Status Updates From BLM: The Making of a New Ma...

Garza [leader of BLM] found her next home, when she was hired to organize opposition to building a Walmart in Oakland. …"She didn't care that poor black residents actually wanted the Walmart, nor that the local labor council supported the new store, which did open." This is something we find again and again with leftist leaders who say they are fighting for the people but disdain the people's actual choices.

If your town or city has formed an "Anti-Racism Ad Hoc Committee" that will undertake witch hunts for any civic activity…that some intrusive neighborhood martinet can denounce as racist, that is because of BLM. If your priest, minister, or rabbi ruins your weekend by lecturing you on social justice and white privilege, that is because of BLM... It now has a Political Action Committee to influence whom we elect…

Meanwhile, the white Weathermen pledged to set up a clandestine, revolutionary movement, akin to the Red Guard in China, “with the full willingness to participate in the violent and illegal struggle.” Again, as in the Port Huron Statement, the struggle of blacks for civil rights and acceptance in mainstream America seemed to matter little to the Weathermen except as a prop to achieve world revolution.

“The BLA was the lethal, underground branch of something larger called the Black Liberation Movement. That BLM's initials are the same as those of the Black Liberation Movement has not escaped leaders like Alicia Garza, and she likes to gamely repeat “BLM, BLM." It is noteworthy that Garza, Cullors, and Tometi draw inspiration from these toxic splinters of the Black Panther Party.”

“Soon, the "We Shall Overcome" chants by King's followers were themselves overcome by the mock chants of "We Shall Overrun" led by Carmichael's SNCC's militants.”

"Guilt is no small part of the answer. Christianity no longer brought atonement... So, the left offered a deal: renounce your nations, your churches, and your heternormative families, and we will set you free of your guilt. In the early years of the civil rights movements, black students wanted…the right to read Shakespeare in college along with white students. Today, identity politics wants to erase Shakespeare."

"Being removed from the welfare of ordinary men and women, intellectuals are vulnerable to an abstract theory that purports to care for the people but in fact creates conditions that impede individual improvement and always ends in tyranny."

"...Justice John Harlan tried to prevent when he stood as the single dissenter in the Pesy decision and wrote, "in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law"

So far, informative, thought provoking, well documented, and somewhat scary.

“Nikole Hannah-Jones, and the entire woke complex in academia, the media, and other culture-making institutions, believe that Stephen Douglas, not Lincoln, was right, which means to them Dred Scott must have been, in fact, correctly decided.”

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
G. Orwell, 1984