I totally respect that you do not care what philosophy is behind the Black Lives Matter Movement.
I do, however, and feel our country is being over run with socialism, communism and marxist ideas.
This movement was started by one Alicia Garza, who is a community organizer and when she began the movement she was acting Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance whose members are nannies, housekeepers, caregivers and other domestic workers.
Her inspiration comes from the
Black Liberation Army which was the entity once called the
Black Panthers. She is inspired by the words of Assata Shakur who
killed a New Jersey State Trooper and is in exile in Cuba, a country who has accepted her and whom she loves and has proclaimed it as
"One of the Largest, Most Resistant and Most Courageous Palenques (Maroon Camps) that has ever existed on the Face of this Planet."
She has been involved in extortion, robbery and murder.
This, to me, is not the basis for any kind of positive movement in our country. She has proclaimed for years her hatred for police and of course offers no sympathy for the execution of police officers in our country.
If those words do not give you a chill of fear, then maybe I am the one who is out of touch.
I am a conservative, but not one who wants us to go back to the fifties. Not one who wants anyone of any color to be abused by police. Not one who is blind to many injustices in our country. Not a bigot and not a racist. I actually marched with MLK in Philadelphia during a short visit he made there and believe in my heart of hearts he would be out raged at what is being done in the name of justice.
I do not see any of this as justice. I see it as a marxist take over of our streets and is simply the first step to a war internal in this country,not predicated on seeking justice but predicated on hate and nothing else.
These people do not get my respect in anyway shape or form. You may feel that they are wonderful folks but they are using and fueling hate in this country.
The federal government has investigated any shootings involved and when and if they find reason, there is justice served.
Interesting, if you bother to read a little on this subject that you support so strongly, you will find that the drowning out of the blacks kill blacks cry that many have tried but get drowned out...those people are accurate.
I will leave you a link that I think is simple and clear, although based on your comments, I doubt you will read it, nor will many progressives....
"But Hubbard has plenty of misses. I don't understand why we can't talk about black-on-black crime and police brutality at the same time. Why do we have to treat the two issues separately? It's like saying that if blacks stopped killing blacks tomorrow then police brutality will suddenly stop. We know that's not the case."
James E. Causey - A critic of Black Lives Matter simplifies a complex problem
NO....I will not idolize these people that you idolize. The Democrat party is in the process of being taken over by a socialist, marxist movement. We know they always fail, and we know they always entail bloodshed and killing and we know that countries involved never come back, so NO....I will not idolize these people, not will I be silent about a progressive movement that, in my opinion, has been hijacked by these groups.
I said in an earlier post that I could agree with you on many things.
I take that back. If this kind of movement is supported by you, then we could agree on nothing. We are a country of law and the law works. Let us give voice to the law and the law being administered justly. Lets remember that all the heroes being made by police killings were either criminals in the past or in the commission of a crime.
I am unable to support the people or movement that you support.
These are links to Wiki on some of my comments but more available. I recall in 2008 hearing how the Black Panthers were not good but not to worry, they \have no involvement in Democratic party politics and now I hear how they are in fact supported but with different names.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assata_Shakur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Garza
And I would be curious to hear what you respect about all these groups and what makes them so attractive ?