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 Originally Posted by CoccoBill
I'm pretty sure BLM isn't about overthrowing the government, creating a new black nation in America nor moving back to Africa. I think it's about reforms that would treat blacks equally under the law. I don't think you can just pick the words of one guy a little further down history, and claim that's what everything is really about. The reforms that would improve things for blacks today, as MMM has already said many times, are ones that would help everyone, regardless of color.
For an outside observer, what you're saying in a nutshell is "yeah I hear ya, but I ain't doing shit unless it helps me".
I jumped in to express my favorite thing related to BLM: the philosophical component of black liberation from slavers' system. But you're a 100% right that isn't in the rank and file of BLM and contemporary discourse has lost a good deal of that. That stuff is more predecessor to BLM, but as you can see it's still deeply embedded.
I'll avoid discussing BLM in more contemporary terms because that's where I start disagreeing with them. Their actions make sense to me through the lens of black liberation, but through the lens of equal treatment -- they make less sense.
I like the protesting, in general Beyond that, I can't morally get behind automatic accusation of racism, the poor martyr choices, and the statistics ignorance.
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