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Originally Posted by mongidig
The black community absolutely has some legitimate gripes with the system. What I don't understand is how you expect to get anything changed when your pissing people off and acting in an instigative manner like this.
What's the alternative? Play along? Write strongly worded letters to congressmen asking them to please overturn an entire legislative regime which implements institutional racism every day?
No. You have to act through a movement. That means being vocal, putting on demonstrations, getting the message out to people, in particular voters.
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Your tactics better change quickly or your going to ignite a race war. Have you noticed the sharp increase in hate groups in this country since the BLM began?
The increase in hate groups correlates in time to Obama becoming president. While some say that the caricaturing Obama by the "mainstream" right as a foreigner, as a militant pro-black, as a secret Muslim agent etc. hastened the popularity of hate groups, I think that there is simply a significant base of white racists in this country who were going to tool up for the coming race war/immigrant apocalypse/refugee invasion/clash of civilizations or whatever paranoia infused abstraction of hate, regardless, upon the election of a black president. The hate groups ramped up because racist people mobilized against a president merely because he was black. This started years before BLM.
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The average white person thinks that the BLM is all about hating cops and white people. Unfortunately there is not a high percentage of white people who are willing to do the research and find out there is much more to this movement than they think. The BLM has a major optics problem.
There are also a lot of white people who are not at all interested in what BLM is really about, despite being really interested in BLM for their own racist purposes. I think the most vocal critics fit this profile. They want to villify BLM because they are actually against the stated principles of this country, in particular equal justice. They want to maintain the oppression of black people by the justice system.