The Truth about BLM

[concha]

https://unherd.com/2022/09/schools-shouldnt-fly-blm-flags/

 

Schools shouldn’t fly BLM flags

Its divisive programme is the enemy of black prosperity

BY AYAAN HIRSI ALI

After more than two years of disruption, American schoolchildren are finally returning to something approaching normal education — in-person, and without masks or social distancing or other “non-pharmaceutical interventions”. But many of these children are returning transformed. Last week, data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress showed catastrophic learning loss among America’s nine-year-olds, with the worst declines among minority students.

I thought of these children when a friend from Massachusetts complained to me about the Black Lives Matter flag flying outside her son’s school. These flags have become a common sight outside American classrooms since the summer of 2020, and my friend isn’t the only one who’s concerned. The Diocese of Worcester recently ordered a local school to stop identifying itself as Catholic over its refusal to remove BLM and Pride flags, and similar controversies have erupted in Utah and Tennessee.

My friend’s complaint was that BLM is corrupt, which it almost certainly is. Reporting from earlier this year showed that the group’s founder had been spending BLM funds on lavish real estate purchases and payouts to family members. Only last week, Shalomyah Bowers, the leader of the BLM Global Network Foundation, was accused of stealing more than $10 million for personal use.

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But complaints over the organisation’s corruption miss the point. Even if BLM were a paragon of transparency, its flag should never have been flown outside an American school — for the simple reason that its core principles are antithetical to a sound education. In other words, it is not a flawed organisation with noble ideals; it is a flawed organisation whose ideals are, at best, misguided and, at worst, actively destructive, with the most disastrous results for black children.

Take BLM’s views on the family. In the guiding principles of its school programme, BLM states that it is “committed to disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement”. That may seem like an innocuous principle, one that is unremarkable in progressive circles. But in the real world, it is hard to think of a worse idea to teach black kids. As the academics W. Bradford Wilcox and Hal Boyd have noted, the percentage of children in two-parent families in a given community is the “strongest and most robust predictor of economic mobility”. This holds for children of all races, but particularly for minorities. And yet BLM’s manifesto calls for the creation of “black villages” that “collectively care for one another” — even though black boys do much better when their fathers are around.

Even more dangerous to children are BLM’s ideas about a “national defunding of the police”. What does defunding the police mean in practice? The short answer is: more black death. After the murder of George Floyd in 2020, various cities experimented with defunding and otherwise handicapping their police forces, only to find their streets filled with blood. In Oakland, the city planned to slash its police budget in half, until murders nearly doubled from 2019 to 2021 — an extreme version of a pattern that has played out across the United States. Indeed, homicides and shootings spiked across the country in the aftermath of the Floyd riots, driven in part by police demoralisation and in part by “decarceration” policies such as bail reform advocated for by BLM.

Focusing solely on curbing the police also takes much-needed attention away from the suffering inflicted on black children and their families in predominantly black areas where violent crime is rife. Why do we hear so much from BLM and so little from, for example, the organisation Voices of Black Mothers United (VBMU)? VBMU’s website states: “While a black death at the hands of police is the subject of national outrage, the numerous black deaths that occur every day in our communities are ignored. The victims are often children, and their mothers are seldom given a platform to voice their opinions.” And as its Director, Sylvia Bennett-Stone, who lost her own daughter to gun violence in 2004, has said: “It would be devastating to any community to defund or weaken the police force.”

If police presence in black communities is necessary to stop such horrific violence, then why do BLM want to reduce it? The undeniable fact is that black lives matter and police save black lives. And black people seem to agree: while distrust for the police in the black community is high, many black people are staunchly against defunding and are deeply concerned about crime on their streets. In Floyd’s home city of Minneapolis, three-quarters of black residents believe the city shouldn’t reduce its police force.

Add to this the psychological effect of BLM’s catastrophism and it beggars belief that schools think it suitable to fly its flag above their buildings. When young black Americans are told that their country is irredeemably racist, with bigotry baked into its very DNA, then what hope can they possibly have? Never mind the great strides of progress made by black Americans over the past two centuries or so; all of that is a lie, and we are doomed to be subjugated forever — unless you embrace their radical ideology.

Will this really help black children? Or will it teach them nihilism and despondency, and thus become a self-fulfilling prophecy where black people don’t succeed because there’s no point in even trying?

The BLM movement, then, does not represent justice for black Americans; it will not lead to a future of racial harmony. It is the enemy of black prosperity and education. America’s teachers shouldn’t be flying its symbol — they should be using it to illustrate the dangers of divisive racialism. The BLM flag is a red flag: it should be a warning, not an inspiration.

 

[FreeBird]

8 minutes ago, concha said:

https://unherd.com/2022/09/schools-shouldnt-fly-blm-flags/

 

Schools shouldn’t fly BLM flags

Its divisive programme is the enemy of black prosperity

BY AYAAN HIRSI ALI

After more than two years of disruption, American schoolchildren are finally returning to something approaching normal education — in-person, and without masks or social distancing or other “non-pharmaceutical interventions”. But many of these children are returning transformed. Last week, data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress showed catastrophic learning loss among America’s nine-year-olds, with the worst declines among minority students.

I thought of these children when a friend from Massachusetts complained to me about the Black Lives Matter flag flying outside her son’s school. These flags have become a common sight outside American classrooms since the summer of 2020, and my friend isn’t the only one who’s concerned. The Diocese of Worcester recently ordered a local school to stop identifying itself as Catholic over its refusal to remove BLM and Pride flags, and similar controversies have erupted in Utah and Tennessee.

My friend’s complaint was that BLM is corrupt, which it almost certainly is. Reporting from earlier this year showed that the group’s founder had been spending BLM funds on lavish real estate purchases and payouts to family members. Only last week, Shalomyah Bowers, the leader of the BLM Global Network Foundation, was accused of stealing more than $10 million for personal use.

---

But complaints over the organisation’s corruption miss the point. Even if BLM were a paragon of transparency, its flag should never have been flown outside an American school — for the simple reason that its core principles are antithetical to a sound education. In other words, it is not a flawed organisation with noble ideals; it is a flawed organisation whose ideals are, at best, misguided and, at worst, actively destructive, with the most disastrous results for black children.

Take BLM’s views on the family. In the guiding principles of its school programme, BLM states that it is “committed to disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement”. That may seem like an innocuous principle, one that is unremarkable in progressive circles. But in the real world, it is hard to think of a worse idea to teach black kids. As the academics W. Bradford Wilcox and Hal Boyd have noted, the percentage of children in two-parent families in a given community is the “strongest and most robust predictor of economic mobility”. This holds for children of all races, but particularly for minorities. And yet BLM’s manifesto calls for the creation of “black villages” that “collectively care for one another” — even though black boys do much better when their fathers are around.

Even more dangerous to children are BLM’s ideas about a “national defunding of the police”. What does defunding the police mean in practice? The short answer is: more black death. After the murder of George Floyd in 2020, various cities experimented with defunding and otherwise handicapping their police forces, only to find their streets filled with blood. In Oakland, the city planned to slash its police budget in half, until murders nearly doubled from 2019 to 2021 — an extreme version of a pattern that has played out across the United States. Indeed, homicides and shootings spiked across the country in the aftermath of the Floyd riots, driven in part by police demoralisation and in part by “decarceration” policies such as bail reform advocated for by BLM.

Focusing solely on curbing the police also takes much-needed attention away from the suffering inflicted on black children and their families in predominantly black areas where violent crime is rife. Why do we hear so much from BLM and so little from, for example, the organisation Voices of Black Mothers United (VBMU)? VBMU’s website states: “While a black death at the hands of police is the subject of national outrage, the numerous black deaths that occur every day in our communities are ignored. The victims are often children, and their mothers are seldom given a platform to voice their opinions.” And as its Director, Sylvia Bennett-Stone, who lost her own daughter to gun violence in 2004, has said: “It would be devastating to any community to defund or weaken the police force.”

If police presence in black communities is necessary to stop such horrific violence, then why do BLM want to reduce it? The undeniable fact is that black lives matter and police save black lives. And black people seem to agree: while distrust for the police in the black community is high, many black people are staunchly against defunding and are deeply concerned about crime on their streets. In Floyd’s home city of Minneapolis, three-quarters of black residents believe the city shouldn’t reduce its police force.

Add to this the psychological effect of BLM’s catastrophism and it beggars belief that schools think it suitable to fly its flag above their buildings. When young black Americans are told that their country is irredeemably racist, with bigotry baked into its very DNA, then what hope can they possibly have? Never mind the great strides of progress made by black Americans over the past two centuries or so; all of that is a lie, and we are doomed to be subjugated forever — unless you embrace their radical ideology.

Will this really help black children? Or will it teach them nihilism and despondency, and thus become a self-fulfilling prophecy where black people don’t succeed because there’s no point in even trying?

The BLM movement, then, does not represent justice for black Americans; it will not lead to a future of racial harmony. It is the enemy of black prosperity and education. America’s teachers shouldn’t be flying its symbol — they should be using it to illustrate the dangers of divisive racialism. The BLM flag is a red flag: it should be a warning, not an inspiration.

 

BLM was soooo 2020. People abandoned that shit once they finally realized all their money donated went to the founders checking account so they can live like kings, if your not flying a Ukrainian flag in 2022 then what are you doing with your life

[Nolebull813]

It’s a terrorist organization that’s only silver lining is they scammed money out of complete dumbasses. 
 

I have yet to see any evidence of anything BLM affiliated that wasn’t violence, theft, or corruption. 

[I AM IRONMAN]

1 hour ago, Nolebull813 said:

It’s a terrorist organization that’s only silver lining is they scammed money out of complete dumbasses. 
 

I have yet to see any evidence of anything BLM affiliated that wasn’t violence, theft, or corruption. 

No telling how much the scammed certain posters on here!

[tommygun58]

Wrap the pigs in bacon & cook them up? I lived & worked in NJ cities & FBLM & their  fat f'n

 whore mothers!

[Warrior]

Shake down organization, donate $$ to us and support us or we’ll unleash the dogs. 

[I AM IRONMAN]

Wonder how much 66 and co. donated to Bullshit Lies Manipulation 

[On2whls]

Somewhere lost in the fraud, deceit, and manipulation there was a legitimate message.  But, BLM caught lightning in a bottle with George Floyd.  The situation went viral right along with Covid.  Amidst the drama and theater, some in the organization realized they had a once in a lifetime lottery ticket, and played it for what it was worth.  Then after the media lost interest, the public lost interest, and there was no longer celebrity boost, the whole George Floyd opportunity gasped it’s last breath. 
In the couple years since, there have been a number of law vs Joe Q Public encounters with negative outcomes, a couple involving multiple officer mag dumps, but none has captured the magic of the Floyd incident.  
While the whole episode was social theater, it was real life, and unlike the movies, the sequel will need to be better if it’s to get the interest and support necessary to be a blockbuster.

[Wildcat Will]

This is for you prejudoce guys that hate blacks and their progress. This is for your lying tongue the Indians were right about.

Black Lives Matter Statement

The Department of Philosophy stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.

We are part of a society where the lives of Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color continue to be blighted by structural racism, lack of opportunity, health disparities, and direct violence by agents of the state and others.  Universities, including our own, have for too long been complacent or complicit.

The University of Louisville Philosophy Department hereby reaffirms its longstanding commitment, and pledges more fully, to act in solidarity with those who are targets of this violence and inequity.

Affirming that Black lives matter engages with our Departmental mission of “recognizing the value and importance of diversity,” and recommits us to creating “inclusive and equitable spaces wherever students, staff, and faculty gather to interact.”

In reaffirming this commitment, the Philosophy Department recognizes that the ongoing history of oppression occurs not just in police departments, eviction courts, legislatures, banks, and hospitals, but in academia – and especially in the philosophical tradition that we inherit. For too long, and in too many ways, we have been both complacent about and complicit in the erasure of intellectual and cultural contributions by Black, Indigenous, and other people of color as well as women, and in whitewashing the racism that too often pervades the contributions of white philosophers and the sexism that is evident in the works of male philosophers.

We therefore pledge the following concrete actions to embody our affirmation that Black Lives – and Black Minds – Matter.

Teaching:

• We will include the contributions of nonwhite and non-male philosophers, and non-Eurocentric philosophical traditions, in the curriculum, both through offering courses dedicated to these and by integrating them into every course we offer.
• We will not whitewash racism, sexism, or other forms of bias within the work of the philosophers we study.
• We will strengthen and expand our curricular programs focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion, particularly within the major and minor, the Health Care Ethics program, and the Diversity Literacy program.
• We will dedicate departmental resources to the planning and promotion of extra-curricular opportunities that foster all of our students’ understanding of oppression and of the contributions of philosophers from underrepresented groups.

Research and Creative Activity:

• We will cite and amplify the voices of Black philosophers and those from other historically underrepresented groups.

Service and Administration:

• We will prioritize the recruitment, hiring, mentoring, and promotion of Black philosophers and philosophers from other underrepresented groups.
• In our service to the profession, we will foster and amplify the contributions and perspectives of Black philosophers and philosophers from other underrepresented groups, and promote widespread discussion of issues of particular concern among such philosophers.
• We will seek guidance from and assessment by dedicated campus and professional organizations to audit our department for these purposes, we will publish such audits, and we will be openly and publicly accountable for continual improvement in these respects.

The differential valuing of life, of achievement, of opportunity, and of intellectual and cultural contributions based on which racialized group one is thought to be a member of is manifestly unjust. It compels us to repeat, internalize, and act upon the affirmation that Black lives matter.  Black lives do matter, and our collective practices, discourses, policies, and laws must reflect this.  Black lives matter for the same reason that everyone’s life matters; yet we are compelled to affirm that Black lives matter precisely because institutions, practices, laws, and behaviors have so long denied it.

Reaffirming this commitment at this time flows from our mission “to be a resource on important conceptual, ethical, and broadly philosophical issues for the citizens of Louisville and the Commonwealth of Kentucky.” We are committed to taking further steps to engage the campus and community in dialogue and action to realize a world in which “Black lives matter” does not even need to be a battle cry because it is a simple description of how we all live.

 

[concha]

 

So Willie posts a BLM propaganda page and ignores reality.

[Wildcat Will]

46 minutes ago, concha said:

 

So Willie posts a BLM propaganda page and ignores reality.

I do not ignore reality.

I understand you are racist and accept it as a fact of reality.

[concha]

1 hour ago, Wildcat Will said:

I do not ignore reality.

I understand you are racist and accept it as a fact of reality.

 

You don't understand shit.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali shows you for the fool and shill you are.

BLM writes some schpiel and you eat the shit up like it's chocolate ice cream. Meanwhile they are bilking morons like you out of millions and pushing policies harmful to the black community.

You are a fool.

There is nothing more true nor obvious on this earth.

 

[Wildcat Will]

14 hours ago, concha said:

 

You don't understand shit.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali shows you for the fool and shill you are.

BLM writes some schpiel and you eat the shit up like it's chocolate ice cream. Meanwhile they are bilking morons like you out of millions and pushing policies harmful to the black community.

You are a fool.

There is nothing more true nor obvious on this earth.

 

We are not monolithic. One person does not hold all our opinions or thoughts. You are truly an idiot if you think one person speaks for us all but then again, you are stupid so all is well.

 

The telegraph, rather than the internet, was the technological means by which white supremacists organized mass killing sprees.

 

[concha]

9 minutes ago, Wildcat Will said:

We are not monolithic. One person does not hold all our opinions or thoughts. You are truly an idiot if you think one person speaks for us all but then again, you are stupid so all is well.

 

The telegraph, rather than the internet, was the technological means by which white supremacists organized mass killing sprees.

 

 

Cool story.

The telegraph hasn't been in common usage for well over a century.

Keep ignoring that blacks are being killed in this country by other blacks - overwhelmingly.

You are mentally ill.

 

[Wildcat Will]

49 minutes ago, concha said:

 

Cool story.

The telegraph hasn't been in common usage for well over a century.

Keep ignoring that blacks are being killed in this country by other blacks - overwhelmingly.

You are mentally ill.

 

Not a cool story.

Organizing to kill is not cool.

[concha]

Just now, Wildcat Will said:

Not a cool story.

Organizing to kill is not cool.

 

The telegraph has been out of common usage for several generations.

You realize that, right?

No, you probably don't.

 

[Wildcat Will]

1 minute ago, concha said:

 

The telegraph has been out of common usage for several generations.

You realize that, right?

No, you probably don't.

 

It is inconceivable that one can be so stupid.

Bye girl.

[dan in daytona]

On 9/6/2022 at 9:11 PM, Warrior said:

Shake down organization, donate $$ to us and support us or we’ll unleash the dogs. 

Speaking of fleecing morons no one has a monopoly on stealing money. Trump buddy Steve Bannon has been indicted for stealing money from the private "We Build the Wall" initiative. Since the US government wasn't building the Mexican wall fast enough Bannon and some other "fake patriots" decided to solicit funds from "Freedom Loving Americans." Only thing was they were keeping the money for themselves. Shysters and charlatans come in all sizes, shapes, colors, and political affiliations. Live and learn my man...nothing new under the sun. 

[concha]

1 hour ago, dan in daytona said:

Speaking of fleecing morons no one has a monopoly on stealing money. Trump buddy Steve Bannon has been indicted for stealing money from the private "We Build the Wall" initiative. Since the US government wasn't building the Mexican wall fast enough Bannon and some other "fake patriots" decided to solicit funds from "Freedom Loving Americans." Only thing was they were keeping the money for themselves. Shysters and charlatans come in all sizes, shapes, colors, and political affiliations. Live and learn my man...nothing new under the sun. 

 

Curious...

Assuming what you say is true, did that organization spur on rioting and killing across the entire nation like BLM did?

While you're thinking about it, the BLM ladies and their lavishly paid family members are out by the pool of BLM's $6M mansion in LA and it's hot out. Be a dear and bring them out some cocktails. Chop, chop! 

 

 

[noonereal]

On 9/6/2022 at 5:30 PM, concha said:

https://unherd.com/2022/09/schools-shouldnt-fly-blm-flags/

 

Schools shouldn’t fly BLM flags

Its divisive programme is the enemy of black prosperity

BY AYAAN HIRSI ALI

After more than two years of disruption, American schoolchildren are finally returning to something approaching normal education — in-person, and without masks or social distancing or other “non-pharmaceutical interventions”. But many of these children are returning transformed. Last week, data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress showed catastrophic learning loss among America’s nine-year-olds, with the worst declines among minority students.

I thought of these children when a friend from Massachusetts complained to me about the Black Lives Matter flag flying outside her son’s school. These flags have become a common sight outside American classrooms since the summer of 2020, and my friend isn’t the only one who’s concerned. The Diocese of Worcester recently ordered a local school to stop identifying itself as Catholic over its refusal to remove BLM and Pride flags, and similar controversies have erupted in Utah and Tennessee.

My friend’s complaint was that BLM is corrupt, which it almost certainly is. Reporting from earlier this year showed that the group’s founder had been spending BLM funds on lavish real estate purchases and payouts to family members. Only last week, Shalomyah Bowers, the leader of the BLM Global Network Foundation, was accused of stealing more than $10 million for personal use.

---

But complaints over the organisation’s corruption miss the point. Even if BLM were a paragon of transparency, its flag should never have been flown outside an American school — for the simple reason that its core principles are antithetical to a sound education. In other words, it is not a flawed organisation with noble ideals; it is a flawed organisation whose ideals are, at best, misguided and, at worst, actively destructive, with the most disastrous results for black children.

Take BLM’s views on the family. In the guiding principles of its school programme, BLM states that it is “committed to disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement”. That may seem like an innocuous principle, one that is unremarkable in progressive circles. But in the real world, it is hard to think of a worse idea to teach black kids. As the academics W. Bradford Wilcox and Hal Boyd have noted, the percentage of children in two-parent families in a given community is the “strongest and most robust predictor of economic mobility”. This holds for children of all races, but particularly for minorities. And yet BLM’s manifesto calls for the creation of “black villages” that “collectively care for one another” — even though black boys do much better when their fathers are around.

Even more dangerous to children are BLM’s ideas about a “national defunding of the police”. What does defunding the police mean in practice? The short answer is: more black death. After the murder of George Floyd in 2020, various cities experimented with defunding and otherwise handicapping their police forces, only to find their streets filled with blood. In Oakland, the city planned to slash its police budget in half, until murders nearly doubled from 2019 to 2021 — an extreme version of a pattern that has played out across the United States. Indeed, homicides and shootings spiked across the country in the aftermath of the Floyd riots, driven in part by police demoralisation and in part by “decarceration” policies such as bail reform advocated for by BLM.

Focusing solely on curbing the police also takes much-needed attention away from the suffering inflicted on black children and their families in predominantly black areas where violent crime is rife. Why do we hear so much from BLM and so little from, for example, the organisation Voices of Black Mothers United (VBMU)? VBMU’s website states: “While a black death at the hands of police is the subject of national outrage, the numerous black deaths that occur every day in our communities are ignored. The victims are often children, and their mothers are seldom given a platform to voice their opinions.” And as its Director, Sylvia Bennett-Stone, who lost her own daughter to gun violence in 2004, has said: “It would be devastating to any community to defund or weaken the police force.”

If police presence in black communities is necessary to stop such horrific violence, then why do BLM want to reduce it? The undeniable fact is that black lives matter and police save black lives. And black people seem to agree: while distrust for the police in the black community is high, many black people are staunchly against defunding and are deeply concerned about crime on their streets. In Floyd’s home city of Minneapolis, three-quarters of black residents believe the city shouldn’t reduce its police force.

Add to this the psychological effect of BLM’s catastrophism and it beggars belief that schools think it suitable to fly its flag above their buildings. When young black Americans are told that their country is irredeemably racist, with bigotry baked into its very DNA, then what hope can they possibly have? Never mind the great strides of progress made by black Americans over the past two centuries or so; all of that is a lie, and we are doomed to be subjugated forever — unless you embrace their radical ideology.

Will this really help black children? Or will it teach them nihilism and despondency, and thus become a self-fulfilling prophecy where black people don’t succeed because there’s no point in even trying?

The BLM movement, then, does not represent justice for black Americans; it will not lead to a future of racial harmony. It is the enemy of black prosperity and education. America’s teachers shouldn’t be flying its symbol — they should be using it to illustrate the dangers of divisive racialism. The BLM flag is a red flag: it should be a warning, not an inspiration.

 

Sounds like Trump, Trumpism. 

[concha]

28 minutes ago, noonereal said:

Sounds like Trump, Trumpism. 

 

Nooner, after all this time you have to start back with stupid?

 

 

 

[dan in daytona]

3 hours ago, concha said:

 

..... Be a dear and bring them out some cocktails. Chop, chop! 

 

 

I'd prefer a boot to your ass.....What do ya think ?

[concha]

8 minutes ago, dan in daytona said:

I'd prefer a boot to your ass.....What do ya think ?

 

Cocktails.

Now.

Chop, chop.

 

[Slotback Right]

@dan in daytonaBoot to the head is better.

 

[DBP66]

On 9/8/2022 at 9:36 PM, concha said:

 

You don't understand shit.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali shows you for the fool and shill you are.

BLM writes some schpiel and you eat the shit up like it's chocolate ice cream. Meanwhile they are bilking morons like you out of millions and pushing policies harmful to the black community.

You are a fool.

There is nothing more true nor obvious on this earth.

 

LOL..."bilking morons"...that's Trump's full time job Don!....you should know that...he sends multiple e-mails a day.....in fact he's now being investigated by the 1-6 committee for all the $$ he took from his clown squad after he LOST the election....apparently you clowns throw a lot of money at your cult leader when he asks/begs...so Steven Miller is now on the hot seat for stealing from you minions....🤡

just like Steve Bannon and his scan "money for the wall" B.S. act...LOL...😪