Christmas is White Supremacy in Action

[cubby1223]

https://lasentinel.net/building-bla...e-capitalism-in-the-wake-of-donald-trump.html

White-supremacist capitalism is driven by profit and there is no more profitable time than the Christmas season.
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This season, more than all others, Black Lives Matter is asking people to wake up, to be conscious of our own economic power, and to protest – not just in the streets – but in the malls. Black Lives Matter is dreaming of and building for a #BlackXMas, where we divest from White corporations and invest in building Black community. Rather than lining the pockets of Trump and other White-supremacist capitalists...

If you must buy, #BuyBlack. Consider buying a book for your children from Black independent bookstores like Eso Won or cultural items from Zambezi Bazaar – both in Leimert Park.

We are reminded that “Black Friday,” “Cyber-Monday” and the rash of consumerism that is put upon us is not our tradition; it is programming and only White-supremacist capitalism benefits.

Wow. People have certainly forgotten how to think critically and understand other people. Going to be an interesting 4 years, to say the least.

 

[Puffnstuff]

I think that any group that focuses on a single race promoting its needs above others is misaligned and I cannot support it. I don't support BLM any more than I can support right wingers trying to take away a woman's right to choose. We have laws that apply equally to all people and a crime is a crime regardless of who the involved parties are. Racism has many faces and BLM is just another among them. I see BLM as the new Klan.

 

[desura]

Hey man, I think the killing of James Means is more relevant news here.

http://heavy.com/news/2016/11/willi...rleston-west-virginia-another-piece-of-trash/

 

[Commodus]

I think that any group that focuses on a single race promoting its needs above others is misaligned and I cannot support it. I don't support BLM any more than I can support right wingers trying to take away a woman's right to choose. We have laws that apply equally to all people and a crime is a crime regardless of who the involved parties are. Racism has many faces and BLM is just another among them. I see BLM as the new Klan.

Ah, the great myth: that BLM is pushing black needs above others.

Black Lives Matter is not saying that other lives don't. It's drawing attention to a problem with institutionalized police racism that had been neglected for decades. If one house in a neighborhood is on fire, you don't ask the fire department to spray every house in the area with water because "all houses matter."

What that writer is asking for is certainly a bit much -- try telling your kids that you're not getting them a PS4 because you think GameStop is part of an oppressive system. However, I don't think this is a black separatist statement so much as an attempt to create a holiday culture that isn't white by default, to figure out its own identity when it's not dictated by the establishment. Flawed, but not necessarily wrong. Personally, I would take an "and" approach rather than "or;" I would encourage the black community to carve out its own space and diversify, but not to feel guilty about heading to Best Buy or Nordstrom.

 

[cubby1223]

Ah, the great myth: that BLM is pushing black needs above others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge9pHidD8sc

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...e-black-lives-matter-20160705-snap-story.html

It's not a myth. Some, not all, people who call themselves a part of BLM do put their own needs above others and openly put down others for being interested in and advocates of subjects other than race.

Black Lives Matter is not saying that other lives don't. It's drawing attention to a problem with institutionalized police racism that had been neglected for decades. If one house in a neighborhood is on fire, you don't ask the fire department to spray every house in the area with water because "all houses matter."

It's more analogous to a house in my neighborhood is on fire, and the fire department is labelled racist if they put out this fire because someone else's house five states over didn't get put out fast enough to save anything inside.

Your analogy doesn't fit the situation. I've not heard any white person say the police need to focus on better treatment of white people. However, you do hear many voices under the BLM title saying people who are not devoted 24/7 to the problems they deem most important, are racist supremacists.

 

[MooseNSquirrel]

I think that any group that focuses on a single race promoting its needs above others is misaligned and I cannot support it. I don't support BLM any more than I can support right wingers trying to take away a woman's right to choose. We have laws that apply equally to all people and a crime is a crime regardless of who the involved parties are. Racism has many faces and BLM is just another among them. I see BLM as the new Klan.

The new Klan? Hyperbole much?

 

[Commodus]

It's not a myth. Some, not all, people who call themselves a part of BLM do put their own needs above others and openly put down others for being interested in and advocates of subjects other than race.

My beef is with those who say that BLM is primarily about prioritizing police violence against black people above other issues. That's not true, and it's frequently an attempt to delegitimize protests, to make people shut up and conform to authority. To avoid dealing with uncomfortable truths.

It's more analogous to a house in my neighborhood is on fire, and the fire department is labelled racist if they put out this fire because someone else's house five states over didn't get put out fast enough to save anything inside.

Your analogy doesn't fit the situation.

It fits the "all lives matter" retorts, at least. BLM as a whole is not saying that other issues in the world are unimportant. They just want to point out that excessive police violence is disproportionately targeted at black people, and fix that. The problem is that BLM isn't immune to the fracturing that most protest movements face: it's hard to get everyone on the same page, and you'll get groups that misinterpret or misrepresent the message. By all means tell BLM members not to override an LGBT pride parade, but don't assume that they all act that way and that the movement has to end.

 

[michal1980]

Figures the left supports these racist. Its ok to be racist if your not white in the lefts eyes

 

[desura]

My beef is with those who say that BLM is primarily about prioritizing police violence against black people above other issues. That's not true, and it's frequently an attempt to delegitimize protests, to make people shut up and conform to authority. To avoid dealing with uncomfortable truths.




It fits the "all lives matter" retorts, at least. BLM as a whole is not saying that other issues in the world are unimportant. They just want to point out that excessive police violence is disproportionately targeted at black people, and fix that. The problem is that BLM isn't immune to the fracturing that most protest movements face: it's hard to get everyone on the same page, and you'll get groups that misinterpret or misrepresent the message. By all means tell BLM members not to override an LGBT pride parade, but don't assume that they all act that way and that the movement has to end.

My problem with BLM is that it ignores black crime rates and so is detached from reality. FBI data indicates that black persons per capita commit murder at 700% the rate of white persons. BLM and similar movements act like the prison population should reflect demographic percentages.

To reach such percentages, effectively you would have to not prosecute many crimes because of color of skin.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Black Lives Matter is not saying that other lives don't. It's drawing attention to a problem with institutionalized police racism that had been neglected for decades. If one house in a neighborhood is on fire, you don't ask the fire department to spray every house in the area with water because "all houses matter."

That is some very lame reasoning. We clearly have one race promoting themselves above others which is exactly what the KKK does for white people and I support neither.

Figures the left supports these racist.

Not everybody on the left supports them. Racism is racism no matter how you try to clothe it. This is just lipstick on a pig.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Well she won me over.

 

[MajinCry]

BLM Is the new Klan?

Right, pointing out the amount of violence and racism that people with similar melanin concentrations suffer, is clearly as bad as lynching, raping and advocating for the enslavement of said melanin-havers.

Christ almighty.

 

[UglyCasanova]

BLM started with good intentions, and although Michael Brown was certainly the wrong person to rally around the institutional racism felt by the black community from the police in Ferguson and across the country was real. It's unfortunately derailed from this though and instead turned into a racist movement blaming whitey for everything and is full of people out seeking "persecution" so that they can feel part of it too.

 

[senseamp]

Money is speech, amirite?

 

[pcgeek11]

White-supremacist capitalism is driven by profit and there is no more profitable time than the Christmas season.
...
This season, more than all others, Black Lives Matter is asking people to wake up, to be conscious of our own economic power, and to protest – not just in the streets – but in the malls. Black Lives Matter is dreaming of and building for a #BlackXMas, where we divest from White corporations and invest in building Black community. Rather than lining the pockets of Trump and other White-supremacist capitalists...

If you must buy, #BuyBlack. Consider buying a book for your children from Black independent bookstores like Eso Won or cultural items from Zambezi Bazaar – both in Leimert Park.

We are reminded that “Black Friday,” “Cyber-Monday” and the rash of consumerism that is put upon us is not our tradition; it is programming and only White-supremacist capitalism benefits.

That was one large load of poop!

 

[Puffnstuff]

That was one large load of poop!

OMG we actually agree on something. BLM is nothing more than black sponsored racism.

 

[snarfbot]

Blatantly racist

 

[pcgeek11]

OMG we actually agree on something. BLM is nothing more than black sponsored racism.

OMG!

I think I'm having a heart attack!

 

[Puffnstuff]

If MLK were still around he's be up in arms over their behavior.

 

[Meghan54]

OMG!

I think I'm having a heart attack!

We can only pray....

 

[pcgeek11]

We can only pray....

You ain't that lucky butt nugget!

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

BLM Is the new Klan?

Right, pointing out the amount of violence and racism that people with similar melanin concentrations suffer, is clearly as bad as lynching, raping and advocating for the enslavement of said melanin-havers.

Christ almighty.

No but this is divisional racism. As far as pointing out menanin related crime you really do not want to go down that road.

 

[WHAMPOM]

I love debates where one side wins by dictating the other side's opinion.

 

[alcoholbob]

So many white supremacists in China and Vietnam making those white supremacist products for the black community.

 

[SlyFlourishXDA]

I think that any group that focuses on a single race promoting its needs above others is misaligned and I cannot support it. I don't support BLM any more than I can support right wingers trying to take away a woman's right to choose. We have laws that apply equally to all people and a crime is a crime regardless of who the involved parties are. Racism has many faces and BLM is just another among them. I see BLM as the new Klan.

You are incorrect on a few things here. We have laws that are "supposed" to apply equally to all people, yet they are not. A crime is a crime regardless of who the involved parties are is false. Why can't you accept that you and I did not grow up facing the same adversity POC and minorities faced. The law on paper is not supposed to be discriminatory, yet how it is carried out is certainly discriminatory. It makes me frustrated to hear people who don't understand BLM and label it as racism.