The difference is the people who thought that in the past were racist because they ignored the fact that 1. this is propaganda you've posted and 2. the white people were far and away the most violent people during those protests

The people who think todays protests are violent i cant say the same cus instead of nonviolent sit ins we have looting

facts lmao

Aye I won’t discredit the fact it’s snake niggas out here, I just don’t think it’s as exclusive to our race as some people make it out to be

niggas watched a cop kill someone in a video over a $20 counterfeit bill and they still wanted niggas to go sit in a coffee shop all day boycotting who knows what

??? the lack of self awareness in this post is appalling

with you on that, personally i think it's a combination of a limited perspective and it hurting more being talked about / snaked by your own people causing it to be greatly exaggerated outta hurt

yea but ur basically making my point

because of media and the pandemic, people reacted ENTIRELY differently to what was essentially the same event

Except this reaction was primarily due to the pandemic/media not the real event that happened

Thats why the movement is fake, most of the people who "supported" it werent doing it from a genuine place

Most of the people who speak out against BLM (the movement not the org) are racist. This is literally a classic case of history repeats itself but you can’t see it.

I know first hand from talking to older relatives who were around then that there were black people who were against the protests back then too

one protest was peaceful

the other was a bunch of looting

see the difference?

i already explained how successful the civil rights movement/peaceful protests were compared to what happened in 2020

i think someone jus doesnt wanna admit theyre wrong

People =\ black community in this sense.

Black ppl in general already were well aware of both the organization and the actual movement/message blm way before floyd and I’m sure a lot of non poc were as well

Majority of the ppl who you are talking about just became savvy to these events (or started to care) when BLM became a trend in 2020. These were the ppl that make stickers and signs and put in their bios BLM. Not all of them but a lot of them fall under this branch

So then black ppl had to deal with the entire thing being co-opted by performance activism and corporate interests during 2020 and all a lot of ppl got out of it was “looting bad”

he's wrong. as usual

Deadass

he’s either trolling (weird topic to troll about) or he’s too brainwashed with US propaganda to put any critical thought into the topic

Which is probably what some higher ups wanted in the first place

Now blm revolves around the conversations of looting/destroying businesses vs the discrimination of poc in the justice system so we get nowhere

Also I think non POC seem to again confuse the fact that BLM the official organization and BLM the message/movement are two different things and always conflate everything with the first one. You can not support the official org but still believe in the message overall movement and enact help through whatever avenue you can

i earlier made a post where i essentially admitted that the movement in essence is good but it was coopted by the media and made out to be negative

maybe i should have been more explicit there but yea i agree with this post

id also say tho that a lot of black people dont give a f*** about other black people, which speaks to kevin gates point

i see your point and i think that its a little unfair to say you're automatically racist cus u dont support the BLM movement

My mom herself (shes black btw, everyone in my family is) said she doesnt like BLM cus she doesnt know what it really stands for, which i completely agree with. Is it about protecting blacks from racist cops? Is it about America being racist as a whole? What is the purpose and goal of the organization? If it were clear like during the civil rights movement (abolition of racist laws and segregation) then you would be categorically racist for denying those principles. Thats not what we are dealing with with the BLM movement, where most of their goals seem to revolve around defunding police (not gonna speak on my thoughts about this cus i am tired of arguing already tbh)

I was referring to more irl where these discussions come up and a lot of times the clarification gets lost between the org and just the movement

are u not american?

a movement can have good intentions, but if its coopted its f***ing coopted and you gotta start a new one -Shammy, 2022

I think the message of blm is very clear tbh.

And I’m not saying people who don’t support it are racists. What I’m saying is that the guy from the 50s and 60s who opposed the civil rights protests and a guy from the 10s and 20s opposing BLM protests are the same guy. Same guy, same rhetoric.

people rly arguing the semantics of the blm itt? majority of the people who say it don't mean the organization