I was curious and decided to look in the "About" area of the BlackLivesMatter website. Members may not agree with what I'm taking away from the description, but this seems like a Trojan horse using Black Pain to accomplish other agendas hiding inside of it.
I see in the about area a very telling description.
BLM affirms the lives of:
Black Queer and Trans Folks (Listed1st)
I don't know what sexual preference has to do with keeping the cops from harm, killing and falsely imprisoning Black people but that matters to BLM.
Disabled Folks (Listed 2nd)
Undocumented Folks (Listed 3nd)
There are many undocumented people who don't give a damn about Black people and specifically African Americans, so what does BLM look like riding for them? If you donate to BLM, this is where a portion of that money is going. That's a slap in the face.
Folks w/ Records (Listed 4th)
This is complicated, but I stand with the Black people falsely accused and given unjustified time for non-violent offenses.
Women (Listed 5th)
all Black lives along the gender spectrum (Listed 6th)
You may be thinking "What's wrong with that?" but they went out of their way to not mention Black men at all. I don't even see Black women listed here specifically, but I do see Black Queers listed. Even if they say the first mention of "Black" was meant for each, that argument is lost if it has to be mentioned again at the bottom. Either way, men (specifically Black men) wasn't listed.
How many straight Black men have been killed by police? How many Black people for that matter? Does sexual preference matter? Men aren't mentioned, but the bloodshed and false imprisonment of straight Black men is being used to help others strive. Gay Black men are covered along with Gay Black women. It seems like I'm knit-picking but I'm not. I take offense to this, just like Damon Young's post, Jemele Hill's co-sign of his post, the liars who went after Nate Parker, etc.
Do straight Black men really fit into the BLM movement regarding it's agendas or is there a push for something else underneath a mask representing the desire for justice via BlackLivesMatter? A non-Black man funded it, and I have to be suspicious of what his motives might be.
It couldn't just be Black People, they chose to list it like this. This is a problem even if they didn't intend it to be that way although I doubt it, because it's segmenting people up when the objective is supposed to be as listed in the initial sentence. Sexual preference doesn't apply at all, it's "BLACK" Lives Matter but Blackness is being used for other things here and I hope you see that.
When I think of cops being punished for committing criminal acts against Black people, I'm not thinking of straight or gay, man or woman. I'm thinking Black, just like too many cops do. Wouldn't it sound crazy if my focus were solely on straight Black men? Wouldn't be fair, so the push from others should sound crazy for trying to take Black men out of the equation.
To do this is to wipe away Black men in an unspoken way. Be on the lookout because chances are this will increase and even when its obvious Black men were a part of something, we won't be mentioned at all. I'd rather Black people be mentioned together, but it should be clear that only specifics will occur when the desire to separate is there. It's divide & conquer.
Is Black Lives Matter getting laws changed or is it trying to change us?