It’s Not Just a Hashtag

If you read nothing else today, read this!!! OMM relays what a Black man has to say about BLM.

From One Mad Mom

Ryan Bomberger does it again! He’s written so eloquently what he and other black people have been saying, and it’s what I also support. I know the amazing hearts of some people in the black community, so when I’m trying to figure out which way to go, what to do, etc., as far as racial issues go, I look to them because I know they seek, first and foremost, the mind of God and form their thoughts and actions around that.

The sentiment of the words of #BlackLivesMatter is great. Our lives seem to revolve around soundbites and hashtags these days.  Heck, I wish I could jump on that hashtag bandwagon, but I can’t because #BlackLivesMatter isn’t simply a sentiment, it’s a movement, and a bad one at that. I’m watching the young in my life who are unable to differentiate, and some are now even espousing some of the “demands” below. They don’t seem to understand that you can embrace people without embracing a hashtag or false ideology. You don’t need to be told how to love. Love is shown in many ways.

So here you go! Emphasis mine.

Top 10 Reasons I Won’t Support the #BlackLivesMatter Movement

Ryan Bomberger

6/5/2020 10:25:00 AM – Ryan Bomberger

Every life unjustly killed deserves justice. In the cause to make things right, I will not join a movement that has nearly everything wrong. More innocent lives have now been killed (including cops) since these predominantly violent protests began over George Floyd’s horrific death. What about the black lives killed in this nationwide chaos? Do they matter?

“Well, you don’t have to agree with everything. Just pick out the good things in the #BlackLivesMatter movement,” I’m told. Really? Let’s apply that same logic to another example. I’ve been repeatedly approached to partner with New Black Panthers in anti-abortion billboard campaigns. We agree on the violent injustice of abortion, and that’s it. Our worldviews are diametrically opposed. But, but, but they believe unborn lives matter! That doesn’t matter. Their mission is not my mission. I cover all of this in-depth in my new podcast, Life Has Purpose.

I was trying to explain to one of my youthlings who was thought that people were talking more about the looting than George Floyd’s death and that it seemed like most didn’t even care. I can see why the youthling felt that way, HOWEVER, the reason the looting, violence and mayhem was of such concern to us was because this isn’t our first go around with this. Youthlings seem to forget that the ‘rents had lives and experiences before them. We knew this would end up with far more murders than just George Floyd. I’m hoping my youthling remembers me saying it and will begin to understand.  I mean, this has been happening since before I was born. My first episode of really watching the world blow up was when Rodney King was beaten by Daryl Gates’ thug police force. I’m too young to remember all of the other ones before that. What I remember from that, though, are the same things I’m seeing now. Minority communities are being trashed, just as it has gone every riot since. Protesting good, rioting bad.

“Yes, #BlackLivesMatter. But Truth matters. As a Christian, the Church should be leading on these issues instead of sheepishly following a deceptive movement hostile to the Gospel.”

YES! YES! YES! We don’t need the #BlackLivesMatter movement. We need the Church, the only movement that will ever succeed because its objectives are God-centered.

The original BLM founders, the #BlackLivesMatter Foundation (BLMF), created it to radically shift culture. The far-left Ford Foundation, the world’s largest population control organization, vowed in 2016 to raise $100 million for the Movement for Black Lives (MFBL)—a nationwide coalition of BLM groups (including BLMF). MFBL released a shocking manifesto of policy positions that are deeply political and deeply disturbing.

VERY. DEEPLY. DISTURBING. We can’t keep falling for slogans. “Every child a wanted child” sounds lovely until you realize the plans of the organization behind it.Here is that manifesto: https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/

Drawing mostly from those positions, here are the top 10 reasons why I will never support the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

The premise isn’t true. I hate racism. And I hate when it’s used as a political weapon. According to the FBI’s latest homicide statistics, I’m 11 times more likely to be killed by someone of my own brown complexion than a white person. Also, a comprehensive 2019 study concluded: “White officers are not more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers.” Every loss of life is tragic, but Washington Post’s database on police-involved deaths puts things into further context. In 2020, among those killed were (all males): 2 Native Americans, 9 Asians, 46 Hispanics, 76 blacks, 149 unlabeled individuals and 149 whites (whose deaths don’t get reported by national mainstream media). Only nine black individuals were actually unarmed.

More links of support:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/police-shootings-2019/

And for those who would rather not pay to subscribe:

https://www.pnas.org/content/116/32/15877

There is no goal of forgiveness or reconciliation. None. It’s never mentioned on their sites. You can’t talk about the sins of the past and expect to move forward if there is no intention of forgiveness. I’m tired of the deeply prejudiced oppressed/oppressor critical race theory paradigm. It’s not Gospel-centered. This should, immediately, be a deal-breaker for Christians.

Exactly. For those who don’t understand “Critical Race Theory” here. This is what #BlackLIvesMatter, the organization, is based on.

And I also offer you up a follow up: https://newdiscourses.com/2020/06/do-better-than-critical-race-theory/

It’s all about Black Power. It’s plastered all over the MFBL website. BLMF founders explain their “herstory”: “It became clear that we needed to continue organizing and building Black power across the country.” I don’t promote a colorblind society; I love all of our diverse hues of skin. But I’m so much more than my pigmentation. Martin Luther King promoted “God’s power and human power.” I’m with him.

They heavily promote homosexuality and transgenderism. “We foster a queer-affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking.” I’m not embracing confusion. Loving every human being is not the same as loving every human doing.

Quite honestly, most Catholics have ZERO idea about any of this. This is why people need to investigate before jumping on a bandwagon.

They completely ignore fatherhood. From BLMF: “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.” Well, every “village” that has fatherless families is a village that suffers higher crime rates, higher drug usage, higher abortion rates, higher drop-out rates, higher poverty rates, and so much more. #DadsMatter.

They are calling for what ALL of my black friends say is the major problem for the black community. Anyone remember dear Hillary’s “It Takes a Village?” Who wants to live in a village of fatherless families which lead to a myriad of horrible things for that community? Hillary wanted to keep people stuck there. The Christians wanted to attack that problem head on. BTW, it’s no longer just a problem in the black community. You know all the white people out there also throwing bricks? Where do you think they came from?

They demand reparations. Ok. Sooooo, I guess the white half of me will have to pay the black half of me? If progressives want to push reparations, start with the Party of Slavery and Jim Crow—the Democrat Party! Let them ante up. But the #BlackLivesMatter movement bizarrely demands: “Reparations for…full and free access for all Black people (including undocumented and currently and formerly incarcerated people) to lifetime education…retroactive forgiveness of student loans, and support for lifetime learning programs.” Uhhh, good luck with that.”

OK, this has come up in my circles, too. “Pump more money into the community and it will all be better.” First, nobody actually realizes they’re going to pay for that out of their pockets. So, youthling that complains money is tight, remember that. Where do people think the government gets that money. You. Second, and this is a biggie, we’ve been doing this for years in my state and many other liberal states, and yet they are still hell holes for minority communities. The money doesn’t get to the PEOPLE, it goes to the very bureaucratic “community organizers” who give people what? Cell phones?

They want to abolish prisons and police forces. And…cue utter chaos. MFBL asserts: “We believe that prisons, police and all other institutions that inflict violence on Black people must be abolished…” Defund and remove the police have been rallying cries. That would be anarchy in any community. I advocate some needed police reforms and better community/police relations, but this is just foolishness.

The insanity here is overwhelming. Sorry, this is not what black communities want. Why do I know this? Because black people have said so. Google. This is what the liberal establishment wants, and they’re trying to sell it. Honestly, this is kind of classic dystopian novel-ish. Create lawlessness and blame it on someone else so one can somehow be the savior. You end up under complete control and your freedoms are gone, but hey, you’re not being murdered, right? Wake the heck up. My prediction is that already liberal hell holes will capitulate, escalating their demise. SF and LA are already talking about it, as if crime isn’t already bad enough there.

There are ways to curb police brutality that don’t kill people. Ending qualified immunity would be a start. Conservatives and liberals agree with that.

They are anti-capitalism. Oh the irony of this declaration made by a movement that is the result of capitalism: “We are anti-capitalist. We believe and understand that Black people will never achieve liberation under the current global racialized capitalist system.” The videos that make us aware of police brutality are captured on phones that are a result of capitalism. The best way to elevate people out of material poverty? Capitalism. This system is why the United States is the most charitable nation.

And, yet, many of the businesses destroyed around the country were owned by black people who had achieved liberation from poverty. Here are some businesses that would still stand if it weren’t for the rioting.
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/04/868972077/i-didn-t-deserve-it-pandemic-shut-down-his-barbershop-then-a-fire-destroyed-it
https://www.foxnews.com/us/black-firefighter-devastated-minneapolis-riots-bar

Colin Kaepernick supports it. A “biracial” adoptee, Kaepernick is now obsessed with his “blackness.” He idolizes the late murderous Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and worships Malcolm X (just see his social media feeds). Malcolm X was anti-integration, pro-violence and a member of the virulently racist Nation of Islam (who forced him out). Kaepernick makes millions from Nike—a company whose entire Executive Leadership Team is white (isn’t this white supremacy???)—that makes its shoes in the most murderous regime in the world. Kaepernick, of course, is completely silent on that. But you know, #SocialJusticeWarrior.

All capitalists are horrible. Unless, of course, it’s you.

Apparently, not all black lives matter. Pro-abortion BLMF declared: “We deserve and thus we demand reproductive justice [aka abortion] that gives us autonomy over our bodies and our identities while ensuring that our children and families are supported, safe, and able to thrive.” Aborted children don’t thrive. BLM groups announced “solidarity” with “reproductive justice” groups back in February 2015. You cannot simultaneously fight violence while celebrating it.

The ultimate hypocrisy and evil. They’ve supported the killing of their own race long before Trayvon Martin, and they’ll continue supporting it until someone realizes that the eugenicists are laughing.

Thankfully, the truth is coming out about all of this. The one thing during the rioting that actually gives me a shred of hope is that the black community is very vocally fighting those who are truly trying kill their friends and hurt their communities. Yes, black lives matter. Now act like it.