Why I Do Not Support Black Lives Matter
Let us look at the current phenomenon known as the Black Lives Matter movement. Although 65% of blacks support Black Lives Matter or BLM, it unmistakably fits into the realm of destructive identity politics and perpetual hypocrisy.[i] Democratic candidates for office did not miss the black support point in the 2016 election cycle. Federal candidates continued to submit to BLM and its demands even given its destructive nature. One reason for this is because the national Democrat Party warned, in a 2015 confidential memo to its federal candidates, not to use the words “all lives matter” or speak about black on black crime, under any circumstances, given such a response may garner additional media scrutiny and only anger BLM activists. The document, intended to advise on how to deal with the Black Lives Matter movement, described BLM as a “radical movement” seeking to be part of the conversation.[ii] It appears the national Democrat Party’s solution when dealing with the advocacy group is pacification and appeasement, by ignoring apparent facts. It is worth noting that while exploring the BLM movement, their guiding principles, and their political demands, numerous contradictions, and hypocrisies within these documents were found, therefore, narrowing the scope of the reflection to keep this review timely was needed.
Created in 2012, BLM proclaims it was launched in response to the death of Trayvon Martin and other black males killed. Absent from the group’s guiding principles are anything remotely related to the plight of black men? Given the three women, founders of BLM are community organizers and feminist; I would gather to guess they have no real use for black men. The trio is so feminist they have even gone so far as to change the group’s “history” to “herstory.” Black men are an inconvenient means to a socialist end. Roland C. Warren noted in his op-ed in the Washington Times, “If you objectively read the Black Lives Matter movement principles, you will quickly notice that most of them have nothing to do with the issues facing the black community and, certainly, not the black men and boys that the group has used as ‘martyrs’ to gain a national voice. Moreover, as you read the principles, you will not find a single reference to black men and boys, except for trans men, which are men who want to be considered women.”[iii] The group's lack of thought for black men is quite telling, given the socialist construct of equality for blacks, black males, in particular, are the constant narrative the group feeds the national media.
BLM’s advocacy is very bigoted, narrow-minded, and remarkably singular in its scope. Such bigotry can be seen in a quick review of the groups guiding principles. One of the group’s principles declare they strive to be unapologetically black and they need not say why; “We are unapologetically Black in our positioning. In affirming that Black Lives Matter, we need not qualify our position…” yet similarly they also assert to strive for diversity; “We acknowledge, respect, and celebrate differences and commonalities.”[iv] With the definition of diversity, having many different forms, types, ideas, races, and or cultures in a group or organization, how then would it be possible for BLM to be unapologetically black yet desire diversity? The answer lies in the largely socialist underpinning of the organization.[v] An argument can be made that being black to BLM is a fluid construct built on feelings and not facts. Moreover, whites, such as Shaun King, and others are welcome as long as they are in “blackface” and perform the minstrel songs of socialism and servitude.[vi]
Moreover, if BLM is so unapologetically black, why would they not want to protect all black lives? It appears violent crime committed by black people upon other black people and black abortions go virtually unnoticed by the group. According to FBI statistics for 2012, there were 2,648 black homicides; of those black deaths, a black person accounted for 2,412 of them.[vii] Since 1973 a total of 13 million black babies have been aborted. That would be an average if 1,876 black babies aborted every day in America. Further, black women are five times more likely to have an abortion than white women.[viii]
Some offer ridiculous and ill-conceived justifications for why BLM does not address these black lives. Segregating ‘black on black’ crime into its own category is another form of racism. This clearly overlooks the fact that BLM is inviting the very segregation it claims not to want. Also, BLM believes law enforcement officers are racist and are the reincarnation of slave catchers.[ix] According to a Black Lives Matter organizer Melina Abdullah, who spoke at California State University, “Police that we now have were the slave catchers. So that is where it comes from. You literally have a target on your back. That is what policing was founded on, and that is what it evolved out of. So the former slave catchers or paddy rollers, they were called slave patrols.”[x]
However, it is worth noting the group ignores the racist aspect of abortion and the history of the founder of Planned Parenthood. Margret Sanger is the “Mother” of the abortion movement and her roots in this movement was fueled mainly by her belief in culling out the unfit and feeble with a conviction in forced sterilization. A plight described in a 1973 exposé in Essence magazine that highlighted the forced sterilization of rural black women. These sterilizations went mostly unnoticed by the women until they decided to begin having children.[xi] Many of the facts surrounding Margret Sanger and her attitudes towards eugenics are well documented yet continue to be refuted by revisionist historians. I believe that BLM does not focus on black-on-black crime or black abortions because the group would cease to be myopic or singular in its advocacy and scope. This would put BLM in conflict with the socialist principals it holds at its core.
The groups guiding principle concerning the black family is more of a rallying cry to continue its destruction. “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.”[xii] Common knowledge defines a western-prescribed nuclear family structure as a married father and mother with children. With that said, instilling the discipline of the children within the family has traditionally been the role of the father. However, the father is notably absent from the black family. Black children stand in distinction to any other racial group with an astonishing 64% of black children that grow up with only their mother, as of 2014.[xiii] While in contrast in 1865 or prior, where black marriages were in some cases illegal, 63.5% of black children grew up with both parents in the home.[xiv]
There are consequences to the marginalization of the father in the black family. Creating foot soldier advocates who will blindly follow their master perpetuating the servant class requires creating an imbalance in the nuclear family. Father absence is linked to low academic performance, behavior problems, and risks for incarceration. The 2013 FBI Uniform Crime Report shows that black offenders killed 90 percent of black victims. The vast majority of victims and perpetrators are black men.[xv]
Speaking of black fathers, while the words mother and children were used in BLM’s family guiding principle, remarkably absent was the word, father. So why doesn’t BLM want to restore the black father to the family, reducing poverty, low scholastic performance, behavior problems, risks for incarceration, and by extension crime? BLM is not committed to bringing black fathers back to the family unit, because, BLM would instead “transform” black women into men, as their solution — BLM transgender principal “We are committed to embracing and making space for trans brothers and sisters to participate and lead. We are committed to being self-reflexive and doing the work required to dismantle cis-gender privilege and uplift Black trans folk, especially Black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence”[xvi], or BLM’s queer affirming principal “We are committed to fostering a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of hetero-normative thinking or, rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual unless s/he or they disclose otherwise.“[xvii]
BLM’s movement is undoubtedly based on the “Critical Race Theory.” Critical Race Theory is a theory that challenges the validity of concepts such as objective truth, and judicial neutrality, in the context of race. This theory derives its philosophical framework from within Marxist thought or socialism. Advocates of such critical race theory argue that racism is not a matter of an individual choice, i.e. an individual cannot choose to be racists, but rather it is embedded in American attitudes, institutions and within white people’s DNA.
Consequently, you now understand BLM’s push for equality, regardless of the facts. The irony of this movement is that the Marxist theory from which it is derived is taken from Karl Marx, who himself was a racist and held a very low opinion of blacks. Marx, in correspondence to his friend Engels, about his socialist political competitor Ferdinand Lassalle, Marx wrote:
“It is now completely clear to me that he, as is proved by his cranial formation and his hair, descends from the Negroes who had joined Moses’ exodus from Egypt, assuming that his mother or grandmother on the paternal side had not interbred with a nigger. Now this union of Judaism and Germanism with a basic Negro substance must produce a peculiar product.”[xviii]` Karl Marx
[i] Juliana Menasce Horowitz and Gretchen Livingston, “How Americans view the Black Lives Matter movement”, Pew Research Center, July 8, 2016
[ii] Rudy Takala , “Hacked: Dems warned candidates against saying ‘all lives matter”, The Washington Examiner, August 31, 2016
[iii] Roland C. Warren, “Black Lives Matter’s real agenda”, The Washington Times, July 28, 2016
[iv] Black Lives Matter Web Site, www.blacklivesmatter.com, August 1, 2016
[v] Gregory Parker, “Freedom and Democratic Socialism”, Conservative Essays for the Modern Era, 2017
[vi] See this essay section on ‘Transracial the new blackface’ — Gregory Parker, “Conservative Essays for the Modern Era”, 2017
[vii] Derryck Green, “The ‘Black Lives Matter’ Slogan Ignores Self-Destructive Behavior”, Project 21, n.d.
[viii] Jacob Steele, “If Black Lives Matter Why Do Blacks Treat Themselves And Each Other So Badly”, Patriot Update, August 24, 2015
[ix] Dave Urbanski, “Black Lives Matter leader: Police officers ‘evolved’ from ‘slave catchers”, The Blaze, March 22, 2017
[x] Dave Urbanski, “Black Lives Matter leader: Police officers ‘evolved’ from ‘slave catchers”, The Blaze, March 22, 2017
[xi] OrthodoxyToday Staff Writer, “How Planned Parenthood Duped America”, OrthodoxyToday.org, 2001
[xii] Black Lives Matter Web Site, www.blacklivesmatter.com, August 1, 2016
[xiii] “American Community Survey” US Census Bureau, 2010–2014
[xiv] Stephen Crawford, “The Slave Family: A View from the Slave Narratives”, University of Chicago Press, January 1992
[xv] “Black Lives Matter’s real agenda”, Roland C. Warren, The Washington Times, July 28, 2016
[xvi] Black Lives Matter Web Site, www.blacklivesmatter.com, August 1, 2016
[xvii] Black Lives Matter Web Site, www.blacklivesmatter.com, August 1, 2016
[xviii] Walter Williams, “The Ugly Racism of Karl Marx”, The Daily Signal, May 10, 2017 / Nathaniel Weyl, “ Karl Marx, racist”, Arlington House; First Edition, 1979
