Every four years or so, an unjust incident occurs between a white police officer and a black citizen. After which, activists like Shaun King and Don Lemon take to their platforms and call for civil unrest. At which point, Black Lives Matter, a political marxist organization comes out of the woodwork and enlists several people to take to the streets via social media. And so it’s born; peaceful protests across the country in the name of anti-racism and police reform. But if you take a step back, you’ll see things as they are; riots, not “peaceful protests.” Hundreds of arrests for violent crimes, nearly 25 people dead, and close to $650 million in property damage since May alone. So the main question I have at this point is if I don’t support this organization, why am I then called racist?

On May 25th 2020, the video of the George Floyd arrest sparked outcry amongst Black Lives Matter, and the reservists were deployed. Thousands took to the streets in Minneapolis where the incident occurred. Before the police even had the chance to make a public statement, activists around the country began making demands. Some simply were outraged at the fact the officer in question hadn’t been arrested yet, while others were outraged that the police as an institution still had any authority. But before law enforcement was able to do anything, all hell was breaking loose in Minneapolis. By the time the night was over, the mob had burned down a Target and an Autozone. While the fires and looting were being condemned by many Minneapolis residents, they were also being egged on by none other than activists like Shaun King and Labron James. By the time the following evening rolled around, riots were breaking out all across the country. Fast forward three months later, and the full body camera footage was released showing the Floyd arrest in a whole new light. Floyd may not have been able to breathe under the weight of the knee on his neck, but he also couldn’t breathe beforehand because of the massive amount of fentanyl in his system. Activists jumping the gun like this has become far too common, and the results of their recklessness usually take the biggest toll on innocent business owners that have done absolutely nothing wrong.

Now despite the severity of the damage caused by these riots, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen violent and destructive behavior from Black Lives Matter. As a matter of fact, it’s unusual that we ever see a Black Lives Matter march that results in anything else. After the death of Michael Brown, people took to the streets of Ferguson Missouri. This unrest lasted 16 days, resulted in 321 arrests, and injured 6 innocent civilians. Much like the Floyd incident, it was later proven that Brown both robbed a liquor store and repeatedly struck the officer in question while reaching for his firearm. After the death of Freddie Gray in April 2015, Black Lives Matter took to Baltimore. Once again causing millions in property damage, injuring 113 police officers, shooting 2 civilians, and killing one civilian in a fire. It was later uncovered that Freddie Gray, like Floyd, repeatedly resisted arrest and was high on a number of stimulants. As recently as Tuesday August 25th, 2020, Louisville police apprehended more than 70 protestors calling for the arrest of the officers that killed Breonna Taylor. A woman who was killed when the local authorities served a no-knock warrant. She was killed in the crossfire after her boyfriend opened fire at the police. And the most recent tragedy, Jacob Blake. Blake, who had a warrant out for his arrest on several felony charges, resisted arrest and reached into the front seat of his car as officers and bystanders around him repeatedly pleaded with him to comply. That didn’t stop Black Lives Matter in Kenosha Wisconsin from burning down a car dealership which cost the owner $1.5 million. Not to mention the hundreds of arrests and a self defense shooting that ended with the death of two people and the arrest of the shooter Kyle Rittenhouse. The point behind all of these stories is that Black Lives Matter developed into less of a social justice organization and more of a scorched earth policy. They set fire to anything and everything in the hopes of the government caving and giving into their demands. And in the end it usually turns out that the person whom they’ve rioted in the name of isn’t so innocent after all. And even in the minute amount of cases that they are, the police aren’t acting out of racist motivations, but rather poor training. Which is yet another reason why Black Lives Matter shouldn’t be vilifying the police as much as they should be aligning themselves with them. A bad cop like Dereck Chauvin is the worst nightmare of a good cop like David Dorn. Dorn was a retired police chief in St. Louis who was killed by none other than a Black Lives Matter looter.

Now that you’ve seen the damage they can do, I think you should next see what should be front and center in this debate, Black Lives Matter’s mission statement. Because while not all people marching believe in or even know of this mission statement, it still remains the mission statement of the organization itself. Which includes statements such as “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.” Which sounds great until you realize that the disruption of the nuclear family is largely responsible for most of the problems facing the black community today. Before the Civil Rights Act in 1961 the two parent households in the black community  was between 75 and 77 percent; today that number has shrunk to 24 percent. While many blame mass incarceration for this issue, there is another explanation that fits the timeline a bit better. During his time as president, Lyndon Baines Johnson enacted something called the Great Society Program. On paper, this was a policy that was meant to bring racial minorities out of poverty, but unfortunately the result was the opposite. 

The Great Society Program stated for every single child a woman has out of wedlock, the government will provide them a check. But there was a caveat; women were not allowed to have a man in the home if they wanted to collect that check. This became known amongst libertarians as marrying the government, and in its expansion, the welfare state has become the number one driver of our national debt. In short, we incentivised women to marry the government and allowed men to abandon their moral obligations as husbands and fathers. Statistics show that growing up in a single parent household can have real consequences on the behavioral traits of the child in question. They’re more likely to drop out of school, more likely to struggle with substance abuse, to commit violent crimes, to suffer from psychological conditions or behavioral disorders, to have marital problems, and are more likely to make a lower income. Now, this is speaking across the racial board so to speak. This isn’t saying it’s because they’re black, all kids of all races do poorly without a dad. But unfortunately 73% of black kids don’t have a dad.

Unfortunately, we still haven’t addressed the number one reason why someone might stand against Black Lives Matter. Ironically, the knockout blow that brought Black Lives Matter support to a standstill was delivered by one of the co-founders. In a 2015 panel she explained to her audience, and to the world watching, that her and her comrades are “trained marxists.” This should come as no surprise, far left organizations like Antifa and Black Lives Matter have run head first towards marxism over the last few decades. The problem this creates for them is that marxism has led to 100 million people dead over the last hundred years. And it not only hurts amongst their domestic support here in the United States but also amongst new immigrants fleeing socialist countries. Countries like Venezuela, once the richest country in South America, has now become the economic wasteland of the western hemisphere. After president Chavez’s plans to socialize healthcare and oil, the country headed for 1 million percent hyperinflation. Since then, Nicolas Maduro has taken power, and people have been eating the likes of rats and dogs to survive. And when citizens have the audacity to protest, they watered down with fire hoses and run over with tanks. 

So as for the title of this piece, I feel it necessary to leave a message to those in and those running Black Lives Matter, and that is this: you’re making it way too easy for people to want to distance themselves. Pushing forward an anti-police narrative of which you are extremely violent about, burning down cities across the nation/globe, and above all pushing for political reform in the name of Marxism! Take a step back and realize what the Marxist doctrine has done for people around the world. The answer to that question is something along the lines of enslave, oppress, and kill them. So ultimately BLM, very little have a problem with the statement Black Lives Matter but rather with the movement itself. When someone doesn’t want anything to do with your organization, it’s not because they’re racist! Rather it’s because you’re promoting a worldview that has killed 100 million people in the last century!