The Agenda of Black Lives Matter Is Far Different From the Slogan

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • Visit the Black Lives Matter website, and the first frame you get is a large crowd with fists raised and the slogan โ€œNow We Transform.โ€
  • This agenda isnโ€™t what most people signed up for when they bought their Spanx or registered for Airbnb.
  • The goals of the Black Lives Matter organization go far beyond what most people think.

Many see the slogan Black Lives Matter as a plea to secure the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all Americans, especially historically wronged African Americans. They add the BLM hashtag to their social-media profiles, carry BLM signs at protests, and make financial donations.

Tragically, when they do donate, they are likely to bankroll a number of radical organizations, founded by committed Marxists whose goals arenโ€™t to make the American Dream a reality for everyoneโ€”but to transform America completely.

This might be unknown to some of the worldโ€™s best-known companies, which have jumped on the BLM bandwagon. Brands like Airbnb and Spanx have promised direct donations.

True, others like Nike and Netflix have shrewdly channeled their donations elsewhere, like the NAACP and other organizations that have led the struggle for civil rights for decades. These companies are likely aware of BLMโ€™s ยญextreme agenda and recoil from bankrolling destructive ideas. But it requires sleuthing to learn this.

Companies that donโ€™t do this hard work are providing air cover for a destructive movement and compelling their employees, shareowners and customers to endorse the same. Just ask BLM leaders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi. In a revealing 2015 interview, Cullors said, โ€œMyself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers. We are trained Marxists.โ€ That same year, Tometi was hobnobbing with Venezuelaโ€™s Marxist dictator Nicolรกs Maduro, of whose regime she wrote: โ€œIn these last 17 years, we have witnessed the Bolivarian Revolution champion participatory democracy and construct a fair, transparent election system recognized as among the best in the world.โ€

Millions of Venezuelans suffering under Maduroโ€™s murderous misrule presumably couldnโ€™t be reached for comment.

Visit the Black Lives Matter website, and the first frame you get is a large crowd with fists raised and the slogan โ€œNow We Transform.โ€ Read the list of demands, and you get a sense of how deep a transformation they seek.

One proclaims: โ€œWe disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear-family-structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and โ€˜villagesโ€™ that collectively care for one another.โ€

A partner organization, the Movement for Black Lives, or M4BL, calls for abolishing all police and all prisons. It also calls for a โ€œprogressive restructuring of tax codes at the local, state and federal levels to ensure a radical and sustainable redistribution of wealth.โ€

Another M4BL demand is โ€œthe retroactive decriminalization, immediate release and record ยญexpungement of all drug-related offenses and prostitution and reparations for the devastating impact of the โ€˜war on drugsโ€™ and criminalization of prostitution.โ€

This agenda isnโ€™t what most people signed up for when they bought their Spanx or registered for Airbnb. Nor is it what most people understood when they ยญexpressed sympathy with the slogan that Black Lives Matter.

Garza first coined the phrase in a July 14, 2013, Facebook post the day George Zimmerman was acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin. Her friend Cullors put the hashtag in front and joined the words, so it could travel through social media. Tometi thought of creating an ยญactual digital platform, BlackLivesMatter.com.

The group became a self-styled global network in 2014 and a โ€œfiscally sponsored projectโ€ of a separate progressive nonprofit in 2016, according to Robert Stilson of the Capital Research Center. This evolution has helped embolden an agenda vastly more ambitious than just #DefundthePolice.

The goals of the Black Lives Matter organization go far beyond what most people think. But they are hiding in plain sight, there for the world to see, if only we read beyond the slogans and the innocuous-sounding media accounts of the movement.

The groupโ€™s radical Marxist agenda would supplant the basic building block of societyโ€”the familyโ€”with the state and destroy the economic system that has lifted more people from poverty than any other. Black lives, and all lives, would be harmed.

Theirs is a blueprint for misery, not justice. It must be rejected.

This piece originally appeared in the NY Post

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