Do You Support Black Lives Matter?

[youngmafbog]

If you do or give money do you understand what the group is all about?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8441405/The-avowed-aims-British-arm-Black-Lives-Matter.html

[dannyk13]

I doubt that their books would stand up to an auditor's scrutiny.

[douglas9401]

Charity in the loosest sense, Naomi.

It's clearly going to end in tears and desperate 'lessons will be learned' guff from hipsters and sundry gulls.

Anything with what looks like fists as its banner ain't out to do good.

[naomi24]

Never mind auditors, danny, - I doubt their intentions would stand up to the Charity Commission’s scrutiny - which is why they haven’t applied for charitable status. As I said elsewhere, the ‘woke’ need to wake up because as it is they’re all fast asleep.

[tiggerblue10]

I had hoped that the movement would adopt a positive approach to tackling some areas where racism may still exist but I no longer think this is the case. The message has been hideously distorted by radicals who have taken over and influenced the whole BLM causing decisiveness and division and also hatred of the police of which they want to abolish - unreal! There are many BAME police in the force so I don't understand the purpose of this.

I don't see those of Asian/Far East Asian ethnicity barking the same tune.

[douglas9401]

They're too busy working for a living, tiggerblue10.

[naomi24]

Tigger, //I don't understand the purpose of this.//

The clue is in their statement. It’s the word
‘political’.

[tiggerblue10]

Ok.

[tiggerblue10]

**Divisiveness (not decisiveness)

[royfromaus]

Tigger, it hasn't been taken over...it has always been run by 'radicals'

[margarettom]

No I don't support this group. I believe they are having a negative effect on what were steadily improving race relations in this country.

[Jordyboy9]

Much as I hate to admit it once again I have to agree with Ladycg, sensible and articulate answer

[ToraToraTora]

ladycg; "they remind me of those clueless saps in the film Indepence Day, cheering and holding aloft "welcome" banners just moments before being annihilated..." - that is bang on ladycg. BA material there.

[naomi24]

That is actually a very good analogy.

[saintpeter48]

No I do not!
All lives matter!
All of this 'one knee' stuff and messages on football shirts really gets my goat, its a load of baloney in my opinion!
You cannot wipe the history books and pretend things never happened, education is the answer, instead of teaching algebra in school, lets teach the kids about the slave trade, the rise of the Nazi party, religeous extremism, colonialism, etc etc, the younger generation will then get a better insight into what is happening around the world at present.

[fender62]

perhaps blm should try and fix the black on black stabbings and drug gangs in london, or would they say it's the governments fault.

[jim360]

// No, I do not support this pernicious and anarchic organisation who seek to destroy what we've built over the centuries. //

How sad that neither "built" nor "centuries" is even remotely accurate. Many features of the modern world that we take for granted are less than a century old, and many of those arose not out of the sort of continual, incremental progress that "build" evokes, but out of destruction, turmoil and an endless battle against the forces of inertia that never quite stops, nor should it ever.

[LadyCG]

One opinion versus another, Jim.

[jim360]

It isn't really a matter of opinion that "many features of the modern world that we take for granted are less than a century old" though, is it? Nor is it a matter of opinion that wars and revolutions have played a huge part in shaping the modern world. Whether it is more significant than incremental progress is, I'll grant you, subjective, but that such things are a contributing factor at all is enough to undermine the "built for centuries" picture.

[royfromaus]

PSSSST...There's a question, Jim, two in fact.

[Theland]

BLM will, I think, backfire, as whites shrug off the allegations of white privilege, and asset their own identitity in the face of this Leftist Fascist mob.