This video on BLM and MLK jr needs to be shared

MLK the FBI designated terrorist? Pick a side...

Excellent video. He nails it.

MLK would not approve of this movement at all.

And his comments about BLM doing nothing but hurting their cause is spot on.

Too bad there are no respected black leaders who will stand up and say the same things.

The problem is....hate feels good sometimes. Righteous indignation makes many of us cross the line into unheeding belligerence (myself included on my less-than-stellar occasions).

Combine that with the social media bully pulpit all of us have at our disposal these days, and you end up creating a cacophony of each side shrieking louder and louder with no intention of ever listening to or compromising with each other.

It's so tiresome to watch.

quote:

---

I think you can still have national black leaders, but black people would be better served if it was someone wanting to improve their lives instead of making a profit off of them as many in the NAACP do nowadays.

---

You can kind of understand why there's such widespread defensive reactions to white people trying to enter into this national conversation when you consider that the black population is living in subjugation by white politicians, white led media groups (as referenced in the video), AND the very black leaders that claim to represent their best interests. Add in a white cop occasionally beating or straight up murdering a black person and you begin to understand why the whole population reacts as emotionally and radically as they do: nobody in a position of power (white or black) seems to actually give a shite about providing them with opportunities to better their lives. Somehow it always ends up as profiting off of them rather than profiting for them.

Which, of course, leads to the reactions I see on Facebook anytime a white person tries to refer to MLK; namely that white people referring to MLK is a cop out and a misunderstanding of black people BY white people. This makes well-reasoned videos like the one in the OP easily dismissed by the very population that it needs to reach; it's a white british guy invoking MLK, therefore it comes off as preachy and as "missing the point" (whatever that point may be to the individual in question on social media).

What scares me isn't this raw emotional state the general population is in (that's to be expected and understood given all that has happened). What scares me are the two goons primed to take over the White House. Trump speaks for himself with regard to how he'd handle this while Hilary is already making promises to the black community to spend billions on police training and reform. One is going to antagonize the hurt feelings, the other is going to do anything she can to profit from them.