Black Lives Matter protested in south suburban Cook County neighborhoods last weekend
By Nancy Thorner -
Given the no criticism policy which exists for Black Lives Matter, a person is called racist and can even be fired for saying anything in this politically-correct world that is perceived negative against Black Lives Matter, given its no-criticism policy which exists.
On June 5, 2020, a former Garces Memorial High School teacher in Bakersfield, CA, who is himself black, was allegedly fired over social media posts targeting the Black Lives Matter movement and protests. Refusing to back down from his posts, Timothy Gordon called his former school "insane" for not supporting him.
As reported on June 6th, 2020, in Arizona News: The first black Republican elected to the Arizona Legislature, Rep. Walt Blackman of Snowflake, when facing blowback after calling Black Lives Matter a “terrorist organization” and attacking the character of George Floyd, pulled back his comment.
In a letter posted Monday, June 16, 2020, the National Executive Committee for the Boy Scouts of America announced a new badge related to “diversity and inclusion” in conjunction with the far-left, anti-cop Black Lives Matter movement. The new badge will be a prerequisite to becoming an Eagle Scout, according to the committee.
Pertaining to corporations, on June, 17, 2020, Quaker Oats, the owner of the 131-year-old brand, said it would retire its name and image as it worked “to make progress toward racial equality.” Quaker Oat is not the first, nor will it be the last company, to bow to the demands of BLM and other leftist group to avoid being targeted for racial insensitivity.
Black Lives Matter movement
According to Wikipedia, the Black Lives Matter movement began in 2013 in response to George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin. It has since ballooned into a movement punctuated by protests highlighting police brutality against black people.
Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit said the following about the movement: “ BlackLivesMatter.com appears to be an international money laundering scheme used by the Democrats to raise money from an international audience. When a person clicks on the ‘Donate’ button on blacklivesmatter.com, they are sent to an ‘ActBlue’ donations page.
Black Lives Matter has recently received pledges of more than $100 million in donations from foundations and other sources.
The Ford Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy announced the formation of the Black-Led Movement Fund [BLMF], a six-year pooled donor campaign aimed at raising $100 million for the Movement.
This funding comes in addition to more than $33 million in grants to the Black Lives Matter movement from George Soros through his Open Society Foundations, as well as grant-making from the Center for American Progress.
Tucker Carlson highlights Black Lives Matter
On Monday, June 15, 2020, Tucker Carlson dared to air a lengthy segment about Black Lives Matter on his nightly prime time weekday TV show on Fox News.
Tucker portrayed Black Lives Matter as a powerful political party that has nothing to do with black lives. As to why Tucker called Black Lives Matters a political party of great importance is because of its influence in making things happen. Given its power, politicians and corporations are bowing down to its demands, which Tucker referred to as values embraced by the Democrat Party.
As often happens in situations when people's emotions have much to do with what they see and hear, there was condemnation, as there should have been, when Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin pushed his knee into the neck of a man, eventually identified as George Floyd, until he died. The dichotomy is that a black killed by a white cop caused rioting to happen, while blacks killed by blacks every day in major cities throughout this nation matter not.
In his commentary, Tucker went on to explain how Black Lives Matters has revised our moral values. Said Tucker, "Black Lives do matter. It's true because every life does matter. As human beings, we all have souls. All of us were created by God and nothing can change that. Every life is precisely as valuable as any other life and is the basis of the Christian faith and the entire premise behind our founding documents. Thanks to BLM this can no longer be said out loud. Affirming equality is now considered hate speech."
Tucker further highlighted an online and telephone survey conducted by Rasmussen that found an astonishing 62% of likely voters now have a favorable opinion of Black Lives Matter (BLM), while 32% have a very favorable one. The result represents a stunning turnaround in how many Americans perceive the movement compared with even a few years.
A similar poll by Rasmussen in June 2016, for example, found that only 37% of likely voters had a favorable view of BLM, while a majority viewed it unfavorable. Black Lives Matters was defined not only as a concept, but also as a movement and an organization trying to enact change on the macro level in the United States. At the time more than 50 organizations representing thousands of black people from across the country came together with renewed energy and purpose to articulate a common vision and agenda. Included in its platform were six tenets: End the war on black people, economic justice, divest-invest, community control, political power and, perhaps most importantly, reparations.
A parallel development in the before mentioned Rasmussen poll reported that the approval rating held by President Donald Trump has fallen a full ten points in a single month (from 49% to 39%), amid nationwide protests, the ongoing pandemic, and the perceived federal government’s inability to address economic turmoil, making Black Lives Matters even more popular with Americans than either political party or the Pope.
Black Lives Matter protests
Who doesn't remember the massive Black Lives Matters protests May 30 and May 31 in Washington, D.C. over George Floyd's death that turned violent?
Few are aware that ahead of the massive D.C. protests, the local Black Lives Matter chapter laid out its demands for change and action.
Cited below were the group’s demands:
- Defund the police.
- No new jails.
- Decriminalize sex work.
- Police-free schools.
- Drop charges against protesters.
- End cash bail in Maryland.
- Ban stop and frisk.
The first demand alone of Black Lives Matter would seem to be reason enough to reject outright the Black Lives Matter movement.
As related in this video by Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), Defunding the police is the most ridiculous and irresponsible policy idea in this lifetime.
BLMS wants to get into schools
In an article by Luis Miguel on Thursday June 11, 2010, a marketer and writer whose journalistic endeavors shed light on the Deep State, the immigration crisis, and the enemies of freedom, Miguel relates how BLM Wants to Get Into Schools and What They Plan to Teach.
The national organization Black Lives Matter at School (BLMS) is seeking to foment a “new uprising for racial justice” by injecting Black Lives Matter’s “guiding principles” (including concepts such as “globalism,” “transgender affirming” and “queer affirming”) into school curriculums throughout the country.BLMS already has the endorsement of the National Education Association, the largest teachers union in the U.S.What does BLMS want to teach our children? A document titled “How to talk to young children about the Black Lives Matter Guiding Principles,” encourages educators to “consider age-appropriate language” as they indoctrinate students with cultural Marxist ideology such as “intersectionality” and “transgenderism.”Many of the terms included in the document are pulled from Black Lives Matter’s 13 guiding principles. They include Globalism, described as “our ability to see how we are impacted or privileged within the Black global family that exists across the world in different regions.”Here’s what the document has to say about families: “There are lots of different kinds of families; what makes a family is that it’s people who take care of each other; those people might be related, or maybe they choose to be family together and to take care of each other.”Elsewhere, Garcia writes, “It’s important to make sure that all families feel welcome.” In other words, a family isn’t a family. A family can be anything, including government caretakers.Garcia’s writing is pure social-justice word salad: pseudo-scientific-sounding psychobabble meant to dress up Marxist tyranny and make it palatable to minorities. An actual read-through and meditation on what Black Lives Matter believes should be enough to convince most people that their ideology is poison for black lives and all lives.That the Left is attempting to force this thinly veiled propaganda on our children should be worrisome to every parent and prompt phone calls and letters to school boards and principals — or convince parents to pull their children out of public schools altogether.If Black Lives Matter gets its way, it’ll soon be social justice instead of STEM in classrooms throughout America.
