Social movement discussion of the week: Black Live Matter

This may surprise a lot of people here but I actually have mixed feelings about the BLM movement. On one hand, the outrage over unarmed blacks shot by police officers is completely justified, since I personally hate police officers and every one that I've met have been either rednecks, skin heads, or morbidly obese conservatives, and I know from experience how much these douchebags hate lower class liberals like many blacks are, and there's undoubtedly at least some racism among them. So that's definitely something to be angry about.

But on the other hand, you have high-profile figures like Michael Jackson, John Cochran, and Chris Scarver who used the movement as an easy way to gain support for their own personal agendas, no matter how despicable it was. These scumbags ultimately did more harm then good and clearly did not believe in equality.

So, as someone who is an advocate for equality, I just feel most comfortable passively viewing the movement from a distance and refraining from being a part of it. There's too much uncertainty what any particular person is really after these days.

Yep, Planned Parenthood.

I was here this morning. That extra vote was me. I voted because...why not?

It's not just white supremacists. It's also people who don't want to see all that civil progress undone. Progress made by people like Martin Luther King and even Frank Sinatra.

Personally, if I was a KKK grand wizard, I'd love BLM. Who needs to recruit for the Klan when BLM is doing it for you by turning more whites against blacks?

This hatred is like a scar: it takes 1 second to make a cut, but days for it to disappear totally. But only 1 second to pick the scar for it to bleed again.

And these anti-white negros are opening old wounds that need to stay closed.

I actually like the police. They get a bad rap and sometimes rightfully so but they are usually the first ones on the scene when something bad happens and the first to respond. They have a dangerous job and they don't know if the day they are on patrol will be there last. Not all of them are racist or bad people. I like to think there are more good police officers out there than bad ones. If the damn mainstream media would stop fueling the fire by talking about bad cops and what they did and instead focus on the good cops for once things would be different.