Agenda of Black Lives Matter Is Far
Different From Slogan
Many see the slogan Black Lives
Matter as a plea to secure the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness for all Americans, especially historically wronged African Americans.
They add the BLM hashtag to their social media profiles, carry BLM signs at
protests, and make financial donations.
Tragically,
when they do donate, they are likely to bankroll a number of radical
organizations, founded by committed Marxists whose goals aren’t
to make the American dream a reality for everyone—but to transform America
completely.
This might be unknown to some of the world’s best-known companies, which have jumped on the BLM bandwagon.
Brands like Airbnb and Spanx have promised direct donations.
True,
others like Nike and Netflix have shrewdly channeled their donations elsewhere,
like the NAACP and other organizations that have led the struggle for civil
rights for decades. These companies are likely aware of BLM’s extreme agenda
and recoil from bankrolling destructive ideas. But it requires sleuthing to
learn this.
Companies
that don’t do this hard work are providing air cover for a destructive movement
and compelling their employees, shareowners, and customers to endorse the same.
Just ask BLM leaders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and
Opal Tometi.
In
a revealing 2015 interview, Cullors said, “Myself and Alicia in particular are
trained organizers. We are trained Marxists.”
That
same year, Tometi was hobnobbing with Venezuela’s Marxist dictator Nicolás
Maduro, of whose regime she wrote: “In these last 17 years, we have witnessed
the Bolivarian Revolution champion participatory democracy and construct a
fair, transparent election system recognized as among the best in the world.”
Millions
of Venezuelans suffering under Maduro’s murderous misrule presumably couldn’t
be reached for comment.
Visit the
Black Lives Matter website, and the first frame you get is a large crowd with
fists raised and the slogan “Now We Transform.” Read the list of demands, and you get a sense of how
deep a transformation they seek.
One
proclaims: “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear-family-structure
requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that
collectively care for one another.”
A
partner organization, the Movement for Black Lives, or M4BL, calls for
abolishing all police and all prisons. It also calls for a “progressive
restructuring of tax codes at the local, state and federal levels to ensure a
radical and sustainable redistribution of wealth.”
Another
M4BL demand is “the retroactive decriminalization, immediate release and record
expungement of all drug-related offenses and prostitution and reparations for
the devastating impact of the ‘war on drugs’ and criminalization of
prostitution.”
This agenda isn’t what most people signed up for when
they bought their Spanx or registered for Airbnb. Nor is it what most people
understood when they expressed sympathy with the slogan that Black Lives
Matter.
Garza
first coined the phrase in a July 14, 2013, Facebook post the day George
Zimmerman was acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin. Her friend Cullors put the
hashtag in front and joined the words, so it could travel through social media.
Tometi thought of creating an actual digital platform, BlackLivesMatter.com.
The
group became a self-styled global network in 2014 and a “fiscally sponsored
project” of a separate progressive nonprofit in 2016, according to Robert
Stilson of the Capital Research Center. This evolution has helped embolden an
agenda vastly more ambitious than just #DefundthePolice.
The
goals of the Black Lives Matter organization go far beyond what most people
think. But they are hiding in plain sight, there for the world to see, if only
we read beyond the slogans and the innocuous-sounding media accounts of the
movement.
The
group’s radical Marxist agenda would supplant the basic building
block of society—the family—with the state and destroy the economic system that
has lifted more people from poverty than any other. Black lives, and all lives,
would be harmed.
Theirs
is a blueprint for misery, not justice. It must be rejected.
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