and killing of white people and cops than we ever have before. It’s about to go down. It’s open season on killing white people and crackas.”
  
  On September 14, 2015, BLM supporter/demonstrator Joseph Thomas Johnson-Shanks, a 25-year-old convicted felon, shot and killed a rookie Kentucky state trooper named Joseph Cameron Ponder after a high-speed chase. The perpetrator lived in Florissant, Missouri, near the town of Ferguson, and had participated in local demonstrations protesting the 2014 death of Michael Brown, a young black man killed by a white Ferguson police officer after he had tried to take the officer's handgun. (Click here for details of that case.) Johnson-Shanks was so preoccupied with the Brown case, that he even attended Brown's funeral and graveside service in August 2014.
  
  On October 24, 2015, members of the BLM-affiliated Black Youth Project (BYP) took down an American flag during their #StopTheCops street protests in Chicago, replacing it with one that read “Unapologetically Black.” Like BLM, BYP opposes increased spending on law enforcement, as one of its activists, Maria Hadden, explained: "To provide better education, to provide access to basic human needs, housing and healthcare, those are the ways that we address crime. Those are the ways we improve the city, not by spending more money on police. So we believe we need to spend less money on policing, more money on community services.” Some BYP protestors taunted the police by singing, “Stop cops, stop cops, whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do when we defund you?” to the tune of the Bad Boys theme song from the television show COPS.
  
  On November 12, 2015, a group of approximately 150 BLM protesters shouting "black lives matter" and racial obscenities stormed Dartmouth University's library, shouting, “F*** you, you filthy white f***s!," "F*** you and your comfort!," and "F*** you, you racist s***!” A report in the Dartmouth Review said:
  
  "Throngs of protesters converged around fellow students who had not joined in their long march. They confronted students who bore 'symbols of oppression': 'gangster hats' and Beats-brand headphones. The flood of demonstrators self-consciously overstepped every boundary, opening the doors of study spaces with students reviewing for exams. Those who tried to close their doors were harassed further. One student abandoned the study room and ran out of the library. The protesters followed her out of the library, shouting obscenities the whole way. Students who refused to listen to or join their outbursts were shouted down. 'Stand the f*** up!' 'You filthy racist white piece of s***!' Men and women alike were pushed and shoved by the group. 'If we can’t have it, shut it down!' they cried. Another woman was pinned to a wall by protesters who unleashed their insults, shouting 'filthy white b****!' in her face."
  
  In mid-November 2015, students gathered at Kean University in New Jersey to stand in solidarity with BLM protests that were taking place at the University of Missouri. One of the participants at the Kean event was 24-year-old Kayla-Simone McKelvey, a Kean alumnus and self-proclaimed black activist who had graduated six months earlier. About midway through the rally, McKelvey slipped away and went to the university library, where she secretly and hastily created an anonymous Twitter account, @keanuagainstblk, and stated in its description that it was an account "against blacks" and "for everyone who hates blacks people."[sic] McKelvey then sent her first "anonymous" tweet: a bomb threat to the campus. She followed that up with tweets that read: (a) "i will kill every black male and female at kean university"; (b) "i will kill all blacks tonight, tomorrow, and any other day if they go to Kean university"; and (c) "tell every black person that you know they will die if they go to #Keanuniversity". According to police, McKelvey then returned to the rally and began spreading the word that she had "discovered" the aforementioned Twitter threats against black students. McKelvey was subsequently charged with third-degree "creating a false public alarm" and was ordered to appear in court on December 14.
  
  In a February 2016 interview with Fox News, the co-founder of BLM's Seattle chapter, Marissa Jenae Johnson, described the phrase “All lives matter” as a “new racial slur.” “White Americans have created the conditions that require a phrase like ‘Black Likes Matter,'” she said. “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.” “Black Lives Matter is not a strong enough statement for me,” she added.
  
  
  Support for BLM from President Obama and the Democratic Party
  
  In August 2015, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) officially endorsed BLM by approving a resolution that condemned "the unacceptable epidemic of extrajudicial killings of unarmed black men, women, and children at the hands of police"; stated that the American Dream "is a nightmare for too many young people stripped of their dignity under the vestiges of slavery, Jim Crow and White Supremacy"; demanded the "demilitarization of police, ending racial profiling, criminal justice reform, and investments in young people, families, and communities"; and asserted that "without systemic reform this state of [black] unrest jeopardizes the well-being of our democracy and our nation."
  
  On September 16, 2015, BLM activists Brittney Packnett, DeRay McKesson, Johnetta Elzie, Phillip Agnew, and Jamye Wooten met at the White House with President Obama as well as senior advisor Valerie Jarrett and other administration officials. For Packnett, it was her seventh visit to the Obama White House. Afterward, Packnett told reporters that the president personally supported the BLM movement. “He offered us a lot of encouragement with his background as a community organizer, and told us that even incremental changes were progress,” she stated. “He didn’t want us to get discouraged. He said, ‘Keep speaking truth to power.’”
  
  In October 2015, Obama publicly articulated his support for BLM's agenda by saying: “I think the reason that the organizers [of BLM] used the phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ was not because they were suggesting nobody else’s lives matter. Rather, what they were suggesting was there is a specific problem that’s happening in the African-American community that’s not happening in other communities. And that is a legitimate issue that we’ve got to address.”
  
  In a December 2015 interview on National Public Radio, Obama described Black Lives Matter as a positive force on policing in America, notwithstanding the violence and incendiary rhetoric exhibited by many of its members. Noting that “sometimes progress is a little uncomfortable,” the president claimed that BLM was doing the vital work of shining “sunlight” on the fact that “there’s no black family that hasn’t had a conversation around the kitchen table about driving while black and being profiled or being stopped” by police. “You know,” he elaborated, “during that process there’s going to be some noise and some discomfort, but I m absolutely confident that over the long term, it leads to a fair, more just, healthier America.”
  
  At a Black History Month event at the White House in February 2016, Obama welcomed BLM leaders DeRay McKesson and Brittany Packnett (the latter of whom was one of the key "Hands up, don't shoot" propagandists who in 2014 promoted the lie that a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri had shot black teenager Michael Brown in cold blood as he tried to surrender). Obama also welcomed such notables as activist Al Sharpton, Color of Change executive director Rashad Robinson, and NAACP Legal Defense Fund president Sherrilyn Ifill. In the course of his remarks, Obama said: "But we’ve also got some young people here who are making history as we speak. People like Brittany [Packnett], who served on our Police Task Force in the wake of Ferguson, and has led many of the protests that took place there and shined a light on the injustice that was happening. People like DeRay Mckesson, who has done some outstanding work mobilizing in Baltimore around these issues. And to see generations continuing to work on behalf of justice and equality and economic opportunity is greatly encouraging to me.... They are much better organizers than I was at their age. I am confident they are going to take America to new heights."
  
  
  BLM's Anti-Israel Orientation
  
  In August 2015, BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors was one of more than 1,000 black activists, artists, scholars, politicians, students, “political prisoners,” and organizational representatives to sign a statement proclaiming their “solidarity with the Palestinian struggle and commitment to the liberation of Palestine’s land and people”; demanding an end to Israel's “occupation” of “Palestine”; condemning “Israel’s brutal war on Gaza and chokehold on the West Bank”; urging the U.S. government to end all aid to Israel; and exhorting black institutions to support the Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctions movement against the Jewish state. Key passages from the letter included the following:
  
  
  • “Palestinians on Twitter were among the first to provide international support for protesters in Ferguson, where St. Louis-based Palestinians gave support on the ground. Last November, a delegation of Palestinian students visited Black organizers in St. Louis, Atlanta, Detroit and more, just months before the Dream Defenders took representatives of Black Lives Matter, Ferguson, and other racial justice groups to Palestine. Throughout the year, Palestinians sent multiple letters of solidarity to us throughout protests in Ferguson, New York, and Baltimore. We offer this statement to continue the conversation between our movements.”
    
    
  • “We remain outraged at the brutality Israel unleashed on Gaza through its siege by land, sea and air, and three military offensives in six years. We remain sickened by Israel’s targeting of homes, schools, UN shelters, mosques, ambulances, and hospitals. We remain heartbroken and repulsed by the number of children Israel killed in an operation it called 'defensive.' We reject Israel’s framing of itself as a victim. Anyone who takes an honest look at the destruction to life and property in Gaza can see Israel committed a one-sided slaughter.”
    
  • “Israel’s injustice and cruelty toward Palestinians is not limited to Gaza and its problem is not with any particular Palestinian party. The oppression of Palestinians extends throughout the occupied territories, within Israel’s 1948 borders, and into neighboring countries. The Israeli Occupation Forces continue to kill protesters—including children—conduct night raids on civilians, hold hundreds of people under indefinite detention, and demolish homes while expanding illegal Jewish-only settlements.”
    
    
  • “Our support extends to those living under occupation and siege, Palestinian citizens of Israel, and the 7 million Palestinian refugees exiled in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. The refugees’ right to return to their homeland in present-day Israel is the most important aspect of justice for Palestinians.”
    
    
  • “Palestinian liberation represents an inherent threat to Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid, an apparatus built and sustained on ethnic cleansing, land theft, and the denial of Palestinian humanity and sovereignty. While we acknowledge that the apartheid configuration in Israel/Palestine is unique from the United States (and South Africa), we continue to see connections between the situation of Palestinians and Black people.”
    
    
  • “Israel’s widespread use of detention and imprisonment against Palestinians evokes the mass incarceration of Black people in the US, including thepolitical imprisonment of our own revolutionaries.”
    
    
  • “U.S. and Israeli officials and media criminalize our existence, portray violence against us as 'isolated incidents,' and call our resistance 'illegitimate' or 'terrorism.' These narratives ignore decades and centuries of anti-Palestinian and anti-Black violence that have always been at the core of Israel and the US. We recognize the racism that characterizes Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is also directed against others in the region, including intolerance, police brutality, and violence against Israel’s African population.”
    
    
  • “We know Israel’s violence toward Palestinians would be impossible without the U.S. defending Israel on the world stage and funding its violence with over $3 billion annually. We call on the U.S. government to end economic and diplomatic aid to Israel. We wholeheartedly endorse Palestinian civil society’s 2005 call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel and call on Black and U.S. institutions and organizations to do the same. We urge people of conscience to recognize the struggle for Palestinian liberation as a key matter of our time.”
    
    
  • “[W]e aim to sharpen our practice of joint struggle against capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, and the various racisms embedded in and around our societies.”
  
  
  Additional Information
  
  For additional information on BLM, click here.

 

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Blacks kill each other in far larger numbers than racist whites or bad cops. Black lives mater seems to be deaf to their own message, just preachy to whites and it make them seem a mockery to their own cause.

The Data makes a mockery of their cause.

Murder Arrests by Race in 2014 (2015 data not complete)

Expanded Homicide Data Table 3

Whites and Hispanic-Whites were arrested in 31.4% of all 2014 murder cases despite making up 63.7% of the U.S. population. Blacks were arrested in 37.2% of all 2014 murders despite making up only 12.2% of the U.S. population. Of all arrests where someone was charged with murder, Whites/Hispanic Whites were arrested at a rate of 44.7% despite making up 72.4% of the U.S. population and Blacks were arrested at a rate of 53% despite making up only 12.2%of the U.S. population.

(Note: Since the FBI’s 2014 Uniform Crime Reporting counts Hispanic or Latino in the White offender category we cannot truly ascertain how many Whites & Non-Hispanic Whites were arrested for murders)

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The Color of Crime 2016 revised edition

• The evidence suggests that if there is police racial bias in arrests it is negligible. Victim and witness surveys show that police arrest violent criminals in close proportion to the rates at which criminals of different races commit violent crimes.

• There are dramatic race differences in crime rates. Asians have the lowest rates, followed by whites, and then Hispanics. Blacks have notably high crime rates. This pattern holds true for virtually all crime categories and for virtually all age groups.

• In 2013, a black was six times more likely than a non-black to commit murder, and 12 times more likely to murder someone of another race than to be murdered by someone of another race.

• In 2013, of the approximately 660,000 crimes of interracial violence that involved blacks and whites, blacks were the perpetrators 85 percent of the time. This meant a black person was 27 times more likely to attack a white person than vice versa. A Hispanic was eight times more likely to attack a white person than vice versa.

• In 2014 in New York City, a black was 31 times more likely than a white to be arrested for murder, and a Hispanic was 12.4 times more likely. For the crime of “shooting” — defined as firing a bullet that hits someone — a black was 98.4 times more likely than a white to be arrested, and a Hispanic was 23.6 times more likely.

• If New York City were all white, the murder rate would drop by 91 percent, the robbery rate by 81 percent, and the shootings rate by 97 percent.

• In an all-white Chicago, murder would decline 90 percent, rape by 81 percent, and robbery by 90 percent.

• In 2015, a black person was 2.45 times more likely than a white person to be shot and killed by the police. A Hispanic person was 1.21 times more likely. These figures are well within what would be expected given race differences in crime rates and likelihood to resist arrest.

• In 2015, police killings of blacks accounted for approximately 4 percent of homicides of blacks. Police killings of unarmed blacks accounted for approximately 0.6 percent of homicides of blacks. The overwhelming majority of black homicide victims (93 percent from 1980 to 2008) were killed by blacks.

• Both violent and non-violent crime has been declining in the United States since a high in 1993. 2015 saw a disturbing rise in murder in major American cities that some observers associated with “depolicing” in response to intense media and public scrutiny of police activity.

The abandonment, by black leadership, of policies which preached empowerment and the switch to policies which emphasize victimization and entitlement seem bizarre and self-defeating to me. I don't find it surprising, though. We started at a post-slavery unemployment rate hovering at about 100%, and now it's about 25%. Still too high, but it shows that improvement is always possible. It's gotten harder, though. The 25% are the hard-core poor. The ones who didn't have the resources available to the Thurgood Marshall's of the old South, who were raised in segregation and fought their way out. Now these inner city neighborhoods are filled with the people who couldn't get out. Put enough of them in any public school and that public school will fail. The permanent underclass.

They are our problem. They are very expensive. We can't ship them to Liberia and we can't kill them. They've got to be trained from birth to become good citizens of a service based economy if we want to break the cycle of poverty, and their poverty is something we all pay for one way or another.

Yeah, but how to you pay for single motherhood? Ask them politely to stop?

Out of Wedlock Birth Rates by Race in 2014 (2015 data not yet complete)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr62/nvsr62_03.pdf
Births to Unmarried Women

Whites: 2.9 out of 10 White children were born to a single mother in 2014.
Blacks: 7 out of 10 Black children were born to a single mother in 2014.
Hispanic: 5.29 out of 10 Hispanic children were born to a single mother in 2014.

2015 Welfare Demographics

Welfare Statistics – Statistic Brain
Whites made up 38.8 % of those on welfare in 2015 despite making up 63.7% of the U.S. population
Blacks made up 39.8 % of those on welfare in 2015 despite making up 12.2% of the U.S. population
Hispanics made up 15.7 % of those on welfare in 2015 despite making up 16.3% of the U.S. population
Asians made up 2.4% of those on welfare in 2015 despite making up 4.7% of the U.S. population

Yeah, but how to you pay for single motherhood? Ask them politely to stop?

You do it the same way you do it with anyone else. You educate them. You call hip-hop what it is, a culture of failure. The culture of the permanent underclass. You provide a culture in which they are respected. A culture in which they are supervised. Easier said than done, obviously, but that's the job. It starts with a recognition of just how bad an upbringing people get in the inner cities. Parenting matters. A lot. People love to go on about how much their folks did for them, and rightly so, but then they turn around and dismiss those who had no such support and failed in life as a result. People who are great-grandparents in their forties. Working three jobs to support everyone in her extended family. What can someone like that provide by way of long-term guidance? We've redefined the family in a lot of places, but in the inner cities it's been shredded. It's not easy to fix, but we all lose by ignoring it.

The trouble is that such an initiative cannot come from white people, but a cultural revolution within the black community. How in the world can you expect a people who developed themselves first and foremost as a counterculture in the 60's & 70's to suddenly adopt successful behavior patterns that they rejected long ago?

 

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In 1906, W.E.B. Du Bois, a great Black educator and social activist, said:

"Blacks are going to have to realize that white people are not the cause of everything that goes wrong in their lives."

Du Bois...and America, too....are still waiting.

Of course that statement has a modicum of truth...Blacks like Clarence Thomas and Ward Connerly play a major part in some things that go wrong in Black's lives.

What role do they play?

I would say their roles encapsulate the classic definition of the world renown Uncle Tom.

How justice Thomas complicit to the oppression of Blacks?

A simple google search will fulfil the flawed theory on that box of worms.

 

[Picaro]

Interracial Rape Statistics (Note: The Bureau of Justice Statistics stopped publishing its table on interracial crime after 2008)

What a surprise! lol ...

Yeah, the DOJ lead by Eric Holder thought that the fact that whites raped blacks at a rate of 0% that it would give in the stereotype of a black on white rape epidemic. Well ....... ........ if that's what the data shows. Democrats for a long time have been trying to get rid of racial reporting requirements for the FBI Uniform Crime Report and the National Victimization Survey. The Congressional Black Caucus is leading the effort. Today, Canada doesn't track crimes by race after they made the determination that the data perpetuates stereotypes. Question: If the data demonstrates a reliable and constant trend year after year, do the assumptions in the data cease to become stereotypes?

There is, however, a major flaw in the FBI data. Hispanics and Latinos are counted as "Hispanic" or "Latino" in the victim category. However, they are counted as "White" in the perpetrator category. So when a Hispanic murders another Hispanic the data demonstrates a White on Hispanic crime. Go figure.

So do you count Holder as a BLMer?

If the data is accepted by most or all involved, then I would have to conclude that the data would not be classified as a stereotype, but as a fact.

Some chickens produce eggs but not all produce eggs. Most people would answer the question "where do eggs come from?" With "chickens."
That doesn't seem like stereotyping chickens.

Holder and the rest of the black political establishment don't live in the 'Hoods; they and the rest of the black middle and upper classes fled to the Burbs right along with whites. This demographic essentially relies on hood rats as a club to beat quotas and bennies for themselves out of the government; they are in reality just holding their own people as hostages, and wouldn't dream of supporting real change in the slums.

Patrick Moynihan pointed this out clearly a long time ago, beginning with the opposition to turning Affirmative Action into a quota system, and why that was a sure way to destroy AA's effectiveness. The neo-fascist brownshirts on the 'left' tanked the Democratic Party in the '68 elections, and Nixon within weeks revived the quota system with the full support of the NAACP and the Black Caucus, as a means to take votes away from the Democratic Party, and also implemented the Federal 'War On Drugs' at the behest of the very same black political establishment, to 'clean up the 'hoods', ostensibly; it was Charles Rangel's own committee that later lobbied hard for the more severe penalties for crack cocaine over powder cocaine, for instance. Of course now they all deny it and claim it was Whitey who did all that, but it's a lie as well.

The black middle class and the black politicians are the ones primarily responsible for the current black problems, and nobody else. Now that dumbing down the education system has even failed to make them feel better n stuff, they have nowhere else to go but fomenting violence and hate crimes to maintain Party discipline and keep those failed programs funded via extortion and shakedowns.

Buying 'peace' in that manner is no more a successful policy than it has been for Europe's buying off Hamas and Palestinian vermin gangsters has been in the ME.

 

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Do Black Lives Matter Activists Care About the Facts?

You've heard it before, "Hands Up, Don't Shoot!" It seems that no matter what the outcome, no matter what facts bubble up, BLM activists never change their position on a perceived "injustice" once committed to a cause. They ignored the injuries sustained by George Zimmerman and the testimony of the eye witness. They ignored the evidence in the Michael Brown case which lead to a riot. In every or any case involving a white police officer and a black suspect, it would seem the facts don't matter. Sides are chosen immediately after the incident hits the internet and no matter what the facts demonstrate, BLM seems to continue on with the evil police narrative whether that be the case or not. In fact, studies demonstrate that they are wrong about police brutality on black suspects. So my question is simple: Do BLM Activists Care About the Facts?

The Numbers Are In: Black Lives Matter Is Wrong about Police, by David French, National Review

Are you assuming they accept those as fact? Do you know what they see as facts?

It's quite easy to see what's on their minds, what they're thinking, and how they're portraying events of perceived "injustice." They don't exactly try to hide it. They're on the news, on Facebook, they have their own website, they grant interviews, and have their own twitter account. Moreover, well over a year after Michael Brown they're still saying "Hands up, don't shoot," despite no substantiating evidence that was the case. I think we know they're playing fast and loose with the facts.

Black Lives Matter Freedom & Justice for all Black Lives
Black Lives Matter (@Blklivesmatter) | Twitter
News about #blacklivesmatter on Twitter
Black Lives Matter

So would you conclude they have another agenda?

Of course they do. They want race oriented political power and preferential treatment. Funny, they want the exact thing civil rights aimed to stop.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=7876

BLACK LIVES MATTER (BLM)
URL :Black Lives Matter Freedom & Justice for all Black Lives

• Established in 2013, in response to the acquittal of the man who killed black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin
• Seeks to stoke black rage over the “virulent anti-Black racism” that “permeates our society”
• Says America was originally “built on Indigenous genocide and chattel slavery” and “continues to thrive on the brutal exploitation of people of color”

See also: Alicia Garza Patrisse Cullors Opal Tometi

Freedom Road Socialist Organization

Black Lives Matter (BLM) was established as an online platform in 2013 by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi. Their objective was to stoke black rage and galvanize a protest movement in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the “white Hispanic” who was tried for murder and manslaughter after he had shot and killed a black Florida teenager named Trayvon Martin in a highly publicized February 2012 altercation. Before long, “Black Lives Matter” became a rallying cry for writers, public speakers, celebrities, demonstrators, and even rioters who took up the cause of demanding an end to what BLM terms the “virulent anti-Black racism” that “permeates our society.” In 2014, BLM also adopted the slogan “Hands Up–Don’t Shoot!,” which was first popularized by Dream Defenders and grew out of that year's death of Michael Brown, a young black man in Ferguson, Missouri who was killed by a white police officer after he had tried to take the officer's handgun during a confrontation. (In the immediate aftermath of that incident, numerous racial agitators circulated the false narrative that Brown had been shot after raising his hands in submission and pleading, "Don't shoot.")

Demanding that Americans “abandon the lie that the deep psychological wounds of slavery, racism and structural oppression are figments of the Black imagination,” BLM aims to force the country to become “uncomfortable about institutional racism.” Emphasizing the permanence and intransigence of American depredations, BLM maintains that the nation's “corrupt democracy” was originally “built on Indigenous genocide and chattel slavery” and “continues to thrive on the brutal exploitation of people of color”; that “the ugly American traditions of patriarchy, classism, racism, and militarism” endure to this day; that “structural oppression” still “prevents so many from realizing their dreams”; and that blacks in the U.S. are routinely “de-humaniz[ed],” rendered “powerless at the hands of the state,” “deprived of [their] basic human rights and dignity,” and targeted for “extrajudicial killings … by police and vigilantes.” In sum, says BLM, black Americans are “collectively” subjected to “inhumane conditions” in a “white supremacist system.”

Though BLM professes to articulate the needs and grievances of black people as a whole, the organization deems it vital to go “beyond the narrow nationalism” that “merely” urges black people to “love Black, live Black, and buy Black.” That is, it focuses an added measure of attention on those blacks who, in the past, “have been marginalized within Black liberation movements.” These include, most notably, black “queer and trans,” who “bear a unique burden from a hetero-patriarchal society that disposes of us like garbage and simultaneously fetishizes us and profits off of us”; black “undocumented immigrants” who are “relegated to the shadows” of American society; black “disabled” people who “bear the burden of state-sponsored Darwinian experiments that attempt to squeeze us into boxes of normality defined by white supremacy”; and blacks who self-identify along non-traditional points of the “gender spectrum.”

To improve the allegedly abysmal condition of blacks in the United States, BLM has issued a series of non-negotiable demands. These include:

• “an end to all forms of discrimination and the full recognition of our [Blacks'] human rights”;
  
  
• “an immediate end to police brutality and [to] the murder of Black people and all oppressed people”;
  
  
• “full, living-wage employment for our people,” to ensure “our right to a life with dignity”;
  
  
• “decent housing” and “an end to gentrification”;
  
  
• the cessation of racially “discriminatory discipline practices” in the schools;
  
  
• “an end to the school-to-prison pipeline,” a term for the practice of using black students' behavioral problems as an excuse for pushing them out of the classroom and into the juvenile- and criminal-justice systems;
  
  
• “quality education for all,” including “free or affordable public university” enrollment;
  
  
• “freedom from mass incarceration and an end to the prison industrial complex,” whose hallmarks include “the over-policing and surveillance of [black] communities,” the enactment of many “racist laws,” and “the warehousing of black people”;
  
  
• “access to affordable healthy food for our neighborhoods”;
  
  
• “an aggressive attack against all laws, policies, and entities that disenfranchise any community from expressing themselves at the ballot” (e.g., Voter ID laws);
  
  
• “a public education system that teaches the rich history of Black people”;
  
  
• “the release of all U.S. political prisoners”;
  
  
• “an end to the military industrial complex that incentivizes private corporations to profit off of the death and destruction of Black and Brown communities across the globe”;
  
  
• a comprehensive Justice Department review of “systematic abuses by police departments” across the United States;
  
  
• congressional hearings investigating “the criminalization of communities of color”;
  
  
• an end to “the use of profiling on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin or religion by law-enforcement agencies”;
  
  
• the implementation of a National Plan of Action for Racial Justice by the Obama Administration, addressing “persistent and ongoing forms of racial discrimination and disparities that exist in nearly every sphere of life”;
  
  
• the release, by the office of U.S. attorney general, of “the names of all [police] officers involved in killing black people within the last five years … so they can be brought to justice—if they haven’t already”; and
  
  
• “a decrease in law-enforcement spending at the local, state and federal levels and a reinvestment [through the federal government] of that budgeted money into the black communities most devastated by poverty in order to create jobs, housing and schools.”

Several of the foregoing demands are clearly modeled on those that were put forth by the Black Panther Party in the 1960s.

In December 2014, a group of BLM protesters in the San Francisco Bay area rejected efforts by three regional police unions—in Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose—to initiate “constructive dialogue that calls for a common sense approach to very complex issues.”


Ties to the Freedom Road Socialist Organization

BLM is closely allied with numerous groups that are fronts for the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), a Marxist-Leninist entity that calls for the overthrow of capitalism. Economist and investigative journalist James Simpson has identified some of these FRSO fronts that are tied to BLM:

• National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA): seeks to develop "women-of-color leaders" to help domestic workers—who are disproportionately female and nonwhite—gain political power and promote "concrete change"; gave money to CASA de Maryland and the Institute for Policy Studies in 2013; has received funding from the Ben & Jerry's Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Marguerite Casey Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Oak Foundation, George Soros's Open Society Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Surdna Foundation.
• People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER): promotes "social change" by empowering "those people who are most affected by the problems of society"—specifically, "low-income and working class people, people of color, women, queer and transgender people"—to "lead a movement of millions to eradicate those problems"; evolved from the now-defunct revolutionary communist group STORM; has received funding from the Akonadi Foundation, the Ben & Jerry's Foundation, the California Wellness Foundation, the Hill-Snowden Foundation, the Marguerite Casey Foundation, the Public Welfare Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, and the Tides Foundation.
• Right to the City Alliance (RTTC): a nationwide network that opposes inner-city "gentrification" that displaces “low-income people, people of color, marginalized LGBTQ communities, and youths of color from their historic urban neighborhoods”; has received funding from the Akonadi Foundation, the Ben & Jerry's Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Margerite Casey Foundation, the Soros Funds, the Surdna Foundation, and the Tides Foundation.
• School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL): strives to "lay the groundwork for a strong social justice movement by supporting the development of a new generation of organizers rooted in a systemic change analysis—especially people of color, young women, queer and transgender youth, and low-income people"; claims to have trained 679 organizers in 2013; has been funded by the Heinz Foundation, the Akonadi Foundation, the Hill-Snowden Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, and the Tides Foundation.
• Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI): "educates and engages African American and black immigrant communities to organize and advocate for racial, social and economic justice"; has been funded by the Ben & Jerry's Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Marguerite Casey Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, and the Soros Funds.
• Advancement Project (AP): describes itself as a “civil rights law, policy, and communications 'action tank' that advances universal opportunity and a just democracy for those left behind in America,” meaning nonwhite minorities; has been funded by the California Endowment, the Ford Foundation, the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Soros Funds, the Tides Foundation, and the Vanguard Public Foundation.
• Movement Strategy Center (MSC): dedicated to "transformative movement building" and "equitable distribution of resources"; has been funded by the Akonadi Foundation, the Ben & Jerry's Foundation, the California Endowment, the Ford Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, the Soros Funds, the Surdna Foundation, and the Tides Foundation.
• Dignity and Power Now (DPN): claims to seek “dignity and power of incarcerated people, their families, and communities”
• Labor/Community Strategy Center (LCSC): works to "build consciousness, leadership, and organization among those who face discrimination and societal attack—people of color, women, immigrants, workers, LGBT people, youth"; is headed by Eric Mann, a former Weather Underground leader who exhorts followers to become “anti-racist, anti-imperialist” activists.
• Black Left Unity Network: a Marxist-Leninist organization that supports a variety of communist causes
• Black Workers for Justice: "believes that African American workers need self-organization to help empower ourselves at the workplace, in communities and throughout the whole of U.S. society to organize, educate, mobilize and struggle for power, justice, self-determination and human rights for African Americans, other oppressed nationalities, women and all working class people"
• Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ): "a national alliance of U.S.-based grassroots organizing groups organizing to build an agenda for power for working and poor people and communities of color"
• Causa Justa/Just Cause: a Black/Latino solidarity organization that aims to build a "multi-racial, multi-generational movement ... for fundamental change"
• Hands Up United: works for the “liberation of oppressed Black, Brown, and poor people through education, art, civil disobedience, advocacy, and agriculture”
• Intelligent Mischief: an African-American organization that "
  "design projects that critique the current status quo and re-imagines the possibilities"
  
  • Organization for Black Struggle (OBS): seeks to "build a movement that fights for political empowerment, economic justice and the cultural dignity of the African-American community, especially the Black working class"; is affiliated with the Communist Party USA; is allied with Black Workers for Justice and the Advancement Project.
  • Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee (RSCC): is dedicated to "uniting revolutionary-minded youth and students throughout the CUNY system in NYC"
  • Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): a “national network of groups and individuals organizing White people for racial justice”; quotes BLM co-founder Alicia Garza's assertion that “We need you defecting from White supremacy and changing the narrative of White supremacy by breaking White silence.”
  • Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE): seeks to "reduce and eliminate structural barriers to social and economic opportunities for poor and economically disadvantaged communities and communities of color"; is led by Anthony Thigpenn, a former Black Panther and board member of the Apollo Alliance.
  
  As evidenced by these numerous ties between FRSO and BLM, Black Lives Matter is in essence a project of FRSO. All three of BLM's co-founders have been employed by, or affiliated with, one or more of FRSO's aforementioned front groups at various times. Specifically:
  
  
  • Alicia Garza has served as a special projects director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA); executive director of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER); a board member of School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL); and board chair of the Right to the City Alliance (RTTC).
  • Patrisse Cullors, who was trained by former Weather Underground leader Eric Mann, founded Dignity and Power Now (DPN) and has served as its director.
  • Opal Tometi is affiliated with the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI).
  
  
  The Consequences of BLM's Rhetoric
  
  In 2013 and beyond, a number of black criminal suspects who had died in the course of confrontations with police officers joined Trayvon Martin as new, martyred icons of the BLM movement. Prominent among these were Eric Garner (New York), Michael Brown (Ferguson, Missouri), Tamir Rice (Cleveland), Timothy Russell (Cleveland), Malissa Williams (Cleveland), and Freddie Gray (Baltimore). High-profile political leaders such as President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and the mayors of the cities where the aforementioned deaths took place, routinely depicted race as a major underlying factor in those deaths.
  
  In December 2014, for instance, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio—explicitly exhorting New Yorkers to remember that “black lives matter”—lamented the “centuries of racism” whose legacy was still influencing the actions of too many police officers. The mayor called not only for the retraining of police forces “in how to work with [nonwhite] communities differently,” but also for the use of body cameras to bring “a different level of transparency and accountability” to police work.
  
  And in the aftermath of Freddie Gray's death in April 2015, Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, citing her desire “to reform my [police] department,” called on the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct a civil-rights investigation to determine whether Baltimore police had been engaging in unconstitutional patterns of abuse or discrimination against African Americans. Moreover, when violent riots were overrunning parts of her city following Gray's demise, Rawlings-Blake, by her own admission, “gave those who wished to destroy, space to do that as well.” In other words, the police were in effect sidelined.
  
  In New York, Baltimore, and elsewhere in urban America, law-enforcement officers responded to the newly rising anti-police climate by becoming less proactive in apprehending criminals, particularly for low-level offenses. This, in turn, led to a dramatic rise in crime rates in a number of U.S. cities. For example:
  
  
  • Through the first five months of 2015 in New York, the incidence of murder was 20% higher than for the same period a year earlier, and shooting incidents were up 9%.
    
    
  • During the three months that followed August 2014 (when Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Missouri), homicides in nearby in St. Louis city rose 47%, and robberies in St. Louis County increased by 82%.
    
    
  • After the protests and riots over the April 12, 2015 death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, shootings in that city increased by more than 60% compared to the same period a year earlier. In May 2015, Baltimore recorded 43 murders—the most in any month since August 1972.
    
    
  • From January to mid-May of 2015 in Milwaukee, homicides were up 180% compared to the same period in 2014.
    
    
  • From January through March of 2015 in Houston, murders were up nearly 100% compared to the same period in 2014.
    
    
  • From January 1 through May 24, 2015 in Chicago, shootings were up 25% and homicides were up 18% compared to the same period in 2014.
    
    
  • From January through May of 2015 in Los Angeles, shootings were up 23% and other violent crime was up 25% compared to the same period in 2014.
  Moreover, some criminals deliberately made police officers the targets of their violence. For instance, less than three weeks after Mayor de Blasio's December 2014 condemnation of police in New York, a black gunman named Ismaaiyl Brinsley shot and killed two uniformed NYPD officers, execution-style, as they sat in their marked police car. In a Facebook message he had posted just prior to carrying out his double murder, Brinsley made it explicitly clear that his motive was to avenge the recent deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
  
  And of the nineteen police officers nationwide who were killed in the line of duty (by gunshot, assault, or vehicular assault) during the first five months of 2015, ten were killed in the month of May alone; i.e., the month following the Freddie Gray riots in Baltimore.
  
  These spikes in urban crime and in attacks against police officers were not at all troubling to BLM because, notwithstanding the movement's constant professions of deep concern about black lives, the reality is quite different. What matters most to BLM is finding a spark—e.g., allegations of police vigilantism—that can be used to ignite a race war; to take America back to the “long hot summers” of the 1960s, when criminals were seen as radical “heroes,” police had a bull's-eye on their backs, and the streets of America’s inner cities ran red with fantasies of “revolutionary violence.”
  
  
  More BLM Activities
  
  In April 2015, BLM held a "Populism 2015" assembly at a Washington, DC hotel. The event was sponsored by National People's Action, the Campaign for America's Future, USAction, and the Alliance for a Just Society.
  
  On May 28, 2015, BLM held an event at the Center for American Progress titled "Toward a More Perfect Union: Bringing Criminal Justice Reform to Our Communities." At this gathering, writes journalist Matthew Vadum: "lack activists blamed the rising tide of black violence against police and whites on everyone except the perpetrators." They cited such root causes as the evils of capitalism, white privilege, excessive numbers of laws and police officers, corporate malfeasance, and insufficient taxes levied on the wealthy.
  
  In a July 2015 Netroots Nation conference in Phoenix, Arizona, BLM-affiliated protesters disrupted talks by two Democratic presidential candidates—U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley—shouting at both men: “Say that black lives matter! Say that I am not a criminal! Say my name!” O’Malley, for his part, responded by appealing for a sense of unity: “I think all of us have a responsibility to recognize the pain and grief caused by lives lost to violence. Black lives matter. White lives matter. All lives matter.” These remarks by O’Malley caused the demonstrators to become enraged, and they proceeded to boo loudly and shout him down.
  
  At that same Netroots Nation conference, BLM activists led much of the crowd in the following chant (click here for video):
  
  "If I die in police custody, don't believe the hype. I was murdered!
  Protect my family! Indict the system! Shut that sh*t down!
  If I die in police custody, avenge my death!
  By any means necessary!
  If I die in police custody, burn everything down!
  No building is worth more than my life!
  And that's the only way motherf***ers like you listen!
  If I die in police custody, make sure I'm the last person to die in police custody.
  By any means necessary!
  If I die in police custody, do not hold a moment of silence for me!
  Rise the f*** up!
  Because your silence is killing us!"
  
  On August 29, 2015—just hours after a lone black gunman had murdered a white sheriff’s deputy in Texas while the latter was pumping gasoline into his car—demonstrators affiliated with the St. Paul, Minnesota branch of BLM disrupted traffic as they marched—with police protection—to the gates of the Minnesota State Fair. Carrying signs bearing slogans like "End White Supremacy," they repeatedly chanted in unison: “Pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon.” “Pigs” was a reference to police officers, and "blanket" was a reference to body bags. The slogan echoed what gunman Ismaaiyl Brinsleyan had posted on the Internet—"Pigs in a blanket smell like bacon"—in December 2014, just before he murdered NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos.
  
  During the September 1, 2015 airing of a blog-talk-radio program associated with BLM, the hosts laughed at the recent assassination of Texas Deputy Daron Goforth, a husband and father who was shot 15 times at point blank range from behind while he was gassing up his patrol car. One host, a self-described black supremacist known as King Noble, said the execution of that "cracker cop" was an indication that "it's open season on killing whites and police officers and probably killing cops, period." "It’s unavoidable, inescapable," he added. "It’s funny that now we are moving to a time where the predator will become the prey." After claiming that blacks were like lions who could win a “race war” against whites, Noble declared: “Today, we live in a time when the white man will be picked off, and there’s nothing he can do about it. His day is up, his time is up. We will witness more executions and killing of white people and cops than we ever have before. It’s about to go down. It’s open season on killing white people and crackas.”
  
  On September 14, 2015, BLM supporter/demonstrator Joseph Thomas Johnson-Shanks, a 25-year-old convicted felon, shot and killed a rookie Kentucky state trooper named Joseph Cameron Ponder after a high-speed chase. The perpetrator lived in Florissant, Missouri, near the town of Ferguson, and had participated in local demonstrations protesting the 2014 death of Michael Brown, a young black man killed by a white Ferguson police officer after he had tried to take the officer's handgun. (Click here for details of that case.) Johnson-Shanks was so preoccupied with the Brown case, that he even attended Brown's funeral and graveside service in August 2014.
  
  On October 24, 2015, members of the BLM-affiliated Black Youth Project (BYP) took down an American flag during their #StopTheCops street protests in Chicago, replacing it with one that read “Unapologetically Black.” Like BLM, BYP opposes increased spending on law enforcement, as one of its activists, Maria Hadden, explained: "To provide better education, to provide access to basic human needs, housing and healthcare, those are the ways that we address crime. Those are the ways we improve the city, not by spending more money on police. So we believe we need to spend less money on policing, more money on community services.” Some BYP protestors taunted the police by singing, “Stop cops, stop cops, whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do when we defund you?” to the tune of the Bad Boys theme song from the television show COPS.
  
  On November 12, 2015, a group of approximately 150 BLM protesters shouting "black lives matter" and racial obscenities stormed Dartmouth University's library, shouting, “F*** you, you filthy white f***s!," "F*** you and your comfort!," and "F*** you, you racist s***!” A report in the Dartmouth Review said:
  
  "Throngs of protesters converged around fellow students who had not joined in their long march. They confronted students who bore 'symbols of oppression': 'gangster hats' and Beats-brand headphones. The flood of demonstrators self-consciously overstepped every boundary, opening the doors of study spaces with students reviewing for exams. Those who tried to close their doors were harassed further. One student abandoned the study room and ran out of the library. The protesters followed her out of the library, shouting obscenities the whole way. Students who refused to listen to or join their outbursts were shouted down. 'Stand the f*** up!' 'You filthy racist white piece of s***!' Men and women alike were pushed and shoved by the group. 'If we can’t have it, shut it down!' they cried. Another woman was pinned to a wall by protesters who unleashed their insults, shouting 'filthy white b****!' in her face."
  
  In mid-November 2015, students gathered at Kean University in New Jersey to stand in solidarity with BLM protests that were taking place at the University of Missouri. One of the participants at the Kean event was 24-year-old Kayla-Simone McKelvey, a Kean alumnus and self-proclaimed black activist who had graduated six months earlier. About midway through the rally, McKelvey slipped away and went to the university library, where she secretly and hastily created an anonymous Twitter account, @keanuagainstblk, and stated in its description that it was an account "against blacks" and "for everyone who hates blacks people."[sic] McKelvey then sent her first "anonymous" tweet: a bomb threat to the campus. She followed that up with tweets that read: (a) "i will kill every black male and female at kean university"; (b) "i will kill all blacks tonight, tomorrow, and any other day if they go to Kean university"; and (c) "tell every black person that you know they will die if they go to #Keanuniversity". According to police, McKelvey then returned to the rally and began spreading the word that she had "discovered" the aforementioned Twitter threats against black students. McKelvey was subsequently charged with third-degree "creating a false public alarm" and was ordered to appear in court on December 14.
  
  In a February 2016 interview with Fox News, the co-founder of BLM's Seattle chapter, Marissa Jenae Johnson, described the phrase “All lives matter” as a “new racial slur.” “White Americans have created the conditions that require a phrase like ‘Black Likes Matter,'” she said. “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.” “Black Lives Matter is not a strong enough statement for me,” she added.
  
  
  Support for BLM from President Obama and the Democratic Party
  
  In August 2015, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) officially endorsed BLM by approving a resolution that condemned "the unacceptable epidemic of extrajudicial killings of unarmed black men, women, and children at the hands of police"; stated that the American Dream "is a nightmare for too many young people stripped of their dignity under the vestiges of slavery, Jim Crow and White Supremacy"; demanded the "demilitarization of police, ending racial profiling, criminal justice reform, and investments in young people, families, and communities"; and asserted that "without systemic reform this state of [black] unrest jeopardizes the well-being of our democracy and our nation."
  
  On September 16, 2015, BLM activists Brittney Packnett, DeRay McKesson, Johnetta Elzie, Phillip Agnew, and Jamye Wooten met at the White House with President Obama as well as senior advisor Valerie Jarrett and other administration officials. For Packnett, it was her seventh visit to the Obama White House. Afterward, Packnett told reporters that the president personally supported the BLM movement. “He offered us a lot of encouragement with his background as a community organizer, and told us that even incremental changes were progress,” she stated. “He didn’t want us to get discouraged. He said, ‘Keep speaking truth to power.’”
  
  In October 2015, Obama publicly articulated his support for BLM's agenda by saying: “I think the reason that the organizers [of BLM] used the phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ was not because they were suggesting nobody else’s lives matter. Rather, what they were suggesting was there is a specific problem that’s happening in the African-American community that’s not happening in other communities. And that is a legitimate issue that we’ve got to address.”
  
  In a December 2015 interview on National Public Radio, Obama described Black Lives Matter as a positive force on policing in America, notwithstanding the violence and incendiary rhetoric exhibited by many of its members. Noting that “sometimes progress is a little uncomfortable,” the president claimed that BLM was doing the vital work of shining “sunlight” on the fact that “there’s no black family that hasn’t had a conversation around the kitchen table about driving while black and being profiled or being stopped” by police. “You know,” he elaborated, “during that process there’s going to be some noise and some discomfort, but I m absolutely confident that over the long term, it leads to a fair, more just, healthier America.”
  
  At a Black History Month event at the White House in February 2016, Obama welcomed BLM leaders DeRay McKesson and Brittany Packnett (the latter of whom was one of the key "Hands up, don't shoot" propagandists who in 2014 promoted the lie that a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri had shot black teenager Michael Brown in cold blood as he tried to surrender). Obama also welcomed such notables as activist Al Sharpton, Color of Change executive director Rashad Robinson, and NAACP Legal Defense Fund president Sherrilyn Ifill. In the course of his remarks, Obama said: "But we’ve also got some young people here who are making history as we speak. People like Brittany [Packnett], who served on our Police Task Force in the wake of Ferguson, and has led many of the protests that took place there and shined a light on the injustice that was happening. People like DeRay Mckesson, who has done some outstanding work mobilizing in Baltimore around these issues. And to see generations continuing to work on behalf of justice and equality and economic opportunity is greatly encouraging to me.... They are much better organizers than I was at their age. I am confident they are going to take America to new heights."
  
  
  BLM's Anti-Israel Orientation
  
  In August 2015, BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors was one of more than 1,000 black activists, artists, scholars, politicians, students, “political prisoners,” and organizational representatives to sign a statement proclaiming their “solidarity with the Palestinian struggle and commitment to the liberation of Palestine’s land and people”; demanding an end to Israel's “occupation” of “Palestine”; condemning “Israel’s brutal war on Gaza and chokehold on the West Bank”; urging the U.S. government to end all aid to Israel; and exhorting black institutions to support the Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctions movement against the Jewish state. Key passages from the letter included the following:
  
  
  • “Palestinians on Twitter were among the first to provide international support for protesters in Ferguson, where St. Louis-based Palestinians gave support on the ground. Last November, a delegation of Palestinian students visited Black organizers in St. Louis, Atlanta, Detroit and more, just months before the Dream Defenders took representatives of Black Lives Matter, Ferguson, and other racial justice groups to Palestine. Throughout the year, Palestinians sent multiple letters of solidarity to us throughout protests in Ferguson, New York, and Baltimore. We offer this statement to continue the conversation between our movements.”
    
    
  • “We remain outraged at the brutality Israel unleashed on Gaza through its siege by land, sea and air, and three military offensives in six years. We remain sickened by Israel’s targeting of homes, schools, UN shelters, mosques, ambulances, and hospitals. We remain heartbroken and repulsed by the number of children Israel killed in an operation it called 'defensive.' We reject Israel’s framing of itself as a victim. Anyone who takes an honest look at the destruction to life and property in Gaza can see Israel committed a one-sided slaughter.”
    
  • “Israel’s injustice and cruelty toward Palestinians is not limited to Gaza and its problem is not with any particular Palestinian party. The oppression of Palestinians extends throughout the occupied territories, within Israel’s 1948 borders, and into neighboring countries. The Israeli Occupation Forces continue to kill protesters—including children—conduct night raids on civilians, hold hundreds of people under indefinite detention, and demolish homes while expanding illegal Jewish-only settlements.”
    
    
  • “Our support extends to those living under occupation and siege, Palestinian citizens of Israel, and the 7 million Palestinian refugees exiled in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. The refugees’ right to return to their homeland in present-day Israel is the most important aspect of justice for Palestinians.”
    
    
  • “Palestinian liberation represents an inherent threat to Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid, an apparatus built and sustained on ethnic cleansing, land theft, and the denial of Palestinian humanity and sovereignty. While we acknowledge that the apartheid configuration in Israel/Palestine is unique from the United States (and South Africa), we continue to see connections between the situation of Palestinians and Black people.”
    
    
  • “Israel’s widespread use of detention and imprisonment against Palestinians evokes the mass incarceration of Black people in the US, including thepolitical imprisonment of our own revolutionaries.”
    
    
  • “U.S. and Israeli officials and media criminalize our existence, portray violence against us as 'isolated incidents,' and call our resistance 'illegitimate' or 'terrorism.' These narratives ignore decades and centuries of anti-Palestinian and anti-Black violence that have always been at the core of Israel and the US. We recognize the racism that characterizes Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is also directed against others in the region, including intolerance, police brutality, and violence against Israel’s African population.”
    
    
  • “We know Israel’s violence toward Palestinians would be impossible without the U.S. defending Israel on the world stage and funding its violence with over $3 billion annually. We call on the U.S. government to end economic and diplomatic aid to Israel. We wholeheartedly endorse Palestinian civil society’s 2005 call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel and call on Black and U.S. institutions and organizations to do the same. We urge people of conscience to recognize the struggle for Palestinian liberation as a key matter of our time.”
    
    
  • “[W]e aim to sharpen our practice of joint struggle against capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, and the various racisms embedded in and around our societies.”
  
  
  Additional Information
  
  For additional information on BLM, click here.

Yeah, I don't know what went wrong with that post.

 

[BuckToothMoron]

Interracial Rape Statistics (Note: The Bureau of Justice Statistics stopped publishing its table on interracial crime after 2008)

What a surprise! lol ...

Yeah, the DOJ lead by Eric Holder thought that the fact that whites raped blacks at a rate of 0% that it would give in the stereotype of a black on white rape epidemic. Well ....... ........ if that's what the data shows. Democrats for a long time have been trying to get rid of racial reporting requirements for the FBI Uniform Crime Report and the National Victimization Survey. The Congressional Black Caucus is leading the effort. Today, Canada doesn't track crimes by race after they made the determination that the data perpetuates stereotypes. Question: If the data demonstrates a reliable and constant trend year after year, do the assumptions in the data cease to become stereotypes?

There is, however, a major flaw in the FBI data. Hispanics and Latinos are counted as "Hispanic" or "Latino" in the victim category. However, they are counted as "White" in the perpetrator category. So when a Hispanic murders another Hispanic the data demonstrates a White on Hispanic crime. Go figure.

So do you count Holder as a BLMer?

If the data is accepted by most or all involved, then I would have to conclude that the data would not be classified as a stereotype, but as a fact.

Some chickens produce eggs but not all produce eggs. Most people would answer the question "where do eggs come from?" With "chickens."
That doesn't seem like stereotyping chickens.

Holder and the rest of the black political establishment don't live in the 'Hoods; they and the rest of the black middle and upper classes fled to the Burbs right along with whites. This demographic essentially relies on hood rats as a club to beat quotas and bennies for themselves out of the government; they are in reality just holding their own people as hostages, and wouldn't dream of supporting real change in the slums.

Patrick Moynihan pointed this out clearly a long time ago, beginning with the opposition to turning Affirmative Action into a quota system, and why that was a sure way to destroy AA's effectiveness. The neo-fascist brownshirts on the 'left' tanked the Democratic Party in the '68 elections, and Nixon within weeks revived the quota system with the full support of the NAACP and the Black Caucus, as a means to take votes away from the Democratic Party, and also implemented the Federal 'War On Drugs' at the behest of the very same black political establishment, to 'clean up the 'hoods', ostensibly; it was Charles Rangel's own committee that later lobbied hard for the more severe penalties for crack cocaine over powder cocaine, for instance. Of course now they all deny it and claim it was Whitey who did all that, but it's a lie as well.

The black middle class and the black politicians are the ones primarily responsible for the current black problems, and nobody else. Now that dumbing down the education system has even failed to make them feel better n stuff, they have nowhere else to go but fomenting violence and hate crimes to maintain Party discipline and keep those failed programs funded via extortion and shakedowns.

Buying 'peace' in that manner is no more a successful policy than it has been for Europe's buying off Hamas and Palestinian vermin gangsters has been in the ME.

If the black leaders are responsible for the plight of black Americans, what should they be doing different?

 

[Fang]

Black Lives Matter is racist garage. It's pretty obvious they don't care about facts.

 

[Publius1787]

In 1906, W.E.B. Du Bois, a great Black educator and social activist, said:

"Blacks are going to have to realize that white people are not the cause of everything that goes wrong in their lives."

Du Bois...and America, too....are still waiting.

Yes, but DuBois was also a big advocate of using false propaganda to inspire a change of opinion of the black community. Kinda like BLM is doing. Of course, Dubois was a socialist most of his life before becoming a huge Stalin fan/defender and joining the Communist Party. I don't place too much credibility in him but I think BLM is his cup of tea. Now, if I were talking about Booker T. Washington, I would observe that BTW would be ashamed of BLM. They are the antithesis of his vision.