• Aaron215
    +3

    Exactly. I suspect they're already putting roots down into BLM, and we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg right now. One thing that gives me hope though is that over and over I've seen some real solid awareness of baiting tactics and infiltration, and the BLM movement really seems to be on their A game when it comes to protecting themselves from the typical COINTELPRO tactics.

    That said though, I think if there's any hope of success, BLM has to bring in more than just the black community. Comments like what Johnetta Elzie has said "It is not the responsibility of black folks or people of color to do the labor required to address police violence in white communities." coupled with what the ACLU’s Nusrat Jahan Choudhury has said "True accountability requires independent investigations of police-involved killings of Black men and women.".. and scenes like this: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b91_1438047783 Where yes, they want to control the message, and yes they have every right to ask people to not record for VERY good reason (which was shared later in that video), the problem is the rank and file members of the movement, they don't want non-black members, they don't even seem to want non-black allies. They want to tell their own story, and that leads to their exclusion of everyone else. That's not how it's ever been done, to my knowledge, in the past. I get the fear of subversion and infiltration. But there has to be something, or like you said, "People fallway to hatred far too easily and the status quo supports that. You make seperate groups and soon enough they will be turned on each other."

    This isn't saying that black America can't do it alone. It's saying that if those acting as BLM's leadership feel that there is no space for non-black members or allies... that if whites or Hispanics want to combat police brutality and lawlessness and lack of oversight, they need to do it for themselves and just for their own people... then we're going to be nipping at the problem of police brutality rather than swallowing it whole like we have the potential of doing. A cord of three strands is not easily broken.

    As for what is going on with the whole "All Lives Matter" thing... I think that was ill-conceived from ... well from conception. The fact that apparently they haven't stood up and praised BLM for calling attention to the Hammond case makes me think that all they are there for is to detract from the BLM movement.

    • septimine
      +4

      I think they kind of have to do it that way though. Even if they get media coverage, it's usually only a matter of hours before the media is showing reports of something, pretty much anything that would make it seem the the black guy deserves his fate. It won't happen with the white kid. No one will pore over his Facebook for drug messages, rap lyrics, him posing shirtless in a mirror, etc. that's what does happen to blacks that are killed.

      • Aaron215
        +4

        I think they kind of have to do it that way though.

        Sorry, do it which way?