Thread by @DelanoSquires

No, we just know that there was not a single reference to police brutality or violence in any of BLM’s 13 Guiding Principles.

They did manage to take a swipe at the nuclear family though. Don’t you find that odd for a group that’s allegedly pro-black?

https://twitter.com/roderickgraham/status/1453746269940330499

We also know there are typically about 10-25 unarmed black men involved in fatal police shootings each year, while there are hundreds of school-aged kids killed in street violence every year. And in cities like Philly and St. Louis, over 90% of the homicide victims are black.

So a lot of black folk who oppose BLM do so because they realize it’s a Trojan Horse that uses the dead bodies of black men to pursue its primary agenda around LGBT issues.

BLM and the black left in general are only interested in nationalizing cases in which black ppl are killed by white vigilantes or police officers. Any other case stays local, at best. The case of Jazmine Barnes makes that clear.

The national outrage when they thought the shooter was white evaporated overnight when that claim was proven false.

So yes, lots of black folk are pro-police reform, but we also know we are disproportionately the victims of violent crime.

We also know it’s the police that are responsible for investigating those crimes and trying to bring some measure of justice to grieving families. The defunders are silent when NYPD nabs the ppl who shot Davell Gardner Jr. because THEY are the ones indifferent to black life.

Black people who grew up/live around black people love blk ppl, which is why we’re tired of seeing so many killed in our own communities. We also want more accountability for LE. What we don’t like are ppl playing Cultural Border Patrol telling us which orgs we must support.