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In an attempt to show how much they care about racial equality many people have chosen to adopt the slogan black lives matter and march at different protests. The slogan is good. Of course black lives matter. We should do the best we can to preserve the lives of people of all racial groups. However, what people often forget is that Black Lives Matter is not just a slogan, it is also a group with extremely radical designs and it is important to distinguish the two. In the famous words of Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist No. 1 “Ambition, avarice, personal animosity, party opposition, and many other motives not more laudable than these, are apt to operate on those who support as those who oppose the right side of a question.” These words express precisely the state in which the BLM movement has found itself. It is not and has never been about police violence. Instead, radical politicians use the honorable pretext of racial equality to push forth political agendas that seldom have anything to do with promoting the welfare of the African-American community.
The #blacklivesmatter slogan originated on July 13, 2013 after Trayvon Martin was killed. The hashtag instantly blew up on twitter and has been growing in use ever since. During the recent protests over the killing of Floyd George many wore this slogan in solidarity with the black community.
The organization on the other hand is an entirely different story. They also have another slogan which has caught hold in the wake of recent events; #defundthepolice. This is not a slogan created to call attention to an issue. It is a policy decision this organization actually wants to carry out. However, if they really cared about black lives wouldn’t they want to see more police officers in Chicago to stop minority children from being shot and killed? It appears instead to be an organized attempt at inserting virtue-signalling nonsense into actual political policy. If it were carried out this idea would undoubtedly lead to more black death and the perpetual impoverishment of crime ridden minority areas. It is not an attempt to help black people. Instead, it is an attempt to mobilize a community of people who wish to see the best done for their neighbors by feeding them completely non-evidence based claims to further an agenda.
The cultural revolution that BLM is trying to bring about is also extremely radical and completely unrelated to promoting black life and prosperity. They are attempting to fight “cisgender privilege” and dismantle a Western family structure. None of these goals seems to be in line with an attempt to curb police violence or promote black livelihood. In fact, the reason that so many black people are suffering appears to be caused by them abandoning the Western family structure. A study that was sponsored by the Department of Justice stated that, “ past research on the family structure of a community has revealed father absence to be a consistent and potent predictor of variation in levels of violence across ecological contexts.” The breaking up of the “Western family” has had deleterious effects on the black community as shown by every available metric.
Policy goals in the economic arena have also expanded themselves in a direction that can only be loosely tied to the interests of black people. The Daily Wire recently reported on the Marxist upbringing of the leader of the Los Angeles Black Lives Matter chapter, Dr. Melina Abdullah. This woman wishes to destroy capitalism in order to promote black equality. However, capitalism has probably been the most important factor in lifting up black people. The fact that the government, especially in the South, didn’t control labor can be considered a massive advantage to black people given that they would have faced even more discrimination than was already present. Additionally, in our age which has become more enlightened on race, firms that choose to hire on the basis of race instead of efficiency drift into obsolescence due to the fact that the market naturally tends to promote the most effective workers regardless of race. However Dr. Abdullah believes that police excessive use of force is tied to a defense of the American capitalist order. The complete lack of evidence for this claim illustrates that her fulminations about racism in America seem to be about promoting a utopic agenda instead of one about supporting African-Americans.
The far left activists of the Black Lives Matter movement and those who attach themselves to it are not doing the black community many favors. They have expanded far beyond their supposed mandate of protecting black people from police brutality. Would George Floyd still be here if capitalism was abolished and the government controlled labor? Would Breonna Taylor be here if instead of having a traditional household with two loving parents she was raised by a large community of people? Would less black people die on the streets of Chicago if law enforcement officers were prevented from doing their jobs? The Black Lives Matter Movement doesn’t answer these questions honestly.
Your humble servant,
Silence Dogood
