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Black Lives Matter is a movement that started on 13th of July in 2013. Founded by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi, the social movement focused on systemic racism and gun violence meted out to African Americans, or black people. The movement started in the United States and has gained traction around the world. However, the movement remains concentrated and mostly relevant in the United States.

Black Lives Matter aims to end gun violence and police brutality against African Americans. It also partly focuses on gun control. In a broader sense, the movement opposes the systemic racism that has existed in the United States for centuries and even though slavery has been abolished and blacks have the same rights as whites, the menace of racism still exists as undercurrents in the society. At times, the undercurrents come to the fore and result in different kinds of incidents. From police brutality to targeted shooting of black people, the underlying racism persisting in the American society has become more obvious in recent years.

Black Lives Matter started as a social media movement protesting the deaths of African Americans at the hands of law enforcement officers. The police brutality shed light on the larger issue of racial inequality and that there was embedded racism in the criminal justice system of the country. What started as trending issue on social media with #BlackLivesMatter after the acquittal of George Zimmerman who was charged with shooting African-American teen Trayvon Martin quickly became a social movement that galvanized public support which had been building up over the years.

As Black Lives Matter gained popularity nationally, the founders planned street demonstrations and started forming a national network. After the death of two African Americans in 2014, the nationwide network expanded and although there is no hierarchy or planned command center of the movement, the decentralized network has been growing over the last two years.

Black Lives Matter has had its share of criticism but as a social movement it aims for real change. The movement has been endorsed by people from all walks of life and not just among African Americans.

Celebrities Samuel L. Jackson, Justin Timberlake, John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, the late Prince, Matt McGorry, Jesse Williams, Beyonce, Jay Z, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Bellamy Young, Bette Midler, Katy Perry and Josh Groban among many others have joined the movement and articulated their support vocally and publicly. Many have written pieces supporting Black Lives Matter and advocate for an end to all forms of racism.

There are many ways the movement is helping people who have been victims of gun violence and police brutality. For instance, thenon-profit organization Wheelchairs Against Guns is also doing their part to help stem the tide of gun violence in the black community. Each week members of the organization conducts anti violence workshops in inner city schools to educate students on ways to avoid potentially dangerous situations in their neighborhood. The workshops are based on teaching students 3 skills: conflict resolution, critical thinking, and how to build and maintain positive self esteem.

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Black Lives Matter - A Social Movement For Real Change

D'Angelo worked on his third album,Black Messiah, for 14 years, butwhen the opus finally came out in late 2014,it feltastoundingly prescient. Released in the mire of Ferguson and ahead of Baltimore, just asthe Black Lives Matter movement was taking hold,Messiahlaid out some of the heavythemes America was faced with: systemic racism, police brutality and the general plight of the black community in the new century.

They Said: "Black Messiah is, I think, the most sociopolitical stuff I've done on record. The Black Lives Matter movement is going on, young black men and women are getting killed for nothing. I've always been a big reader and fan of history, and I love the Black Panthers. I'm not trying to be like a poster child or anything of the movement, but definitely a voice as a black man as a concerned black man and as a father, as well," the singer saidon The Tavis Smiley Show.

Key Lyric: "All we wanted was a chance to talk/'Stead we only got outlined in chalk/Feet have bled a million miles we've walked/Revealing at the end of the day, the charade."

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Songs of Black Lives Matter: 22 New Protest Anthems

Heather Mac DonaldManhattan Institute

Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. She earned a B.A. from Yale University, an M.A. in English from Cambridge University, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. She writes for several newspapers and periodicals, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New Criterion, and Public Interest, and is the author of four books, including The War on Cops: How The New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe and The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture (forthcoming September 2018).

The following is adapted from a speech delivered on April 27, 2016, at Hillsdale Colleges Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C., as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series.

For almost two years, a protest movement known as Black Lives Matter has convulsed the nation. Triggered by the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014, the Black Lives Matter movement holds that racist policeofficers are the greatest threat facing young black men today. This belief has triggered riots, die-ins, the murder and attempted murder of police officers, a campaign to eliminate traditional grand jury proceedings when police use lethal force, and a presidential task force on policing.

Even though the U.S. Justice Department has resoundingly disproven the lie that a pacific Michael Brown was shot in cold blood while trying to surrender, Brown is still venerated as a martyr. And now police officers are backing off of proactive policing in the face of the relentless venom directed at them on the street and in the media. As a result, violent crime is on the rise.

The need is urgent, therefore, toexamine the Black Lives Matter movements central thesisthat police pose the greatest threat to young black men. I propose two counter hypotheses: first, that there is no government agency more dedicated to the idea that black lives matter than the police; and second, that we have been talking obsessively about alleged police racism over the last 20 years in order to avoid talking about a far larger problemblack-on-black crime.

Lets be clear at the outset: policehave an indefeasible obligation to treat everyone with courtesy and respect, andto act within the confines of the law. Too often, officers develop a hardened, obnoxious attitude. It is also true that being stopped when you are innocent of any wrongdoing is infuriating, humiliating, and sometimes terrifying. And needless to say, every unjustified police shooting of an unarmed civilian is a stomach-churning tragedy.

Given the history of racism in this country and the complicity of the police in that history, police shootings of black men are particularly and understandably fraught. That history informs how many people view the police. But however intolerable and inexcusable every act of police brutality is, and while we need to make sure that the police are properly trained in the Constitution and in courtesy, there is a larger reality behind the issue of policing, crime, and race that remains a taboo topic. The problem of black-on-black crime is an uncomfortable truth, but unless we acknowledge it, we wont get very far in understanding patterns of policing.

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Not all black people agree on everything. If it helps, consider what white people are like.

The original point of the thread was to show how the Black Lives Matter movement presents *itself*, as conceived by its founders--a different matter from outside opinions, black or white, or fringe elements from within.

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Who said anything about all blacks agree? Clearly I'm showing blacks with opposing opinions so your statement simply confirms what I've been doing. Oh wait, it's not those opinions you want to hear, got it.

Still wondering why you'd even make such a statement? I suppose your condescending, "If it helps, consider what white people are like." brings it all into focus.

When liberal can't argue the point, they'll suggest, or flat accuse (mostly flat out accuse), their opponent of being racist. In this case, needs to reference white people specifically to understand thus suggesting the opponent is incapable of understanding a universal truth, that being, everyone, regardless of race, can have a different opinion, but the opponent can only understand if it's relatable through their own race, in this instance, white race. Again, got it. But that would only make sense if I were white, wouldn't it? I am not. So there's that.

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"The original point of the thread was to show how the Black Lives Matter movement presents *itself*, as conceived by its founders--a different matter from outside opinions, black or white, or fringe elements from within."

Actually I have posted countless items on how this hate group presents itself in my (the) original thread on this subject and felt it be redundant here. Like, well, this very thread is. But if you'd like I suppose I could repost numerous videos and opinions, do a little copy and paste, from the original thread and post them here ... if you like? I must warn you though they don't show BLM in a positive light. Actually it shows them, in their own words and actions, as the bullying hateful violent destructive bigoted dumb fucks they truly are. Anyway, let me know, your call.

Btw, since you seemly know of a BLM membership list could you post it here? I'd really like to know who all these non fringe people are.

Or could it be, in fact, there is no "sign up sheet" as it were and the overwhelming majority of BLM are fringe? Apart from those original 3 angry radical bitches sucking on George Soros' white money I'm left to guess that it is the loudmouth with the bullhorn at any given rally who gets crowned the leader by default (loudest by way of bullhorn ownership) and the rest are either bused in (thank you again George Soros) or a member of the surrounding black 'we got nothing better to do today and with any luck can turn this mofo into a riot, loot and bust a few white heads, all under the guise of oppression and victimization' community.

But who knows, right?

Anyway if you could post the membership list so I can start scouting for quotes and videos of these ignorant fucks it be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a bunch.

Btw, this was fantastic, maybe you'll actually learn something ...

... No, I'm not holding my breath.

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The network of street and campus demagogues known as Black Lives Matter pretty much has operated with impunity since its founding. But a court ruling late last month could make these social media-based grievance peddlers think twice before targeting cops.

On April 24, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit unanimously ruled that an injured Baton Rouge, La., police officer has legal standing to sue DeRay Mckesson (he prefers not to capitalize the k), Black Lives Matters unofficial mouthpiece and most visible organizer. Mckesson, the complaint read, in coaxing a large group of demonstrators to block traffic on a highway back on July 9, 2016, created the conditions for the attack on the officer, identified only as John Doe. The decision overturns a district court ruling. And it is the right call.

Black Lives Matter (BLM), now with dozens of chapters across the U.S., came together in July 2013 following the justified acquittal by a Florida state jury of George Zimmerman, a white neighborhood patrol volunteer charged with murder in the shooting death of a black teen attacker, Trayvon Martin. The group attained a national profile in August 2014 when it sponsored continuous street rallies in Ferguson, Mo. to protest the police shooting death of an unarmed young black adult, Michael Brown, who in fact had violently assaulted the officer only a minute or two before. Rioting occurred that month, and again more destructively, that November after a county grand jury decided not to indict the officer.

With Black Lives Matter, the preordained script is white oppressor, black victim, regardless of location.

It was about 12:30 AM, July 5, 2016. Baton Rouge police had just received a 911 call about a large black male pulling a gun on someone in front of a convenience store. The man, Alton Sterling, was upset that this person objected to his selling bootleg CDs there. Sterling, who had a lengthy criminal rap sheet, also happened to be carrying a loaded .38 pistol in his pants. When two officers, both white, arrived on the scene, Sterling reacted aggressively, provoking a violent altercation. During the fracas, Sterling was observed reaching for his gun. In response, one or both officers shot him multiple times. Though rushed to the hospital, it was too late. Sterling had died. Bystander and police bodycam videos recorded the incident.

Radical activists across the country fumed. For days, Baton Rouge was the focal point of BLM anti-police rallies. Then, on July 17, things turned deadly. A black separatist from the Kansas City area named Gavin Long ambushed and shot six law enforcement officers. Long would be shot dead by a SWAT team, but not before three of the wounded officers two white and one black also died.

Here is where the lawsuit comes in. On the night of July 9, about a week prior to Longs wanton vengeance, a Black Lives Matter rally in Baton Rouge also could have turned lethal, thanks in part to the groups roving ambassador, DeRay Mckesson. A Baltimore native, Mckesson led demonstrators onto Airline Highway, right near police headquarters, for the purpose of blocking traffic. Police made more than a hundred arrests after the crowd refused to move. One of those cops, the aforementioned John Doe, was hit in the head by a concrete block, which caused injuries to his jaw, brain and head, and also knocked out one or more teeth.

DeRay Mckesson was among those arrested. Though not wearing his trademark blue Patagonia down vest (it was hot that night), he was conspicuously egging on the crowd. Officer Doe seemed aware of that. After his emergency hospital stay, he filed a federal damage suit against Mckesson. By inducing protestors to block traffic, he argued, Mckesson created the conditions for the ambush.

Unfortunately,U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson, an Obama appointee, wasnt receptive to Doe. On September 28, 2017 hedismissed the case with prejudice, concluding that BLM is a social movement and thus lacks the capacity to be sued. The plaintiff, added Jackson, utterly failed to state a plausible claim and instead launched a confused attack against Black Lives Matter and other demonstrators. A more reprehensible ruling would be hard to imagine. Here was a cop who had suffered life-threatening injuries accused of being the attacker.

Doe appealed. And procedurally, he has prevailed. On April 24, the court ruled 3-0 that the officers suit can go forward. Judge E. Grady Jolly wrote: Given the intentional lawlessness of this aspect of the demonstration, Mckesson should have known that leading the demonstrators onto a busy highway was most nearly certain to provoke a confrontation between police and the mass of demonstrators

Adding to this welcome news were decisions by federal and state authorities not to prosecute the officers in the Alton Sterling shooting. Just two days after Sterlings death, the U.S. Department of Justice had opened a civil rights probe. On May 2, 2017 the department announced that it would not file charges. After the announcement, State Attorney General Jeff Landry announced that he would investigate possible violations of the Louisiana Criminal Code. In March 2018, his office announced that the officers acted in a reasonable and justifiable manner.

DeRay Mckesson reacted to the new civil suit ruling this way: Im disappointed and troubled by the 5thCircuits reversal of the district court decision. I am currently exploring my legal options and will respond formally soon. The rest of us, meanwhile, can take pleasure knowing that Black Lives Matter, a rent-a-riot social media network, is less than invincible. Perhaps Officer Doe now will get the monetary relief he deserves.

Carl F. Horowitz is senior fellow at the National Legal and Policy Center, a Falls Church, Va.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting ethics and accountability in American public life.

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Injured Cop Will Be Allowed to Sue Black Lives Matter Leader