going4roses said:
Just asking ? Did I come off as being in her defense? Just wondering?
Has anyone here meet and talked to any of three women who founded BLM the organization?
I took a community organization/BLM course taught by of the three women. My experience in that class as well as the subsequent required community service component of the course enlightened me.
I suppose I was referring to AunBear.
I have NO IDEA about any BLM organization or founders. I only know it as a concept - and an educating concept I support.
IF someone associated with an organization calling itself BLM has done something unscrupulous, it stands on its own and should not affect the educational concept.
The original post ripped on a person associated with BLM. I suspect that is an attempt to discredit the movement. I called such a tactic to be lowlife scum.
Rather that separate the supposed poor action by the person from the movement, AunBear attacked Trump (et al)'s unscrupulous behavior. That is tacit acceptance of the linkage of the unscrupulousness of the person to the movement - thus accepting the slam on the movement.
I don't think allowing the OP to pull the movement into the mud by getting into a tit for tat battle was smart.
BLM as a movement, as a message, as an educational theme for consideration stands on its own. If a leader behaved poorly, that's its own thang.
We all know that Trump is scum. He's already indicted himself a million times.
I'm sure the class you took was eye opening. I think they've done a pretty good job of keeping the protests non-violent. MLK's Ghandi-modeled "non-violent protests" should be mimicked here. Idiots who burn stuff, vandalize, loot need to be shunned.
And if white conservatives want something to be afraid of, just watch the recent 60 Minutes segment on the black para-military troops that arm up and rehearse, mirroring the white militias. These are disconcerting developments. Should any true violence erupt, those people will harken back to the days when it was just people kneeling in the streets.
I think if I were Biden, I would look into what can be done about curtailing so-called NEWS organizations from feeding the public with toxic notions. If the FCC can regulate the F word, perhaps they can regulate toxic messaging as seen nonstop with FoxNews opinion instigators.
I had a phone conversation with my aging mom last night. She's become unable to think straight through all this stuff, parrots their sick talking points.
But I digress....