My Humble Opinion on "Black Lives Matter"
To begin with, I'm not comfortable with ANY organization that separates people based on, well, anything other than behavior or gender. (Yes, I'm reactionary enough to believe in only two genders!) Physical traits, (excepting gender, of course), is absolutely the WORST criteria by which to judge people.
Lump me in with all the folks who proclaim that "ALL Lives Matter".
As for the BLM movement itself, I have serious misgivings with many of their "beliefs", particularly this one quoted directly from their website:
"We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable."
Considering that over 60% of black children are currently being raised by a single parent, presumably a mother, and that children raised by single mothers are overwhelmingly more likely to engage in anti-social behavior, (drug addiction, crime, etc.), their stance is reckless at best, and downright anti-black folk at worst. (Warning! When digesting any statistic given to support an argument, you MUST have this book available for reference: "How to Lie with Statistics".)
If I wanted to harm a group of people, I can't think of a better way to do so, other than outright genocide, than by destroying their family structures.
So my opinion of BLM is that it is a racist, harmful organization.
However, when dealing with human beings, things are always more complicated than this. We have to take into consideration the history of our country, and why it has lead to so many people clinging to what I think is a bad ideology.
Suppose you are an old person like me. Maybe your grandparents came from Oklahoma? Maybe they lived in Tulsa during the early 1920's? Maybe they witnessed the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921?
Maybe they had dark skin?
Don't you think a passed down family history of surviving a genocide would influence your view of the world just a bit?
So my final opinion of "Black Lives Matter" is that I think, charitably, that it is a mistake, (and when I'm feeling particularly grumpy, that it is simply a front for malcontents who want to cause trouble), but I can understand where the emotions that support it come from.
A smart, courageous guy once said, "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." Which will it be, folks?
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