Racial Justice Movement Appears to Have a White Supremacy Problem

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There’s been a lot of speak from the far left in regards to the issues of systemic racism and white supremacy in America – and for good purpose. White supremacists are alive and properly and, it seems, they’re the primary driving power behind your complete motion for “racial justice.” In truth, the broader left-wing political activist motion appears to be dominated by whites, which is a little bit of an inconvenient fact, one may say.

Recall the final time you noticed images or video from a school campus racial justice demonstration through which many of the contributors weren’t white. Did the phrase “never” spring to thoughts? There’s a good likelihood it did. So, listed here are some questions: Do these white progressive school children assume they’ve the best to communicate for non-whites? Do they consider it falls to them to determine what phrases are racist or offensive to blacks and Latinos – and even blackx ® and Latinx? If they do, doesn’t that make them, by definition, white supremacists? How awkward.

Moving away from the entire racial justice motion for a second, what about Antifa? Search the Interwebs for images of Antifa activists and maybe some movies of them getting their butts kicked by the Proud Boys, which is often what’s occurring in these movies. I’ll wait right here when you try this.

OK, did you discover some? Were any of these Antifa individuals black? Sure, they put on masks, however one can nonetheless inform. They weren’t, proper? Not a certainly one of them. In truth, Antifa is virtually an all-white entity. The Proud Boys, because it occurs, can virtually definitely boast better ethnic range.

A Whitewashed Movement

How about Black Lives Matter? This is a motion based by three black girls, it’s true. All three of them are actually fairly rich. While every of them has gone to nice lengths to keep away from disclosing her internet value, all of them have extra cash than you do. Much more. Google it, as the youngsters say. Where does most of BLM’s cash come from, although? Some rich people, little doubt – and the way a lot would you like to wager that almost all of them are white? Though it could take some in depth analysis to decide the reply, that’s a fairly secure wager. Most of BLM’s cash comes from firms, although – in any case, the group raked in additional than $90 million in 2020, in accordance to, properly, in accordance to BLM. And as a result of America is gripped by systemic racism, many of the senior executives of these firms are – you guessed it – white.

Need extra proof that the racial justice motion is far paler than it actually must be? The Fox News web site on October 31 revealed a report from Minneapolis, MN, the place a lot of inner-city blacks are dreading the implications of the “defund the police” motion. “Everybody says we want the police to be held accountable and we want fair policing,” stated Marques Armstrong, a native black activist and business-owner. “No one has said we need to get rid of the police.” And then there’s this, from the identical report:

“Raeisha Williams, an activist with Guns Down Love Up, said she believes the plan’s supporters are mainly white residents who haven’t experienced police misconduct or the violence that Black residents are seeing on the north side. Her brother, Tyrone, died in a shooting there in 2018.

“’It’s like our voices are not heard — they are hijacking a movement yet again and making it their own,’ said Williams, who is Black.”

Yet once more? Why, what an fascinating flip of phrase from Ms. Williams. Could or not it’s that she is aware of how this at all times works? Yes, it may, as a result of Williams might be a hell of a lot smarter than white progressives would consider. In their minds, Williams doesn’t even possess a picture I.D., or have any clue how to receive one.

Meanwhile, City Council member Steve Fletcher is pushing to do away with the police. “I think a lot of people are just recognizing that we cannot be the city that killed George Floyd and didn’t grow or change,” stated Fletcher. What he thinks is clearly extra essential than how usually black individuals are dodging bullets, in his thoughts.

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Guess what coloration Steve Fletcher is.

Spot the Black Person

Speaking of which, the Fox News article was augmented by a {photograph} of a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Minneapolis. It depicts a very giant crowd marching by means of the downtown space, At the top of the protesters, individuals are holding a banner that claims, “I CAN’T BREATHE!” Other individuals are carrying Black Lives Matter indicators. If you appeared carefully on the sea of faces on this image you’ll spot one girl who seems to be kind of non-white.

Of course, it’s totally potential that black individuals, properly, don’t want to spend their days marching about and yelling and screaming and whatnot as a result of they’ve higher issues to do. Who doesn’t? So perhaps they merely outsourced the entire outrage bit to unemployed white individuals. That’s only one principle, although, and it might not get up to cross examination.

So, maybe – and that is simply an harmless suggestion – maybe black individuals (or “black folks,” as they’re referred to on the BLM web site, which is condescending, at greatest, and downright dehumanizing, at worst) must be asking themselves why a bunch of privileged white individuals are bankrolling their racial justice motion, in addition to marching and talking on their behalf. Thankfully, an increasing number of blacks are, actually, doing simply that – and maybe they’ll quickly conclude, in the event that they haven’t already, that the actual white supremacists are the individuals pretending to be their benefactors.

~ Read extra from Graham J. Noble.